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Access French : A First Course for Adults
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 440
EAN: 9780071428217
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0071428216
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: October 14, 2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Studio: McGraw-Hill
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Editorial Review:ACCESS LANGUAGE SERIES
The Access Language series provides an innovative, modern course for adult language learners of all ages. Whether the reader is learning for business, for pleasure, or toward an examination, these high-impact, full-color guides provide beginners with a thorough grounding in the skills required to understand, speak, read, and write contemporary French and German.
Each Access guide features:
- Ten units covering different topics areas, including family, eating, travel, and hotels
- Numerous authentic texts, such as menus, advertisements, town maps, and websites
- Clear, colorful, and inviting presentation of content
- Cultural sidebars presenting short texts of cultural interest
- Learning tips and assessment checklists
- Two hours of lively recordings on CD, containing practical conversational language that can be studied with the course book or listened to for reinforcement
- A free support website (www.accesslanguages.com)
- Glossaries of new vocabulary within each chapter
- An answer key at the back of the book
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - They don't make it easy.
The material is all over the map -- a little grammer, a little vocabulary, proper nouns, country names, numbers -- perfect for a generation with a short attention span. A French Sesame Street for adults. I found the CDs interesting -- often the vocabulary included words that had not been introduced so it made understanding a real challenge. I have trouble enough hearing the French even when I *know* what the words are.
I purchased this text because an alternative language school designated ... Read More
Rating: - Completely unhelpful.
This book takes immersion technique way too far -- it plops you down right in the middle of the French language and makes little effort to actually teach you anything, expecting you to instead just pick things up as it goes along. It contains dialogues which are way beyond a beginner's level, very sparse and incomplete vocabulary lists (which are located AFTER the exercises, so you have to flip ahead just to learn the words), and very few pronunciation guides. One exercise in unit 2 (I didn't get much farther ... Read More
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