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French Resource List

Hopefully even if you've been learning French for a while one of these resources may be of use to you

General

French dictionary

Best online French-English dictionary (which also has bilingual dictionaries for a number of languages) as it has example sentences in French with translations, forum, verb conjugations, idioms, and more

RFI listening and reading exercises for all levels incorporating the news into your learning

Grammar

Français Lingolia with exercises

Listening

Journal en Français Facile radio/ podcast with transcripts for each episode

News in Slow French podcast

Conversational French Mises à Jour with transcripts

If you live in Australia, SBS has a French news podcast

French dictation exercises write what you hear

Youtube comedy series Bref

Belgian LGBTQ+ Youtube series La théorie du Y

Youtube comedy series Le Département

French comedy series that has whole episodes for free on Youtube Fais pas ci fais pas ça

Skam France is a teen show so you can learn heaps of slang, it also has subtitles for each episode in French and English

Youtube

Home Language - vocab and grammar

Hugo Décrypte - daily news

MisterJDay - comedy

Le Monde - news but many of their videos have subtitles

Reading

Simple articles originally written for children, also has a Youtube playlist (1jour 1actu)

Le Petit Scribe reading comprehension and exercises level B1 but also has the same for all levels

Reading (or listening) comprehension - Le Petit Nicolas

Writing

À vos plumes - writing practice and grammar

Oui c'est ça writing practice

Proofreading checklist

Other

Thoughtco French articles on grammar, vocab, verbs, etc.

French slang dictionary

French vowel pronunciation part 1 and part 2 with audio

More useful French pronunciation tips with audio and IPA

EDIT: just remembered in case you feel like torturing yourself you can do Victorian year 12 level French exams 2001 to 2020 for free on the VCE website with the audio and answers available. It would probably be more helpful to not do it within the time limit and listen to the audio as much as you need to. You might also find the HSC exam papers useful from what I can see there's three different levels of French exams (beginners, continuers, and advanced) just find them in the list of subjects and you'll get to the exams.

ah, the eternal struggle of maintaining the balance of apollonian and dionysian in oneself

living in the old small town, wandering around with my dogs, having big house, wearing dark dresses, drinking lots of coffee, reading historical novels and collecting works of art

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

— William Shakespeare, from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream“, published p. 1596

Few quotes from The Picture of Dorian Gray

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked.

You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

If thought could exercise its influence upon a living organism, might not thought exercise an influence upon dead and inorganic things? Nay, without thought or conscious desire, might not things external to ourselves vibrate in unison with our moods and passions, atom calling to atom in secret love or strange affinity?

It is said that passion makes one think in a circle.

Armand Point, detail, Portrait de Madame Berthelot, 1895.

Why limit yourself between choosing a pretty feminine aesthetic or a dark one? If Persephone can be the Goddess of Spring and the Queen of the Underworld at the same time so can you.

@halfbloodsnet​ quest # 0 : godly parents [greek goddess of wisdom, handicraft, and warfare: athena]

the most beautiful words in the english language

ineffable — indescribable, unspeakable

eudaemonia — the state of consummate happiness

sumptuous — extremely costly, luxurious, magnificent

nadir — the lowest point (of something abstract)

lassitude —tiredness, lack of energy

scintilla — a spark or a trace of something

aurora — the dawn

quintessential — perfectly typical or representative of a particular kind of person or thing

renaissance — revival

bodacious — remarkable, admirable

ebullience — the quality of excitement and enthusiasm