French & German Comparative Tutorials Index

 

Currently, only the first three tutorials are available.

French & German I

Basic Phrases

Pronunciation

Alphabet

Numbers

Articles & Demonstratives

Nouns: Gender & Number

Personal Pronouns

Verbs: Be, Have, Do

Interrogatives / Conjunctions / Adverbs

Accusative & Dative Cases

Days / Months / Seasons

Time / Weather / Directions

Colors & Shapes

Family

Possessive Adjectives & Pronouns

French & German II

Adjectives: Gender & Number

Verbs: Come, Go

Asking Questions

Word Order

Negatives

Work & School

Countries & Nationalities

Prepositions

Verbs: Know

Food & Meals

Fruits & Vegetables

Verbs: Modals

Partitive

Genitive Case

Weak Masculine Nouns

French & German III

Common Verbs

Regular Verbs: Present and Past Tense

Spelling Changes in Regular Verbs

Irregular Stems in Past Tense

Pronominal / Reflexive Verbs

On / Man

Plaire / Gefallen & Manquer / Fehlen

Separable & Inseparable Prefixes

Imperative / Commands

Subordinating Conjunctions

Verbs: Present Perfect / Past Perfect Tenses

Verbs of Senses

House & Furniture

Buildings & Materials

Y/ En & Da- / Wo-

French & German IV

Comparatives / Superlatives

Clothing & Toiletries

Verbs: Other common irregular verbs

Human Body

Verbs: Future Tense

Verbs: Conditional Tense / Subjunctive II

Verbs: Subjunctive Mood

Animals & Insects

Nature & Geography

Indefinite Pronouns & Adjectives

Relative Pronouns

Verbs: Passive Voice

Faire / Causative

Verbs followed by Prepositions

French & German V

Sports & Instruments

Hobbies & Tools

Conjunctions

Impersonal Verbs

Car & Gas Station

Travel & Transportation

Adverbs

Indirect Discourse / Subjunctive I

Holidays & Fairy Tales

Verbs: Simple Past Tense

Exclamations & Interjections

French Regions / German States

Rocket French

Rocket French. Learn French In Just 8 Weeks is a course for beginners that includes 31 interactive audio lessons, 45 grammar lessons, vocabulary and verb software games, as well as a members only forum. There is also a 60 day guarantee in addition to a free sample course that you can download. The full course is available as a download or as a 20 CD pack.

Rocket German is also available.

Champs-Elysées

Champs-Elysées is an audio magazine for intermediate to advanced French learners. It is a subscription program that includes the magazine, an hour-long CD or cassette, plus an optional study supplement (Champs-Elysées Plus) . It is designed to improve your vocabulary, grammar and listening comprehension, as well as your cultural understanding of the French-speaking world. Each magazine includes about a dozen topics ranging from politics and economics to tourism and geography to literature, poetry, music, film, etc.

I highly recommend this program, especially if you do not have access to materials that provide spoken French. Each magazine contains the full text/transcript on the even-numbered page, and the vocabulary on the odd-numbered page. There are several notes in English at the end that explain the people and places mentioned. The study supplements include audio flashcards (repetition of phrases from the text), as well as written exercises and translations of certain extracts.

Schau ins Land is the German counterpart.

Other Useful Links

WordReference English-French Dictionary

WordReference English-German Dictionary

Dict.cc English-German Dictionary


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