Advice

Newspapers and news sites on the internet are a wonderful resource for language learners.  There is nothing like the latest news to motivate language learners, stimulate debate, discussion and argument. 

Most internet sites are designed for native speakers and may be difficult for the majority of language learners to understand fully. If this is the case you could try:

1. Use pictorial and video clues to help you understand the text. For technical or scientific news items you might be able to see a labelled diagram.

2. Look at the news item in your own language first. On some news sites (e.g. Euronews) you can easily swop from one language to another.

3. Find a news site that is written in shorter, simpler language.

Please see a good selection of links to online newspapers and news sites from around the world on our news broker page

  LINKS  (in alphabetical order)

Actualités Review of French press (French government site)

AFP Agence France Presse- news agency on-line(in French)

Euronews News on-line from ITN (available in 6 languages).

L'Humanité Daily French Communist Party newspaper

Le Figaro Daily French newspaper 

Le Monde High Class Daily French newspaper

Le Monde Diplomatique  Current affairs in French. Free news available.

Le Parisien Regional but widely read -also national information

Le Telegramme Quotidien de la Bretagne. Information nationale et internationale

Les Echos Actualite economique, financière et boursière française et internationale

Libération Daily French newspaper

Marianne - Current affairs in France & abroad

Ouest-France Regional daily paper with brief international news