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Planning a trip to a French-speaking country? Starting a business with a French connection? Looking to ace your next French test? Intermediate French For Dummies is the book for you. It offers all the help you need to improve your writing skills and become a better French speaker, listener, and reader, as well.

This friendly, hands-on workbook gives you practical examples and useful exercises so you can practice how native speakers use the language. From vocabulary and numbers to juggling tenses, you’ll get a clear understanding of the nuances of French style and usage that will have you writing better in no time. Plus, you’ll find multiple charts that provide the conjugations for all types of French verbs. Discover how to:

Use fundamental French grammar ― from nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions
Select and conjugate the correct French verbs
Understand the importance of grammatical gender in French
Ask and respond to questions
Use a bilingual dictionary correctly
Get a handle on French negatives
Know whether to use the infinitive or the present participle
Add descriptive flair to your writing
Sort out pronominal verbs
Avoid the most common French writing mistakes

Complete with plenty of room to practice you skills with exercises right in the workbook Intermediate French For Dummies helps you get your French writing up to speed toute suite!

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0470187689
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978-0470187685
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1st
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For Dummies
Publication date

March 4, 2008
Language

French, English
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8 x 0.75 x 9.75 inches
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336 pages
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Plenty of room to practice skills with exercises right in the workbook

From letters to e-mails to postcards, write in French with confidence

Looking to enhance your French writing skills? This friendly, hands-on workbook gives you practical examples and useful exercises so you can practice how native speakers use the language. From vocabulary and numbers to juggling tenses, you'll get a clear understanding of the nuances of French style and usage that will have you writing in no time. Plus, you'll find multiple charts that provide the conjugations for all types of French verbs.

Discover how to:

Use fundamental French grammar — from nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions
Select the correct French verbs
Understand the importance of grammatical gender in French
Avoid the most common writing mistakes in French

From the Back Cover

Plenty of room to practice skills with exercises right in the workbook

From letters to e-mails to postcards, write in French with confidence

Looking to enhance your French writing skills? This friendly, hands-on workbook gives you practical examples and useful exercises so you can practice how native speakers use the language. From vocabulary and numbers to juggling tenses, you'll get a clear understanding of the nuances of French style and usage that will have you writing in no time. Plus, you'll find multiple charts that provide the conjugations for all types of French verbs.

Discover how to:

Use fundamental French grammar ― from nouns, adjectives, and adverbs to pronouns, prepositions, and conjunctions
Select the correct French verbs
Understand the importance of grammatical gender in French
Avoid the most common writing mistakes in French

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ For Dummies; 1st edition (March 4, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ French, English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470187689
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470187685
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.75 x 9.75 inches

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Laura is the author of eight books (five French and three Spanish). She teaches online at LawlessFrench.com, LawlessSpanish.com, LawlessItalian.com, and LawlessEnglish.com, and has a website of vegetarian recipes and info: theVeggieTable.com. She lived in Morocco, Costa Rica, and France before settling in Guadeloupe.

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Everything you need to know!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 6, 2022

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There is no better book to understand French. Laura makes it easy to learn proper grammar and sentence construction. All your questions will be answered!

Greg J. Wilvert

Excellent book to brush up on your French

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 26, 2014

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I recently became interested in learning to speak French. I had three semesters of French in college 24 years ago and I spent a summer working in French-speaking Brussels as a supermarket checker. My goal was to become a Francophone. I had a good start, but life happened and I let it go....

Two months ago I suddenly got inspired to pick it up again, quite a daunting prospect as I had forgotten almost everything and many grammatical points I never learned in the first place, Now I'm really feeling the love for the French language! I found Laura's book and I've worked though all of it and my knowledge and understanding of French grammar is quite strong as a result. It has also helped me learn, or re-learn a lot of vocabulary.

This book is thorough, logically laid out, and concise. I found each chapter to be the perfect amount of material to complete in one sitting; studying a chapter and doing the written exercises took me about an hour. There are aspects of French grammar that are tricky, to be sure, but Laura explains them in the most intuitive way possible and provides lots of examples throughout every chapter. Despite this book being 'intermediate' it contains all the grammar one needs to speak and understand French. She doesn't include any of the "weird" tenses except the passé simple (by weird I mean uncommon in spoken French, but rather literary tenses). As an intermediate learner you don't want to clutter your brain with all that stuff anyway, at least I don't! Finally, I enjoyed Laura's humor and levity in her descriptions. It made this book all the more enjoyable.

Now, with my strong command of French grammar and vocabulary I'm listing to French podcasts every day and it's amazing how far I've progressed in just two months. I plan to join a French conversation group soon.

