France Tales

describes my experiences learning French and other useful resources for learning French.

As my French rapidly improves I find myself needing help translating more and more complicated phrases, words, and expressions. Below is a list of links to a variety of online translators that are free. Some can only provide simple translations and some can provide more complex translations. Some have a pay version that is more [...]

I just got back from French Friday. It was a group organized for English speakers to practice their French, I think. It has turned into an English conversational group. Now there are many French who attend to improve their English conversation skills. I’ve invited my students many times, but no one has come yet. They [...]

I came across this tool while reading the blog Social Web Tools. Livemocha is a social networking site but also you can complete 4 levels of language training in many languages. It looks very promising. I don’t think it looks great above the intermediate level but for getting the basics it looks quite good for [...]

Last Friday was my final day for Level 4 at the Alliance Française and for French classes for a while. Here is a picture of everyone. Stay in touch.

Source: WikipediaToday is the last day of my French class at the Alliance Française. I have been taking classes there since January. 3 months straight, 9-12:30 everyday Monday through Friday. I have enjoyed my classes and meeting all the people but I am burning out. The levels of the people in the same class are [...]

Today was the last day of niveau 3. Some of us are continuing and some of us are not. We were a diverse group covering the US, Canada, the UK, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Russia, Italy, China, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, and I think that covers it. This time we did not all speak English so when [...]