Posts filed under ‘Grammar/French’
New books in library – French!
Attention students of French (FRNC1622 – Jnr French Intermediate 4)!
The AV Language Library has recently acquired the textbook Interaction : langue et culture / Susan St. Onge & Ronald St. Onge (8th ed.) as well as the Student Activities Manual.
To use the materials, come to the AV Language Library (located on the 2nd level of Brennan MacCallum Bldg) and exchange your student card for the book(s).
Language resources (practice your Grammar, Pronunciation, & Vocabulary)
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Practice vocabulary, the alphabet and numbers, in the language of your choice. Place your cursor over an image or text to hear it pronounced aloud.
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“Welcome to Learning Chocolate! This web site aims to help students to memorize vocabulary in an easy and efficient way, by using pictures, sounds and games. Try our games and enjoy learning, like eating chocolate.”
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Includes Sounds, Stress, Intonation.
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English language pronunciation practice with minimal pairs – simply mouse over to hear
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This excellent website includes interactive quizzes to test your knowledge of and help you learn about English pronunciation.
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A free online Talking Dictionary of English Pronunciation
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Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can also help others by recording your pronunciations in your own language.
Grammar / Listening / Reading resources
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Electronic Books Online: Public Domain Texts
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“Welcome to our online newspaper pages, featuring online news, magazines, journals and other electronic print formats from countries all over the world!”
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Internet Radio and TV News – Listen to online radio news and information and practice your language!“Welcome to our online radio pages, featuring a listing of online news radio, talk, information programs, and music programs featuring music in the native language to practice your understanding of foreign languages.”
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“Welcome to our online radio pages, featuring a listing of online news radio, talk, information programs, and music programs featuring music in the native language to practice your understanding of foreign languages.”
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“We have gathered together here a number of free French language lessons and language courses for those learning French, along with some other French language resources, such as French online courses and exercises, podcasts, video lessons, alphabets, dictionaries, lexicons, verb conjugations, language communities, newspapers, articles, and books. Most of these sites will be in English, although a number are multilingual in nature.”
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“We have gathered together here a number of free German language lessons and language courses for those learning German, along with some other German language resources, such as German online courses and exercises, podcasts, video lessons, alphabets.”dictionaries, lexicons, verb conjugations, language communities, newspapers, articles, and books. Most of these sites will be in English, although a number are multilingual in nature.
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Easy learning French resources. Includes a very good verb table!
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Easy Learning Dictionary Resources – German
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Online resources for learning German. Includes German crosswords to print out or complete online, & other interactive language exercises
Language resources (Hebrew, Japanese, Korean)
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LanguageGuide.org offers free sound integrated resources for learning languages.
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Good JPop links here, for a fun way of learning a new language!
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Chinese songs selection, with lyrics (chinese + pinyin) and mp3 audio file to download. Chinese pop music, chinese R’n’B, chinese classical, traditional, Chinese minority music, Chinese movie themes, etc.
Language resources: French
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Each exercise will open in a new window, or you can use the Next button (=>) to advance through the exercises.
French (Basic)
Learn French for free online from https://www.jefrench.com
Here are 2 videos of basic French.
Language resources (Grammar: English, French, Japanese, Spanish)
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Spanish Language and Culture with Barbara Kuczun Nelson was formerly known as Spanish Grammar Exercises.
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This guide was created as a resource for those who want to learn Japanese grammar in a rational, intuitive way that makes sense in Japanese. The explanations are focused on how to make sense of the grammar not from English but from a Japanese point of view.
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