Two Excellent French Resources
Free Language has put together two excellent resources to guide people in knowing how to learn French online.
One is a mega-page full of everything needed for learning about how to learn French online. It covers, podcasts, video podcasts, news, Web TV, software and more.
The other is a roughly ten-minute video entitled "How to Learn French Online for Free" which you can also watch below.
The days of one-stop language learning solutions are over. Your French does not exist in a vacuum. These days you bring together what you need to learn the French you want to speak. You can manage this by basing your studies on the kinds of things you want to read, hear, talk about and perhaps see.
Podcasts are a great way to learn languages because you can take the audio with you and learn anywhere, any time, as often as required or desired.
Free French Podcast
FrenchPod podcasts are professionally produced and updated daily, and the full package includes practical transcriptions, vocabulary lists and online learning tools. All in all, FrenchPod has proven to be highy effective and practical way to use technology and Web 2.0 to learn French.
Read Free Language's review article on FrenchPod.
Learning French Video
French Links from Video
General Resources
http://freelanguage.org/french
http://www.uni.edu/becker/french31.html
http://www.mindzeit.com/learnspeakfrenchlanguageonline.php
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/index.html
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/index.html
http://frenchpod.com
Radio and News
http://sites.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/accueil
http://www.rfi.fr
http://www.listenlive.eu/france.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/tv
http://www.france24.com/fr
Kids, Activities and Games
http://lexiquefle.free.fr
http://www.hello-world.com/resource/free.php
Free French Software
Byki is freeware for learning the basics of 74 languages, including French as well as many less-commonly taught languages.
There is an optional upgrade to the commercial product available if you want to continue. The free software works on Windows and Mac.
Read Free Language's article on Byki.
