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Free French Language Lesson - Great Choices For Free French
Lessons Online by Dennis Cordy
Thanks to the internet we now have many more resource for
learning to speak French than we ever had in the past.
What's more you can start learning, the basics at least,
using a number of sites that provide French language lessons
absolutely free.
Over at the BBC website (the British Broadcasting
Corporation) there are a number of really excellent starter
courses for learning French. You can subscribe for a 12 week
email course, you can take part in a quiz which tests your
current level of French and suggests further study and,
given a good internet connection, you can even take part in
an interactive video course called 'Ma France' which covers
a variety of subjects like eating out, asking directions,
holidays, cooking and more. It's voiced by a native French
speaker so you can hear what each French word sounds like.
It's a superb way to start to learn French and it's
absolutely free.
That's probably the most comprehensive set of French lessons
but there are plenty of others. Just do a search on the
internet and you'll find dozens. While writing this article
I entered 'free French lesson' in Google and got over half a
million results!
Of course a lot of those results are duplicates, and a lot
of them are, frankly, rubbish, but if you take a bit of time
to search around you'll find a few gems.
For instance, one thing I didn't find at the BBC was how to
pronounce the French alphabet. Maybe it's there but I missed
it, but it's not important because I found several other
places with short audio clips so I could hear each letter.
A trawl around the internet will find free lessons for
French days, weeks, months, greetings, food, clothes,
romance, you name it there's somewhere online you can find
the French for it!
The audio lessons or sound clips are the most useful, of
course, because hearing the language is vital in
understanding it and speaking it. Don't just rule out the
sites that only offer written texts though - there's a lot
there that can be useful too and the actual construction of
French grammar is difficult to explain by sound alone -
sometimes you need something written down.
I'm sure you'll come across some websites that you find
frustrating. I certainly did. It's rather annoying, in my
opinion, to click several times in search of French sound
files only to discover that the written texts are free but
you have to pay for sound. It's not that I object to paying
necessarily, but I do object to being led along like that.
Never mind, along with the benefits of the internet you're
bound to find one or two sites that don't deliver.
Nevertheless, you can find free French lessons online and
good ones at that. If they're limited in any way it's that
those I've found can really only deal with the French
language at the beginner level. Going on from that I'm
afraid you'll have to pay. That said, there are some
extremely good systems out there and many of those you can
get a free sample of so you can try before you buy. Well
worth looking into when you want to take your French lessons
to the next level.
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