French computer vocabulary

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Computer vocabulary in French

The following list of French vocabulary concerns computers and Internet, this will be useful to many English speaking people who are already in France, reading through a French web pages, or perhaps if you are communicating with a French person via the Internet. Many high-tech words have the same spelling in French and English, however the pronunciation will often change because of the tonic accent on the vowels, take for example the English word "WIFI", in French it is pronounced "wee-fee". Another example is Linux, in French it is pronounced "lee-nux". Other abbreviations such as ROM, ADSL, Internet just sound the same, so you should not have too much difficulty. Just for information, if you are in France and need to use a computer do not forget that the keyboard has a different layout to the standard keyboard, in France you will use an AZERTY keyboard instead of the normal QWERTY. Not only will many of the letters change place, but the row for numbers is different, you will have to use the shift key to access the numbers from 1 to 9, without the shift you will have access to many of the French accents.

Computer terms
French Le bas-dbit Le blogue Le cble La capture d'cran Le clique Le clavier Le courriel Dconnexion Le Disque Dur L'emoticne L'enceinte (f) Le cran Le feuille de calcul Le FIA (fournisseur d'accs Internet) Le fichier Le fond d'cran L'haut-dbit Le icne L'informatique Le jeu de Rle Le lecteur CDROM Le logiciel Le Lien La Mmoire Vive La Mmoire morte Le moteur de recherches Le Multijoueurs (m) Le ordinateur Le plantage Le rseau Le site web La touche Le serveur Le son La souris Le tableur Le toile La tour centrale Le traitement de textes English Slow speed Internet The blog The cable Screen shot The click (of the mouse) The keyboard The E-mail Deconnect / logout The hard disk The smiley (emotional icon) The speaker The screen The spreadsheet ISP (Internet service provider) The file The background screen The broadband, High speed Internet The Icon Computing Role playing game The CDROM player The program The link The RAM The ROM The search engine Multiplayer The computer The crash The network The web site The key (on the keyboard) The server The sound The mouse The spreadsheet program The web La tour centrale The word processor

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French computer vocabulary

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The French translation for Email is offically "Le courriel", this is in the attempt to preseve the french language by the purists, there are also other examples such as Cdrom for CDROM...

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