French Studies: Online Resources

Apprendre Le Francais 

A website for learning French and includes reading, grammar and pronunciation exercises

BBC Languages: French

BBC's Language section for students of French. Includes vocabulary, grammar and reading exercises

Culturetheque

Alliance Francaise Dublin's, Culturetheque, offers over 150,000 French books, magazines, music, culture, tutorials

Larousse online French Dictionaries

Dictionary of 250,000 words and phrases, verb conjugation tables, proverbs, sayings and idiomatic expressions, synonyms, quotations, cultural and historical notes and more

Collins French Dictionary

An online French to English and English to French dictionary. It also includes a translator tool.

Gallica - The BnF digital library

The digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). Contains printed materials (books, journals, newspapers, printed music, and other documents), graphic materials (engravings, maps, photographs, and others), and sound recordings.

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