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Top 5 French Learning Resources:
You will agree that learning a foreign language is far from being an easy task! You find yourself motivated to make real efforts to learn and work on your French and for that, the first step you need to make is to find resources appropriate to your level, your needs, your learning style…
As a teacher, one of the most common questions asked by students (among the hundred others!) is: what books, methods, websites, would you recommend for me to work on my own and to help me learn French?
Well, it sounds simple but it’s so not, is it? Otherwise people wouldn’t ask! But why?? Because the world of resources is just huge!! So at Alpine French School, we thought that we might just help you find your way through that jungle with a few tips to help you learn French
Top 5 Learning Resources = The 5 ‘A’
Now, next time you take a French course, you’ll be fully prepared to impress your teacher and peers.
References:
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= Collins Dictionaries and ‘Reverso’ online (just brilliant, as a teacher I only use those and like the way they respect language levels and idioms. You will definitely enrich your vocabulary very quickly and they most of the time offer the audio pronunciation.
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= Again Collins. French table books for French are not recommended as they are set in a non practical grammatical way meaning arranged by verb groups (which you probably don’t know of) instead of simple alphabetical order for example.
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For complete beginners : www.lexiquefle.free.fr/ + www.didierconnexions.com/niveau1/index.php?id=1-1-4-1#
For Beginners to low intermediates : www.languagesonline.org.uk/Hotpotatoes/Index.htm
For intermediates to advanced : www.platea.pntic.mec.es/~cvera/hotpot/exos/index.htm
For all: the so addictive App called ‘Mind Snacks’!
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Beginners: //www.bonjour.com/ + any of these videos: www.youtube.com/results?search_query=alain+le+lait
Intermediates: www.bonjourdefrance.com/karaoke-fle/index.php/fr
High intermediates to advanced: www1.rfi.fr/lffr/statiques/accueil_apprendre.asp
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