French: A Guide to Research

What's happening in the (French-speaking) world?

Check out these sources for French-language news:

• BBC Afrique
• L'OBS news site
• Liberation or Le Monde (two newspapers in France)

• Radio Garden / Nostalgie (Paris)

• Trait-d'Union magazine (Facebook page)

Listen & watch in French:

• L'institut nationale de audiovisual (a repository of French radio and television audiovisual archives)

Image: Bayonne, France trilingual sign by Keizers, CC-BY-SA

Online textbooks and workbooks

Français interactif open textbook

This online textbook was developed at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of French and Italian. A result of over ten years of collaboration between academic and technical professionals, it was funded and created by the UT Liberal Arts Instruction Technology Services and is currently supported by the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL).

• An accompanying homework / practice set is available at Français Interactif: Devoirs

Le Pont online textbook & workbook

This open educational resource (OER) from the University of Kansas is being updated regularly and offers both a textbook and workbook for each chapter. 

Collections of language learning resources

Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning (COERLL): French 

Housed at the University of Texas at Austin, COERLL is one of 16 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (LRC's) funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The overall mission of these federally-funded centers is to improve the teaching and learning of foreign languages by producing resources (materials and best practices) that can be profitably employed in a variety of settings.

Language Tools Recommended by your Instructors

• Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé - TLFi is the computerized version of TLF, a dictionary of 100,000 words with their history, 270,000 definitions, 430,000 examples... 

• Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales (CNRTL) - a portal to linguistic resources and language processing tools such as language forums, dictionaries, and grammar & usage tools

• University of Texas-Austin Interactive Learning site - Tex's "grammaire de l'absurde" 

• Word Reference

Phonetic transcription keyboards

• Lexilogos multilingual keyboard
• International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) keyboard