The associative sector offers free courses to improve communication in French.
The ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross), founded in 1863, has in its missions the fight against illiteracy and the learning of French as a foreign language.
Created in 1945, the Secours Populaire offers FLE workshops, literacy courses and homework help workshops.
Secours Catholique conducts educational support activities and offers French as a foreign language courses. Les Restos du cœur, founded in 1985, and originally intended to provide food aid to the most deprived, have been offering French courses since 1997.
At the University of Lille, courses and exams are held in French: level B2 of the common European framework of reference for languages.
It offers free French courses to international students on an exchange trip (intensive preparation then extensive courses during the semester) which can be used to validate European credits (ECTS).
They take place at the Department of International French Teaching (Defi) on the Pont de Bois campus, and at the Maison des Langues on the Cité Scientifique campus.
For more information, contact:exchange-helpdeskuniv-lillefr
Applications (Duolingo, Babbel, …) or podcasts offer free French lessons from beginner to expert level. Search on smartphone: “French for adults”.
Multilingual cafes are evenings organized in bars in large urban areas in order to practice a foreign language for free.
Since 1993, the Exam Center has been organizing the exams for the Diplôme d’Études en Langue Française (DELF A1, A2, B1 and B2), and the Diplôme Approfondi de Langue Française (DALF C1 + C2), and since 2002, the Tests of Knowledge of French (TCF), certifications recognized worldwide by the institutions in charge of training French as a foreign language (FLE) and by many French and foreign ministries.
The Alliance française de Paris Ile-de-France has developed a collection of MOOCs [1] Living in France, available on the France Université Numérique (FUN) platform, from level A1 to B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (create an account on France Université Numérique and register).
To access the “Living in France – French lessons” collection:
https://www.fun-mooc.fr/universities/direction-generale-des-etrangers-en-france/
Websites for learning French as FLE:
- Hello from France
- FLE lexicon
- The point of the Learn French with TV5 Monde
- The pleasure of learning, the site created by the Alliance Française.
External Link
https://www.superprof.fr/blog/apprendre-fle-sans-payer/#chapter_ learn-french-with-your-smartphone
https://www.lemondeestunvillage.org/post/2017/03/08/cafe-polyglotte-59-62-60-hauts-de-france
https://www.associationlacle.org/http://www.cue-lillenorddefrance.fr/?q=international-etudiants-delf-dalf-francais-langue-etrangere
