LibGuides: French: Language Resources

Resources for Language & Culture Learning

Drops (by Kahoot!)
Drops, part of the Kahoot family of learning tools, helps reinforce language learning through interactive online games and activities. Drops offers courses in over 40 languages, including French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, German, Swedish, and American Sign Language.
Duolingo
Duolingo is a popular app and online language-learning resource that uses interactive games and stories to reinforce vocabulary and grammar in over 40 real and fantasy language, including Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Chinese, Swedish, Navajo, and Klingon, among others.
Memrise
Memrise is a video- and quiz-based language resource that tailors lessons and video content to the student's interests. Memrise offers courses in 23 languages, including French, Spanish, German, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Swedish.

Memrise newly offers AI-based chat features to help students enhance their practical speaking and writing skills.
Mondly (by Pearson)
Mondly, a Pearson resource, is a free language-learning platform offering courses in 41 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, and Swedish.

**Trésor de la Langue Française Informatisé (TLFi)
The TLFi is an online version of the TLF dictionary that covers over 100,000 words alongside their history. This site is also listed under dictionary resources.
COERLL French Resources
COERLL, an open-access and open educational resources initiative, offers free language learning and support materials in a range of languages. This links to their French learning resources, which include the Français interactif online textbook linked above.
Francolab
Francolab is a free educational platform that provides activities, videos, and interactive exercises for French language learning. It is produced by Québec's TV5 United.
French Embassy Cultural Services
"The Cultural Services are a division of the French Embassy in the United States." Their division aims to "promote the best of French arts, literature, cinema, language, and higher education." This site is their main platform for sharing information and resources about French culture.
Le Français Facile avec rfi
Le Français Facile avec rfi is an online resource for learning oral French through daily international news. The platform creates news podcasts and exercises in slow, plain language to aid in learning and comprehension. Note: This link is set to their English page, so the navigation text is in English.
Le Point du FLE
Le Point du FLE is a comprehensive online collection of French language materials for students learning French as a foreign language.
MOOC French
MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) hosts several free online courses for French-language learning.
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT): French Collection
MERLOT is an online community that provides multidisciplinary Open Educational Resources (OER). This links to their collection of French Language OERs.
University of Texas Français Interactif Textbook
Français Interactif is an online textbook that provides materials and lessons to support French language learning in both written and oral forms. It also links to French grammar resources and podcasts.
Vitrine Linguistique
Vitrine Linguistique, produced by the Québec office of the French Language, is an online resource and forum for definitions as well as questions about French and linguistics.
Yojik DLI French Courses
The Yojik website collects and shares language instruction courses from the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Defense Language Institute (DLI), and Peace Corps. This links to the DLI French courses.
Yojik FSI French Courses
This links to the FSI French courses.
Yojik Peace Corps French Courses
This links to the Peace Corps French courses.

Francolab
Francolab is a free educational platform that provides activities, videos, and interactive exercises for French language learning. It is produced by Québec's TV5 United.
Enseigner le Français FLE (TV5 Monde)
TV5 Monde collects free video and audio resources to help French language learners practice their auditory comprehension aligning with official FLE content.
TV5 Monde Streaming
TV5 Monde offers streaming of popular francophone tv shows, movies, and podcasts.
French films in the library
Catalog link to films in French at Tredway.
Netflix French Movies & TV
Link to Netflix catalog of French movies and TV.
France TV streaming service
This streaming platform from the main French TV services offers free content to users who make a free account; some content may be limited.

CoffeeBreak French
CoffeeBreak French is a free podcast library produced by Radio Lingua Ltd. to help develop French language skills.
Duolingo French Podcasts
Easy to understand French podcasts and stories
News in Slow French
News in Slow French is a weekly news podcast aimed at helping French language learners become more proficient and comfortable with spoken French.
Top 50 - France Spotify
Links to Spotify playlist of top songs in France: "Your daily update of the most played tracks right now - France."
Le Français Facile avec rfi
Le Français Facile avec rfi is an online resource for learning oral French through daily international news. The platform creates news podcasts and exercises in slow, plain language to aid in learning and comprehension. Note: This link is set to their English page, so the navigation text is in English.
COERLL French Resources
COERLL, an open-access and open educational resources initiative, offers free language learning and support materials in a range of languages. This links to their French learning resources, which include the Français interactif online textbook linked above.
Chansons Françaises
"Chansons françaises is the integrated music component of Français interactif. Chansons features a French or Francophone song, related to each chapter's cultural or pedagogical focus, presented via audio or video. Accompanying pdfs provide additional information, as well as comprehension exercises"
Enhancing French Skills
"Enhancing French skills is a website for intermediate learners of French. It includes authentic language videos from French websites, as well as interviews of French speakers on cultural topics. "
Passe Partout
"A sequence of audio and video selections to help intermediate and advanced students improve their oral comprehension skills. It provides the basis for comprehension exercises of increasing difficulty. The topics are extremely varied"