Dictionaries
- French Language Dictionary from About.com
- Wordreference.com’s Dictionary
- French-English Dictionary from www.french-linguistics.co.uk
- Online French Dictionary from freedict.com
Language Lessons
- Lessons from About.com (also a wonderful forum)
- Links and Lessons from Wannalearn.com
Machine Translation
- Babelfish from Altavista
- Google Translate
- Dictionary.com’s Translator
- Translation Tool from Wordreference.com
- Text Translation from PROMT
Note: Nothing mechanical is even close to the innate facility of a human translator. These algorithms will definitely not generate accurate translations. Be especially wary of idiosyncratic errors with all English-French language-conversion tools. If you can, try to utilize multiple algorithms, dictionaries, bi-lingual friends or forums, etc.
audio files
- Pimsleur French, available in limewire/torrent
- michel thomas, available in limewire/torrent
- linguaphone, available in limewire/torrent
- living language, available in limewire (sometimes)
- french in action’s complimentary audio lessons http://www.vatoweb.com/french
- FSI french, http://www.fsi-language-courses.com
e-books:
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/French (download the PDF version)
- Liberté – http://www.lightandmatter.com/french/
- French slang – http://www.alternative-dictionaries.net/dictionary/French/French.pdf
- Quebecois slang – http://www.alternative-dictionaries.net/dictionary/Quebecois/Quebecois.pdf
http://www.esnips.com has the following e-books: (just use the search part)
McGraw Hill – Countdown to French – Learn to Communicate in 24 hours
McGraw-Hill – Beginning French for the Utterly Confused – A. Sebastian Mercado
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning French on Your Own
French Grammar and Usage Second Edition
Better Reading French – A Reader and Guide to Improving Your Understanding of Written French
French Verb Drills Third Edition
sites:
http://french.about.com
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/
http://www.france-pub.com/french/
http://www.ielanguages.com/french.html
podcasts:
http://www.frenchpodclass.com
http://www.frenchecole.libsyn.com
http://www.learnfrenchbypodcast.com
http://www.dailyfrenchpod.com/
http://www.espacefrancophone.org/
http://fancyfrench.mypodcast.com
http://www.cnrtl.fr/