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French Information Gateways & Link Lists

France

AdmiNet.fr Le web administratif et citoyen and AdmiNet.com worldwide official information
Service Public Le Portail de l'administration francaise : links to French official agencies [off-line ? or connection difficulties July 2007]
France diplomatie (Ministère des Affaires étrangères) see 'La France' in the site's left-hand frame
CIDJ Centre d'Information et de la Documentation de la Jeunesse
Liste des serveurs W3 en France

Other Francophone Gateways

Anglofrance.net The Network of English-Speakers Exchanging Information about France: appears to be mainly classified ads now
ClicNet site culturel et littéraire français (Swarthmore)
French Embassy in Washington and in London French Embassy London resources
New! French Culture official website of the French Embassy (USA)
French Institute in Scotland
New! Francophonie New York on francophone events and programs in the city.
France.com gateway to France (American)
Le Quartier français du village planétaire (Janice Paulsen - Richmond Virginia) and
La Culture francophone Toronto list of Francophone web sites 'C'est chouette'
WESS Web French Studies Information Gateway of (American) Association of College & Research Libraries
Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links 2nd edition (10,000 link supersite)
Hapax: French Resources and
University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Centre French Language Resources from Chanson de Roland to J'Accuse

More general gateways

ASLIB Index to theses, BUBL French lang. and French Literature Bulletin Board for Libraries
HERO Higher Education and Research Opportunities
NISS National Information Services and Systems for HE
INTUTE: French formerly part of SOSIG and ALTIS, now part of Academic Information Gateway INTUTE . French section says: "Search or browse the database of French Studies resources which have been selected, evaluated and described by subject specialists. Our target audience is lecturers, researchers and students within UK higher and further education."
iLoveLanguages ex-WWW Virtual Library: Human Languages page
HUMBUL Institute for Humanities Hub: French Studies pages, now merged with INTUTE (see above)
Virtual Training Suite the Internet for Modern languages
New! Wikipedia en français

Miscellaneous French Link lists

Mel Belin's AllThingsFrench.html gateway to a variety of aspects of French life and culture
French links by Alliance Française San Francisco
FYI France Jack Kessler, incl. Resource lists & Digital Libraries in France.
Links from Paris Pages Norman Barth
Bric-à-brac de liens Quelques liens proposés par Sylvain
Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links If all else fails, Bob probably has it listed.
Le monde du FLE sitographie, netothèque ? List of links to FLE sites

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Search Engines and Portals

French Search Engines/Portals:
Ithaki, Lycos France, Alice, Voila.fr, Orange ex-Wanadoo, Yahoo! France,
abondance.com all sorts on web site design and searching
and Google.fr with clickable button to limit search to pages from France only;
plus French version of Google news New! Google Actualités.

Google.com Big American search engine;
British version: google.co.uk with clickable button to limit search to pages from UK only.
Search EDU American site allowing searches of types of site, such as 'Education', 'Governement sites', Library of Congress, Converters, etc

Metasearch engines: dogpile.com and metacrawler.com sends query to several search engines at once.
Ari@ne6 Le méta-Moteur de recherche.
Other search engines: Vivísimo Velocity with its automatic clustering of results;
alltheweb.com; altavista.com; ask.com; ixquick.

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Language Teaching and Learning

Quick link to sections: | France | UK HE | French Language learning related |

National and International Agencies - general

CILT The national Centre for Languages, & their Library catalogue
Languages work information portal supporting a wide range of products designed to show the value of languages in the workplace and beyond
Regional language Network North East RLN NE is supported by CILT and works to promote greater national capability in language and cultural skills in business and employment.
New! Routes into Languagese Aim: increasing the take-up of languages from schools to university - regional consortia established where groups of universities will work together, with schools and colleges, to enthuse and encourage people to study languages. National networks promote translation and interpreting as careers.
AIESEC challenging work abroad programme offering opportunities for graduates to encounter new people and cultures whilst working abroad.
British Council International Youth Exchange
Council of Europe
EURES European job mobility portal, connecting Jobcentres across Europe.
The Franco-British Council Set up in 1972 to promote better understanding between Britain and France and to contribute to the development of joint action through meetings of leading representatives of the worlds of culture, science, education, politics and business in the context of a developing Europe and of an increasingly globalised community
New! Language Café the concept, the movement (EU Socrates Programme)

