British Broadcasting Corporation-if you don't know them, you have no excuse. As far as credibility, quality and authority is concerned, we can take their word for it, irrespective of the language.

BBC offers its services in a wide range of languages-from Chinese, French, German, to Greek and Spanish. Now considering you want to learn French ... or Francaise, then all you need to do is click on Choose a Language> French (FRA).

Once you're at the page for the language of your choice, it's smooth sailing. Click on Learn Online> Online courses. From here, it's all self-explanatory and meant to be that way, so that you don't have to be dependent on anyone. Click on start, and you'll step in to a whole new world. You'll see many probable situations that you could probably encounter in real life. As an example, click on Short break in Paris > Getting a snack. It shows you the most common dialogues that could crop up in a restaurant.

For example, the waiter comes up to you and asks-what would you like? Considering you already know the tongue¬twisting names of dishes available on the menu, you should be able to reply in crisp French, "I'll have a cheese sandwich n.

In addi¬tion, it also has the pronunciation for the keywords used in the conversation. This comes in very handy, especially, with a language like French-it's written one way and pronounced some other! If you have no prior knowledge of the language, then use the audio clips, so that you get the authentic pronunciation.