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Re: French resources

Postby reineke » Sat Jan 29, 2022 5:51 pm

https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... ch#p202015

Lexique est une base de données qui fournit, pour 140 000 mots de la langue française, diverses informations. Par exemple, elle va donner notamment les fréquences d’occurrences dans différents corpus, la représentation phonologique, les lemmes associés, le nombre de syllabes, la catégorie grammaticale, et bien d’autres informations.

Part of speech, gender, number of occurrence in the source corpus, frequency rank
Books and film

WorldLex: Blog, Twitter and Newspapers Word Frequencies for 66 languages
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Re: French resources

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sun Feb 20, 2022 10:15 pm

Debated whether to post this here or in my log. Mods can feel free to move it whereever they like.
A list of my Youtube subscriptions which show videos in French that I can understand, albeit sometimes with difficulty. There are lots of videos in French, but many of them are still beyond my reach. Some of you may have suggested them, I can’t remember.
    Artesquieu
    Arte
    France Inter
    Documentaire aviation
    Documentaire des animaux
    Documentaire Français
    Filmes Documentaires
    France Culture*
    imineo Documetaires (topics vary)
    Le Précepteur
    Nota Bene (tough, takes all my concentration)
    Notre Histoire
    Destins—100% documentaires
    Radio France *
    Terra Mirabilis
    Thinkerview, longish, general topics
Entries with an asterisk have French subtitles (for at least one episode, anyway)
The topics of the videos are general, unless they are obvious from the name of the subscription.

As the days go by, I will include a reference to the subscription in my log, but only one per day (and not necessarily in order).
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Re: French resources

Postby Kraut » Sun May 15, 2022 4:32 pm

French doctoral theses

https://www.theses.fr/fr/?q=comprehensible+input

A search engine for French doctoral theses Thèses is a powerful search engine that allows you to find all French doctoral theses defended since 1985. But, this rich database doesn't stop there. It offers advanced search functions that can be very useful.

Un moteur de recherche des thèses de doctorat françaises

Thèses est un puissant moteur de recherche qui permet de retrouver toutes les thèses de doctorat françaises soutenues depuis 1985. Mais, cette riche base de données ne s’arrête pas là. Elle offre des fonctions de recherche avancées qui peuvent se révéler très utiles.


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https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01335814
HAL thèses en ligne

Recherches sur l’opposition entre ser et estar en espagnol
Historique de la question, et application à l’étude des variations dans
leurs emplois en espagnol spontané contemporain au Mexique
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Re: French resources

Postby DaveAgain » Sun Jul 02, 2023 8:22 am

Set texts for A-levels (A levels are exams taken by 18 year olds in the UK).

    Set texts for examination in 2023
    Section 1
    1 Le Mariage de Figaro, Beaumarchais
    2 Les jeux sont faits, Jean-Paul Sartre
    3 Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac
    4 Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
    Section 2
    5 Un Secret, Philippe Grimbert
    6 Petit Pays, Gaël Faye
    7 La Maison de Claudine, Colette
    8 No et moi, Delphine de Vigan
https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/ ... llabus.pdf

    Set texts for examination in 2024
    Section 1
    1 Le Mariage de Figaro, Beaumarchais
    2 Britannicus, Racine
    3 Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac
    4 Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan
    Section 2
    5 Un Secret, Philippe Grimbert
    6 Petit Pays, Gaël Faye
    7 La Maison de Claudine, Colette
    8 La Place, Annie Ernaux
https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/ ... llabus.pdf

    Texts
    Molière Le Tartuffe
    Voltaire Candide
    Guy de Maupassant Boule de Suif et autres contes de la guerre
    Albert Camus L’étranger
    Françoise Sagan Bonjour tristesse
    Claire Etcherelli Elise ou la vraie vie
    Joseph Joffo Un sac de billes
    Faïza Guène Kiffe kiffe demain
    Philippe Grimbert Un secret
    Delphine de Vigan No et moi
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/languag ... tent/works

