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French III

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... are good because they challenge you to think of the translation for a couple seconds before the translation is spoken. The voices and tape quality is professional, and it covers normal conversational french. It uses a technique of building up to longer useful sentences that are remembered thanks to the repetition. Which teaches both the words and their useful context, no book required. (For active learning with a study book and questions, there is a good set of tapes/books made by ASSIMIL.)

I use these tapes to go to sleep to occasionally, I put them on quietly and with autoreverse so it plays throught he night, (and sometimes people talk to me in my dreams in French). This is a good way to keep what has already been learned from fading and learn a little bit more vocab, lazy-man style.

This set of tapes provides hour after hour of French instruction, with an endless opportunity to practice speaking. As you listen to the tapes you train your ear. Repeating in French after the narrator or responding to questions enables the student to develop that elusive ability to speak. I found myself building a basic fluency using these tapes. A first-rate product that, despite the high price, is a very worthwhile investment.