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More French resources

• Dictionnaire universel francophone.
• Argot dictionary.
• French Alternative Dictionary. Dictionary of bad language and other words not easily found in a conventional dictionary. 132 entries.
• Un florilège de beaux mots. Uncommon words with their definitions to enrich your vocabulary.

Multilingual

• French-English-French dictionary. About 75,000 entries. From the ARTFL project of the University of Chicago.
• DICOVOX. French-English-French and German-English. Quite complete and includes idioms. With English pronunciation.
• Zeres dictionary. German-French-German (20,000 entries) and German-English (50,000 entries). Search mode.
• Michaelis dictionary Portuguese-French-Portuguese. You must register, but it's free. Acces to Universo Online, a complete Brazilian server.
• LOGOS on-line dictionary. Multilingual dictionary with more than 30 languages and over 5 million entries. Maintained by a team of translators, but you can suggest new terms. Apart from the dicitionary, it has some links to specialized magazines, a text corpus, etc. LOGOS is a translation company and in its home page you can find some information about the services it offers.
• EURODICAUTOM. With a new, much quicker interface. Both source and target languages are Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Finnish. Mainly official and technical terms. It has additional information such as phraseology, abbreviations, definitions, etc.
• Leximagne. An exhaustive collection of French dictionaries.
• Freelang. Several bilingual dictionaries to download to and from French and other languages.

Glossaries

• L'ABC des réseaux. Glossary of Internet terms. English words with French translation and definition.
• Le Jargon Français. Glossary of technical terms.
• Dico de l'informatique. Browsable and searchable computing dictionary with over 3,000 entries.
• Internet terminology. In English and French.
• Trilingual Internet Glossary. In English, French and Spanish.
• NETGLOS.
• The Internet Dictionary Project. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Italian. Not many entries so far.

Medicine

• Glossary of Pathological Anatomy. Just French. With pictures.
• Glossary of medical terms. Multilingual glossary of scientific and colloquial medical terms. English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Dannish, Dutch, German, Italian.

Various

• Astronomy Thesaurus. English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. No definitions but it gives related and general terms and the correspondence in the other languages.
• Glossary of Women and Development. English-French-English. Prepared for the IV World Conference on Woman, celebrated in Beijing. 850 terms and expressions on woman integration, education, health, violence, human rights, economy, politics, equality of sexes and environment.
• Technical dictionary of textile industry. French, English, German, Spanish. Over 10,000 terms related to the textile manufacture (fabrics, industrial proccesses, etc). No definitions.
• Glossary of economic terms. From the government of Canada. It also has a French version. Terms are organized by subject or alphabetically.
• English-French glossary of actuaries and insurance.
• Dictionary of gastronomy. French-English.
• Termisti microglossaries. From French to other languages. Small glossaries on optic fibre, autism, microeconomy, etc. With definition, context, related words, synonyms, etc.
• Climbing dictionary. English definitions and terms also in German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian... Text mode.
• TermFinance. Interactive dictionary of financial terms in English, French, German and Italian. With related terms.
• Des mots et des autos. French glossary of car-related terms. It has some synonyms and English equivalents.
• Termite. Telecommunication glossary in French, English, Spanish and Russian. No definitions.
• Dictionnaire de l'escrime.
• Dairy Glossary. English-French-Spanish.
• Multilingual Real Estate Dictionary. German, English, French, Italian and Spanish.
• Glossary of Environmental Terms.
• Golf terminology.
• Gastronomic Glossary. French-Swedish-English.

Forum

• LATIN-TF. Discussions in French about Romance languages and lexicography. To subscribe, send an e-mail to LISTSERV@FRMOP11.BITNET with the body "subscribe LATIN-TF + name".
• france_langue@culture.fr Page maintained by the General Delegation of French Language and the Ministry of Culture.

Newsgroups

• k12.lang.francais. Practising English and French with native speakers.
• soc.culture.french.

IRC channels

• #quebecois. An exclusively French-speaking channel.

Language and literature

• The French-speaking countries' page. In Babel. It has the following sections: French on the Net, terminological resources, HTML guides, on-line publications, search engines and French-speaking agencies.
• Vademecum of new spelling. Compendium of the new spelling rules and their application in a list of words.
• French for travellers. Basic words and expressions to make yourself understood in French-speaking countries.

Terminology

• Abrégé de terminologie multilingue. The first terminology course in French on Internet.
• Terminological DGLF's database. (Délégation Générale à la Langue Française)

Literature

• French poetry. A collection of French poems from many authors.

Software

• WinDi. Translation tool for German, Spanish, French, English, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese. It includes inter-related dictionaries, grammar information, translation of sentences, verb conjugation, pronunciation, etc. Compatible with Windows 3.11, Windows 95 and NT 4.0. You have access to a free demo, but then you must pay for it.
• Languages in Europe. MERCATOR program on the promotion of minorized European languages. In Catalan, French and English. It has an interactive game.

Books and papers

• Le Figaro.
• Le Monde.
• Libération.

Books

• Association des Bibliophiles Universels. A virtual library with lots of French texts.
• Fnac. The biggest bookshop in France. Book, video and CD-ROM catalogues.

Searching engines

• Yahoo France.
• Écila. It also has an English version.
• Nomade.
• Francité.
• La Toile du Québec.
• Indexa.

More French resources

• TennesseeBob's Famous French Links. A complete list of francophone sites: literature, language, art, history, media, education, etc.
• HAPAX. French links on any subject (libraries, literature, language...). English interface.
• French language pages.
• Language resources. Prepared by the French Language Bureau of the Government of Quebec.

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