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French language

      Titles Descriptions
  1. About.com: French Language
  2. About.com: French-Canadian Culture
  3. ARTFL Project: French English Dictionary
  4. ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
  5. Dictionary.com
  6. Digital Dialects Language Learning
  7. Fast and Friendly French for Fun
  8. fonetiks.org
  9. Francais pour Voyageurs
  10. Free Translation
  11. French Revision
  12. French Verb Conjugation
  13. French Verb Conjugator
  14. Langtolang
  15. Language Dictionaries and Translators
  16. Language Learning Library
  17. LookWayUp
  18. Old French Language
  19. Old French Literature
  20. Ressources
  21. Systranet Online Translation
  22. Termino Trads: Autres Outils
  23. Tex's French Grammar
  24. TLF Dictionary
  25. Translation Dictionaries
  26. Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
  27. Web of On-line Grammars
  28. Zut!

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About.com: French Language
Offers original articles and features about the French language, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject-specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Topics include dictionaries, grammar, history of the language including Cajun, Creole and French Canadian dialects, a phonetic alphabet and pronunciation advice.
     Author: About.com
     Subjects: french language
     DeweyClass: 440
     Resource type: forum, guide, index
About.com: French-Canadian Culture
Offers original articles and features about French-Canadian culture, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject-specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Topics include Acadia, authors and literature, Cajun music, cinema, food, French language, genealogy, geography, heritage and traditions, history, museums, music, newspapers, sovereignty, travel and tourism, and universities.
     Author: About.com
     Subjects: canada, canadian news, cultural studies, french language
     DeweyClass: 305.114
     Resource type: documents, forum, index, news
ARTFL Project: French English Dictionary
Looks up single words in a simple French - English Dictionary. Around 75,000 words are included.
     Author: ARTFL Project
     Subjects: french language
     DeweyClass: 403
     Resource type: dictionary
ARTFL: American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language
Cooperative project based around a database of around 20000 French texts which acts as a tool for social scientists and humanists involved in French studies.
     Author: University of Chicago
     Subjects: french language
     DeweyClass: 440
     Resource type: documents
Dictionary.com
Free online resource for translating plain text or Web pages into English, French, German, Portuguese, or Spanish.
     Author: Lexico LLC
     Subjects: french language, german language, italian language, portuguese, spanish, translating dictionaries
     DeweyClass: 400
     Resource type: dictionary
Digital Dialects Language Learning
Provides free, interactive games designed to introduce beginners to the following languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese, Croation, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
     Author: Gibson, Craig
     Subjects: arabic, danish language, esperanto, french language, german language, greek language, italian language, japanese, language learning, portuguese, russian language, spanish, swedish
     DeweyClass: 407
     Resource type: games
Fast and Friendly French for Fun
Series of lessons providing information about French culture and language. Lessons can be followed through in progressive order, or specific topics can be selected from a table of contents. Deals with gender, articles, subject pronouns, basic verbs and conjugations, and past and future tenses. Vocabulary covers nouns, verbs and adjectives and includes letters, numbers and all purpose phrases.
     Author: Deal, Amy; Smith, Gregory & Streich, Jaclyn
     Subjects: french language, language learning
     DeweyClass: 440
     Resource type: documents
fonetiks.org
A series of sound files illustrating the pronunciation of seven varieties of English - American, British, Australian, Canadian, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh. Also covers other languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese. A collection of translation dictionaries are also provided.
     Author: Bowyer, Timothy
     Subjects: english language education, french language, german language, japanese, language learning, portuguese, spanish
     DeweyClass: 400
     Resource type: sounds
Francais pour Voyageurs
An English-French guide to basic vocabulary including numbers, shopping, dining, travel, directions, places and time and dates.
     Author: Travlang
     Subjects: french language
     DeweyClass: 440
     Resource type: guide
Free Translation
Translation service facilitating the conversion of specific text or contents of a chosen web page. Translations available from Spanish, French and German into English and from English into Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese.
     Author: Transparent Language
     Subjects: french language, german language, italian language, portuguese, spanish
     DeweyClass: 400
     Resource type: service
French Revision
Provides interactive French listening, writing, and reading exercises aimed at students aged 11-18. Materials for teachers are also available. Listening exercises require Real Audio player with Flash and a Java-enabled browser also required for parts of the resource.
     Author: Dyer, B.
     Subjects: french language
     DeweyClass: 440
     Resource type: interactive
French Verb Conjugation
Service which produces the conjugated form of a verb when the user selects the required tense and enters the infinitive form.
     Author: Olsen, Mark, University of Chicago
     Subjects: french language
     DeweyClass: 440
     Resource type: service
French Verb Conjugator
Java-based tool that generates conjugation tables for regular French verbs and over 1200 irregular verbs.
     Author: Shiraish, Tatsuto
     Subjects: french language
     DeweyClass: 440
     Resource type: interactive
Langtolang
Multilingual dictionary offering single and multiple word translation between English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, and Turkish. Also offers basic vocabulary for travellers in each language.
