French Lessons

French Assistant
A website with a unique and quite original approach to learning French. Against a free membership subscription, this website offers access to a number of exercises using comic-like characters who write sentences in captions. You then have several options to reply and drop down menus let you choose the word order so you can take the most of the web interactivity and have fun while learning.

French Lessons on About.com
French resources from the popular website owned by Lycos. Possibly one of the most comprehesensive French learning resource websites on the internet. The French learning pages cover a variety of topics with verb conjugations, vocabulary lists and grammar points. There are also plenty of tests and quizzes to assess your progress and knowledge, word games, many articles about French as well as several active discussion forums.

French Lessons from the BBC
French resources from the BBC, a few learning games are available, as well as a very important list of words with accompanying audio material. There is an interesting page about French pronunciation very useful for beginners. The lessons are organized by theme on various every day life topics and each lesson focuses on some particular grammar points. You can hear French dialogues while reading the sentences you hear on the screen. There is the option to display the sentences either in French, to see the transcript of the audio contents, or in English to view the translation in English.

Daily French Pod
A very efficient way to learn French by listening to native speakers. The website offers three price plans free, basic and premium. The free option allows to download the new daily podcast and comments. A translation is available starting from the basic option.

Elanguageschool
This site offers a number of French grammar lessons and many lists of useful words and phrases about every day life topics and themes. However there is no audio recordings to accompany the vocabulary lists.

Jump-gate.com
This website offers some lessons on a range of French grammar topics. also includes a discussion forum to ask any questions about French.

Lsfrench.com
This website includes several lists of vocabulary and sentences with audio material on a range of topics about every day life situations in France.

French Linguistics
A wide range of topics are treated, the French grammar lessons often examine one point of detail at a time. An active forum of discussion is also available. The site also includes several lists of French vocabulary sorted by topic and a dictionary.

Language Guide - French
Explains many common grammar topics, most of the examples given also include audio recordings which help learn the pronunciation. The site also provides several lists of vocabulary on various themes like food, nature, house, arts, body and clothes. A section includes several readings with text in French, translation in English and audio recordings available, which can be of interest for intermediate to advanced learners.

Bonjour
Offers several lists of words, the pronunciation of each word can be heard individually by pressing a button to play the audio. The vocabulary lists include words for greetings, love, date and time, weather and transports.

You Tube
You Tube offers a number of French video tutorials and lessons made by French native speakers. Go to the site and search for French lessons or other keywords and you should find a wealth of learning material, of course this is particularly interesting for working on pronunciation and accent.

E how
The concept of this site is fairly similar to You Tube. Select the videos section and look for French lessons in video. A number of French lessons about general topics have been posted by users.

French Speak7
The site is strongly advertising and trying to sell a product, nonetheless there are a few French lessons still available for free on the site.

Learn French Help
A number of Grammar lessons are available on this site for free. Pronouns, adjectives, verb tenses...

University of Texas, Department of French and Italian
This is a good quality site, the lessons are organised in 13 chapters, each chapter has a central theme and includes relevant vocabulary lists, explanations about special phonetics difficulties, grammar notions, videos to help learn the vocabulary and pages from the student workbook can be downloaded for free (the workbook is mostly written in French though, including the instructions, so this might suit advanced learners better)

Tex's French Grammar - University of Texas
These pages are again from the site of the University of Texas, but focus on grammar topics only. There are 11 main subjects plus a few extras and each subject includes several lessons. All lessons can be viewed online as well as be downloaded in pdf and MP3 format (for the examples).