{"id":38,"date":"2013-08-22T22:52:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T22:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagesresourcecenter.wordpress.com\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2016-04-04T21:34:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T21:34:38","slug":"french","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/mlrc\/online-resource\/french\/","title":{"rendered":"French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Online Resources:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordreference.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordReference<\/a>: The best online dictionary for French! Be sure to scroll down when you search in order to find the best definition for the word or phrase you&#8217;re looking for&#8211;there are often many examples. WordReference also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordreference.com\/conj\/FRverbs.aspx?v=\" target=\"_blank\">verb conjugator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for some examples of HOW to use all these words you&#8217;re learning? Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguee.com\/english-french\/search\" target=\"_blank\">Linguee<\/a>! Search for a word or phrase or even a full SENTENCE\u00a0and it will give you examples of how it is used on websites in Spanish. Just make sure it&#8217;s in the same context as you want to use the word\/phrase\/sentence, and know that not all websites will necessarily give you the 100% grammatically correct context.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laits.utexas.edu\/tex\/gr\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tex&#8217;s French Grammar<\/a>: Grammar explanations, examples, and practice exercises, as well as verb conjugation. You can search in the upper right-hand corner of the page if you&#8217;re looking for a specific grammar topic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/french.about.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">French<\/a> at About.com: Grammar explanations, examples, practice tests, as well as cultural insights.<\/p>\n<p>Need to practice listening comprehension? Check out these <a href=\"http:\/\/french.about.com\/od\/listening\/ss\/topicalindex.htm\">listening comprehension<\/a> exercises at about.com!<\/p>\n<p>Listen to some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/french\/blog\/french-podcasts\/\">French podcasts<\/a> to practice listening comprehension skills&#8211;even just five minutes a day can make a big difference! Don&#8217;t worry about understanding everything&#8211;just listen!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/conjuguemos.com\/list.php?type=verbs&amp;division=verbs&amp;language=french\" target=\"_blank\">Conjuguemos<\/a>: Practice conjugating verbs in all different tenses. The BEST for improving verb conjugating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utm.edu\/staff\/bobp\/french\/french.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tennessee Bob&#8217;s Famous French Links<\/a>: a site full of\u00a0<em>other<\/em> sites&#8230;all in French!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-sul.stanford.edu\/depts\/hasrg\/frnit\/resource.html#fr-studies\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford French and Italian Studies<\/a>: a <em>huge<\/em> compilation of online resources, information, archives, and research sources of all kind!<\/p>\n<p>Need pronunciation help? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larousse.com\/en\/dictionaries\/english-french\" target=\"_blank\">Larousse online dictionary<\/a>\u00a0has audio for each of the words and phrases they give you! Just click on the speaker icon next to the word or phrase you&#8217;d like to hear.<\/p>\n<p>The Deux Mondes textbook has <a href=\"http:\/\/highered.mheducation.com\/sites\/0073535443\/student_view0\/chapitre1\/audio_program.html\" target=\"_blank\">audio exercises<\/a> on their website! They have general audio activities, listening comprehension, and audio for the vocabulary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online Resources: WordReference: The best online dictionary for French! Be sure to scroll down when you search in order to find the best definition for the word or phrase you&#8217;re looking for&#8211;there are often many examples. WordReference also has a verb conjugator. Looking for some examples of HOW to use all these words you&#8217;re learning? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/mlrc\/online-resource\/french\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">French<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/mlrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/mlrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/mlrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/mlrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/mlrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/mlrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/mlrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.scrippscollege.edu\/mlrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}