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I bought this workbook as a guide for tutoring a 12 y/o girl. I love that it is full of color photos (very important for stimulating memory) and has conversations to supplement the vocab, but the vocab is presented in a confusing order (teach amie but not ami in Chapter 2?). The DVD doesn't correspond at all to the text, but gives many useful examples from native speakers as well as in German, Spanish, Japanese, etc. If you are a cunning Linguist you'll enjoy this set. The size of this book is not intimidating which is another reason I like it. The introduction is short and sweet, hinting at the keys to mastering French rhythm and open syllabic structure. This won't overwhelm the young beginner.
Instant Immersion French
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
This set of 10 audio tapes did exactly what I wanted it to do - it helped me get the sound of the language and with my pronunciation, two of the main problems I have with self-learning a language. The two vocabulary tapes have hundreds of the most common words in the French language, which became familiar and useful when watching French movies or listening to French shows on public television. I also got to be able to remember which nouns were masculine and which were feminine. I found that reading the Pocket Langenscheidt French Dictionary as I listened to the tapes helped me visualize the spellings of the words and helped me starting to read.
Very Good Tapes!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
These tapes are really great for learning to speak French. Granted, they won't teach you everything but not a lot of products can. The tapes simulate situations mainly for traveling to French-speak destinations for business or vacationing. So these tapes are great for if you are planning a trip. It doesn't touch grammar but even if they did have a book or something it porably wouldn't be as effective as some other methods for learning the actual grammar. I thought I would learn more caual just speaking and comunicationg French but over all this is a great buy.
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