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Epicurus.com - The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning French on Your Own (Complete Idiot's Guides) (French Edition)
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List Price: $16.95
Our Price: $5.95
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Manufacturer: Macmillan Distribution
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 448.2461
EAN: 9780028610436
ISBN: 0028610431
Label: Macmillan Distribution
Manufacturer: Macmillan Distribution
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 376
Publication Date: 1996-09
Publisher: Macmillan Distribution
Studio: Macmillan Distribution
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Editorial Reviews:
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This back-to-basics guide--along with its sister volume, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Leaning Spanish on Your Own--offers a quick and effective method for learning grammar and pronunciation that gets results fast. Gone are the days of rote memorization and endless drills. The exercises are designed to be both practical and fun. Included are tidbits of cultural information and annotated tickets and business documents that will help travelers and others cope in a foreign language.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: MISTAKES GALORE!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment: I bought this book to improve my French with my French husband, but instead have been learning incorrect French! This book does not appear to be edited and is FULL OF MISTAKES!!!! Don't waste your money on this book as it is absolute rubbish!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty good
Comment: I've been working on this book for a little while now, and it is very good for someone who is a beginner, even as a beginner myself I have still been able to find mistakes in the books editing, but this is a good book for anyone just starting, but I recomend a good course set after your finished learning the basics here, like "Ultimate French", and perhaps a good computer course also, while you're working on this book, get a few tapes also so you can hear the language before you develope bad habbits, may sound like alot of work, but anyone who says they can learn a language in 2 days is full of it.
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Summary: Do not use this book, it is FULL FULL FULL of mistakes!!!!
Comment: My boyfriend bought this book to learn my language, and the deal was that we would work on it together. Well, I dumped it without regret very quickly. I've never seen a book so full of mistakes, grammar, gender, typos, and on and on with an average of over one error a page!!! I cannot believe this book has been edited by people who speak French as mother tongue. It does look good and well structured, and it would be a good book if it would only be edited properly before publication. I am very sorry for all the people who have learned French with this book, it will be difficult to change the mistakes they have learned.
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Summary: This is a magnificent book - a classic!
Comment: I have no doubt that in the years to come, Gail Stein's book will be held in both historical and practical veneration as hallmarking the arrival of a genre of language books that combine both a classical and practical instruction in teaching a language to beginners. For too long, language books have regarded us as as too silly, too dumb or simply incapable of appreciating and learning the finer and artistic parts of French - the reason why many of us set out to learn this beautiful tongue in the first place. We have been bombarded with silly one liners and expressions that seem to suppose that your sole purpose of learning French is to have a haircut in a French saloon, order a French meal or ask "how much" in French. All this is symptomatic of our present materialistic dispensation. Gail Stein's work came as a breath of fresh air. Practical it certainly is - but it also is delicately and elegantly poignant in introducing the reader to the finer and artistic aspects of French language and culture - in a context both modern and historic. All this is done unobstrusively in a modern idiom and with a direct style. WONDERFUL WORK MS.STEIN - GOD BLESS YOU!
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Summary: C'est Fantastique!
Comment: This book is my bible! I highly recommend it to anyone interested in teaching themselves French. There are very good explanations for the grammatical as well as the verbal aspects of the language. I especially love the pronunciation key next to vocabulary words, they are very helpful, although it is sometimes hard to feel confident saying the words without having heard them... Although the grammar level is fairly elementary,this book provides helpful tips and phrases for grasping a general idea of the language. There are many different areas of interest concerning the vocabulary which is wonderful! Achetez ce livre! C'est trés magnifique!
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