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Ultimate French Beginner-Intermediate (CD/Book) (LL(R) Ultimate Basic-Intermed)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 440
EAN: 9781400021055
Edition: Bilingual
Format: Unabridged
ISBN: 1400021057
Label: Living Language
Manufacturer: Living Language
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: September 21, 2004
Publisher: Living Language
Release Date: September 21, 2004
Studio: Living Language
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Editorial Review:
Ultimate French has everything you need to learn French from scratch or to revive the French that you learned years ago. This course combines conversation and culture in an easy-to-follow, enjoyable, and effective format. It's the perfect way to learn French for school, travel, work, or personal enrichment. Ultimate French Beginner-Intermediate includes:•40 lessons in a comprehensive 416-page textbook:Each lesson contains a lively and authentic dialogue, vocabulary, grammar and usage, step-by-step character writing, cultural highlights, and plenty of practice. The first ten lessons also include special pronunciation sections that will have you speaking right from the beginning. The book also contains review sections, readings, supplemental vocabulary sections, appendixes on essential French grammar, and a
French-English/English-French glossary.•8 hours of recordings with an ingenious two-step approach:Learn at home: Listen to the first set of recordings as you follow along in your textbook. Immerse yourself in French while you listen and repeat with the all-French recordings, and learn conversation, grammar, vocabulary, and moreLearn on the go: Then practice, review, and expand upon what you’ve learned with the second set of recordings. An instructor will guide you through each lesson, and since no reading is required, you can listen in the car, on the train, at the gym…anywhere!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Slow Down!
For a beginner, the dialogues on the CD are spoken much too quickly! I would understand if they were spoken quickly one time to be able to hear how they would sound naturally. But then they need to be repeated more slowly so that a beginning student can try to follow along. Even the repetition phase of the CD (when you repeat after the native speaker) goes too fast. For intermediate french, this would work, but not for beginning.
Rating:  - Balanced with Good Presentation
For the analytically minded language learner who really wants to LEARN the language, this course is probably the most balanced available. It is well laid out and presented in a clear, concise manner. There are plenty of practice problems. The text itself takes you farther than most beginning language courses and the advanced book (sold separately) picks up where this one ends. There is lots of audio--two separate series on the CDs, one following the book, the other supplemental (can be listened to ... Read More
Rating:  - Didn't Work for Me
Based on the reviews of this program in Amazon, I bought "Ultimate French" with great expectations. All I can say, after four days of attempting to learn French with the book and CDS, is that I am in complete awe that one else has rated this product a single star. On day four, I finally gave up, got my RMA number and shipped "Ultimate French" back to Amazon.
This program begins by presenting a dialog in French between two people and then translates the dialog into English. In the book, ... Read More
Rating: - How Language programs compare
I've used Pimsleur and Oasis Audio (AKA The Complete Idiot's Guide)and I find The Living Language program best for my style of learning. The others are based almost exclusively on aural learning, with extremely limited grammatical explanation, in most cases none at all. This replicates the way a child learns his first language, and may well work for some adults, but I need to know what a word "looks like" and I need to understand the logic behind a construction. Living Language combines written explanation ... Read More
Rating:  - Not for beginners!
I am just beginning to study French and according to the reviews, this course would have been a good start. Not so. It starts out with full conversations, too indepth, too detailed and doesn't have the English easily viewable to even follow along.
I have found two other French Study Lessons at the Public Library which are much better suited for true beginners.
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