Since we've got people from all over the world here, there should be some French speakers/learners, right? Could you recommend some engaging resources for studying your language? I'm mostly interested in speaking/comprehension, so media would be best. Thanks!

French in Action, it's 30 minutes or so per episode, there are about 50. Only in French right from the start. There are transcripts in the workbooks IIRC. I think you can buy it, in the US it's available for streaming somewhere, otherwise on BitTorrent.

FSI French, free from the US government, pretty boring though.

Assimil French is pretty good, think the new one is New French with Ease. I picked it up for about £20 or so.

The quickest way I've found to extend vocab for a certain language is this site: 200-words-a-day.com or something like this. It's not for free, but if you combine the material there with Anki you'll have the best tool on the planet to learn vocab. I'm doing it right now, and it works, big time.

Raschaverak Wrote:The quickest way I've found to extend vocab for a certain language is this site: 200-words-a-day.com or something like this. It's not for free, but if you combine the material there with Anki you'll have the best tool on the planet to learn vocab. I'm doing it right now, and it works, big time.

Japanese or only French?

Hi! French speaker here.

I think http://www.yabla.com looks pretty promising, if you wish to put emphasis on media.

Otherwise, you can find a lot of support from other learners at how-to-learn-any-language.com.

http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons

Scroll down to French in that list. It also has the "French in Action" link, which only works in the US, but you should be able to get around that easily with proxies. ^^

I forgot to mention Michel Thomas French. I think you can download the first CD for free, if you want to know what it's like, but basically it focuses on conversation.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry あのときの王子くん Le petit prince
parallel French-Japanese text:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid121590
French audio
http://www.logoslibrary.eu/sound/fr/mp3/..._4_Mix.mp3
http://www.logoslibrary.eu/sound/fr/mp3/..._8_MIX.mp3
http://www.logoslibrary.eu/sound/fr/mp3/...12_Mix.mp3
http://www.logoslibrary.eu/sound/fr/mp3/...18_MIX.mp3
http://www.logoslibrary.eu/sound/fr/mp3/...P_MIXn.mp3
http://www.logoslibrary.eu/sound/fr/mp3/..._24_27.mp3
I have a parallel French-Russian-English text, too. If anyone's interested.

French grammar with audio
http://www.frances-online.de/gramatica/c...co_1_5.htm
The site's in Spanish, but the audio is in French.

Pronunciation
http://phonetique.free.fr/

Audiobooks
http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/audiobook

Learning materials
http://uz-translations.net/?category=french
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=1267


How I learn: parallel texts + audiobooks
L-R the most important passages
http://learnlangs.com/Listening-Reading_...ssages.htm
Examples of literary texts for zero beginners.
To download:
http://rapidshare.com/files/401382015/ai.7z
It's one 7z file, 3.34 MB. It's packed. To unzip it use 7zip or WinRar.

The file contains:
L1 Polish, L2 French
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Saint-Exupery - FP Le petit prince 3 kolumny.pdf
Word-for-word translation with grammar and pronunciation notes.

L1 Polish, L2 German
Grimm - Rotkaeppchen (t_um interlin.doc
Word-for-word translation with grammar notes.

L1 Polish, L2 English
Carroll - A-Pd-gr Alice in Wonderland kody komorki.pdf
Word-for-word translation with grammar and pronunciation notes.

L1 French, Spanish, L2 Spanish, French
No word-for-word translation necessary.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Saint-Exupery - FH Le petit prince.pdf

Thanks for the recommendations! You guys are amazing, as always Any specific podcasts you like listening to?

I seem to have posted this before somewhere here:


Some relatively easy stuff in French, search for it, everything was recorded in French:
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de - FRA Le petit prince
Kristof, Agota - Les gros cahiers
Camus, Albert - L’étranger - The Stranger
Sagan, Francoise - Bonjour tristesse
René Goscinny et Jean Jacques Sempé - 'Le petit Nicolas' series

Carroll - Alice in Wonderland, Alice au pays des merveilles
Hemingway, Ernest - Le viel homme et la mer - The Old Man and the Sea


Dahl - FA Charlie et le grand ascenseur de verre.doc

Orwell - AF 1984.doc

Popular stuff, translated from English, no literary tenses:
Coben, Harlan - Just One Look
Coben, Harlan - FA Tell no one


Audio:
Livraphone
http://www.livraphone.com/
The best professional site with audiobooks


My Book of Bible Stories (French)
http://download.jw.org/files/media_books/my_F.mp3.zip
Some religious stuff, almost like fairy-tales.

http://www.litteratureaudio.com/notre-bi...o-gratuits
amateur recordings, free

To search for what's available:
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=395
http://uz-translations.net/?category=french
http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/audiobook
http://ska4ka.com/ (WARNING: trojans possible)
http://isohunt.com/


Pronunciation, grammar (recorded, downloadable):
http://www.frances-online.de/gramatica/c...co_1_5.htm

http://www.ielanguages.com/frenchphonetics.html
French Pronunciation for Speakers of American English

http://phonetique.free.fr/
Apprendre à prononcer le français avec des exercices de phonétique


http://www.youtube.com/user/imagiers
didn't check it, but there are plenty of lessons there.

Some parallel French-English e-novels:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ztip4z437v870xh
The file contains:
Bradbury - AF Fahrenheit 451.rtf
Camus, Albert - The Fall AF.doc
Camus, Albert - The Stranger AF.doc
Carroll - A-F Alice in Wonderland.rtf
Céline - Voyage au bout de la nuit Fr-Engl.doc
Coben, Harlan - FA Tell no one Chapters 01-13.doc
Coben, Harlan - FA Tell no one Chapters 14-31.doc
Coben, Harlan - FA Tell no one Chapters 32-46 .doc
Coben, Harlan - Just One Look F-A.doc
Dahl - FA Charlie et le grand ascenseur de verre.doc
FEparallel.7z
Kafka - AF METAMORPHOSIS.doc
Laclos, Choderlos de - FA Les Liaisons Dangereuses.doc
my My Book of Bible Stories French-English.doc
Orwell - AF 1984.doc
Ro w l in g - A-F H a r r y P o t t e r 2 and the Ch amb er of Se cr et s.rtf
Russell, Bertrand - A-F The Problems of Philosophy.rtf
Saint-Exupery - FA Le petit princea.rtf
Saint-Exupery - FRA Le petit prince miniejsze komórki.7z (it's in French-Russian-English)
Süskind - Histoire d'un meurtrier FA.doc

Here are a couple of links I noted down some time ago. I have not reviewed them thoroughly, but they may be worth checking.

http://www0.hku.hk/french/resources.htm

http://www.laguinguette.com/
http://www.polarfle.com/learn_french.html

I found Chocolat, a nifty French and Japanese language podcast, on iTunes. Not sure if they are still making episodes, but you should be able to access their archives if it is still up. And it is totally free!