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Info and LinksChâteau d'If, Marseille, France 
(photo credit: D. Peterson)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
VOCAL FLIGHT's national award-winning CD is available for purchase. I and my 5 cohorts from the 2007 incarnation of Vocal Flight are proud of this CD, "Make the Move". We won first place at the 2007 Reno Jazz Festival (category: college vocal jazz ensembles), and the national jazz magazine Down Beat named its 2008 student awards, giving this CD the "Outstanding Performance" award for a college vocal jazz ensemble! Please send me an e-mail if you are interested in purchasing a copy ($10): karstlaura@deanza.edu All proceeds go to De Anza's music department.
MY FALL QUARTER 2009 FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE:
French 1 (8:30 class): Wednesday, December 9th, from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. Set TWO alarm clocks!!
French 2: Thursday, December 10th, from 9:15 to 11:15 a.m.
French 4-5-6: Tuesday, December 8th, from 11:30 to 1:30.
NOTE: Thursday, December 10th, will be my last day on campus until Winter quarter begins on January 4th. ALL FALL QUARTER ASSIGNMENTS & EXAMS must be completed and submitted TO MY OFFICE (F4 building) NO LATER THAN NOON on Thursday, December 10th, 2009. Work submitted after that time will receive ZERO credit, no exceptions.
FAVORITE LINKS:
French Department Faculty Directory: http://www.deanza.fhda.edu/iis/french/
Why should you study French? Here are some convincing reasons.
http://homepages.ius.edu/CGARNIER/WhyFren1.htm
EXCELLENT site for practicing your French! The University of Texas has produced a wonderful series of very useful video and audio clips, downloadable podcasts, and grammar explanations, on their web site called Français Intéractif. Beginning students ask me all the time where they can find French vocabulary and phrases pronounced for them on-line. This is the place: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/html/toc/00.html
Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links: BOOKMARK THIS SITE! At the University of Tennessee at Martin, French professor Bob Peckham, PhD, has created an amazing web page that lists 10,000 links to sites related to the French language and to francophone culture, history, media and much more, all neatly organized by category. Allez-y! Check it out!
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html
Radio broadcasts of French news, spoken in "français facile". Students who have completed a year of more of college-level French should be able to understand these broadcasts pretty well. In some cases you can click on "lire le script" and read what is being said.
http://www.rfi.fr/radiofr/statiques/journauxFrancaisFacile.asp
TV5: This channel shows French language programming 24/7: movies, news, documentaries, talk shows, and more. Some programming is subtitled in English, but most of it is not. (Great for intermediate and advanced students who want to work on their listening comprehension!) It is not available in all areas, so contact your cable company to see if you can get it. In most areas you will need either digital cable or a satellite dish. Comcast in San José charges me $10.99 per month to add TV5 to my basic cable subscription. Not too bad of an investment if you plan to watch it a lot. If you can read French, you might enjoy visiting the TV5 web site:
http://www.tv5.org
How to type accent marks using Windows: Follow the directions posted on this Penn State web page. (Merci Mattieu P., d'avoir trouvé ce lien!)
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codealt.html#accent
How to type accent marks using a Mac:
http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codemac.html
Webcams in France and panoramic photos: 1) Select the French city of your choice from the list towards the top left of the screen, or click on the city's/region's button on the map of France. 2) Click on the "Valider" button. 3) Select "Webcams tourisme". 4) Click on any of the webcams listed.
http://www.orange.fr/bin/frame.cgi?u=http%3A//maville.orange.fr/
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