Frenchtainment | Interactive Activities to Learn French

How much the portrait mentioned below looks like you?

• You want to improve your life, even if you have little time,
• You prefer short and various activities,
• You'd rather learn through examples than explanations,
• A teacher looking over your shoulder makes you uneasy.

I painted a very good likeness of you, didn't I?

Frenchtainment is exactly what you are looking for.

To improve your skills and enlarge your knowledge, the key is: to practice regularly. But is there anything more boring than grammar exercises? I mean, if you except Fidel Castro's 7-hour-long speeches.
To keep on practicing regularly, you need exercises that do not look like exercises.

Frenchtainment offers activities
that are diverting and hold the attention at once

But it goes further than that.
Radio and TV programmes are not open to everyone and most often it is rather difficult to find audio French for learners.

An half of the puzzles proposed in Frenchtainment are oral.

They help you to improve your understanding of spoken French in a way that increases your confidence: you listen to true sentences, excerpts of papers, novels, dialogues, etc; you do not listen to devised grammar examples.
Though there are some hard grammar exercises, to regularly recall the basics, they do not prevail.

There are 5 activities, so that you can find those that best suit your tastes and needs.
You may have to open the page with the browser Mozilla Firefox (it is free) for the audio crosswords to work.

Quiz: audio, textual, or mixed, quizzes. They are useful to reinforce previously acquired knowledge.
You may have to find the odd one out, or to type in an answer, etc.
Click to test: Textual quiz (beginner level) Audio quiz (advanced level).

Fill gap: you have to complete a text in which words are missing. It addresses the Writing area of language learning, along with the Reading one (textual exercises) or the Comprehension one (audio exercises).
According to your level and the target of the exercise, you may or you may not get the list of the missing words.
Click to test: Textual sample (intermediate level), Audio sample (advanced level).

Crossword: it establishes connections between words and help to memorize them. Simple words to translate for the beginner to learn vocabulary, a synonymous or a short definition for the intermediate learner, thematic crosswords for the advanced student.
Click to test: Textual sample (intermediate level), audio sample (advanced level).
You may have to open the page with the browser Mozilla Firefox (it is free) for the audio crosswords to work.

Match: an element from the right column has to be dragged across the screen to match its "peer" on the left column. You improve your comprehension of spoken French with the audio puzzles, while the written parts usually deal with a grammar point.
An element may be a picture, a text or a sound.
Click to test: a multi-element sample (beginner level)

Mix: the beginner puts the written words of a sentence in the right order. The intermediate does a similar exercise, but with the recordings of the words. The advanced has to reorder the recordings of a story or a dialogue.
Click to test: Textual sample (beginner level), Audio Sample (advanced level).