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A series of seven French lessons tackling vocabulary, nouns, verbs and adjectives. Includes tests to assess performance.
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Free online resource for translating plain text or Web pages into English, French, German, Portuguese, or Spanish.
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Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish dictionaries.
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Looks up single words in a simple French - English Dictionary. Around 75,000 words are included.
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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.
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An English-French guide to basic vocabulary including numbers, shopping, dining, travel, directions, places and time and dates.
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Highlights key linking words and phrases, demonstrating how they are used in the French language.
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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).
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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.
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A selection of grammar and comprehension lessons based on articles from the Bordeaux newspaper Sud Ouest.
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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.
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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.
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Service which produces the conjugated form of a verb when the user selects the required tense and enters the infinitive form.
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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.
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Set of annotated links to online courses, course descriptions, tutorials, assignments, tests and other materials used in the teaching of French.
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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.
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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.
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Index of UK university departments of French
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Annotated index (in French) to French language resources worldwide.
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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Java-based tool that generates conjugation tables for regular French verbs and over 1200 irregular verbs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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