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French Verb Drills

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This terrific (and bargain priced) book gets my vote for Best Supplemental French Text. It's an invaluable aid for current students and anyone wanting to brush up on their French.

Once you "get" French verbs, you're 90% of the way towards fluency. This book clearly and systematically explains how the French verb system works, providing numerous and varied exercises to practice each point.

There are also countless mastery and review exercises throughout.

Just a fabulous text -- very logically put together and very thorough. It has helped my understanding and mastery of French to increase by leaps and bounds.

If you're trying to teach yourself French, you may find the numerous verb tenses intimidating. This book will help you to overcome many of those fears. While the French use verbs in a more complex way than we Anglophones, they generally do so in a logical and orderly fashion. Once you've learned the future tense or the conditional tense, for instance, you'll find that it applies to most verbs.

De Sales helps you to understand those basic building blocks; the lessons are clear and basic, and if you follow them you will be well on your way to mastering French. The only nit I might pick is this: perhaps he could give the definition of a verb *before* using it in a sentence. There are cases when he will ask for a conjugation of a verb that has not yet been introduced... or a translation. You will definitely need another text or two along with this one... but if you use this you'll find the Mystery of French Verb Conjugation to be much less mysterious.

There are too many erros in the given solutions, too few examples of how to use verbs in context, and too little explanation.

Spend an extra 3 bucks and buy the superb Ultimate French Verb Review and Practice.

As a book for verb drills, this book is alright. It has a nice glossary in the back, and it has complete conjugations of many irregular verbs. It's set up so that it deals with all of the tenses first in their regular forms, and then later there are exercises for irregular verbs, which quiz you on all tenses/moods at once. Personally, I think it would be better for the book to have longer sections about each tense/mood, which deal with irregular and regular verbs at the same time.

In other words, I would rather practice one tense at a time, rather than, as the second section is set up, practice irregular verbs one at a time in all of their different tenses/moods. Most classes (high school or college) are set up so that you deal with one tense at a time (regular and irregular at the same time) as you eventually learn all of the tenses, and unfortunately this book isn't set up that way. That's my personal preference, and, perhaps, once I have learned all of the tenses, this book will be more useful for me.

I would really recommend this book instead, for it presents the verbs by their tense, and it provides lessons about prepositions and useful verb expressions (ex. faire la cuisine, avoir de la chance) as an added bonus.
Check out this book:

The Ultimate French Verb Review and Practice

Also, by the same authors, but it covers all of French grammar, not just verbs:

The Ultimate French Review and Practice: Mastering French Grammar for Confident Communication

This book is great the layout is simple and direct and the exercises are terrific reinforcement. Highly recommeded to the school kid or adult who is new to the language. This book will ehance your learning of french verbs and ultimately the language itself

I wish that these exercises were available when I took French at school. I found them so helpful I found myself wishing for more!!!

This book is really easy to use and I bought it for my daughters who are studying French. It is a great way to review the verbs - from the simple present to the complicated such as the subjunctive. I believe in repetition and this is fantastic with a review followed by a drill. Ten minutes a day at your own pace is just fine. I bought one for myself to try to recover a little of my rusty French. I bought the Italian version for my son who just started studying the language in HS.

I bought this book because I'm a homeschooler. It is a very good workbook, but I wouldn't recommend it for those who are teaching themselves. It is much better used as a supplement to a formal education.

I was required to use this book for a class, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. Compared to my other books, I find this one to be overly simplistic and disorganized. The book is organized by parts of speech. Within each section it provides simple explanations and ignores the nitty gritty but important details. I've also found that the exercises to not align well with the information just provided but often require details that are provided in the next section or so.

If you're looking for a concise French grammar book with well written and complete explanations and plenty of exercises then I suggest you try The Ultimate French Review and Practice: Mastering French Grammar for Confident Communication instead.

This is a great and comprehensive verb book. I'm finding it very useful.