What this resource covers
This resource covers most of the content in the AQA GCSE French Specification for the 2026 exams. If you are using a different exam board or a different AQA specification, there may be some discrepancies.
How to use this resource
This resource is intended to be used as supplementary or revision content to an existing course, and not be the sole place you learn the information present in this resource. If you do not have access to any other content, I would recommend having a look at Good other Resources which may also help you.
Contact
You can contact me by email at thelittlebigbookproject@gmail.com. However, I probably will only respond to emails if they are relevant.
What you should email about
- Resolving disputes about content you are the owner of or have permission to enforce the license of that is included in this site. (see The legal jargon section)
- Constructive criticism
- Clerical errors
What you shouldn’t email about
- Complaining about something in a rude manner - Constructive criticism please!
- Asking when a certain section will be added - I’m doing this course at the same time as making this guide, so I have to have covered content for it to be here
- Asking for a new specification to be included - I’m only interested in the exam season 2026 AQA specification.
If you’re unsure if you should or shouldn’t email me about something, I will just ignore it if its irrelevant, so go for it.
The nerdy stuff
Alright, you asked for it, I’ll explain all of the nerdy stuff behind how I made this website exist. The best way to do this is go through the entire process for how I add new content.
Obsidian
First, I use Obsidian to make the markdown files behind this site, there’s not much to say about this, and really I could be using anything with decent support for .md files.
Quartz
I use Quartz to build the markdown files made with Obsidian into static HTML for this site. While writing content, I have npx quartz build --serve running in the background so that I can preview my changes in almost real-time. This hosts the site on http://localhost:8080, which I have open in my browser.
GitHub
I then use GitHub to host a private repository, which contains all of the files necessary to run this site. Whenever I want to push an update to the site, I simply commit it to the repository.
Cloudflare Pages
Finally, whenever I commit to the repository, Cloudflare Pages detects it and starts building the site. This process is actually quite simple, I simply gave these arguments in the build instructions, which then builds the site and publishes it.
Cloudflare Pages is what gives you access to this website on a subdomain of pages.dev and with valid SSL certificates so that you aren’t warned before coming to this site.
The legal jargon
Alright, I’m not a lawyer, nor do I know much about law or have access to a lawyer, but here’s what I do know.
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Resolving disputes
If your content, or content you have permission to enforce the license of is used in this resource and you would like to have credit placed, or have the content removed, please make an attempt to contact me with the details in the Contact section of this page.