I’ve started learning French. Here are some resources I found useful.

Listen

• Radio France, different radio stations and podcasts (e.g. France Inter, France Info or France Culture); for French-only music, see Fip - Sacré Français
• ByteFM program France, en confidance about French music, moderated in German

Read

Beginner-friendly books:

• The Petit Nicolas, a series of easy-to-read books with a sense of humour (some of it dated and stereotypical)
• L’Étranger by Albert Camus, relatively easy-to-read

More advanced books I enjoyed reading:

• Jacaranda by Gaël Faye (Le Book Club interview, L’interview de 9h20 podcast, Kwibuka song, Butare song)

I’ve also enjoyed reading a book and listening to the audio book at the same time.

Watch

There are numerous excellent French films and series. Here are some I’ve enjoyed watching:

Series:

• Dix pour Cent
• Lupin
• Le Bureau des légendes

Films:

• Anatomie d’une Chute
• Le Monde du Silence
• Le Dîner de Cons
• Les Trois Frères
• La Vérité si je mens !

Study

Resources

• Anki vocab flashcards with the mobile app and this basic community deck, but nothing beats creating your own flashcards
• Leo trainer for words I look up and want to remember in my daily interactions
• Bescherelle grammar book, concise description of French grammar, without any exercises
• Bescherelle verb conjugation book
• kwiziq, online learning platform

Language courses

Mostly in Paris:

• Language courses by the Paris municipalty https://www.paris.fr/pages/apprendre-le-francais-a-paris-7915
• Conversation groups in Paris’ public libraries https://bibliotheques.paris.fr/atelier-de-conversation.aspx
• https://latelier9.com/
• https://www.learnfrance.net/
• https://elfe-paris.com/
• https://www.alliancefr.org/en/
• https://ligueo.ligueparis.org/
• https://campuslangues.com/programme/francais/
• https://ilcf.icp.fr/
• https://www.fle.fr/

Explore Paris

Museums in Paris are free the first Sunday of every month.

• 104, cultural space
• Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
• Institut du monde arabe
• Musée Cernuschi
• Cinémathèque française
• Theatre du Soleil
• Musée Bourdelle
• Luxor cinema, excellect selection of original-language films