On 1 Nov 99, 5:33, A-27 Paradise Homes wrote:
> I am an elementary French student and want to practice my French by
> getting some good text on French. Are there are any free French books or
> articles or some beginner stuff that can help me read and understand
> the language better? If yes, where can i download them from? Thanks Ahad
Read French web sites on the World Wide Web:
http://www.yahoo.fr/
http://www.nomade.fr/
...more listed here:
http://www.twics.com/~takakuwa/search/france.html
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This site seems to be a good resource for your query:
Earliest French Texts
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8716/oldest.html
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Good resource site:
ARTFL Project (The Project for American and French Research on the
Treasury of the French Language, University of Chicago)
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html
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Project Gutenberg
Although the majority of electronic texts (etexts) in the Project
Gutenberg repositories are in English, you can find etexts in French if
you dig down into the catalog and search for French texts.
http://promo.net/pg/
Example: I found this etext of *Cyrano de Bergerac*
AUTHOR: Rostand, Edmond, 1868-1918
LANGUAGE: French -
SUBJECT: Fiction
NOTES: HTML accents
PG ENTRY: 1255 - POSTING DATE: Mar 1998
MU: HTM - 364.83Kb ZIP - 96.43Kb
UI: HTM - ZIP -
SL: HTM - ZIP -
EN: HTM - ZIP -
http://promo.net/pg/_titles/i-_c8.html
There are 12 more French etexts in the Gutenberg Project.
Go to the search page:
http://promo.net/pg/query.html
...and then without entering anything, set the pull down menu for
"Select a Language" to French. Then click the "Submit Query" button
and you will get a listing of the French etexts.
Alan
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