August 10th, 2006

How To Learn French Online, fast, easy, free

French is an official language in 30 countries world wide. It is a beautiful language to speak or listen to, and just because I speak it I thought others should speak it as well. How do you go about it though?

If you think self-study is something you can do, the following online resources will guide you step by step into learning more about the language and culture of France. These resources are so good, you really don’t need any more to get started.

Good luck!

Online Courses

BBC - Languages - Learn French
Whether you want to brush up on your French or learn the language from scratch - this is an amazing website. Audio - video and very well planned and delivered courses and other educational material.

Wikibooks

French
Perhaps the best Wikibook on learning a foreign language, and certainly one of my personal favorites. Voted book of the month April / 2006, this Wikibook can be downloaded in PDF, printed easily, has audio and in my not so humble opinion, is near perfect.

Wikipedia

French language
The Wikipedia entry on the French language is a wonderful starting point on all (and perhaps then some) of the information you want to know before you start learning the language.

Reading in French

Project Gutenberg - free eBooks in French
Project Gutenberg offers freely downloadable books in many languages, including French.

Google News - in French
Read the news in French, or at least try to. It’ll help you pick up the language faster, or keep your French fresh.

This entry was posted by Pavlos on Thursday, August 10th, 2006 at 8:07 pm and is filed under Academia. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “How To Learn French Online, fast, easy, free”
  1. zhou ran Says:
    August 11th, 2006 at 2:20 am

    So, Pavlos, you already learned Mandarin, next you should study Cantonese~

  2. Pavlos Says:
    August 11th, 2006 at 3:29 am

    So, Ran, you must be joking, right?

    The only reason I would ever try to learn Cantonese is if someone offered me a 6 digit paying job in Hong Kong. I don’t mean HK dollars of course. And even then, I’d have to think about it.

    You’re Chinese.. So - you should learn Cantonese before I do!! haha :D

    Meanwhile - learn some French, you never know when you’ll be visiting France :D

  3. geneveive Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    ty 4 the info! i really want 2 laern french and this should help get me started!

  4. Pavlos Says:
    April 18th, 2008 at 3:21 pm

    you are welcome geneveive! glad you found this useful!

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