{"id":824,"date":"2018-09-27T13:57:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T20:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/?p=824"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:52:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:52:29","slug":"french-exercise-practice-elfe-and-tresor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2018\/09\/27\/french-exercise-practice-elfe-and-tresor\/","title":{"rendered":"French exercise practice: ELFE and Tr\u00e9sor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>ELFE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elementary French Exercises (or, ELFE) are French language drills to practice grammar and vocabulary. They are organized by subject, so you can easily focus in on your areas of difficulty.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/elfe1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-825\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/elfe1-300x180.png\" alt=\"ELFE homepage and list of exercises under Topic 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/elfe1-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/elfe1.png 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The interface is sensitive so make sure to add accents and punctuation exactly as needed. Although it\u2019s a bit old-school, the exercises are well-designed. They give corrections immediately. And it\u2019s all free!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/elfe3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-826 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/elfe3-1024x282.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/elfe3-1024x282.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/elfe3-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/elfe3-768x212.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/elfe3-500x138.png 500w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/elfe3.png 1346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ELFE is accessible through\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/moodle.reed.edu\/course\/view.php?id=361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moodle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Tr\u00e9sor<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tr\u00e9sor is a detailed online French language resource with several important applications. First, search your desired word, then toggle between tabs to see:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Morphologie &#8211; all morphologies of your word, including conjugations.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lexicographie &#8211; traces your word to its root word and definitions, as well as common cultural usage and example sentences.<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/tresor1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-827 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/tresor1-300x181.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/tresor1-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/tresor1-497x300.png 497w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/tresor1.png 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Etymologie &#8211; etymology and history of your word. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Synonymie &#8211; synonyms.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Antonymie &#8211; antonyms<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Proxemie &#8211; installs an extension for your web browser.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Concordance &#8211; finds examples of your word in common books or texts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is an extremely powerful resource, and if you install their toolbar or extension, you won\u2019t need to navigate to the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnrtl.fr\/definition\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> each time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tr\u00e9sor is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tout en fran\u00e7ais<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELFE Elementary French Exercises (or, ELFE) are French language drills to practice grammar and vocabulary. They are organized by subject, so you can easily focus in on your areas of difficulty.The interface is sensitive so make sure to add accents and punctuation exactly as needed. Although it\u2019s a bit old-school, the exercises are well-designed. They &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2018\/09\/27\/french-exercise-practice-elfe-and-tresor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;French exercise practice: ELFE and Tr\u00e9sor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-levels","category-french"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}