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Communicating In French (Advanced Level)

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Communicating In French is a very good book and we have used it as core material in our beginning level French classes. We supplement the book with some additional material but generally this book and the 2 follow-on books in the series are are fine for the teaching of French to persons seeking an ability in French for tourism, recreation or simply getting started in the language.

One of the better books for learning the language because they use complete sentences not verb conjugation and words. This is the only way to learn a foreign language properly and the way they should be teaching it in schools.
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I bought this book to see if it would be appropriate for my Beginning Level French Language students. Overall, the book is well organized. The vocabulary is not exhaustive as should be expected for a beginning-level book. There is no general glossary, but word lists are found in the back of the book divided into sections corresponding to chapters 11-30. (The first ten lessons cover the basics of greetings, farewells, numbers, and so forth.) Unfortunately, the book has yet to be updated for the euro as it still uses the franc as the French unit of currency, and other updates should be included to reflect today's students' experiences... this edition is from 1991 when cellphones were rare, computers used diskettes, and so forth. There is an accompanying cassette tape of the conversations which I have not heard yet... cassette tape? Time to update to CD or downloadable Mp3's or other technology.

Not conversation manual, but vocabulary lists or dictionary. No exercises or activities for interactive learning. No i aginative use of vocabulary lists. However, exhaustive lists of specific topics.

The book is fairly easy to follow. It is geared more toward phrases and questions you would find useful as a traveler in a french speaking country. This was what I needed and it has worked out quite well for me. It doesn't do a very good job of giving definitions of words. So, you may want to have a good french dictionary handy. Overall, it has helped me learn the basics of french.