French Tutorials Index: French Phrases, Vocabulary, Grammar, and Pronunciation
   
French is my second language, so it is the most extensive language tutorial on this site. You can work through the tutorials lesson by lesson or you can jump to any lesson you'd like by using the index below. French VII is more designed for those who are moving to or living in France so the vocabulary is culture-specific, while the Informal & Slang tutorial intends to teach the real spoken form
of the language instead of the grammatically correct and formal language always found in textbooks. French Phonetics is designed as a very basic pronunciation tutorial with exercises and audio. Audio Flashcards & Exercises are also available for French I and French slang. French Realia contains many scanned items such as brochures, receipts, tickets, etc. that I have collected so that teachers and learners of French can see the real language as it is used in France.
NEW! French Listening Resources is a collection of mp3s and transcripts on various topics in natural, spontaneous speech. Currently only a few are available, but I intend to add many more as well as create listening exercises.
►Check out the Learning French section of my Blog for the latest book and website recommendations and other tips and news on learning the language of Molière!
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French I
1. Basic Phrases
2. Pronunciation
3. Alphabet
4. Nouns, Articles & Demonstratives
5. Useful Words
6. Subject Pronouns
7. To Be & to Have
8. Question Words
9. Cardinal & Ordinal Numbers
10. Days of the Week
11. Months of the Year
12. Seasons
13. Directions
14. Color & Shapes
15. Weather
16. Time
17. Family & Animals
18. To Know People & Facts
19. Formation of Plural Nouns
20. Possessive Adjectives
French II
21. To Do or Make
22. Work and School
23. Prepositions and Contractions
24. Countries and Nationalities
25. Negative Sentences
26. To / In and From places
27. To Come and to Go
28. Conjugating Regular Verbs
29. Pronominal (Reflexive) Verbs
30. Irregularities in Regular Verbs
31. Present Perfect (Passé
Composé)
32. Irregular Past Participles
33. Etre Verbs
34. Food and Meals
35. Fruits, Vegetables, Meats
36. To Take, Eat or Drink
37. Quantities
38. Commands
39. More Negatives
40. Holiday Phrases
French National Anthem
Canadian National Anthem
Belgian National Anthem
Swiss National Anthem
French III
41. Imperfect Tense
42. Places
43. Transportation
44. To Want, to Be Able to, to Have
to
45. House and Yard
46. Furniture and Appliances
47. Comparative and Superlative
48. Irregular Forms
49. Clothing
50. To Wear
51. Future Tenses
52. Preceding and Plural Adjectives
53. Adjectives: Feminine
54. Adjectives: Plurals
55. More Adjectives
56. Problem Verbs
57. C'est/Il est + Adjective + à/de
+ Infinitive
58. Sports and Games
59. Nature
60. To Live
French IV
61. Object Pronouns
62. Parts of the Body
63. Asking Questions
64. Interrogative Pronouns
65. Forms of Lequel
66. Relative Pronouns
67. Demonstrative Pronouns
68. To Read, to Laugh, to Say
69. Disjunctive Pronouns
70. Y and En
71. To See, to Believe, to Write
72. Animals
73. Plaire and Manquer
74. Pluperfect (Past Perfect)
75. Indefinite Pronouns
76. Subjunctive Mood
77. Falloir and Valoir
78. Adverbs
79. Workshop / Hobbies
80. False Cognates
Déjeuner du matin
Le corbeau et le renard |
French V
81. Colloquial Expressions
82. Conjunctions / Connecting
Words
83. Forms of Tout
84. Babies / Children
85. Primary / Secondary School
86. Passive Voice
87. Depuis, il y a, and pendant in
past contexts
88. Post Office / Bank
89. To Receive
90. Verbs followed by à
or de before infinitives or nouns
91. Adjectives followed by à
or de
92. To Follow
93. Faire Causative
94. Direct / Indirect Discourse
95. Computers and Internet
96. Ne Explétif
97. Conditional Tenses
98. Parts of a Car / Gas Station
99. To Drive
100. Travelling / Airport
French VI
101. Camping
102. Special Uses of Devoir
103. Cosmetics / Toiletries
104. Medicine and Hospital
105. Present participle
106. Abbreviations / Slang
