For French Learners

Top Online Course Tip

StoryLearning make some of the best language courses anywhere, and they now offer different French levels so you can find your perfect match: Beginners start with French Uncovered.

French Uncovered is a comprehensive online course designed for beginner French learners (levels A0, A1, or A2 in the CEFR system).

The course is based around a 20-chapter story in simple French, and includes everything learners need to go from the complete beginner level (A0) to the intermediate level (B1) in French.

French Uncovered includes dozens of video lessons and exercises to help learners improve every aspect of their French, including:

  • vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation
  • listening, speaking, reading, and writing

For Your Next Trip to France

Want a fast start for your next trip to France or another French-speaking area? Get Intrepid French: Master French for Travel Fast!.

This course is travel-inspired, comes with a menu guide, handy ebooks and vocab sheets. The audio is slow, relaxed, and spoken by professional native voiceover.

 
 

Study Tools

  • Bon Patron is your French autocorrect tool. If you want to practice your writing skills, type some sentences in there and it will help you with any spelling or grammar errors it can find. Sounds perfect.
  • If you are baffled by French verbs, Bescherelle will help. Recommended by French teachers around the world, and it has got me through a lot of language exams at university.

News in French

  • Thelocal has articles about France in English, a French word of the day, and it’s a great source of articles that you can look up in French later

  • TV5Monde is France’s international broadcaster and offers news articles, videos and language courses

  • French is spoken in other countries, too, and you can get local news in French from L’Africain and La Presse Canada

French Language TV Shows

  • Les Revenants (DVD in the UK and USA)

  • Spiral (Cable by Xfinity, Netflix, streaming on Amazon UK, DVD in the UK and USA)

  • Dix Pour Cent (Call my Agent) (on Netflix, DVD via Amazon)

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