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Translation Journal
 
Caught in the Web


Web Surfing for Fun and Profit

French

by Cathy Flick, Ph.D.
 
 
 
http://french.about.com/library/express/blexpres.htm
Interesting way to keep up your French. Even shows French gestures!

http://www.court-bg.org/glossaryBg.pdf
Paul Makinen found this Bulgarian-English-French legal glossary.

http://dico.isc.cnrs.fr/dico/fr/chercher
Alexandra Scott discovered the French equivalent of the English Visual Thesaurus: Dictionnaire des synonymes français, an "amazing tool, which is free gratis... It doesn't have the dynamic performance of the English version [see Glossaries and Dictionaries for a description of the English Visual Thesaurus] but is pretty impressive so far."

http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/French/Vocabulary/French-Uncensored.html
Billy O'Shea suggested this resource, I think after some people on Lantra revealed they simply start talking another language if caught by a telemarketer.

http://www.patriciawells.com/glossary/french_english_food_glossary.pdf
Kirk McElhearn suggests this downloadable French>English food glossary.

Mirella Soffio suggests the following three Italian/English/French dictionaries online:
http://www.garzantilinguistica.it/index.html

English/Italian/French online dictionary suggested by Mirella Soffio

http://www.tonitraduction.net/
Robert Paquin recommends this Dictionnaire des Collocations (which verbs go with which nouns...). In French, including more than 24 900 collocations.

http://www.linguatec.net/online/dict/
Robert Paquin recommends the Linguadict online dictionary for German>English and also German>French.

http://www.svv.ch/index.cfm?rub=103#
Michael Roehrig suggests this insurance glossary (German, English, French, Italian) with terms and explanations that "can be cross-combined among the four languages."

http://www.ditl.info/index.php

Steven DeWitt found this "International Dictionary of Literary Terms" (French-English).

http://www.wordreference.com/
Multilingual dictionaries, very useful. Search is fast and smooth. Spanish><English, Italian><English, French><English, German><English, plus has the Collins English dictionary. Also has instructions for installing in Netscape or Internet Explorer to look up words on web pages if you're afflicted with Windows.

http://aaftt.free.fr/abball.htm
http://aaftt.free.fr/abbfra.htm
Really helpful French-German list of expanded abbreviations. The first link has German abbreviations/expansions with French equivalents, the second link has French abbreviations/expansions with German equivalents.

http://www.granddictionnaire.com/_fs_global_01.htm
David Durand says this is "an excellent translation tool for technical terms".

http://dictionnaires.inalf.fr/dictionnaires/index.html
Titia Schuurman found this site that lets you search old French dictionaries. REALLY old: Simultaneous search in Thresor de la langue française of Jean Nicot (1606), Dictionnaire de L'Académie française, 1st edition (1694), 5th edition  (1798), and 6th edition (1835). Or the Dictionnaire historique et critique of Pierre Bayle (1740) and the Dictionarium latinogallicum of Robert Estienne (1552).

http://www.dinoclay.com/info/dict/mdpwefg.html
Pottery glossary, English/French/German.

Le Monde
http://lemonde.globeonline.com
“France’s leading newspaper will keep you up-to-date on happenings in the French-speaking world.” [You download articles in Adobe Acrobat Reader format from this.]

The Louvre
http://mistral.culture.fr/louvre/
“Visit the world famous art museum in Paris and discover its rich art, history, and architecture in the original French.”

French Links Galore!
http://www.yahoo.fr
“Surf to your heart’s content. The French counterpart of the popular Yahoo Directory offers thousands of interesting links.”