French with Book (Berlitz Basic)

By Berlitz Publishing Company

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2831557194
• ISBN13: 9782831557199
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: BERLITZ/LANGENSCHEIDT
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.9" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Learn and have fun

The three tapes are a good way of listening to speakers acting out fun scenes. The book is a follow-up. After listening through the tapes, then you listen along with the book. The book contains tips and tests. The whole series is not boring and enjoyable.

this one is fun to listen to

it is one of the less boring one; very effective; it doesn't just let u to go through boring drills. i do enjoy listening to the story. the grammar are basics, but good enough for travelling purposes.

GREAT -- A must have if you are a beginner.

I absolutely love this set. I have tried many differnt self taught packets and they all dissapointed me. This set makes me want to play the lessons over and over, they are very catchy which helps in remembering. With in three months YES I was able to communite faily well with my relatives in Montreal and France. Get it, it's great if you are planning a trip to a french country. The lessons are easy to catch on to. Good Luck!

Will have you speaking French in minutes!

I strongly feel that this tape will have you speaking basic French in just minutes! It's soooo fun to do! I got it from the Library a few weeks ago,and now i'm pointing things out in the car and naming what they are! SURELY 5 STARS!

Helpful, easy--but for beginners who plan to learn more

I give this 5 stars not because I bought it "...and by the weekend I'd translated Maupassant!" --but because I think it is a very good tool to help BEGINNERS create and comprehend simple, conversational sentences--and say them correctly--by the third chapter or so. (There are 24 chapters.) The cassettes have approx. 3 hours of spoken french to listen to, to repeat, and to give you a good idea of the often arbitrary (and frustrating!) pronunciation. Each chapter presents several brief dialogues, listen-repeat and q & a exercises that really reinforce the vocabulary and grammar. There is NO English on the tapes, so they aren't ideal to listen to while you walk the dog or drive to work unless you've worked through the lesson already. All the more French to immerse yourself in! Definitions and grammar are presented as notes along the edge of each page, so they are not exactly comprehensive but I found them easy to understand and they got me through the exercises fine. If your idea of great language instruction is grammar-intensive and not neccesarily audio, this may not be for you. On the other hand if you learn best hearing the language in repeated, short (and not boring) episodes, this is right up your alley! Pronunciation isn't laid out methodically here, and the glossary is no substitute for a good dictionary, so you might benefit from those in addition to this set. (Try How to Pronounce French Correctly.) For people unfamiliar with or intimidated by French, but who want to learn more than some tourist phrases, this is a good place to start before moving on to materials that move at a faster pace and that have more demanding exercises. I was very pleased with it and much more confident when I began studying more seriously.