French For Fun

Short Online Funny French Comics – Level: Intermediate, Advanced

Isabelle — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:08:05 +0000

Birds Dessinés is a wonderful French site where people create their own little comic strips using little blue birds. Quick to read and garantee to make you smile. Some strips are really funny, others less so and some can be slightly rude. The best thing is to read the best ones: Le Top. It gives you a good insight into French humour…
When you’re confident with your French, why not create your own strip?
Warning: since these strips are written by just anybody, they sometimes contain spelling mistakes…

Fun French Jokes – Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Isabelle — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:37:40 +0000

I’m sure you know the chicken joke: Why did the chicken cross the road? Pourquoi le poulet a-t’il traversé la rue?

Eh bien, pour aller de l’autre côté !

Of course.

But, do you know what Clinton, Bush, Chirac, Socrates, Einstein, Cantona, Darwin and many others could have answered to that very same chicken question?

You’ll find this and more in this French Jokes website including funny IQ tests, dictionnaries (homme/femme, homme/français), Monsieur et Madame ont un fils, French quotes, …

Be prepared to be surprised, amused and entertained by this French jokes website (click on the image below to open the website and scroll down to ‘Divers’ to find the page on the chicken but do read the others, they’re good too).

Daily headlines from all the major French newspapers on one convenient page – Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Isabelle — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:29:31 +0000

Brilliant website giving you all the headlines from the major French newspapers (national and regional) on ONE convenient page. You can choose to see the news from France, the World, Politics, Business, Sports, Science, Culture and People (in French, ‘people’ … Continue reading →

Free legal reading of French classic literature – Level: Advanced

Isabelle — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:13:11 +0000

If you’re ready to get your teeth into French literature, here is a completely legal website (Culturetheque) where you’ll be able to read online the full texts of French classic books (and international classics in French).

You’ll find one book for many French authors (and a few foreign authors translated… like Shakespeare!): Balzac, Zola, Dumas, Hugo, Gide, Moliere, Chateaubriand, Giraudoux,…

You will need to create an account but it’s really quick, straightforward and it’s free.

Enjoy!

Babar, I spy with my little eye, something beginning with … – Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Isabelle — Tue, 01 May 2012 11:23:04 +0000

Do you know Babar the Elephant? Babar has always been very succesful with French children. Trying to escape hunters, Babar discovers Western civilisastion and brings it back to the his fellow elephants, becomes king and brings up his family with much wisdom.

This online game is based on the famous ‘I spy with my little eye’ game. Pick a letter and try and find as many words beginning with that letter as possible by clicking on the objects. You’ll notice that the drawings look old-fashioned. That’s because Babar was created in 1931 and although he made it in recent years to the TV in a more modern format, many French people will remember him just like that. I suppose that’s the charm of Babar!

Click on the image to start the game.

Extend you French vocabulary with Babar the Elephant and this I spy with my little eye game.

Free Comic Strip: La Fête des Pirates – Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Isabelle — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:13:30 +0000

La Fête des Pirates is the story of a young boy on holidays who goes on an adventure

With easy vocabulary, this comic strip is a good way to start reading in French.

Click on the image below to start reading (use the small blue arrow at the bottom right hand corner of each page to turn the page).

Free Interactive Comic Strip: Les Météorites – Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Isabelle — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:08:10 +0000

Les Météorites are online comic strips with interactivity. You have to click on the people who speak or the next slide to continue reading. The website also gives you explanation in French about the solar system. Click on the image … Continue reading →

Les Shadoks, a French cult series – Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Isabelle — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:09:33 +0000

Les Shadoks appeared on French TV in the late 60s and were an instant hit. Their stories is told through very short episodes.

Les Shadoks are nasty and stupid people who live by riduculously funny principles: Why do it the easy way when you can do it the hard way?
In the next planet live the Gibis, the total opposite to the Shadoks: nice but vulnerable.

The narrator, Claude Piéplu, is still fondly remembered by many French as the voice of the Shadoks.
Click on the image to the right to access the website >>

Les Simpsons et Pokemon TV – Level: Intermediate/Advanced

Isabelle — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:52:23 +0000

Here are the French dubbed Simpsons and Pokemon episodes. No French subtitles unfortunately but at least you know what to expect.

Click on the images to get to the websites.

Free French Comic Strip: Tintin et l’Alphart – Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Isabelle — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:59:26 +0000

Why not improve your French reading skills and comprehension with these comic strips? The vocabulary is not very complicated making comic strips the best way to start reading French for Beginners and Intermediate.

Tintin et l’Alphart (42 pages) – not an original Tintin but a take by an artist to finish the last incomplete Tintin by Hergé.

Click on the image below to start reading.