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Basic French: CD/Book Package (LL(R) Complete Basic Courses) [Audio CD]

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Complete French: The Basics (Book and CD Set): Includes Coursebook, 4 Audio CDs, and Learner's Dictionary (Complete Basic Courses) Complete French: The Basics (Book and CD Set): Includes Coursebook, 4 Audio CDs, and Learner's Dictionary (Complete Basic Courses) 3.5 out of 5 stars (10)
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0609602756 978-0609602751 April 28, 1998 CD & Book
Speak French with confidence in just 6 weeks!

Living Language® French Complete Course is a step-by-step guide to the basics of French conversation and grammar. This revised course uses the highly effective speed-learning method developed by U.S. government experts to teach foreign languages to overseas-bound servicemen and diplomats.

40 lessons on three compact disks
Begin with simple words and phrases and progress to more complex expressions.
Just listen and repeat after the native speakers.

Only French is spoken on the recordings, so you learn naturally, the way you learned English.
The accompanying French Coursebook includes the English translations.

Italian Coursebook
The pocket-size book contains all the translated phrases from the recorded lessons, plus additional vocabulary, detailed explanations, and quizzes.

The book also features verb charts with all tenses included and a comprehensive summary of French grammar.

French-English/English-French Dictionary
More than 15,000 words are defined.
Idiomatic expressions and common phrases show how words are used in everyday conversation.
The dictionary doubles as a phrasebook.
1,000 of the most frequently used words are highlighted for easy reference.

The best-selling language course that really works--revised, updated, and expanded!

For Beginners or Those Who Want a Thorough Review


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Speak French with confidence in just 6 weeks!

Living Language® French Complete Course is a step-by-step guide to the basics of French conversation and grammar. This revised course uses the highly effective speed-learning method developed by U.S. government experts to teach foreign languages to overseas-bound servicemen and diplomats.

40 lessons on three compact disks
Begin with simple words and phrases and progress to more complex expressions.
Just listen and repeat after the native speakers.

Only French is spoken on the recordings, so you learn naturally, the way you learned English.
The accompanying French Coursebook includes the English translations.

Italian Coursebook
The pocket-size book contains all the translated phrases from the recorded lessons, plus additional vocabulary, detailed explanations, and quizzes.

The book also features verb charts with all tenses included and a comprehensive summary of French grammar.

French-English/English-French Dictionary
More than 15,000 words are defined.
Idiomatic expressions and common phrases show how words are used in everyday conversation.
The dictionary doubles as a phrasebook.
1,000 of the most frequently used words are highlighted for easy reference.

The best-selling language course that really works--revised, updated, and expanded!

For Beginners or Those Who Want a Thorough Review

Product Details

  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Living Language; CD & Book edition (April 28, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0609602756
  • ISBN-13: 978-0609602751
  • Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.9 x 2.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,096,755 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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58 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Repetitious lists of phrases, April 5, 2000
This review is from: Basic French: CD/Book Package (LL(R) Complete Basic Courses) (Audio CD)
This book encompasses a good range of vocabulary, but consists of a person reading phrase after phrase after phrase, without translation (making it nearly useless for a beginner who wants to learn in his/her car), and read more slowly than actual French speakers speak. If you want to drill, drill, drill with the accompanying book in your hand, this is for you! If you want to learn French as it is spoken, look elsewhere. In my opinion, this course is a waste of money.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Improve your French Accent . . ., December 17, 2000
This review is from: Basic French: CD/Book Package (LL(R) Complete Basic Courses) (Audio CD)
The "Living Language Complete Courses: Compact Disc Edition" are great to use in your car CD player or Discman. These CDs are available in French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Japanese. The "French Complete Course" is very basic instruction: the repeat-after-me words and phrases that one learns in a high school or university language lab during the first year or two of study. A small coursebook comes with the three CD set that has the transcript of the spoken material on the CDs, which is only in French. There are forty "lessons" in all; many of these lessons include translations of the French words and phrases, and there are some short quizzes you can take. There is also a small French-English/English-French dictionary in the set, and it has over 15,000 words in tiny print.

This language course on CDs is not an intensive immersion-type instruction in French. However, it is the best way to form and improve on your French accent and sentence intonation. French is a difficult language to pronounce correctly and repeated drills are necessary. So if you are not in France, or another French-speaking country, and you have no one with whom to practice speaking French on a regular basis, these French language CDs will help you gain or regain confidence in your conversational skills. This boxed set makes a nice gift for someone who is planning a trip to France. (Living Language also makes audio cassettes in the languages mentioned above plus Hebrew, Portuguese, Russian, Hungarian, Korean, Polish, Mandarin, Czech, Arabic, and American English.)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great review if you haven't taken French since high school, July 22, 1999
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This CD set has enough variety to keep you from getting bored, and enough drill so that you'll start to be fluent with certain recurring useful phrases. The pronunciation is excellent and clear, and the interaction between the listener and the CD is very well paced. I wish I'd had this series in conjuction with my high school classes...it would have made a huge difference in being able to speak with confidence. I've tried a lot of French tapes, and this is the best I've found.
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