With Mots Interdits, a language-learning game you can print out, you have your students try to get others to guess the word in bold without using any of the words below it. Be sure to check out the other teaching tools this teacher has created and uploaded to this site (look to the right once you click through to Scribd).
“Develop your ear” with Yabla French ! [sponsored post]
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Do you still have trouble understanding native French speakers?
Many French learners have a rude awakening when they visit or move to France. It’s not enough to know grammar and vocabulary. You must develop an ear for the idioms and nuances of the language.
Yabla French helps you do exactly that. Authentic videos featuring 100% native speakers immerse you in the real language, spoken by real people. Bilingual captions and interactive controls let you learn at your own speed.
Yabla French videos include music, travel, drama, interviews and more. The best part about watching Yabla? It’s fun!
“Immersive French” application for iOS
Wattanasoft, a leading provider of iOS language-learning apps, today is pleased to announce Immersive French for the iPad and iPhone. Immersive French provides the user with a full multimedia learning experience by associating pictures with spoken words and sentences.
Details at prMac.com.
The French-American Creative Exchange in Paris
Through collaboration with artists representing a variety of disciplines, F.A.C.E. (French-American Creative Exchange) endeavours to inspire and empower local urban communities by way of a creative, micro-political exchange. Interactive arts projects draw from their imagination and input in order to highlight social issues such as civic preservation and revitalization, education and progressive urban planning, all of which have a daily impact on local citizens.
Our thanks to the Paris Property Group for supporting this organization and letting us know about it!
French universities bicker over Sorbonne “brand”
At least six different universities are locked in a squabble for the brand, which in the eyes of foreigners — but not the French — has a prestige on a par with Oxford or Harvard.
via Times Online
“The Story of French”
