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Free French Language Learning Tools

Even if you don't intend to visit Paris, learning French can be enjoyable.tour Eiffel - Eiffel tower image by AlcelVision from Fotolia.comThere are many reasons for you to learn French, even if you do not intend to visit the Louvre any time soon. Over 135 million people speak French as a...

Ennuyer - to bore

Learn how to conjugate ennuyer, a stem-changing French verb.

en vrac

What does the French word vrac mean? How is it pronounced and used?

How to Write Using Japanese Syllables

Japanese has three systems of writing: hiragana, katakana and kanji. Kanji forms the bulk of the Japanese written language. Each kanji represents an entire word, and is written differently depending on the meaning of the word it represents even if the syllable is the same. Learning enough Japanese t

un hivernant

What does the French word hivernant mean? How is it pronounced and used?

What Is Chinese Writing?

Chinese characters began as pictures of objects or illustrations of ideas around 3,000 years ago. The current character set is around 6,000 for simplified characters and 13,500 for traditional characters. Don't call them "symbols" The correct term is "characters."

Environment and Weather

Learn the names of environmental conditions and the weather in Mandarin Chinese with this Mandarin Chinese vocabulary list. Entries include audio files for pronunciation practice of Mandarin Chinese environment and weather.

Moi non plus

Nonplussed by the French expression moi non plus? Click to read my lesson.

declarative question

A yes-no question that has the form of a declarative sentence but is spoken with rising intonation at the end.