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To learn how to count in French, it is necessary to learn the names of numbers. This essential vocabulary is very useful in everyday life. Time, money, addresses and phone numbers are only a few examples where the knowledge of numbers is obligatory.

Numbers and Their Pronunciation

The first site has five parts. It includes all the numbers from 1 to 100 and some examples of numbers up to one billion. The MP3 files will allow you to hear and to memorize correctly their pronunciation. Remember that it is strongly recommended to repeat each word several times to pronounce them correctly.

http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/ss/numbers.htm

Cardinal & Ordinal Numbers

The second site presents a list of cardinal and ordinal numbers. Even though the old style vocabulary for the numbers above 70 is given, we recommend that you learn only the first of the two terms shown. This is the one which is accepted in International French and which is used in most of the French-speaking world.

http://www.girouard.org/cgi-bin/page.pl?file=numbers&n=3

A Fun Quizz

To reward you for having thoroughly studied the vocabulary of these two previous websites, we offer you as a third and last site a quizz allowing you to evaluate your new knowledge while having fun.

http://french.lovetoknow.com/index.php?title=Numbers_in_French_Quiz&ref=87154&hdnStartLimit=0

See you soon.

P.S. Circle all the numbers included in this message. Answer next week.

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