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Wonderful FREE (!!!) Way to Study French


Hilary
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I just had to come here and rave about this website!

 

I'm going to France in May to meet my DD, who's been there since January (and is planning to stay until August), and I wanted to brush up on my French. Thanks to perusing reviews of language programs at Amazon, I found a link to this fantastic website, Tex's French Grammar, developed by the University of Texas at Austin. Not only does it contain a comprehensive review of every grammar rule you could think of, but it has very helpful written and aural exercises at the end of every sub-unit. If you use the drop-down menu, you'll also find practice exercises for conjugating hundreds of French verbs in every tense. I also discovered another site developed by UT, Francais Interactif, which is essentially a first-year French curriculum for free, including videos filmed by UT students during a summer in Lyon. My DS needs to prepare for his college French language placement test over the summer, and I am thrilled to find a FREE website that's so easy and fun to use!

 

The only cautionary note is that this website was developed with college students in mind and there are a few references to drug use as well as an ongoing, non-marital relationship between Tex and Tammy, two armadillos, and a sexy kitten named Bette who is trying to break them up. But others might see this as a plus for their more mature and worldly-wise students, as it lends a certain amount of hipness and sardonic humor to the lessons.

 

Tex's French Grammar

 

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/gr/overview.html

 

Francais Interactif

 

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/index.html

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