     Author: Elfe, Baris
     Subjects: english language dictionaries, french language, german language, italian language, russian language, spanish, turkey
     DeweyClass: 403
     Resource type: dictionary
Language Dictionaries and Translators
Index of online language dictionaries and resources, covering over 100 languages. Also includes a multi-language translator for Web pages and text, and information on online language courses, language chat sites, printed resources, ancient language resources and virtual language schools.
     Author: Rivendell International Communications
     Subjects: english language dictionaries, french language, german language, italian language, russian language, spanish, translating dictionaries
     DeweyClass: 403
     Resource type: dictionary index
Language Learning Library
A language learning resource aimed at beginners. Provides material for those learning Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Japanese and Russian. Designed to meet the needs of teachers, students and businesses the resource offers guidance on grammar, common phrases, common nouns, numbers, the alphabet, telling the time and links to dictionaries and translators. Information about each nationality's culture is given in English.
     Author: US Institute of Languages
     Subjects: chinese language, french language, german language, italian language, japanese, language learning, portuguese, russian language, spanish
     DeweyClass: 407
     Resource type: service
LookWayUp
Translation dictionary and search tool which can either be embedded in Web pages or incorporated into a browser. Facilitates translation from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
     Author: RES
     Subjects: dutch, english language dictionaries, french language, german language, portuguese, spanish
     DeweyClass: 403
     Resource type: dictionary
Old French Language
Information about the Old French Language and its literature, with some texts available in modern English and French. The 'Old French' era covers the period from the year 842 (date of the Serments de Strasbourg, the earliest known document written in the emerging vernacular) until about the year 1400 (the period when the 'two-case' system, which distinguished Old French from its modern, uninflected forms, began to disappear from the written language).
     Author: Price, Joseph E.
     Subjects: french language
     DeweyClass: 440
     Resource type: documents
Old French Literature
Old French texts and information about the literature, listed according to century. Some of the documents are in English, some in Old French and others are Modern French translations.
     Author: Price, Joseph, E.
     Subjects: french language, french literature
     DeweyClass: 840
     Resource type: document collection
Ressources
Collection of crosswords and word searches in French. Although aimed at primary school children, the material is also suitable for those learning, and becoming familiar with, the French language.
     Author: Bacquet, Olivier
     Subjects: french language, word games
     DeweyClass: 793.734
     Resource type: interactive games
Systranet Online Translation
Web page translation service. Attempts to translate pages between English and one of several languages, including French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. There is a free test but the full service is chargeable.
     Author: Systran Software
     Subjects: french language, german language, html validation, italian language, portuguese, russian language, spanish
     DeweyClass: 400
     Resource type: service
Termino Trads: Autres Outils
Set of links to resources providing tips, tutorials and explanations of internet searches, including Google hacks and search engine comparisons. Also has some links to French and English linguistic related search services.
     Author: McKeown, Roger
     Subjects: english language, french language, internet technology, web searching
     DeweyClass: 004.678
     Resource type: index
Tex's French Grammar
Offers information on French grammar, arranged in sections covering parts of speech such as nouns, prepositions, adjectives, and conjunctions. Each section features an explanatory note in English. Additional resources include an interactive verb tutorial, and a French dictionary.
     Author: University of Texas
     Subjects: french language, language learning
     DeweyClass: 440
     Resource type: guide
TLF Dictionary
Online searchable version of Nicot's 'Thresor de la Langue Francoyse', a French dictionary written in 1606 and considered 'the key to the development of French lexicography'.
     Author: University of Chicago ARTFL Project
     Subjects: french language
     DeweyClass: 440
     Resource type: dictionary
Translation Dictionaries
Collection of online dictionaries offering English translations from and to Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish.
     Author: TierraNet
     Subjects: african languages, danish, dutch, finnish, french language, hungarian, indonesia, italian language, japanese, latin, norwegian, portuguese, russian language, spanish, swedish
     DeweyClass: 403
     Resource type: dictionaries
Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish dictionaries.
     Author: Travlang
     Subjects: african languages, danish, dutch, esperanto, finnish, french language, german language, italian language, latin, portuguese, reference, spanish, translating dictionaries
     DeweyClass: 403
     Resource type: dictionary collection
Web of On-line Grammars
Links to grammar resources, morphology information, dictionaries, and lessons in languages including Akkadian, Arabic, Artificial Languages, Brahui, Cherokee, Chinese, Coptic, Dhimal, English, Gaelic, Hindi, Indonesian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Tagalog, Urdmurt, Vietnamese, Welsh, and Wolof.
     Author: Beard, Robert
     Subjects: arabic, chinese language, dutch, english language education, esperanto, finnish, french language, gaelic language, german language, greek language, hungarian, japanese, korean, language learning, latin, linguistics, norwegian, portuguese, russian language, spanish, swedish, welsh language
     DeweyClass: 400
     Resource type: index
Zut!
Online lessons for French students completing years 7 to 13 of the school curriculum. Covers reading, writing, and listening skills, offering useful teaching material in each area. A range of interactive games such as crosswords and hangman are available to assess progress.
     Author: Murphy, Catherine
     Subjects: french language, school teaching
     DeweyClass: 440
     Resource type: interactive guide