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TESC French Audio Files

The CD files for Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced French at Evergreen are available in a secure web location. You will need to use your Evergreen login credentials to access these files (same user name and password used for email). Beginning students use Contact, Intermediate use Collage, Advanced use A L'Ouvre.

The following file is a very good summary of basic French Grammar, in PDF format for ease of printing.

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Rosetta Stone

French

The Language Lab has Rosetta Stone software for French Levels 1 and 2. Learn to speak, read, and write on your own or supplement your textbook with this total immersion program. We have only one license for each level, so call (360) 867-7020 to reserve a computer, or contact a lab aide via email.

Multi-language to English Dictionary, Verb Conjugator, and Forum

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.

Learn French at About.com

French

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.

Fodor's Useful Phrases for Travel

French | German | Italian | Spanish

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.

Digital Dialects

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!

Internet Polyglot

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.

WordReference.com

French | Italian | Spanish

English to French, Spanish, and Italian (and vice versa) online dictionaries.

Olympia French Conversation Meet-up Group

French

This conversation group is just getting going, and welcomes anyone at any level to participate. We're typically meeting on the weekends, usually Saturdays, for a potluck, French conversations, and then either games or a French film. It's lots of fun, and great practice. Check the meetup website for further details and to sign up.