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May 2nd | 17
Anonymous: Is there any french textbook for someone who is teaching themselves that you think is good?

Yes! The one I use most often is this: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/home
It’s great if you’re just starting out and teaching yourself. It has links to worksheets and there are exercises in the book as well. :)


I also found this when I was looking. The workbook seems to be pretty good. But I’m not sure about the Culture or anything else. (Some of the links in the culture part didn’t work for me. I’m not sure why..) So you could try that too. You can’t use the book for this one though, you would have to buy it, and I don’t think it’s really worth it. 

You can also check at your local libraries to see if they have any French textbooks in the Foreign Language section. They can be hard to find, but it’s wonderful to have, even for a little while!

I’m just going to list a few that I found that may be helpful for you:

  • This website has games, quizzes, and exercises to help you learn French. 
  • http://lightandmatter.com/french/ - This is actually really cool. I like the set up of the textbook and it’s free! It has reading sections, exercises, pictures.. basically everything you could need. 
  • http://go.hrw.com/gopages/wl-fr.html - This has a few different textbook activities, culture, vocabulary, quizzes, etc. It’s pretty nice. (At my school, we use the Allez, viens! books.  The culture may be a little out of date because the book isn’t recent. But it’s still not bad.)
  • http://www.wordreference.com/ - This website is my best friend when it comes to writing in any language. If you don’t know how to say a word, you can just look it up, and it’ll tell you what it is in that language, if there are any expressions that include it, if members have posted things in the forms asking about how to say something including that word, etc. It’s an advanced online dictionary. 

There are also some awesome Tumblrs to help people learn French! Some of them that I really like are:

I hope this helps! Let me know if you need anything else :)

Jan 29th | 1
Anonymous: do you know of any resources for learning chechen?

I don’t know any off hand, but I looked some up for you! 
I’m not sure if they’re going to be much help for you or if they’re very good, but if you would like me to look up more, just let me know!

These are the ones I found:

I hope this helps! :)
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Jan 23rd | 48

German Preposition Quiz →

otpdeutsch:

We know you hate them. Do it. It’s good for you. 

There are explanations too. 

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Jan 22nd | 47

Learn new foreign language vocabulary, geography, or english vocabulary/grammar while helping to end hunger! →

Freerice.com donates 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme every time someone gets a question right! They have German, French, Italian, Spanish, and English! Check it out. :)

Jan 20th | 41

French Verb Conjugation Practice →

This is awesome to practice conjugating French verbs! It gives you the infinitive of the verbs, in whatever tense(s) you pick, with either just regular verbs, just irregular verbs, or both!

Jan 19th | 17

Verb2Verbe →

Type in whatever verb tense you need (ex. I will eat IN ENGLISH or/ou Je mangerai EN FRANÇAIS) and it will give you the verb tense type (ex. passe compose/pluperfect/future/present/etc.), the infinitive of the verb (ex. eat IN ENGLISH or/ou manger EN FRANÇAIS) and the translation (ex. I eat -> Je mange OR Je mange -> I eat)

Basically, it’s awesome.

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Internationally Used French Phrases  →

A list of common French words and expressions that are used internationally.