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French movies/videos with French subtitles
There is an amazing site called Les films français avec
sous-titres where one may find a plethora of films to watch of different genres (comedies, dramas, adventures and the like).
Very useful: TEDx ...
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french learners dictionary, for beginers, with examples
My preferred online dictionary for French is Word Reference (http://www.wordreference.com/). It has English to French translations as well as French to English translations. It doesn't have Portuguese-...
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Dictionary with search by endings
Lexique.org provides an advanced search tool.
Searching for words ending with -age or -ade is done from that page that way:
and leads to this result.
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Where can I find good French audio resources for beginners?
Well, if you want to listen to French being spoken by a Frenchman, talking about the French language... I can't think of anything better than Merci Professeur. :)
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La synthèse et l'essai argumentatif
Ceci n'est pas vraiment une question de langue française mais comme il n'y a pas l'équivalent de writers pour le français, je vais donner des pistes sous forme de sites ressources.
La première chose ...
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As of 2018, has any descriptive French grammar been published?
I would recommend Le Bon Usage. The online version is probably a boon since it can be somewhat challenging to search in the paper version. It is very extensive, is replete with examples, and includes ...
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French movies/videos with French subtitles
You have also really nice Youtube channels to learn (or improve) french for free among which:
Learn French with Vincent
Vincent is a French teacher with his own YouTube channel, and he will teach ...
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Is there a resource showing conjugation of French verbs together with a pronunciation of all forms of the verb?
Wiktionary has a comprehensive pronunciation appendix for every verb, for example http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Annexe:Conjugaison_en_fran%C3%A7ais/ouvrir
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Are there any alternatives to Google Translate?
I am amazed at the realistic translations of DeepL.
And I think—just my impression—they are not wildly gathering data as google does.
Translations Comparison
Judge yourselves. I translated my own ...
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Where can I find good French audio resources for beginners?
You could try some audio book if you only need to hear French speaking, accessible from youtube such as "Le Petit Prince".
As mentioned by Anupama, tv5monde is a good source too. It also provides ...
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Tips to learn "le parler Québécois"
After three weeks of holidays in Québec, here is what i could say:
grammar is almost the same than in France
pronunciation can be VERY different, probably depending on the area of Québec (but ...
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Online French newspapers, magazines, etc, with English translation
Simple French
Unfortunately I can't comment yet, because I'm not sure if something like French English News is quite what you're looking for or if it is a little too simple. Therefore I'll leave that ...
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What are some great French voice actors, readers or radio presenters?
Two excellent story tellers (who could really captivate or even electrify TV and radio audiences) are:
Alain Decaux, who was a member of the Académie Française. He specialized on historical topics (...
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What movies or TV series can I use to improve my French?
I recommend both Jean de Florette and Manon des sources (Manon of the Spring), based on the novels of the respected author, Marcel Pagnol. The language is clear, unhurried, and nuanced.
If you watch ...
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Short French podcast used to transcribe?
There are dozens of exercises here. They include a transcript, so you can listen and try transcribing yourself, then compare what you've done to the official version.
Bon courage !
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Resources for learning French phrases (e.g. en train de=in the process of)
what you are referring to are called « locutions » in French.
You see, there is 8 types (or categories) of words in French:
Noms -> Nouns (example: Voiture -> car);
Déterminants -> Determiners (...
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Tips to learn "le parler Québécois"
My suggestion: use analogies (in time and space). To Québec folks: I will draw comparisons with another language. Please see no offence in that.
I am a French speaking French-native. I just come ...
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Online Ancien-Français or Moyen-Français dictionary?
The Godefroy dictionary covers French from the 9th to the 15th centuries. It is available on-line here, among other invaluable resources:
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How to distinguish "rather" formal register from neutral register?
I’m afraid this will also be a non-answer to your question, but it may shed some light on how opinions vary, and show how one might see green where another sees blue.
I’ll start with a very localised ...
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Quelques revues françaises comme The Economist ?
L'équivalent de The Economist tant par la teneur et le sérieux du contenu que par l'utilisation par les enseignants et étudiants dans les cours de FLE (Français Langue Étrangère) est Le Monde. Les ...
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Un site pour les traductions des menus et options windows ?
Microsoft offre un « Portail linguistique » où on choisit les deux langues à comparer (y compris FR→EN et EN→FR), ainsi que le produit dans lequel le terme souhaité apparaîtrait :
Microsoft - ...
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French “Collocation in Use” book
Cooccurrence is the word you'd be looking for to translate collocation.
I haven't been a huge fan of this kind of book, so I won't be a very good reference in the comparative values of the available ...
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Anciens manuels scolaires
Une petite recherche m'a fourni :
https://www.liberte-scolaire.com/articles/analyses/un-tresor-de-manuels-scolaires-anciens-a-explorer-de-toute-urgence/
https://manuelsanciens.blogspot.com/
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Foundation text in French
There is no such thing as a fundamental text in French, as for any other living language.
The Odyssey may be considered fundamental for ancient Greek, but that's only because nowadays, with all the ...
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Où est-ce que je peux regarder la télé en français sur Internet ?
TV5 monde est disponible sur internet également. Elle a l’avantage de présenter un éventail plus large de la francophonie et de proposer des sous-titres pour la plupart des programmes (pour passer ...
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Why don't French dictionaries show all conjugations?
The conjugated forms are not needed when you have learnt the patterns and the exceptions.
In the mentioned case, only those forms that are exceptions from the normal pattern are printed, the remaining ...
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List of French minimal pairs
I pretergramaticaly created such a list, and detailed the process on my blog. The list itself, which is quite long (2921 pairs!) can be seen here.
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What movies or TV series can I use to improve my French?
Try News in Slow French.... https://www.newsinslowfrench.com/.
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Where can I find good French audio resources for beginners?
Depending on your level of French, I'd suggest listening to humorists, especially recorded monologues. My first language is French, and our English teacher made us listen to Vinyl Cafe in class. I ...
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