French Language

Come join our French Conversation Club, which meets on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month in the Director's Conference Room at 6 pm.

Audio Learning

Berlitz Deluxe Language Pack: French
A comprehensive French language course that takes learners at their own pace from the beginning through the intermediate level, developing listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Includes 3 basic level and 3 intermediate level audio CDs recorded by native speakers, basic and intermediate level course books, a bilingual dictionary, and 100 quiz cards with questions designed to test newly acquired language skills.

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Pittsburgh Region

• Alliance Francaise de Pittsburgh
  The Alliance Française de Pittsburgh, founded in 1903, is a non-profit organization, member of the Federation of Alliances Française in the United States. Its purpose is to encourage the study of French language, literature and culture and to promote activities in the fields of education, the arts and entertainment. The Alliance Française de Pittsburgh is made up over 400 members and offers classes and a variety of social and cultural events and programs in French and in English.
• Pittsburgh métro French Meetup Group
  Meet up for French lessons or French conversation with others in the Pittsburgh area.
• University of Pittsburgh: Department of French & Italian
  Offers intermediate French through the College in High School program.

General Resources

• About.com: French Language
  A website of resources for the French language maintained by Laura K. Lawless, a translator in Morocco. This is a very complete resource with links to help in almost any category you can think of, including French gestures.
• French in Action
  This language learning site at Annenberg Media's Learner.org, offers language learning videos online. Signup is free and the videos are very entertaining!
• Google.fr
  Do your searches for French resources on the French google site.
• Le Point du FLE
  A portal whose objective is to facilitate access to the best web-based activities in French as a foreign language. There are sites for interactive grammar, auto-corrected exercises, simulations etc., which all can be used for work in the classroom or for self-studies.
• Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
  A compendium of 10,000 unannotated links to French history, literature, culture, news, etc. sites, compiled by TennesseeBob Peckham, Director, The Globe-Gate Project, University of Tennessee-Martin.
• Yahoo France!
  Connect to sites in France to practice your French!!!! Check up on French cinema, sports, gastronomy...

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French Grammar / Vocabulary

• ARTFL Project
  Two resources from the University of Chicago
  • English/French dictionary
  • French Verb Conjugator
• Yamada LangMedia: French in France
  Videos on common conversations that one would encounter in France.

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News, Media & Weather

• AFP (Agence France-Presse)
  News from France, Switzerland, Belgium, Quebec, Madagascar, Tunisia. Also available in English
• Arte TV
  The European cultural TV channel with programming in both French and German.
• MIT Libraries: French Language News and Magazines
  Practice your reading ability!
• Le Monde
  The major daily newspaper in Paris. Try your hand at the crossword puzzle (mots croisés).

• Orange - Meteo (Weather)
  Check out the current forecast for France.
• Radio-Canada: News
  Check out the other areas such as culture, science-technologie, sports...

• RDS Sports
  Keep up on Canadian sports in French.
• Revues.org
  If you are a scholar interested in reading scholarly journals in French, go to Revues.org, a portal to journals in the humanities and social sciences.
• Soleil de Quebec
  Quebec's leading newspaper, in French, of course!

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Listen to French

• French Language Sound Recordings for English Speakers
  Browse the library catalog for language tapes and CDs in French.
• Eko France: 50/80
  "Retrouvez tous les tubes du patrimoine de la chanson française par nos plus grands interprètes nationaux : Edith, Francis, Charles et les autres... Vous écoutez 40 ans de chansons françaises!" Listen to 40 years of French songs.
• Radio-Canada Audio-Video
  Ecoutez en direct
• Radio France
  Listen to Radio France.

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Culture

• American Association of Teachers of French
  Includes information on the National French Contest.
• France.com
  Ooh la la! As Benjamin Franklin said: "Every man has two nations, and one of them is France". This is a site highlighting French travel, culture, gastronomy, websites (and France's minitel) and museums. They also have an online forum.
• Radio-Canada.ca: Jeunesse
  Youth oriented news and entertainment (including an online game of "concentration"), in French, of course.

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Further Study in French

These are links to college and study abroad programs. It doesn't hurt to prepare for them early!

• Alliance Française
  Their school in Paris offers courses in 5 levels of French. They also have 1050 centers around the world.
• Alliance Française in the United States
  There are 141 independent centers in the United States. This website will help you find them all.
• Cordon Bleu Culinary School (Paris)
  If you have the money and time, you can earn a Grand Diplome in Cuisine. Or if you have the money and a summer, you can attend their 10 week summer abroad program.
• Planet Edu: French
  Browse their listings of study programs for French