Living Language French Verbs: Skill Builder [Audio Cassette]

Francesca Sautman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Living Language Series | Publication Date: July 12, 1999

Living Language Skill Builder: French Verbs
Master all the tenses and speak fluently!

Award-Winning Audio/Book Program

Unique conversational approach makes learning easy and effective

Learn at home and on the go

Four 60-minute cassettes

352-page lesson/reference book

Previously published as French 2

An Effective Conversational Approach to Verbs

If you've already learned the basics of French and you want to become more fluent, the French Verbs Skill Builder from Living Language® is the perfect course for you. With this unique, award-winning program, you'll master French verbs and improve your conversational skills quickly, easily, and thoroughly.

Other verb reference guides feature verb conjugation tables alone and give you no opportunity to hear these verbs in conversation. But  French Verbs Skill Builder  is both a complete reference and a practical course that will teach you how to use French verbs.  

CONVERSATION AND VERB REFERENCE COMBINED IN ONE COURSE

40 lessons on four 60-minute cassettes teach verbs and conversation
Complete conjugations of more than 150 regular and irregular verbs
Realistic phrases, expressions, and conversations to illustrate usage
Interactive quizzes to review and reinforce what you've learned
Complete grammar summary and glossary of grammatical terms

The French Verbs Skill Builder is the ideal companion to the French: Complete Course, Ultimate French, and All-Audio French, all from Living Language.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Outstanding resource for the busy individual . . . excellent grammatical content and organization."        - Prof. Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville

"Best Foreign Language Audio."          -  Publishers Weekly

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Living Language Skill Builder: French Verbs
Master all the tenses and speak fluently!

Award-Winning Audio/Book Program

Unique conversational approach makes learning easy and effective

Learn at home and on the go

Four 60-minute cassettes

352-page lesson/reference book

Previously published as French 2

An Effective Conversational Approach to Verbs

If you've already learned the basics of French and you want to become more fluent, the French Verbs Skill Builder from Living Language® is the perfect course for you. With this unique, award-winning program, you'll master French verbs and improve your conversational skills quickly, easily, and thoroughly.

Other verb reference guides feature verb conjugation tables alone and give you no opportunity to hear these verbs in conversation. But  French Verbs Skill Builder  is both a complete reference and a practical course that will teach you how to use French verbs.  

CONVERSATION AND VERB REFERENCE COMBINED IN ONE COURSE

40 lessons on four 60-minute cassettes teach verbs and conversation
Complete conjugations of more than 150 regular and irregular verbs
Realistic phrases, expressions, and conversations to illustrate usage
Interactive quizzes to review and reinforce what you've learned
Complete grammar summary and glossary of grammatical terms

The French Verbs Skill Builder is the ideal companion to the French: Complete Course, Ultimate French, and All-Audio French, all from Living Language.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Living Language; Book and Cassette edition (July 12, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609604430
• ISBN-13: 978-0609604434
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.6 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,807,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #33 in Books > Books on Cassette > Languages > French

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best $25.00 you will ever spend learning French!, December 19, 2002

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APC Reviews "APC Reviews" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Living Language French Verbs: Skill Builder (Audio Cassette)

In a world of very expensive French audio and book courses, for example Pimsleur French at over $200.00 a section, almost $700.00 or more for the entire course, and a huge number of mid priced sets, many of them excellent, the Living Language French Verbs Skill Builder is absolutely the best $25.00 you will ever spend on ANY French learning tool.

It covers all essential topics, has a friendly conversational style, using many of the same voice actors as Pimsleur and Barron's courses, and employs realistic real world statements and dialogs to highlight and explain the use of verbs in ALL tenses. The only drawback is that it is still on cassette tape, not CD Audio, but hopefully Living Language will remedy this soon.

If you're beginning with French this is an invaluable asset, much more realistically useable than the massive "every French verb on earth" books of conjugation tables. If you already have some basic French skills you could use this set alone to significantly improve your speaking and conversational skills.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb. The perfect way to brush you on French verb forms, February 13, 2002

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BOOKIES (Carrboro, NC, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Living Language French Verbs: Skill Builder (Audio Cassette)

Having tried several other methods, I found this course the absolute best for reviewing French verb forms in a non-boring fashion. The tapes are well-organized and intelligently done. They do move on at a swift pace but that is exactly what one needs to brush up on a prior knowledge of any language. Normally I resist hearing anything but the foreign language on an audiotape course (the constant interruptions into English usually tend to confuse more than they clarify). In this case, case, however, the English is non-intrusive and allows one to use the tapes without necessarily consulting the written guide. I use it while I'm cleaning thehouse, driving, or doing some mundane chore. Highly recommended. Hope they create a CD version of these tapes soon. (For a more sit-down mode of learning, check out the spectacularly interesting, interactive Learn French Now! software available for both Macs and PCs. Innovative and intelligently-done software that is also fun- in short, a great companion to this series.)

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, July 11, 2000

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Previn J Brito (CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Living Language French Verbs: Skill Builder (Audio Cassette)

Listened while driving. Was pretty much perfect for learning grammar and making good use of my commmute time. Started easy, but ended up giving a comprehensive understanding. My level: took french in school years ago, have maintained an interest in french cinema ever since. You could probably call my french capability lower level intermediate conversational (not fluent).