Resources for French
French is a romance language in the Indo-European language family and is the official language of over 29 countries all over the world. With 76.8 million native speakers and an estimated 274 million total speakers in the world, French is a culture-rich language you will enjoy studying for many of your world travels!
NIKIA RECOMMENDS!
Our wonderful partner Nikia (@studylang) has been studying French for over 10 years and recently graduated with a degree in Modern Languages. See her top recommendations below!
GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY
TEXTBOOKS
Practice Makes Perfect Complete French All-In-One (Nikia recommends!)
Easy French Step-by-step (Beginner; Nikia recommends!)
Entre Amis (Beginner)
En bonne forme (Intermediate)
Mise en scène: cinéma et lecture (Intermediate)
Le Bon Usage (Advanced)
DICTIONARIES
Bon Patron (French autocorrect tool)
Wordreference (Nikia recommends!)
Shaums Outlines French Grammar (Nikia recommends!)
Bescherelle Complete Guide to Conjugating 12,000 French Verbs
Reading & Writing
BOOKS
Le Petit Prince
Le Passe-Miroir Series (fantasy; intermediate to advanced level; Nikia recommends!)
Un Appartement à Paris (mystery; intermediate level; Nikia recommends!)
* Note: Some sites may not ship to your country. Most of the books I’ve found I bought while visiting the country. I recommend searching using key words in French or using language filters.
WRITTEN NEWS SOURCES
Les Savoirs (Nikia recommends!)
le Gorafi (parody news)
BLOGS & SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS
Entertainment & Immersion
TV & MOVIES
Browse Netflix by Audio (select French in dropdown list)
Unogs can show you a list of what’s available on Netflix in Canada or France (requires Netflix and VPN)
Les Revenants (supernatural drama with zombies and murder mysteries)
Spiral (crime drama)
Worksheets & Planners
STICKERS
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