France

L'Annuaire des centres de FLE Lists of French University courses for French for Foreigners
Alliance française Paris
Encyclopédie sonore of the Sorbonne
SCEREN CNDP Ressources pour enseigner
Le Français dans le Monde periodical for FLE teaching
Francparler la communauté mondiale des professeurs de français
TV5 language pages For teachers: apprendre et enseigner avec TV5 -see "langue française" and "enseignants"
ILF Institut de Linguistique française.
FLE-asso Site des associations de français langue étrangère
Olyfran Olympi@des du français et de la francophonie
Orthonet Spelling and grammar help for the French (Conseil international de la langue française)
Dimension-BTS propose un guide complet sur les 145 BTS proposés en France, des rubriques d’orientation, d’emploi, ainsi qu’un forum
Dimension-GrandesEcoles propose un guide des grandes écoles (écoles de commerce, écoles d’ingénieurs, écoles spécialisées, troisièmes cycles), des rubriques d’orientation, d’emploi, ainsi qu’un forum

UK HE

QAA Reports Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education: French & Modern Langs.quality assurance reports
Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) and
Subject Benchmarking statements for the new Quality Assurance system.
The Higher Education Academy assimilated the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Learning & Teaching Support Network: Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies
The Chartered Institute of Linguists with its Links page
Research assessment exercise RAE (HERO)

New! University Council of Modern Languages established in 1993 when representatives of universities, scholarly and professional associations and other organisations concerned with the study and teaching of modern languages agreed that there was a need for a broad national body which could speak with a single voice and effectively represent the interests of modern languages in higher education
New! Standing Conference of Heads of Modern Languages in Universities now amalgamating with UCML - see above.
New! Association of University Language Centres in the UK and Ireland
Newcastle University Language Centre Resources Catalogue
LARA National Learning and Residence Abroad Project
Real French Manchester Metropolitan University site: excellently designed and presented for students of France and French
WELL Project resources from Barthes to Barthez [some bad links inside the site] - WELL home page

Language learning related sites

Linking page to About.dot.com grammar pages
Alliance française Newcastle
Alliance française Londres, <
Franco-Scottish Society DT>French Institute Alliance française New York
New! other Alliance française in UK or French clubs in the UK supported by Alliance française
AudioFrench.com Charles's free on-line educational resource to help "learn, practice, and enjoy the French language". Contains extensive library of French words and phrases (with American English equivalents) and links to on-line audio files.
Better understand France and the French site for American tourists
CALL@Hull Fred Riley's site (former C & IT lists).
Digital Dialects French beginners French - interactive games for learning and testing
Dougal Campbell's Harrap's French Connection
Camsoft's CALL Camweb
Le coin des francophones et autres grenouilles and Page de l'Hexagone (Cornell University, Andrée Grandjean-Levy) no longer updated? several broken links
New! Concorde French Language Publications includes book reviews on line (readers)
CultureCo méthodes et des ressources pour réussir les principales épreuves du BTS Action Commerciale, Techniques et culture commerciale.
Ecole des Trois Ponts Quizzes on French culture (and cookery courses)
Executive Planet's guide to French business culture and crosscultural management by Maurice Contal
eLanguagesSchool.net Learn French with free online lessons.
Experience Language Ltd. Young French language teaching company offering combinations of leisure/sporting/cultural activities and study courses for all ages for individuals or groups, groups, businesses and schools.

