Community Language Lab

Digital Dialects has loads of animated activities and games that are intended to provide a relaxed way of acquiring basic language skills, and a great break from the books!

For the Academic year 2007-08, French at Evergreen is offered through the full-time program, Illuminations, and also as a part-time class.

The following resource links are also listed in your class syllabus, but we've added them here for your convenience:

Daily French TV News, Live French Radio - music, news, culture,

More French TV News, Olympia High School French Site,

BBC French Steps, Edith Piaf singing "La Vie en Rose",

French/English Dictionary

Click on the links below to access the search results for French language resources in the library.

Language Study Sound Recordings: Language instruction CDs, tapes, and LPs.

Video Recordings: French language films and language instruction videos.

Music: Folk and traditional CDs, tapes, and LPs.

Readers: Practice French with these simplified or notated texts.

Dictionaries: French to English and English to French, plus thesauruses (i?) and specialized lexicons.

Fodor's Travel Guide has created an online phrasebook of useful expressions.  Click on a language and select the kinds of phrases you'd like to work on such as greetings or dining out.  Listen to sound files to perfect your pronunciation, and you'll know how to find a bathroom in no time.

Internet Polyglot is an online flashcard system which uses games and drills designed to help you retain vocabulary.  Build your own lessons, steal from other users, or use the ready-made sets.

Language Guide introduces language learners to vocabulary through sound, pictures, and writing so that every new term is reinforced visually and aurally. If you are just starting out or want to supplement the vocabulary in your textbook, the clustering of the vocabulary into categories like numbers or body parts makes it easy for you to find what you want to work on.

About.com offers clear, easily navigated  pages on many topics, and the French Language learning module is a great place to get started with the language. There are listening exercises as well as written, links to TV and Radio, dictionaries, etc.

This site is great. It conjugates verbs in all tenses laid out very nicely all on one page (I've only checked the Spanish verbs), and has a very in- depth English to other languages dictionary that includes many words AND colloquial phrases, and a forum for when you are really stuck. Check it out. Languages include Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese.