http://www.jefrench.com/ has FREE videos and audio for beginners and up. It is a great site for travellers to go to learn how to survive in France or a French speaking country (asking directions, ordering food etc).
http://www.frenchpod101.com/ contains a vast array of FREE resources - videos, blogs, audios, iPhone apps and review materials. The videos seem to be mostly vocab words with corresponding pictures, but covering a wide variety of topics. See 2 examples below (and at the end of each clip there are other clips in this series you can watch). There is an online community your children can join when they are old enough to interact online with adults trying to practice a foreign language.
http://girls4teaching.com/ Has mostly videos to teach various languages such as French, Spanish, Swedish, Italian and German. All FREE. Unfortunately for males the attractive somewhat provocatively dressed women could be a distraction. There is an on-line forum community there too - great for older homeschooled children to practice the language. These communities/forums are best done under parental supervision as you dont know who might want to converse about what!
http://www.simply-land.com/ is a website where kids can play online french learning games FREE. To access all the educational material, a subscription is necessary. Thank goodness for google translate bar. Use it, and have a look around. A native French speaker friend of mine didn't like this site for her child, but from my non-French speaking viewpoint it looks like it would be worthwhile using with my little ones. Recommended for ages 5-11. If anyone tries Simply-Land, particularly if they understand French, let us know what you thought and any give us tippers on how to navigate around in a language we dont comprehend.
I will share with you in the next post a free French games learning site my friend thinks is AB FAB for little ones.
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