La Fédération des Associations Françaises en Grande Bretagne Ltd founded 1942; has 70 member groups. "La FAFGB est une association à but non lucratif. Lorsque les activités de l’année, financées principalement par le Bal du 14 juillet et les dons de Nos Partenaires, permettent de dégager des résultats financiers positifs, des donations sont faites lors de l’Assemblée Générale afin de soutenir l’action sociale de certaines associations membres."
Franco-British Society The society is an independent charitable organisation, with The Queen as its patron. Founded 1924, it is dedicated to encouraging closer relations between Britain and France, acting as a focus for those individuals, groups and companies who wish to keep in touch with France, her culture, history and current affairs.
French Chat intended to promote exchanges between francophones and non-francophones, and help perfect their language skills.
French Assistant.com Mark Gibbons's French learning site (beginners' vocabulary and grammar method, with sound)
French-Word-a-day.com Kristin Espinasse's Web Log, offering vignettes of French life and linguistic info around a French word a day, a French quote-a-day, plus some great photos of Aix and Provence - an original site
French Grammar Central and other language topics on Globe-gate project on Univ. Tennessee Modern Languages site Globegate & Tennessee Bob
FLE Le Point du FLE gives access to selected web-based activities in French as a foreign language, for classroom or self-study
Frenchlesson.com - Learning French genders, conjugations & other intermediate grammar exercises (T Blackmon)
French Language Guide French language schools, dictionary, words and other resources about French
Learn French in France Guide French language schools, dictionary, words and other resources about French
Hello-World.com with games, activities, songs, and vocabulary for learning French, all free

New! Language Café the concept, the movement (EU Socrates Programme)
New! LanguageLearningLibrary.org - American site offering resources to learn French (beginners and false beginners) and other languages.
Learn French Language.com Learn French language through schools, products and other online resources [offline? June 2008]
Université de Laval (Canada) "Pour apprendre les langues"
Lexilogos site fascinated with words and dictionaries - links to many languages
Little Linguist online shop selling children's foreign language products, founded by a French teacher, who had found it difficult to get hold of interesting and authentic learning materials.
loquella.com free online beginners or false beginners language course (American). Students listen to and repeat audio spoken in French, and also read the corresponding sentences in English and French.
Ohio University Teaching Resources
Parlez.com.ar fun site to learn vocabulary between French English and Spanish
Self-styled Really useful French teaching site - Stephen Glover [off-line? June 2008]

Sauve-qui-peut Useful (and fun) site aimed at advanced learners of French: read topical texts, practice writing and blogging skills
Sing and learn/Chansons sympas pour apprendre des langues (abc melody - Bruno Husar) excellent language learning songs in 6 languages
Skoldo Lucy Montgomery's French learning site for 5-11 year olds
SOUFFLE French language schools "18 language school and university members of SOUFFLE have signed up to a Quality Charter and undergo regular quality assurance inspections". Includes schools under umbrella titles French Interactive ("French language schools in Paris or in Antibes for adults and juniors") and Artistic French ("Learning French language and French Art & Civilization in France")
New! Telefrench.com online French teaching with native French teacher through a video conferencing platform (any level).
THOT _ Ressources Internet pour l'apprentissage du français langue étrangère
Verb2Verbe.com learn and test your French verbs by Alan Paul.
New! Vox Swap a social network for learning languages (matches people up so you can talk to real people and practice the language)

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Translation, dictionaries and glossaries

Quick link to sections: | French Dictionary sites | Specialist dictionaries and glossaries |

