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Learn Basic French

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The French Basic Volume I contains Units 1-6 and comes with 19 CD's and a 473 page textbook or 1 DVD with audio on MP3 and the textbook on a PDF file.

The French Basic Volume II contains Units 7-12 and comes with 29 CD's and a 473 page textbook or 1 DVD with audio on MP3 and the textbook on a PDF file.

The French Basic Volume III contains Units 13-18 and comes with 29 CD's and a 575 page textbook or 1 DVD with audio on MP3 and textbook in a PDF file.

The French Basic Volume IV contains Units 18 - 24 and comes with 24 CD's and a 575 page textbook or 1 DVD with audio on MP3 and textbook on a PDF file.

The French Basic Combo contains Units 1-24 and comes with 101 CD's and two textbooks or 4 DVD's with audio on MP3 and the textbook on a PDF file.

Planned in two volumes, French Basics Course has been designed to help students reach a level of proficiency which will enable them to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations.

For beginning students, the twenty-four units are designed for a six-month intensive training program. Each unit presents a situational topic introduced in a dialogue, and usually five grammar points. Each grammar point is preceded by grammar notes which generally are expressed in non-technical terms.

Other units include materials of the following kinds.

A dialogue to provide a body of natural French conversation as a source for subsequent drills and exercises.

Useful words to supplement the vocabulary with a limited number of additional words, usually related to the topic of the dialogue.

Vocabulary awareness to enable the student to better identify the elements of the utterances he learned as a whole and to regroup and review vocabulary.

Drills of six different kinds, each type designed for a specific purpose.

• Lexical drills to manipUlate already acquired vocabulary and improve fluency.
• Learning drills to introduce new grammar points (with reference to the corresponding grammar notes).
• Practice drills to give the student an opportunity to illustrate in sentences the grammar points just covered.
• Questions
• Answer
• Review Drills

Situations to improve comprehension and serve as a basis for questions and elementary conversation.

Narrations to provide reading material and introduce a very limited number of vocabulary items.

Written exercises to offer to the student opportunity to relate the spoken language to the writing system.