Tips for Academic Success
Bon Patron – Online grammar and spell-checker. Paste your French text into the window, press vérifier le text
and Bon Patron will identify potential errors in your writing. Hold
your cursor over the highlighted text and a window will come up on the
right explaining what the error is and how to fix it. (Available in a
free version) Also try Spell Check Plus for your texts in English.
Word Reference
– Free online Oxford dictionary. Choose from French to English, English
to French, Spanish to English and many more translation options. Why
it’s great: This site gives you the context in which each possible
translation is used so you’re more likely to make the correct choice!
Mediadico.com
– A great multifunctional resource. This site provides a French
dictionary, a French-English dictionary, Verb conjugation and much more.
Try it out and see if you like it.
Linguee.com - Another good resourced for finding translations. Great examples given for the context of the word or expression.
Acapela Text to Speech Demo
– This Free widget will let you choose a language and enter text to
hear it read out loud. Try using this to prepare for oral presentations
or just to practice your pronunciation. What a cool tool!
Conjugationfr.com – Free online French verb conjugation. Just type in the verb you are looking for to get the full list of conjugation.
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