Translation

American Translators Association (ATA) "professional association founded to advance the translation and interpreting professions and foster the professional development of individual translators and interpreters"
The Chartered Institute of Linguists with its Links page "serves the interests of professional linguists throughout the world and acts as a respected language assessment and accredited awarding body"
Go Translators Tools for translators: dictionaries, lexicons, glossaries, newsgroups, mailing lists.
Lingo24's links to free translators online and their articles on translation and other translation resources
New! The British Council Literary translation site explores the role of the translator and the challenges of translation; see also The Times Stephen Spender prize for poetry translation
Naked Translations in French and English versions - see her list of links to sites relevant to freelance translators
SupraLingua for budding translators/interpreters
The Translator's Home Companion focal point of information about Internet and other resources available for translators, interpreters and all linguists, incl. free downloads of trial versions of language/translation software.
Translators Tool Kit
Translation Journal for Translators by Translators about Translators and Translation
UNESCO's Index Translationum the database of world translated works since 1979 on-line
Some commercial translation agencies: Lexcelera; Lingo24; Roevin; New! TGV24;
Lingo24 also offers a range of language services including
a free online English-French, German-French translation tool (ContexTrans),
French language paraphrasing tool (Parasaurus) and
a collection of English-French useful phrases (Useful-Phrases )
appliedlanguage.com Professional French Translation (Applied Language Solutions) and free translation toolbar

New! Some online translation sites:
Systran ; Applied Language Solutions ; Altavista / Yahoo! Babel Fish; Paralink translation; SDL Freetranslation.com/; World Lingo Translator; Translated.net ; Amikai Translation demo ; ImTranslator ; Google Language Tools ; Promt translator ; Reverso.net (also online dictionaries); Linguatec Personal translator ; Translation.babylon.com (single word translation); Langenberg Translation tools; Cucumis "a community of translators who share their linguistic knowledge and help each other online".

Dictionary sites

Annuaire des dictionnaires long list of links to bilingual and unilingual dictionaries
Bribes : Petit dictionnaire des citations
CRISCO dictionary project (University of Caen)
Dictionnaires d'autrefois (ARTFL): Robert Estienne 1552, Jean Nicot 1606, Pierre Bayle 1740, J.-F. Féraud 1788, Académie française 1798/1832-35/1932-35
Dictionnaire des synonymes (CRISCO) Caen University; CRISPO synonym finder
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopédie des expressions
The Free Dictionary by Farlex, includes thesaurus, specialist dictionaries, acronyms, idioms, encyclopaedia and more
New! Freedict.com
Harrap's French Connection [Dougal Campbell]
Lexicool directory of 5000 online bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and glossaries freely available on the Internet.
Lexilogos dictionaries Links to major French-French dictionaries plus some specialized ones.
Leximagne Electronic dictionaries and word lists (Globegate) (access problems July 2007 through June 2008)
Le Littré intégral
New! Reverso.net online dictionaries
New! Dictionaires Robert : le blog d'Alain Rey
Trésor de la langue française informatisé and quick search page (the major modern French dictionary project)
Wikipédia en français
New! Wordreference.com online dictionaries

Specialist dictionaries and glossaries

Acronyms finder
ADBS resources Guide to resources in Archives and records management;
- see Vocabulaire de la documentation and Outils de recherche web
Archives de France terminology archivistique
Dictionnaires et glossaires a huge list of on-line translation aids from Liensutiles.org - just scroll down to find the right one
Dictionnaire de musique
New! Lexique du golf
New! Lexique officiel des sports olympiques anglais-français
List of computing/IT/Internet dictionaries, notably dicofr.com
List of specialist dictionaries, incl. medical
Termcat football dictionary Football dictionary in English, French, Spanish, Catalan
Free Glossary Free multilingual glossary and encyclopaedia in major EU languages plus Japanese and Korean [access problems July 2007 and June 2008]
Quebec official terminological dictionary
PIAF Glossary Portail Archvistique International Francophone - includes learning materials on archives and records management practice
Sciences en ligne Dictionnaire interactif des sciences et techniques
French-English Glossary of Linguistic terms "contains 7,387 French linguistic terms and 7,626 English linguistic terms. Written in both languages, its main purpose is to allow the user to understand key concepts underlying French terminology, as well as gain access to innovative aspects of francophone linguistic thought and methodology."
French Smileys site

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Last updated 21st July 2008 by Geoff Hare. Sites on this page last systematically checked 21st June 2008 by Geoff Hare (geoff@frenchlinks.org.uk)

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