Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning French on Your Own [Paperback]

Gail Stein (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated (1996)
• ISBN-10: 0028610431
• ISBN-13: 978-0028610436
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,406,028 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do not use this book, it is FULL FULL FULL of mistakes!!!!, September 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning French on Your Own (Paperback)

My boyfriend bought this book to learn my language, and the deal was that we would work on it together. Well, I dumped it without regret very quickly. I've never seen a book so full of mistakes, grammar, gender, typos, and on and on with an average of over one error a page!!! I cannot believe this book has been edited by people who speak French as mother tongue. It does look good and well structured, and it would be a good book if it would only be edited properly before publication. I am very sorry for all the people who have learned French with this book, it will be difficult to change the mistakes they have learned.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good, November 4, 1999

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Brad L Padilla ([e-mail]) (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning French on Your Own (Paperback)

I've been working on this book for a little while now, and it is very good for someone who is a beginner, even as a beginner myself I have still been able to find mistakes in the books editing, but this is a good book for anyone just starting, but I recomend a good course set after your finished learning the basics here, like "Ultimate French", and perhaps a good computer course also, while you're working on this book, get a few tapes also so you can hear the language before you develope bad habbits, may sound like alot of work, but anyone who says they can learn a language in 2 days is full of it.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars MISTAKES GALORE!!!!!!!!!!!, January 3, 2005

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Darcy A. Roehling - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning French on Your Own (Paperback)

I bought this book to improve my French with my French husband, but instead have been learning incorrect French! This book does not appear to be edited and is FULL OF MISTAKES!!!! Don't waste your money on this book as it is absolute rubbish!