| Easy Learning French (Collins Easy Learning Audio Course) | 
 enlarge | Author: Rosi Mcnab
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 8664
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0007271735
EAN: 9780007271733
ASIN: 0007271735
Publication Date: July 7, 2008
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 Great cd set! August 21, 2008
This is a fun and enjoyable cd set that is easy to follow. The example spoken and written phrases are exactly what you want to hear and see when you are new to a language.I liked the fact that is all seems modern and not at all like the old fashioned text that we learned in school.
I downloaded the discs to my Mp3 and made much more prgress than I expected leading up to our visit to France. Highly recommended!
A good introduction to the language August 5, 2008
Having no knowledge of French (having learnt German at school) but with a keen interest to start learning, this course was an ideal way for me to get stuck in. The lessons revolve around keywords introduced in turn, which are then used in the subsequent conversations; then you have to try and remember them. The fact that they are used in dialogue within a context does make the words easier to remember. Each lesson is only 10 minutes or so long, which is particularly helpful for people with a short attention and motivation span (like me)! As a CD course, it is of course possible to transfer the tracks onto your mp3, so that you can revise your knowledge on the go - and the succinct and compact booklet helps as well.
The downsides are that it is perhaps a little too basic; for those already with at least schoolboy/girl level French, it will leave you wanting. A thorough completion of the course will probably get you to a good level of holiday French with some basic phrases, but if you are going to do some serious learning, I'd advise going for a traditional textbook and audio course as the booklet is a little too concise for that purpose. Similarly, if you are looking to improve your written communication or reading, this is also not suitable as it is predominantly a casual speaking course.
This audio course does what it saids on the tin - it eases you slowly and easily into the basics of spoken French, as the first step towards learning the language. If this course compels you to start studying French seriously, then all the better!
Not double dutch July 25, 2008
Sometimes titles like these can equal hard graft. Listening and re-listening. Whilst there is by its very nature an element of this -this hand holding exercise works rather nicely and begins at a nice easy level. My french was years ago intermediate and this has worked as a nice refresher -it has eased me back into what I hope will be end up being a reasonable grasp of the language.
 Good but limited. July 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having learnt French from the age of 11 to 15 and forgetting it all by the age of 30 I wanted to brush up on my basics, I figured the easiest way would be to put this onto my iPhone and make it more usable than being limited to being near a CD player. I found that the booklet itself that comes with the three discs to be as useful as the discs but is easy to misplace due to its small size.
I feel that this is ok as a refresher course but probably quite good for complete beginners. Having already learnt these basic phrases I found that the CD's really weren't what I was expecting and similar things are now available straight onto iPhone / MP3 Players.
If you are completely new to the French language this is a good place to start out, you will hear good French accents and pick up the basics in hours, although there are plenty of other ways to learn the same basics the price tag is great.
Oui. Non. July 17, 2008
I've never been very good with language. English often defeats me, Spanish confuses me, and what French I can remember was absorbed through osmosis from seeing hundreds of films set in Paris and fancying my teacher. Any kind of language course is going to help, even something as simplistic as this, and though it's relatively interesting to work through the exercises, its difficult to know exactly who its for other than an absolute beginner, and there can't be many of those, that like me, didn't at least try to memorise the verbs and tenses as homework. I don't think there's enough here to bluff your way through a Gallic holiday and wouldn't something more in-depth begin with these principles anyway?
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