Online French Course
For many languages such as French, it is challenging to find enough free quality materials online to compromise a complete course. Even if you can bring together the materials, you have to craft a course on your own to cover all the bases.
Enter Transparent French, the fruits of a longstanding language education house focusing on the modern digital world of learning. It's not free but it's also not expensive, and is well worth the investment.
Interactive, Social, Cultural and Mobile French Learning
Where Transparent excels is in the details. Their newest French course offers a one-stop learning flow which - as you advance and select your learning media - tuned to your unique interests and needs. Built on sound learning methodology honed from real-world experience, Transparent French is available on mobile devices including iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android.
The Transparent experience is elegant, interactive, social, culture-rich and available on-the-go, anytime you have a moment to invest in learning French.
French Software Tools for all Learning Levels
For the first-time French learner, Transparent offers a path to follow: The Essentials Course accompanied by the Alphabet Explorer and Grammar Reference. From there, learners solidify this foundation with the unique Byki™ vocablary building and pronunciation training software (more below), which Transparent has been tuning and tweaking for something like a decade. As they progress, learners can explore and use more content using the Language Reference tool, all the while being consistently refreshed on what has already been studied.
In Summary
No, it is not free. Yes, it has what you need to learn French and there are scant few products for the eager French learner - you're in luck, just try a lesson for free.