107. Past Infinitive
108. In the Ocean
109. To Die
110. In Space
111. Possessive Pronouns
112. Simple Past
113. Make-Believe / Fantasy
114. Religion
115. Music and Art
116. Acquérir and Résoudre
117. Past Subjunctive
118. Translating Phrasal Verbs
119. Other Translation Difficulties
120. Quebecois French
French VII
Confusions
Filling out Forms
Asking for clarification /
help
Food / Eating
On the Phone
Going Shopping
Going to the Doctor
Going to the Dentist / Eye Doctor
At the Hair Salon
Opening a Bank Account
Post Office
Renting an Apartment
Cooking / Kitchen Utensils
Christmas Vocabulary
Transportation
School / Education
News
Politics
Television
Soccer
Zodiac Signs
Marriage / Civil Unions
English used in French
Acronyms
Regions of France
Major Cities of France
Writing Letters
Informal French & Slang
Informal Ways of Speaking
Fillers in Speech
Interjections
Recognizing French Slang
Words
Common Expressions
Common Verbs
The verb foutre
Common Adjectives
Common Intensifiers / Adverbs
Verlan
Health & Body
Emotions & Personality
School
Weather & Time
Talking & Chatting
Eating & Drinking
People & Animals
Places & Vehicles
Work & Money
Love & Dating
Fashion & Shopping
Entertainment & Technology
Baby Talk
Proper Names
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Other Useful Links
French Tutors
BBC
Languages - French
French.about.com
French Wikibook
French Starters
Français
interactif
Learn Canadian French
Bonjour de France
Listen to French
Sons en français
Open
Learning Initiative
Beginner & Intermediate Exercises
Le Monde Francophone Exercises
French
Online Grammar Quiz
France Bienvenue
Français
langue étrangère et seconde
Le Point du FLE
French
in Action Video Series
French Slang - Argot
Français
TV5Monde
- Langue française
RFI - Langue française
Larousse Dictionnaire
Dictionary of Modern France
French.typeit.org
Tennessee
Bob's Famous French Links
All Things French
Katia & Kylie
Mac Learn French
Rocket French
Rocket French is a course for beginners that includes 31 interactive
audio lessons, 45 grammar lessons, vocabulary and verb software
games, as well as a members only forum. There is also a 60 day
guarantee in addition to a free sample course that you can download.
The full course is available as a download or as a 25 CD pack.
Translations
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Don't forget French Phonetics and French Listening Resources so you can improve your pronunciation and listening comprehension!
Recordings of mp3s were done by a native speaker
of French from Haute-Savoie. Feel free to download them for your own personal use or in other non-commercial educational settings. I encourage French teachers to use them in classes too! If you use Mozilla Firefox, I highly recommend the DownThemAll add-on to make downloading much faster and easier.
For the vocabulary lists, I am making audio flashcards [French to English and English to French] with a flash mp3 player in each "card" so you can listen to the pronunciation of the words as you study. The flashcards will open in a new window and you simply click => to go on to the next set of flashcards or to continue on to the exercises.
The exercises can be matching, multiple choice or fill in the blank and they
will also open in a new window.
I am slowly changing over the pronunciation
guides to standard International
Phonetic Alphabet symbols, though only French I is finished so far and Internet Explorer has some
spacing issues with the symbols. I recommend using Mozilla Firefox to view this site.
There are many more countries and regions around the world that speak French instead of just France, Quebec, Belgium and Switzerland, but those are the only dialects that appear on this site for now so that is why only those four flags are shown at the top of the page.
Book Recommendations. Language textbooks
are rather expensive and generally only include the formal, written language.
You will need more exposure to the real spoken language if you want to
become fluent.
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