French Language Research Guide

This site provides world organizations of francophone countries.

Website of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Covers world events, role of France in world politics, Francophone countries, information and advice on visiting France, studying in France, includes link to the French Government Tourist Office.

The mission of the Alliance Française is to promote the French language and francophone cultures and to foster exchanges between French speakers and local communities. Founded in Paris in 1883, the Alliance Française currently boasts more than 800 chapters in 130 countries, with over half a million students worldwide.

The Modern Language Association of America provides opportunities for its members to share their scholarly findings and teaching experiences with colleagues and to discuss trends in the academy.

The AATF is the only national association devoted exclusively to the needs of French teachers at all levels. Our community of French educators at all levels works to promote and defend French programs, create and disseminate useful materials for the classroom, and provide opportunities to recognize professional excellence and student achievement

AFLS was founded in 1981 to encourage and promote language teaching activities and research in French Language and Linguistics as areas worthy of consideration in their own right. The Association acts as a forum for scholarly discussion and for the exchange of information among those interested and engaged in teaching French in Higher Education.

ASMCF exists to promote, support and share new research into modern and contemporary France and the French-speaking world with an expert focus on post 1789 politics, history, cinema and culture through providing journals, hosting events, and by offering financial support to our members

Together with our membership, we form an all-inclusive network of language professionals raising public awareness and profile of the positive benefits of multilingualism.

As an independent, not-for-profit organization, FIAF is committed to providing our audience and students with engaging French language classes and audacious multi-disciplinary programming that celebrates the diversity of francophone cultures and creativity around the world.

The French Academy is a well respected academy for the french language. It contains materials and resources of what is acceptable and considered the official french language.

This site provides links to French Travel guides - domestic and foreign.

This is a link to resources on Francophone Africa (French speaking African countries).

This website created by the French Embassy to the United States, provides very good information on French culture.

This website provides very good verb conjugators in French and other languages.

This site provides BBC basic online French lessons - audio, games, vocabulary, grammar explanations and exercises

According to Dictionnaires D'autrefois, this site provides a dictionary, including Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue française, Jean-François Féraud's Dictionaire critique de la langue française, Émile Littré's Dictionnaire de la langue française, and Dictionnaire de L'Académie française, etc.

This is a very good collection of French idioms, meaning and origin. It also contains links to other languages.

This site provides a dictionary for French terminology.

This website contains very good grammar resources and it is housed at the University of Texas.

This website contains French vocabulary word of the day.

This site provides online dictionaries for French and other language dictionaries.

This site provides list of World French speaking countries (Francophone countries).