Reviews of French language tapes, CDs, movies, dictionaries, audiomagazines, books, and more.
An extensive self-study French class divided into beginning, intermediate, and advanced lessons, available on CD-ROM.
Improve your French listening comprehension with the online French audio book A Moi Paris.
Balade en France, from the publisher of Champs-Élysées audiomagazine, is a collection of 18 French travel articles in audiobook format. Read my review of this combination travel guide, cultural study, history book, and French language course.
Before You Know It is a software program that can help you learn and remember French vocabulary.
Champs-Élysées is an audiomagazine aimed at intermediate and advanced French students, but is versatile enough to be used by independent students, homeschoolers, teachers, travelers, or anyone else who is interested in additional French listening practice.
The Collage French Program includes a variety of resources for intermediate French students, including three main textbooks as well as several additional elements.
The best bilingual French-English and English-French dictionary that I've found.
Ideal for anyone wondering what the French think of the United States or why the Iraq war contributed to a spate of anti-Frenchism, this bilingual audiobook comprises three interviews with prominent French intellectuals about the relationship between France and the United States - read my review.
Much has been written about the South of France, but there is still more to be said, as Escape to Provence amply shows. This true story centers around the lives two women, one American and one British, who lived for some time together in the South of France. It's not quite right to call it a story, more a tapestry of stories about life, love, war, peace, and friendship.
France-Amérique, which merged with Journal français in 2007, is the largest French-language publication in the US.
A light-hearted book that's half travel guide, half story. The adventures of a couple traveling through the south of France.
A delightful book about a life of language, by Alice Kaplan.
The indispensible guide to understanding and dealing with the French.
A very funny book that discusses the foibles and follies of one of France's greatest writers.
Magnetic poetry is a fun little tool you can use to learn and practice French. 500 magnets with words and parts of words help you to express yourself in a unique and creative way.
Bien-dire is a bi-monthly French magazine published in France, and is suitable for low-intermediate to advanced French learners
David Sedaris's humorous vignettes about speaking French and/or being in France.
The intermediate-level French novelette "Parce que je t'aime" and its sequel "L'amour par internet" recount the romantic exploits of a teenage boy from Pau, a town located in the foothills of the Pyrénées.
A classic French children's story. It's also available in
English.
A unique book aimed at upper beginning and intermediate students: bilingual story, grammar review, and audio book all rolled into one.
Sabita et les mots magiques mêlés is an illustrated French audiobook for children.
The Story of French is a definitive analysis of French as it is spoken around the world. An in-depth, compelling, and above all affectionate look at the language of love, The Story of French is required reading for all Francophiles.
A guide to French slang, from merely familiar all the way to extremely vulgar language.
The publisher of the online audio magazine La Guinguette has launched a new series of intermediate/advanced French audiobooks about contemporary France called Sur le vif (Real Life). The first three are reviewed here.
Take off in French, from Oxford University Press, is a compact French learning system for new French learners and those looking to expand on the basics.
La Vie Outre-Manche, subtitled "Le magazine en langue française pour les lecteurs anglophones," is a French audio magazine published in the UK.
Written by an Englishman living in Provence, this book offers a warm and humorous account of life in the south of France.
