Title mostly says it. Looking for my daughter’s high school French courses. She’s obligated to take four years. Personally I studied and know German, only flirted with French. I really like the German online site www.dict.cc which seems more dynamic and useful than most hard reference books, but she’ll need an actual reference of some sort, but recommendations for good online sites are also appreciated.
Thanks,
Shibb
I like English-French Dictionary - WordReference.com for an online dictionary.
Every home has a Larousse of some sort or another, and the Larousse Concise English/French dictionary is targeted to American English (and likely France French as opposed to Canadian French though I’m not sure about that.) They have a Student Dictionary as well, though it’s probably less complete.
Webster’s French/English dictionary (this is the Canadian edition) is a smaller paperback, but I think I’d still go with a Larousse myself.
Oxford also publishes a Canadian edition F/E. I don’t know if they have an American English one.
I know the Larousse has conjugation tables, but if your daughter wants a smaller book to carry around for that purpose then I recommend the Bescherelleand bescherelle.com. oddly enough, there is an English versiontoo! It seems to me the Bescherelle is the one book everyone in this province is likely to own!
I like this website for conjugation: Conjuin French Verb Conjugator
www.wordreference.com has everything you need.
I got by without ever owning an English/French dictionary. For the first couple of years I used the glossaries in the back of the textbooks. After that I started using a monolingual dictionary. It was hard at first, but I learned a lot faster after going all French all the time. I’m happy with my copy of Le petit Larousse. My local library has a monolingual dictionary I like a little better. I’m not sure, but I think it’s Le nouveau petit Robert.