Beyond the Basics: French (Coursebook) [Large Print]

by Jenny Barriol

Book Overview

Our best-selling language series just went Beyond the Basics ! Now there's a fantastic new way for language learners to take their French to the next level and go Beyond the Basics ! Ideal for people... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400021650
• ISBN13: 9781400021659
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Living Language
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Living Language course rules!

I've used Living Language courses since high school. My opinion is that they are overall the finest way to be introduced to a foreign language. They use sentences grouped by grammatical function so that one learns (unconsciously) the grammar along with the vocabulary. There also is supplementary grammar if one wants to dig more into the machinery of the language. I still benefit from having had my first introduction to Spanish from these courses. Now, having decided to review my univerisity French, I find this is still the finest CD on learning basic French. Recommended.

A good tool for those with some background in French

I have been using Beyond the Basics French for about a week and I've found it very useful--it is definitely worth the time and money. It is not for someone with no background (hence, their "The Basics" I'm guessing). In grad school I had twelve hours or French (six studying abroad in France) and this course has been not only a good review but has built my vocab and, thank god, explained some grammatical/idiomatic stuff that I'm sure we covered in class but that didn't quite click with me b/c I'm not wonderfully adept at learning a new language. If you've had at least 101-102 French, you should be fine with this. My only complaint is that some conversations aren't spoken slowly enough for me, but putting this on your iPod or mp3 makes it easy to back up a little be as often as you need to. If you don't have a great intro/intermediate French dictionary, Harper Collins' French Beginner's Dictionary is the best I've found.