LanguageGuide.org – Explore the world of French by learning an abundance of vocabulary in a sound integrated, animated guide. After learning the vocabulary you can take part in games to test your comprehension.

Babadum – A free language learning website that features fun flashcard games to help you brush up on your vocabulary.

French Learning Objects by the University of Cambridge – French Learning Objects are independent resources that can be incorporated into a course or simply used for self-study. These particular French objects are intended to improve academic reading skills.

Lingolia – This website has a number of useful exercises and provides helpful explanations about grammar.

BBC Languages: French – The BBC French Language website is a treasure trove of wonderful resources and information. It is high-quality, comprehensive and provides a lot of intelligently presented and produced materials. All BBC language learning pages were “archived” a few years back due to cost-cutting measures, which means they are no longer adding new information or updating the pages. However, you should have no problem accessing the existing information.

ielanguages.com – This website offers free basic language learning text and audio instruction.

Learn101 – This website features free beginner lessons to guide you through learning French, step by step, starting with the Alphabet, moving on to grammar, vocabulary, and phrases, and finally offering simple quizzes to test your progress. These lessons are a basic introduction to the language and have images, text, and audio.

France Bienvenue – This website aims to help you to understand French as it is spoken in everyday life, which we all know can be difficult especially if you don’t live in a French-speaking country. France Bienvenue hosts videos featuring authentic conversations in France and also includes transcripts and instructional information.

The French Experiment – With select children’s stories and beginner French lessons with text and audio, this website has a nice amount of introductory information available.

Francolab – Francolab, produced by TV 5, is a great online resource that supports French language learners and features Canadian content, French songs, legends with fun videos, quizzes, games and a wealth of teaching and learning materials.

Déjà Vu – This radio play about a bilingual love affair between an English Woman and a Frenchman was produced in 2009 by the BBC as a language learning resource. More information and transcripts here.

The French Tutorial – This web-based French course offers a good introduction to the basics with about 200 audio files and 16 chapters of instruction.

Bonjour de France – On the Bonjour de France website you will find grammar worksheets, games and lots of exercises categorized by level to help you learn French.

Learn French Lab – This website is a useful resource featuring grammar instruction, vocabulary, phrases and printable worksheets.

Le Point du FLE – This website is a great tool both for learning and teaching French.

Lawless French – Laura Lawless is an author, teacher, French enthusiast and the owner of this website which boasts a vast selection of free French lessons and high-quality learning resources.

FrenchGames.Net – This fun and free website provides lessons, games, and tests for beginner and intermediate French learners.

Tex’s French Grammar – This educational website was originally created for the University of Texas at Austin students and uses silly cartoons and dialogue to teach French grammar in a fun and lighthearted way.

Enhancing French Skills – Enhancing French Skills is a website created by the University of Texas at Austin as a free resource for intermediate level French language students. Authentic videos from various French media sources, interviews with native French speakers and activities are all organized into themes and you will find links to Tex’s French Grammar where you will find more grammar explanations and interactive exercises.

Les Conversations Mises à Jour – Les Conversations Mises à Jour is another great, free resource brought to you by the University of Texas at Austin. It is geared towards intermediate and advanced French students and features conversations spoken entirely in French. These thematic conversations are used as a way to highlight 7 core language functions: asking questions, comparing, describing, making hypotheses, narrating in the past, reacting/recommending and talking about the future.

CoolJugator – CoolJugator is a verb conjugator website that makes conjugation easy and straightforward.

ToLearnFrench – This site looks a bit outdated but it’s full of lessons, vocabulary sheets, placement tests, thousands of exercises and much more.

Il Etait Une Histoire – The site aims to offer reading access to children and targets kids aged 3-10, as well as parents, teachers, and schools, offering access to a library with over 100 books. This site is clearly for a young audience, but these simplistic stories and fables are a good place to start for beginner French learners.

OrthoLud – Ortholud offers online exercises, grammar and spelling lessons, verb conjugation help, quizzes and much more for French language learners.

Ilanguages – This site is designed to teach French with free vocabulary, phrases, grammar, and flashcards while focusing on highly used words and phrases necessary for everyday living.

Polly Lingual – This website offers some fun games, exercises and beginner level instruction with lessons that include text and audio.

French Stories by BookBox – Cartoons have always been a wonderful asset to language learning, particularity for children. These animated children’s stories are great because the viewer can read along with the narration, which is shown on-screen as “Same Language Subtitles (SLS).” Each word is highlighted in time with the audio, which helps with comprehension and retention.

Omniglot – This site specializes in providing information about languages and their alphabets and writing systems.

First French Words by Oxford University Press – The Oxford First Words book series is a language learning tool for children. This First Words book features over 400 words in French and the interactive online interface allows you to click on the pictures to hear the audio in French along with the French translations. Though this book is intended for children, the fact is that it is a very effective tool for adults to build vocabulary as well.

Digital Dialects – This website makes learning vocabulary fun with interactive games.

Hello World – Hello World has created hundreds of free language learning games and activities that cater to the way children learn best. The goal is to teach languages using cognitive immersion and to keep the process fun in order to increase learning potential. Approximately 1,300 vocabulary words are introduced over 70 different categories.

Goethe Verlag – This website offers 100 French lessons for beginners, each with words, phrases and corresponding audio files.

Loecsen – Loecson offers a free mini-course consisting of fun lessons that provide a basic introduction to French with the help of text, audio, simple illustrations, and quizzes to test your progress. You will learn high-frequency vocabulary words and commonly used phrases relating to 17 themes which are relevant to everyday life.

Verbix – Online French verb conjugator.

Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center French Tutorial – This Language Survival Kit Module for French contains basic vocabulary with audio. Both the audio files and the PDF text can be downloaded.

French Grammar – This website offers an immense number of lessons (with a huge focus on grammar), video and audio clips, exercises and more to help you along with your French language studies.

SimpLang French Lessons – This site features 25 basic lessons which include dialogues accompanied by translations and transliterations.

Conjuguemos – Conjuguemos is a go-to site for over 14,000 schools that has helped millions of people learn their verb conjugations. Created by Alejandro Yegros, a high school Spanish teacher from the USA, it is described as a self-grading, self-timed conjugating and vocabulary-building program for learners of all ages that offers over 300,000 activities created by language teachers from around the globe.

Quiz Tree – This website offers educational games and simple quizzes to test your French language skills.

I Love Languages French Lessons – This site provides 17 beginner French lessons designed to help you improve your speaking, reading, and writing skills. Supplementary resources include vocabulary, grammar tips, and phrases.