Free French learning resources
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French listening is harder than French reading, and that gap is the whole difficulty. The spelling keeps letters that the spoken language dropped centuries ago, liaison glues words together, and a sentence you would read effortlessly can be unrecognisable at speed. Plan for it: pair every text you read with the same text spoken aloud.
Start with a structured course and a dictionary that gives you audio for each entry. Grammar is best learned in small doses alongside input rather than as a separate project — French verb tables are long, and drilling them in isolation produces people who can conjugate but cannot speak.
Once you can follow simple sentences, French rewards volume. There is more free French media than almost any other language: news, radio, podcasts and public-domain literature. Pick material you would consume in your own language anyway, because the deciding factor at this stage is hours, and you will only log hours on things you actually enjoy.
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This directory began from a community-built list of free language resources — a year of collecting and checking by Joanna (u/chlebka) and dozens of contributors who suggested links, shared freely. See the original list. We have since expanded, re-checked and re-categorised it, and we keep the per-resource credits where the original list recorded them.