Je ne parle pas français

Finally taking that dream vacation to Paris? You might want to check out Carnegie Mellon's French Online course, which recently was honored with the Access to Language Education Award. The award is given annually by the by the Esperantic Studies Foundation and CALICO (the Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium) to the best publicly available website for language instruction. French Online, which is part of the university's Open Learning Initiative, can be used in conjunction with human instruction, as it is at Carnegie Mellon, or as a stand-alone course that anyone can take on their own time and at their own pace.

If you do make it to France, you'll be grateful you took the time to learn the language. Just don't ask anyone where the McDonald's is. 

Jonathan Potts