Customer Reviews

The Everything Kids' Learning French Book: Fun exercises to help you learn francais (Everything Kids Series)

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3 star:		(1)
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This is an interesting book for an older child who has already been exposed to French. I'd hoped it could help engage my daughter who is just starting out, but you need to interpret and spell words to play the games and do the puzzles.

Wonderful kids' book for beginning french students. My 5-year-old enjoys it! We are using it as an adjunct to french lessons.

The set-up for this book is pretty good--it has a lot of nice activities, puzzles, and such for kids to practice what they have learned in each section. I wasn't crazy about the order of the information, but if you are going to pick and choose the order in which the activities are done and the information is learned, it is a good choice for starting out teaching your child French, as long as you have supplemental things for them to do. This definitely is only a starter book for brand new learners or young children to increase and practice basic vocabulary.

This book has great content, arranged so kids (and adults! :) can learn in sequence from each lesson, and lots of great pointers and illustrations to make it fun. I am very impressed and have used it with my younger and older students with much success :)

We planned a trip to France last year with the hopes that my son would learn some French before we left.
And low and behold, this book was the only language book my son would use.
He found it fun to use and loved being able to use what he learned while we were in France.

Overall, it is just ok. I bought this for my 11 yr old grand-daughter who wants to learn French. The material in the book is appropriate for kids. My main objection is there is no Audio CD to help the child with pronunciation. I had to create my own CD to accompany the book so the child could hear approximately correct pronunciation. I had to refer to my own French dictionary frequently to ensure I was pronouncing the word correctly. There is no guide to pronunciation all in the book. This might be just my own pet peeve, but I think a guide to pronunciation should follow the IPA symbols used in a French dictionary. It is a mistake to think a young child can't unnderstand the IPA symbols. I object to the common practice of using English sounding words to help explain French pronunciation. Why not learn the French IPA symbols from the start and then you're prepared to look up any word in the dictionary and know how to pronounce it properly?

I would have given this Kindle edition a 5 star rating, except that the glossary and puzzle solutions aren't in it! Even though they are listed in the Table of Contents, they are not actually in the Kindle edition. The book stops at the end of the last chapter, and that's it. So - I have to solve them myself and hope I'm right! Other than that - this book is perfect. Though I am an adult, it was recommended to me to use children's books to begin teaching myself French and it has been fabulous!

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!

Hi,

I bought your book Everything kids'learning French".
This book is horrible, it is full of mistakes, please stop producing this book that transmits mistakes to students or people who wants to learn French.

Send my comments to the Author Dawn-Michelle Baude, who dares to say she has a ph. D in French and does not know French! And furthermore it has been reviewed by another Ph.D, Veronique Moterle than is not even better!

Sophie, French Teacher and Translator.