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Play and Learn French (Book + Audio CD): Over 50 Fun songs, games and everyday activites to get started in French (Play and Learn Language) [Hardcover]

Ana Lomba (Author), Marcela Summerville (Author)
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0071441514 978-0071441513 November 23, 2004 1

Over 50 fun songs, games and everyday activities to get started in French!

From taking a bath to going shopping, books in the Play and Learn Language series turn everyday routines into fun language-learning activities for parents and children. Packed with lively four-color illustrations, each package features:

  • Fun songs, games, and activities
  • Key word illustrations
  • Engaging comic strips
  • Sidebars with fun cultural information
  • English translations for all activities

Packaged inside each book is an audio CD that includes all the songs, games, and expressions in the course.


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The fun, easy, and natural way to get kids started in learning French

Young children have an amazing capacity for picking up new languages, and every parent is a natural-born language teacher. Now Play and Learn French introduces a unique approach to getting kids started in French that is as fun as it is easy.

Instead of drills and boring grammar exercises, you get loads of fun games, activities, and songs that let you seamlessly integrate the French language into your everyday life. From taking a bath to going shopping, making lunch to driving in the car, Play and Learn French turns daily routines into fun learning adventures for you and your child to enjoy together. No need to set aside extra time in your busy schedule--with this program, you learn as you live. And you’ll be amazed at how quickly you see results.

Play and Learn French is packed with lively color illustrations and features:

  • Songs, games, and activities that make language learning natural and fun
  • Key-word illustrations to help with the retention of important words and phrases
  • Whimsical comic strips that put French in a real-world context
  • Sidebars with fun cultural information about everyday life in France
  • English translations for all activities
  • A sixty-minute audio CD containing all of the book's songs, games, and expressions

With Play and Learn French, it won’t be long before you hear your child say he or she wants to give you le gros bisou du soir (a big good-night kiss).

About the Author

Ana Lomba is the owner of Ana Lomba Early Languages LLC, a company offering lesson plans, how-to guides, storybooks, and applications for parents and teachers of young children learning languages. Marcela Summerville is the owner of Spanish Workshop for Children, an award-winning Spanish immersion program for young children in Philadelphia.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 64 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (November 23, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0071441514
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071441513
  • Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.1 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #279,503 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, April 20, 2006
This review is from: Play and Learn French (Book + Audio CD): Over 50 Fun songs, games and everyday activites to get started in French (Play and Learn Language) (Hardcover)
While this book is geared towards children, I found it to be very helpful to me as a beginning French college student. I originally bought this mainly for it's pictures and dual translations as I'm a visual learner and because I've heard many foreign language audio programs that I didn't care for at all. This, however, is obviously done by a native speaker (and a good singer at that).

The audio and pronounciation is clear, making it easy to follow along with the text. The topics that are covered are everyday activities, making it easy to find ways to make use of what you learn in real life practice. Also, as the previous reviewer noted, the use of colloquial terms is also very helpful and useful.

As an experienced adult language learner, I feel that this will do well to improve not only my pronounciation, but my vocabulary as well.
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47 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Painless colloquial French, June 29, 2005
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I was surprised at how much I liked this book. Most language books cover the basic, standard vocabulary in a set format. This one covers colloquial vocabulary that children learn, so you hear the endearments that parents use with their children and how roosters crow and the words for 'see-saw' and common phrases like 'Time to wake up!'. I can see myself using some of these phrases as ice-breakers in informal chats in my travels. Delightful!
I'll be looking for other works by these authors as they become available.
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Rich content with helpful vocabulary help, January 9, 2007
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This review is from: Play and Learn French (Book + Audio CD): Over 50 Fun songs, games and everyday activites to get started in French (Play and Learn Language) (Hardcover)
I bought this for my 3-year-old girl who's going to a French immersion preschool. She loves it! She likes it when I read to her (I speak pretty fluent French) and she can figure out things by looking at the pictures. E.g., when I read a sentence and ask her in French what a certain object is, she'd point to a picture. She also likes to hear the CD. The book is colorful. The pictures and the English translation for the scripts are very helpful. My 7-year-old boy who doesn't speak French also likes to read with us and he'd read the English and I do the French part. I can tell the book is appealing for kids no matter what language it's in. I give 4 stars because I think they could have done better on the recording with more animation and variety in the tone, etc.
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