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French and Italian Languages Guide

Resource Highlights

  • Site aims to develop learners' cultural awareness and knowledge of specific French regions and cities
  • Emphasizes audio comprehension, with exercises and materials designed to improve listening skills
  • Straightforward explanations and exercises for various French grammar concepts, catering to learners of all levels
  • Additional resources include: self-correcting exercises, movie and TV show integration, and vocabulary expansion through idiomatic expressions
  • Grammar, vocabulary, and listening practice
  • Video resources offered to help learners visualize and grasp difficult concepts 
  • Interactive learning experience (including quizzes and worksheets)
  • Gamification
  • Provides reading materials and comprehension exercises, speaking and pronunciation practice, and writing exercises (including dictations) to improve writing skills
  • Provides grammar lessons, audio resources to improve listening comprehension, and exercises, quizzes, and games for vocabulary acquisition
  • Core principle: comprehensible input approach (emphasizes exposing learners to language that is slightly above their current level, but that they can still understand to gradually absorb the language and expand vocabulary)
  • Focus is on understanding the general meaning rather than trying to understand every single word
  • Encourages immersion and active listening by providing access to a wide range of audio and video resources
  • Additional resources include access to French podcasts, websites, and apps
  • Emphasizes importance of speaking and writing while being open to making mistakes and learning from them
  • Grammar, vocabulary, listening, and pronunciation practice
  • Realistic language exposure
  • Provides current French news content at a slower, more accessible pace
  • Audio, video, and text learning formats including podcasts and transcripts 
  • Encourages multiple listening phases, note-taking, and combined reading and listening practices
  • Focuses on predicting vocabulary terms before listening based on headlines, identifying root words, and emphasizing high-frequency terms to promote vocabulary acquisition
  • Grammar, vocabulary, listening, and pronunciation practice
  • Interactive exercises
  • Provides informative dossiers on French language and culture
  • Talk-shows, radio programming, and French news resources 
  • Practice materials include: dictation exercises, pronunciation practice, and webdocs
  • RFI's team includes French teaching specialists and broadcast professionals
  • Grammar, vocabulary, and listening practice
  • Aims to support learners in transitioning from the A1 to A2 level of the DELF by providing a structured path for improvement. 
  • Immersive learning experience
  • Interactive exercises
  • Encourages listening to the podcast in French, engaging in dialogues and activities, and responding to questions in French
  • Provides reading comprehension activities, videos on phonetics, and dictations
  • Offers free A1 and A2 DELF tests, allowing learners to assess their progress and prepare for official language exams
  • Grammar, listening, vocabulary, and pronunciation practice