Si vous voulez améliorer votre Français, je recommende fortement ce livre :-)

18 people found this helpful

Le Meilleur Livre!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 27, 2014

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Laura Lawless is, quite simply, the best! She has the capacity to teach without having me, the student, in front of her. Her style is intelligent and thorough. She is capable of breaking down the most bizarre and arbitrary rules of the French language to where you can get it. In my opinion, her books are not only the perfect supplement to the French classes I take, but are an integral/invaluable part of my learning experience. And from a purely physical standpoint, the book is in a comfortable and readable type, with topic headings clearly delineated, and exercises to test your comprehension. I'm writing this same review for both her INTERMEDIATE FRENCH FOR DUMMIES and her FRENCH ESSENTIALS FOR DUMMIES. Both excellent tools if you are trying to tackle the challenge of another language. (p.s. She also has a website: http://www.lawlessfrench.com/, which features French reading and listening exercises.)

10 people found this helpful

Great book for learning French

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2021

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This author covers some of the nuances of French language that are (to me) elusive. I've found this book to be very useful.

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Came In Condition as described/ Good Author/

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2019

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The book came in the condition as described and within the expected timeframe. I have found the author to be quite good at describing language learning in other books that I also purchased (French and Spanish) from her - including her current websites for French as well as Spanish. As a retiree, I have been traveling a lot more. I am using this book as well as other means (other books, other websites-Duo Lingo/Rocket languages, etc.) as a foundation for a comprehensive program for sustaining my renewed interest in foreign language learning.

One person found this helpful

Nancy S. Cunningham

Excellent grammar review for the intermediate student

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2018

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An excellent review for the intermediate French student. Verb tenses (all 14), and all the odd and quirky patterns of French. Written exercises at the end of each chapter, with keys. This is not a book that practices conversation, but is a review of all the grammar you could ever need to know to speak correctly.

4 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 18, 2013

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This book was really good! I think Laura K. Lawless did an excellent job writing this book! Covered every example in detail and was very helpful. When I first read it I did not understand it very well because I was not a n intermediate french student. I was a beginner. But now that I am an intermediate french student, This book seemed to help me so much . i benefitted way more the second time i read it! Very useful HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!

4 people found this helpful

Don't imagine that it's only for dummies!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 3, 2014

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An excellent book - easy to use, well written, and a great help for someone who needs to refresh / improve their knowledge of French at an intermediate level. I was inspired to buy it by Ms. Lawless' website, [...]

Although the cover makes its primary pitch to people looking to write French better, the book will equally appeal to those simply interested to improve their grammar and usage of the language, whether for writing, reading speaking or oral comprehension.

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conniewil

A clear summary of French grammar rules

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 17, 2012

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As a returner to studying French after some 40 years and having forgotten so much, I have found this book most helpful in beginning to plug the many gaps in knowledge. On Laura's web site (About.com French - which I highly recommend) the style is very relaxed and covers simply those little things that can make the French language so tricky. This book just follows on from that approach.

It is clearly and logically written and the explanations of the grammar points are easy to understand. There is plenty of opportunity to practise new knowledge. There are useful exercises that immediately follow each point rather than being left until the end of the chapter, by which time you may well have had to take in a lot of conflicting information. The book also keeps these exercises simple so that you can focus on the main points you are trying to learn. I found both these particularly helpful.

All in all - a very useful addition to my (growing)library of French books.

13 people found this helpful

Nancy Lee

Explanations of French Grammar

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 17, 2015

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I bought this because I am subscribed to Laura Lawless's lessons on line. It is well written and takes you through explanations and gives exercises. You can choose your own topics so you can go straight to your own particular difficulties. It is written with good humour and is very concise and detailed with an understanding of what it is like to be stumbling around at this level. Laura's on line free subscription newsletter offered very good advice about how to go about learning French. The very lack of a hard sell encouraged me to buy this book.

2 people found this helpful

blue debs

Limited

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 4, 2019

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Fine so far as it goes. But when looking up subjunctive telling me to avoid it isn't helpful sorry

2 people found this helpful

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A First Class Text Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 11, 2020

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Laura K.Lawless is American but her knowlege of French is comprehensive. The combination means she can write with humour but cover the most complex subjects comprehensively. I am learning Frrench grammar almost entirely though her book reinforced with separate teaching of conversational French. I strongly reccomend this book.

Telemachus

Good but not for Dummies

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 19, 2015

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Despite the title, this is not a book for dummies but for those whose command of French is already quite good. Very good coverage of verb tenses and explanation of usage, with lots of well designed exercises to help you understand.

5 people found this helpful

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