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Complete French: The Basics (PKG) (LL(R) Complete Basic Courses) | 
 enlarge | Author: Living Language
Publisher: Living Language
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 787466
Format: Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 2.3
ISBN: 1400024102
Dewey Decimal Number: 440
EAN: 9781400024100
ASIN: 1400024102
Publication Date: July 15, 2008
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Product Description
With Living Language Complete French: The Basics, you’ll start by learning words, and then you’ll progress to phrases, sentences, and conversations. This simple four-step building block approach will have you speaking with confidence right from the beginning, and you’ll be able to learn gradually and effectively. Best of all, this comprehensive course includes everything you need — pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, culture, and practice — and it’s designed to be effective in a short period of time. So what are you waiting for? With Living Language, you’re just a few simple steps away from speaking French!
This comprehensive course package includes:
•40 step-by-step lessons in a convenient coursebook
•4 audio CDs with all the important course content
•A comprehensive grammar reference section
•Supplemental sections on e-mail and internet resources
•An English-French/French-English learner’s dictionary
•A bonus pocket travel reference
Plus, you can save $5 with publisher mail-in rebate!
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 Just what I needed August 16, 2008
Very good and inexpensive dictionary for a beginner-intermediate who wants to expand their vocabulary - many definitions are shown in their common usage in phrases which I appreciate.
 disappointing! November 16, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
No didactical at all, very boring, bunch of words grouped together in lessons pronounced in good french though, very little conversation, not what I expected. Wouldn't recommend it!
 The Best Language Acquisition Bang for the Buck May 12, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
The Living Language grammar series books are excellent adjuncts to regular college or high school language texts or on their own for one familiar with the language acquisition process. For $10-$20 (including grammar book, 3 CD's, and dictionary) complete bought at Amazon, anyone can afford to begin really learning another language (French and Spanish in my case). REMEMBER: Search by the ISBN# for the best prices. Since repetition or practice on a DAILY basis is key to slowly picking up another language, the lightweight, portable paperback Living Language books provide the key to practicing your new language anywhere you happen to be sitting for a few minutes. The lessons are short, concise and quite accurate. The Living Language grammar lessons are arranged in LOGICAL order after the immersion style lessons, which are excellent for de-stressing and taking the fear from learning new and generally unfamiliar foreign language grammar styles. Exercises are included with each grammar lesson. There is vocabulary building and there is more than one word/phrase given for most different meanings which is one of the keys to creating neural net pathways in memory for holding onto a new language, it's idioms, colloquialisms, etc.
Overall the Living Language series in any language offered is KEY to picking up a new language providing ready access to spot practice sessions of short duration to match our short-term opportunities for practice in very busy modern life. Enjoy!!!
Native language speakers generally recommend expensive programs like Rosetta Stone. However, Living Language provides language learning access to the average citizen.
Frank Snapp
North Oakland, CA
french language course January 18, 2007
10 out of 15 found this review helpful
I had hoped to be able to use the course while driving around. However the course is very dependent upon the printed material which makes it useless for what I intended.
 Not good for 'virgin' learners December 25, 2006
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I bought this french lesson kit 3 years ago, before a trip to France. I didnt know any french whatsoever, never had a class, watched a movie, nothing. Thinking back, I think the package said "beginner to intermediate". I consider myself a quick study and thought it'd be perfect.
I had a difficult time learning. And it wasnt until a few years later (now) that I understand why I wasnt learning anything. This kit is designed to learn by memorization. It doesnt focus on structure. It gives you page after page of "everyday" sentences, then has vocab at the end. But it doesnt explain HOW the french language works. So you're memorizing and then you quickly forget. It does have a lil something about the etre and avoir. But thats it. It doesnt explain things like inversion, but we're supposed to memorize it??
With that said, this is a GREAT book for intermediate level. It is excellent for honing your pronunciation skills, the listening CDs go on for HOURS. If you've had at least ONE semester of french, then this is perfect for you. Because thats when you already have an understanding of the language, and you're more focused on expanding your vocab and pronunciation/speaking. This kit is PERFECT for that.
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