Speaking Pain Free French The Natural Way/8 One Hour Audiocassette Tapes/Complete Learning Guide and Tape Script (Cassettes) [Audio Cassette]

Mark A. Frobose (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 19, 1999

Finally, learning to speak French doesn't have to hurt. The experts at Language Dynamics have developed a new and exciting French course which literally takes the foreign out of language by simplifying and speeding up the language learning process. An American instructor guides you through this highly acclaimed beginning to intermediate course while a trained native French speaker teaches you how to really speak French correctly. That's right! No confusion, no reading, no looking up meanings, and no guessing. Speaking Pain Free French The Natural Way is the fastest and easiest way to learn French without the pain and frustration usually associated with learning a new language. You'll be delighted with this method and you'll begin to actually speak French within minutes of receiving your course. Whether it's in your car, at home, or at the gym 'Speaking Pain Free French The Natural Way' will teach you to communicate effectively in most common language situations quickly, easily, and most importantly, PAINLESSLY. Free online expert language learning tips and advice are provided as a part of this course.

Editorial Reviews

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I have always loved French and wanted to learn to really speak it. I always got hung up on the grammar. This course makes learning French so easy and natural that I lost my fear right away and started speaking the language. The course goes slowly enough and gives you enough time to think and repeat. I also liked the fact that the instructor didn't talk over your head all the time. It feels like having a comfortable conversation in your living room, only in French! -- Ernestine Boorston

Merci for the easiest to understand French course I have ever used. It worked for me because the French speaker Celine was easy to understand, and the English speaking instructor made you feel right at home while you repeated and practiced French. -- Steve Ballickson

There are three things I liked about this course:

1. It was easy.
2. It was fast.
3. It was clear.

It saved me a lot of pain and frustration and I got good results. -- Marcia Steves

About the Author

Mark Frobose is a well known foreign language teacher, speaker, and author who has taught numerous languages at the high school, private school, corporate, and university levels. Mark's long list of accomplishments in the field of foreign language education include numerous degrees and certificates from foreign and American universities where he has studied and taught such as the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana where he was rated as an excellent instructor by his students, the University of Grenoble, France, the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, the Universidad Catolica in Quito, Ecuador, and the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City to name a few. Mark founded Language Dynamics in 1981 with the express purpose of simplifying and thus speeding up the language learning process. This philosophy of speed and simplicity is evident in every one of the over 60 foreign language titles he has authored.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Language Dynamics (October 19, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893564649
• ISBN-13: 978-1893564640
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,967,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliantly Painless and Effective!, November 10, 2000

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This review is from: Speaking Pain Free French The Natural Way/8 One Hour Audiocassette Tapes/Complete Learning Guide and Tape Script (Cassettes) (Audio Cassette)

This group Language Dynamics has really come on to something. They have done what their motto suggests. They take the foreign out of language. What used to really intimidate me about most French courses is that they talk down to you. Not Language Dynamics. Their instruction is fluid, informal, effective, fast and easy. Based on the excellent results I have achieved with Speaking Pain Free French, I cannot recommend it too highly to you. Try it. It's the best.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars adequate. very repetitive., February 20, 2002

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brian kusler (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Speaking Pain Free French The Natural Way/8 One Hour Audiocassette Tapes/Complete Learning Guide and Tape Script (Cassettes) (Audio Cassette)

overall this is a useful series of casettes. you go thru letters, numbers, dates, and some basic vocabulary and phrases. and even though it's not particularly challenging, it will help you learn a few things and at least get you to practice things you already know.

i think this tape series might be best suited for someone who doesn't already speak another foreign language, though. the listener is treated as though they have no concept whatsoever of grammar and that they never want to learn, either.

there's not enough time spent teaching vocabulary on this tape, in my opinion. i was hoping to expand on the limited vocabulary i had from 9th grade french and that didn't really happen. i guess the fact on every tape approximately 20% of the time is devoted to teaching you: je veux, je vais, j'aime, and j'ai over and over and over and over again made me frustrated that more of that time wasn't spent teaching me new words. i know that repetition is good, but...

the page numbers in the photocopied text do not correspond to the tape numbers spoken on the tape. after the first tape, it's not necessary for the speaker to say "dog dog chien chien", just say it ONCE in english and then twice in french. the native french speaker on the tape is really good. the english speaking guy has a very strange accent -- sorta like mr. garrison on southpark. i know that you're not listening to it to learn english, but his accent was so strange that i found it distracting at times.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good teacher, bad accent, April 1, 2002

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This review is from: Speaking Pain Free French The Natural Way/8 One Hour Audiocassette Tapes/Complete Learning Guide and Tape Script (Cassettes) (Audio Cassette)

Despite my quibbles with this package, I learned a lot of French from it! I think Mr. Frobose has a very good system for learning, although a bit repetitive. His French speaker is charming and very easy to understand, but Mr. Frobose's French accent is bizarre. Fortunately, he lets his native speaker do the demonstrating. I was irritated by the errors in the tapes (you can't rewind and re-record?) and by the wasted space on them, and by the frequent references to a text that doesn't accompany this package. A far better cassette course, smooth, polished, and even entertaining, is the Pimsleur course put out by Sybervision, but it's also much more expensive.