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There is high quality information about learning Quebec French on the Internet. Web sites created by schools, charities and government organizations to provide you with resources for learning Quebec French.
The software called TextAloud can save you a lot of time and money. It has RealSpeak voices *with the accent of Quebec* (Julie and Felix)! You can hear the voices on their web site. It also installs into your browser so that you can hear anything on the web (like today’s news) with the accent of Quebec!
The Office de la Langue Francaise (Quebec government’s French language office) can help you to find good information. The CDEACF Quebec is another good resource. Le Point du FLE is another great web site. The Canadian National Adult Literacy Database is very good.
A little book called Canadian French by Ulysses is inexpensive and extremely useful. It can help you learn about the accent and slang of Quebec. In Quebec French, slang is called Joual. Quebec Joual can be found on good web sites. Quebec French Lexicon on Wikipedia is very good.
Another quality resource is a picture dictionary software called Le Visuel. It has sound and pictures with little learning exercises to help you learn the Quebec French words that you need.
Le Petit Robert is a dictionary that is good because it has phonetic codes using the API alphabet that show you how to pronounce all the words in the dictionary. This is very important in when learning French.
To get the daily news about Quebec in French, try Cyberpresse. It is well organized and covers a lot of different subjects.
If you want to get French videos with their transcripts, the Assemblée Nationale du Quebec makes the question period available for download. The politicians use all the accents within Quebec, the transcripts are word for word and they talk about the major topics in the news.
A free software available on this web site is KitQC2.
Blogs and other news sources exist with top quality information about learning Quebec French.
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