Open access tools and resources for learning French

This online self-assessment tool allows you to test your oral and written comprehension skills in French. Your results are displayed on your screen after each test. These results are based on the Échelle québécoise des niveaux de compétence en français (Québec scale of French proficiency levels), but are not official. They are intended to help you choose a learning program.

Go to the assessment (in French)

A free French learning service for beginners is available at: francais-enligne.quebec. To access it, create an account using an email address and a password.  

This platform will allow you to discover the language at your own pace and autonomously. Three modules, totaling around 70 hours of learning, address real-life situations such as greeting people, introducing yourself, asking for information and looking for and applying for a job. The experience is enriched with videos and animations, an audiovisual glossary and exercises to practise pronunciation as well as oral and written comprehension, with feedback. In addition, downloadable documents offer summaries of the grammatical concepts covered, along with useful model sentences.

Several resources can help you practise and improve your knowledge of French.

Francization reference

This site offers French learning activities in specific fields of employment:

• French for accounting
• French for ICT
• French for patient attendants
• French for professional cooking and food service
• French for tourism and trade
• French for early childhood education staff
• French for food processing

Bank of online resources

This tool is for anyone learning French. It contains:

• Numerous exercises for all levels of language knowledge;
• Reference tools and vocabulary;
• Links to platforms for learning French;
• Links to Québec media and artistic content;
• and much more.

Webography of Québec’s French language cultural products (in French only) (PDF 507 Kb)

This tool offers a selection of useful resources for learning French and discovering Québec’s sociocultural references.

It is for:

• those learning French;
• new immigrants;
• the teaching staff of the language school network partnering with the Ministère de l’Immigration, de la Francisation et de l’Intégration (MIFI).

Vitrine linguistique (in French only)

This platform provides an overview of the language tools and services offered by the Office québécois de la langue française. You will find, in particular, a section listing resources for people learning French. That section contains, among other things, vocabularies associated with different professions, consisting of:

• more than a hundred basic terms;
• illustrations;
• audio files;
• examples;
• language concepts.

The Vitrine linguistique also gives access to:

• answers to questions about:
  • grammar;
  • syntax;
  • punctuation;
  • borrowings from English;
  • a number of other writing-related subjects.
• hundreds of thousands of French terms related to specialized fields, and their corresponding definitions;
• content to download, such as:
  • checklists;
  • model letters and emails;
  • informative pages on subjects of interest.