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HCO French Grammar (Harpercollins College Outline Series)

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This book initially held a lot of appeal for me because of its part-of-speech format. And in fact, I found it to be a very helpful way to structure the lessons. The unfortunate reality is that the book is riddled with errors. It's hard to believe that it's even for sale. Some of the errors are small type setting problems, like constantly using the letter à for a in both French and English, but then there are also some very confusing mistakes, where the book breaks the very rule it just presented. I invariably had these errors confirmed by a friend who is a native French speaker. Don't waste your time or money on this book.

Monsieur Celestin is my high school French teacher. I find that what happens in class is the same thing occasionally occurring in this book. Monsieur Celestin is a wonderful French teacher except that as a native speaker he can forget to have thorough definitions for those of us who are a bit less French literate than He. Despite this I find the book AND his teaching methods absoloutly wonderful.