Mastering French Grammar (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) [Paperback]

Michael Deneux (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0764136550 | ISBN-13: 978-0764136559 | Publication Date: July 1, 2007 | Edition: Bilingual

This brand-new title for students of French serves the double purpose as a combination workbook and a grammar instruction manual. It is filled with exercises and answers that emphasize informal, conversational language usage. Both the lessons and exercises are arranged progressively, from easy to more difficult, to reflect students' learning development. Mastering Grammar books make ideal supplementary companions to main classroom textbooks. They can also be used as main texts for adult education courses and for individuals learning a new language on their own.

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BARRON'S
FOREIGN LANGUAGE GUIDES

Mastering FRENCH Grammar

Filled with exercises and answers using words and phrases that reflect real-life situations

Lessons and exercises arranged progressively, from easy to more difficult

A complete summary of French grammar with rules clearly explained

Sample sentences and practical advice to help you master French

A useful workbook to supplement main textbooks in high school and college French language courses

Also ideal for adult education language courses or as a self-teaching language text

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; Bilingual edition (July 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764136550
• ISBN-13: 978-0764136559
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #353,521 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An economic and quick way to gain an active knowledge of French if you can already read some, January 31, 2008

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Christopher Culver - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering French Grammar (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) (Paperback)

Barron's MASTERING FRENCH GRAMMAR is an English translation of a French grammar and workbook originally written in French by Michael Deneux. The 233-page book contains chapters each dealing with a particular aspect of French grammar followed by exercises (for which there is a key at the back). It covers not only such elementary matters as word order, declension of adjectives, and the very complicated world of French verbs, but also more advanced concepts like arithmetic in French and stylistics.

I found this book extremely helpful in going from a passive understanding of written French, gained mainly by experience with Latin and other Romance languages, to being able to actively speak and write French. If you already have some knowledge of French and want to reach fluency, Barron's workbook is an economical way to do so and I do recommend it.

However, I wish that the authors had mentioned at least some pronunciation quirks (like the -Vnt ending of 3rd person plural verbs being silent). Also, there are some typos, and at one point a word left in German from the original version ("fabrikneu") to give the right sense of "nouveau" is left untranslated.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good, December 30, 2010

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phatso (Florida) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Mastering French Grammar (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) (Paperback)

almost gave it a 3-star because it is only a much shorter and condensed version of the "Complete grammer" series,
but i realized that it is a pretty good book to have

i have the french, spanish, and italian. I haven't read the whole book for all three, but if its the same as the "Complete grammar" books, they all won't have a consistent layout.

I would say do not get it since the "Complete Grammar" book is sufficient, but this is only 10 bucks. And it is a good book for practice (not reference)