    Literary texts
    ● Boule de Suif et autres contes de guerre (Boule de Suif, Un Duel, Deux Amis, La Mère Sauvage), Guy de Maupassant, 1880 (short stories)
    ● La Place, Annie Ernaux, 1983 (novel)
    ● Le Blé en Herbe, Colette, 1923 (novel)
    ● Le Château de ma Mère, Marcel Pagnol, 1957 (novel)
    ● Le Gone du Chaâba, Azouz Begag, 2005 (novel)
    ● Les Mains Sales, Jean-Paul Sartre, 1948 (play)
    ● Les Petits Enfants du siècle, Christiane Rochefort, 1961 (novel)
    ● Le Tartuffe, Molière, 1669 (play)
    ● L’Étranger, Albert Camus, 1942 (novel)
    ● No et Moi, Delphine de Vigan, 2007 (novel)
    ● Thérèse Desqueyroux, François Mauriac, 1927 (novel)
    ● Une si longue lettre, Mariama Bâ, 1981 (novel)
    ● Un Sac de Billes, Joseph Joffo, 1973 (novel)
https://qualifications.pearson.com/cont ... French.pdf
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Re: French resources

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Tue Jul 04, 2023 6:03 pm

How do other members of the Forum score on reading books from this list? I myself have read so very few of them:

Honoré de Balzac. Eugénie Grandet.
Françoise Sagan. Bonjour Tristesse.
Guy de Maupassant. ONLY "Boule de Suif" from Boule de Suif et autres contes de la guerre.
Albert Camus. L’étranger.

Liking especially L’étranger and Bonjour Tristesse.
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Re: French resources

Postby DaveAgain » Tue Jul 04, 2023 6:51 pm

MorkTheFiddle wrote:How do other members of the Forum score on reading books from this list? I myself have read so very few of them:

Honoré de Balzac. Eugénie Grandet.
Françoise Sagan. Bonjour Tristesse.
Guy de Maupassant. ONLY "Boule de Suif" from Boule de Suif et autres contes de la guerre.
Albert Camus. L’étranger.

Liking especially L’étranger and Bonjour Tristesse.
I've read and enjoyed: "Boule de suif", "un sac de billes", and "le château de ma mère".

I think I abandoned "les mains sales" before finishing it.
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Re: French resources

Postby Carmody » Wed Jul 05, 2023 12:16 am

So far:
● La Place, Annie Ernaux, 1983 (novel)
● Le Château de ma Mère, Marcel Pagnol, 1957 (novel)
● Francois Sagn, Bonjour Tristess
● L’Étranger, Albert Camus, 1942 (novel)
● Thérèse Desqueyroux, François Mauriac, 1927 (novel) 3 x's at 20 yr. intervals.
● Un Sac de Billes, Joseph Joffo, 1973 (novel)
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Re: French resources

Postby Nogon » Wed Jul 05, 2023 8:08 am

I've read quite a few of them in translation, but only two in French:
● Francois Sagan - Bonjour Tristess
● Annie Ernaux - La place
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Re: French resources

Postby jeffers » Wed Jul 12, 2023 11:39 am

MorkTheFiddle wrote:How do other members of the Forum score on reading books from this list?


Hmmm, let's see:
  • I own a paper copy of L’Étranger, and the audio on CD. Not read or listened to it yet.
  • I own No et Moi on Kindle, with the audiobook on Audible. Not read or listened to it yet.
  • I own a copy of Un sac de billes on paper and on Kindle. I've read about half of it on Kindle.
  • I own a copy of Un secret on Kindle. Not read it yet.
  • I own and have read a Kindle copy of Kiffe kiffe demain.

So, yeah, doing well. :lol:
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French SC Films: 0 / 9000 (0/9000 mins)

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Re: French resources

Postby lowsocks » Thu Aug 31, 2023 1:38 am

An elementary French grammar, from 1912: "French Grammar Self-Taught" by J. Laffitte.
https://archive.org/details/french-gram ... fitte-1912

(This was part of Marlborough's Self-Taught Series, which at one time seems to have been fairly well-known in Britain.)

There is nothing really remarkable about the book. But it does have exercises, with a complete answer key. So if someone is looking for some additional practice, maybe they will find this useful. (Unfortunately, the exercises seem to be of the disconnected sentence type. I would have preferred some connected stories or anecdotes, at least in the later chapters. I also wish the author had used the IPA, or something similar. (The notation was available, even in 1912.) But there you are.)

I should also apologize for some of the crooked pages, as I struggled to scan this in. But to correct it, I would probably have needed to tear the book apart, which is not something I was willing to do. Also, to get a clear scan, I had to set the resolution to the highest setting (600 dpi), which produced a very large file. If anyone can compress it, without sacrificing the resolution, please let me know.

N.B. If you find the book useful, you might be interested in a similar German grammar that I scanned in:
https://archive.org/details/german-gram ... weber-1930
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