Learning And Teaching French

Learning French or just brushing up language skills? Check out the about.com learning French section as a decent reference site. There are a huge number of language resources available on the net. Having trawled among them for a while, I'm going to point out a few that I think are most useful: http://french.about.com This is a pretty comprehensive site and can help if you are trying to work out some grammar point. It's a little like reading a grammar textbook at times – a little dry and not everybody's favourite pastime. There is a lot of information on the site, but the layout is not particularly friendly and you may need to trawl around for a while to find the section you need. Once you find the appropriate page, there's a lot of good stuff – but you will need quite a lot of self-discipline to learn French from scratch on this site. The audio links are pretty clunky and take you to a separate page which is annoying, as you then have to click back to the page you were on – most of the sites just run audio samples in a small on-page box or a direct click-to-hear link, which is a lot easier. It is, however, a good reference site and worth bookmarking in your French language folder. It also offers links to daily lessons, word of the day, phrases, etc., to help your self-improvement campaign.