Great Choices for Free French Lessons Online

I don’t think you can really learn French for free – you’ll need to spend a little eventually. Having said that, if you’re just starting out I’d still recommend taking advantage of what free French lessons are available.

Thanks to the internet we now have many more resources for learning to speak French than we ever had in the past. What’s more you can start learning, the basics at least, using a number of sites that provide French language lessons absolutely free.

Over at the BBC website (the British Broadcasting Corporation) there are a number of really excellent starter courses for learning French. You can subscribe for a 12 week email course, you can take part in a quiz which tests your current level of French and suggests further study and, given a good internet connection, you can even take part in an interactive video course called ‘Ma France’ which covers a variety of subjects like eating out, asking directions, holidays, cooking and more. It’s voiced by a native French speaker so you can hear what each French word sounds like. It’s a superb way to start to learn French and it’s absolutely free.

That’s probably the most comprehensive set of French lessons but there are plenty of others. Just do a search on the internet and you’ll find dozens. While writing this article I entered ‘free French lesson’ in Google and got over half a million results!

Of course a lot of those results are duplicates, and a lot of them are, frankly, rubbish, but if you take a bit of time to search around you’ll find a few gems.

For instance, one thing I didn’t find at the BBC was how to pronounce the French alphabet. Maybe it’s there but I missed it, but it’s not important because I found several other places with short audio clips so I could hear each letter.

A trawl around the internet will find free lessons for French days, weeks, months, greetings, food, clothes, romance, you name it there’s somewhere online you can find the French for it!

The audio lessons or sound clips are the most useful, of course, because hearing the language is vital in understanding it and speaking it. Don’t just rule out the sites that only offer written texts though – there’s a lot there that can be useful too and the actual construction of French grammar is difficult to explain by sound alone – sometimes you need something written down.

I’m sure you’ll come across some websites that you find frustrating. I certainly did. It’s rather annoying, in my opinion, to click several times in search of French sound files only to discover that the written texts are free but you have to pay for sound. It’s not that I object to paying necessarily, but I do object to being led along like that. Never mind, along with the benefits of the internet you’re bound to find one or two sites that don’t deliver.

Nevertheless, you can find free French lessons online and good ones at that. If they’re limited in any way it’s that those I’ve found can really only deal with the French language at the beginner level. Going on from that I’m afraid you’ll have to pay. That said, there are some extremely good systems out there and many of those you can get a free sample of so you can try before you buy. Well worth looking into when you want to take your French lessons to the next level.

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Published: 5/29/2008

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Fastest Way to Learn French?

Let’s face it, if you want to learn French, you want to learn it fast. With PCs now widely accessible, learning French has never been quicker.

If you’re setting out to learn French you want to do it in the shortest time possible, right? With the least amount of difficulty. That’s only natural. Who wants to sit around leafing through dusty old French textbooks? Nobody. So if you’re looking to learn French fast there’s only one sensible solution and that’s to learn French on your computer.

For a start you’ve got the internet. It’s a huge resource for learning the French language with many sites where you can start to learn absolutely free. A lot of them provide French on MP3 clips so you can actually hear the language. That’s the way you want to learn. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not completely anti-book, but a book can’t speak. How are you going to learn French properly without knowing how it’s spoken?

Here’s an example. If I try to write down how to pronounce the French alphabet you’d get something like this: aah, bay, cay, day, euh, efah – well you can’t do much with that can you? But if I actually speak it to you, if you could actually hear my voice… I think you can see what I mean.

So learning French on your computer is definitely the way forward. The internet can not only give you French MP3s but also on a few sites, like the BBC, video clips as well. These walk you through situations like getting a cab, asking directions, ordering food. Again you’ve got the benefit of hearing spoken French and these videos bring the whole thing to life. They’re entertaining, and if you’re being entertained you learn faster because it all seems so much easier.

You will soon find that you run out of free places online to learn French. After all, most free services are just trying to get you to sign up to some kind of paid service. I don’t think there’s a problem with that, that’s business. If they didn’t get paid we probably wouldn’t have these services at all. Just take advantage of the free French lessons you can find and move on.

The thing is, if you want to continue to learn French fast you’re probably going to have to eventually put your hand in your pocket.

Learning French on your computer is still the way to go though because now we’re moving into software to learn French – and great stuff it is too!

Whether you’re five or ninety-five there’s French software that can help. There’s just as broad a rage of prices too. At the bottom end you tend to get what you pay for, and to be honest although it’s not practical for me to check them all, those I have seen don’t offer a great deal. For $20.00 I’m afraid you don’t get a great deal more that the free stuff.

However, for not a lot more (and certainly way less than a course of private French lessons) there are some amazing programs like Rocket French. This is what learning French on your computer should be like, utilizing all the abilities of your PC. It’s fun, it’s interactive, it’s got games which will provide you with a bit of a challenge and you’ve got French MP3 sound files so you can copy them to a player or a CD and continue to learn while you’re out walking around or in the car maybe.

So much as I like a good book, if you want to learn French fast, with the minimum difficulty, learn French on your computer!

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By Dennis Cordy
Published: 7/2/2008

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