Sunday, March 28, 2010

Open Learning Initiative

I've recently come across a great site for learning French through Carnegie Mellon University. This site has a French 1 and 2 class that you have to sign up to use, but it's completely free. The lessons make use of video, audio, typing exercises, listening exercises and grammar information. This is one of the best sites I have seen so far for learning French. The lessons are pretty long, so they really drill the information into your head, rather than just telling it to you once and letting it fall into oblivion forever after. You read the information about the grammar, watch a short video of a conversation between native speakers that demonstrates the point being made, then you're given a test, where it either shows a sentence, a part of the video or plays an audio piece. You type in the response and it is graded once you click next. I highly recommend this site for anyone who is seriously interested in mastering the basics of the French language.

http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/forstudents/freecourses/french

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