French language and F Guide - Resources and Review

Free online resource for translating plain text or Web pages into English, French, German, Portuguese, or Spanish.
 
Index of UK university departments of French
 
Cooperative project based around a database of around 20000 French texts which acts as a tool for social scientists and humanists involved in French studies.
 
A series of sound files illustrating the pronunciation of seven varieties of English
American, British, Australian, Canadian, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh. Also covers other languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese. A collection of translation dictionaries are also provided.
 
Collection of online dictionaries offering English translations from and to Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish.
 
Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish dictionaries.
 
Offers original articles and features about French
Canadian culture, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject-specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Topics include Acadia, authors and literature, Cajun music, cinema, food, French language, genealogy, geography, heritage and traditions, history, museums, music, newspapers, sovereignty, travel and tourism, and universities.
 
Information about the Old French Language and its literature, with some texts available in modern English and French. The 'Old French' era covers the period from the year 842 (date of the Serments de Strasbourg, the earliest known document written in the emerging vernacular) until about the year 1400 (the period when the 'two
case' system, which distinguished Old French from its modern, uninflected forms, began to disappear from the written language).
 
Offers original articles and features about the French language, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject
specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Topics include dictionaries, grammar, history of the language including Cajun, Creole and French Canadian dialects, a phonetic alphabet and pronunciation advice.
 
Translation service facilitating the conversion of specific text or contents of a chosen web page. Translations available from Spanish, French and German into English and from English into Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese.
 
A series of sound files illustrating the pronunciation of seven varieties of English
American, British, Australian, Canadian, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh. Also covers other languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese. A collection of translation dictionaries are also provided.
 
Online lessons for French students completing years 7 to 13 of the school curriculum. Covers reading, writing, and listening skills, offering useful teaching material in each area. A range of interactive games such as crosswords and hangman are available to assess progress.
 
Set of annotated links to online courses, course descriptions, tutorials, assignments, tests and other materials used in the teaching of French.
 
Java
based tool that generates conjugation tables for regular French verbs and over 1200 irregular verbs.
 
Offers information on French grammar, arranged in sections covering parts of speech such as nouns, prepositions, adjectives, and conjunctions. Each section features an explanatory note in English. Additional resources include an interactive verb tutorial, and a French dictionary.
 
Web page translation service. Attempts to translate pages between English and one of several languages, including French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. There is a free test but the full service is chargeable.
 
Multilingual dictionary offering single and multiple word translation between English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Italian, and Turkish. Also offers basic vocabulary for travellers in each language.
 
A selection of grammar and comprehension lessons based on articles from the Bordeaux newspaper Sud Ouest.
 
Looks up single words in a simple French
English Dictionary. Around 75,000 words are included.
 
Translation dictionary and search tool which can either be embedded in Web pages or incorporated into a browser. Facilitates translation from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
 
Annotated index (in French) to French language resources worldwide.
 
Highlights key linking words and phrases, demonstrating how they are used in the French language.
 
Links to grammar resources, morphology information, dictionaries, and lessons in languages including Akkadian, Arabic, Artificial Languages, Brahui, Cherokee, Chinese, Coptic, Dhimal, English, Gaelic, Hindi, Indonesian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Sanskrit, Tagalog, Urdmurt, Vietnamese, Welsh, and Wolof.
 
Old French texts and information about the literature, listed according to century. Some of the documents are in English, some in Old French and others are Modern French translations.
 
Collection of crosswords and word searches in French. Although aimed at primary school children, the material is also suitable for those learning, and becoming familiar with, the French language.
 
A series of seven French lessons tackling vocabulary, nouns, verbs and adjectives. Includes tests to assess performance.
 
An English
French guide to basic vocabulary including numbers, shopping, dining, travel, directions, places and time and dates.
 
Index of online language dictionaries and resources, covering over 100 languages. Also includes a multi
language translator for Web pages and text, and information on online language courses, language chat sites, printed resources, ancient language resources and virtual language schools.
 
Online searchable version of Nicot's 'Thresor de la Langue Francoyse', a French dictionary written in 1606 and considered 'the key to the development of French lexicography'.
 
Service which produces the conjugated form of a verb when the user selects the required tense and enters the infinitive form.
 
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