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Tune Up Your French: Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Spoken French
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 448.3421
EAN: 9780071432290
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0071432299
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: July 01, 2004
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Studio: McGraw-Hill
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Editorial Review:Readers can tune up their conversation skills with Tune Up guides--the next best thing to a year abroad!
Getting beyond sounding like a beginner is more than just a matter of learning more vocabulary and grammar. It's also about understanding the culture and developing the right mind set for thinking, listening, and talking like a native.
The next best thing to a year abroad, the books in this exciting new series offer language learners an entertaining and practical way to hone their foreign-language conversation skills. Tune Up books are structured around 10 key areas for improvement, covering everything from tricky grammatical structures to gestures, slang, and humor. In each area, key phrases are presented in "Top Ten" lists, including everyday expressions for filling pauses, icebreakers, and more. An excellent brushup for learners returning to a language they studied in high school or college, Tune Up books feature:
- Practical advice on improving conversation skills
- Valuable insights into how difficult verbs and structures work
- Tips on how to avoid taboos and common faux pas
- A 60-minute audio CD with key phrase lists and exercises
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - This book will untie your tongue
This is a book for people who have taken formal French classes for years and go totally deaf and mute when confronted with a real French person. The approach is so well presented, and I've gone back and reread some sections over and over. It's especially helpful if you've realized that when French people talk to you, you just can't hold up your end of the conversation with all the every day idiomatic filler phrases that you've never learned.
Spoken French is also full of very common ... Read More
Rating: - The Little Book That Could
Very useful book for the student of intermediate level French. But firstly, I'd like to recommend Amazon's deal at near the top of the page for this plus the Stillman French grammar book as a twofer. I have studied both cover to cover and they are thorough, interesting, and they complement each other.
This doesn't cover much grammar per se, and the Stillman doesn't go deeply into the many, many ways you can express yourself in French. Both of these are really for someone who has a decent ... Read More
Rating: - Insightful, Enlightening
This book is perfect for anyone trying to improve his/her French. It explains French (from France) cultural habits and how they apply to language. There is a whole chapter on "yes," such as how to say "I guess so" and other shades of "yes." I have studied and worked in French for years, and I found this book very insightful. It pointed out many things about the French language (from France) that I have overlooked or simply not realized.
Rating: - Well worth the price
This book is full of practical, useful information for the would-be traveler to France, both with cultural tips and insights and language phrases to ease the "cultural shock". Very informative for both the beginner and one wishing to review French!
Rating: - A must-read book for those with two or three years of French!
Anyone who is surprised to find that this book isn't a collection of tips for those who want a little French for an up-coming trip hasn't bothered to read the title or the preface, and the same is true for anyone who expects some kind of treatise. The book is exactly what it claims to be, and I think that everyone who has studied French for a few years should read it.
Those who want a tailored list of idiomatic expressions that they can readily get under their belts might start with "Au ... Read More
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