Conversational French: Learn to Speak and Understand French with Pimsleur Language Programs (Pimsleur Instant Conversation) by Pimsleur Paperback Book

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Rent Conversational French: Learn to Speak and Understand French with Pimsleur Language Programs (Pimsleur Instant Conversation)

Author: Pimsleur

Narrator: Simon & Schuster

Format: Unabridged CD

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: Oct 2005

Genre: Foreign Language Study - French

Retail Price: $49.95

Discs: 8

Synopsis

Conversational French includes the first 16 lessons from the Comprehensive Level I. 8 hours, interactive audio-only instruction. Language learning with real-life conversations.

HEAR IT, LEARN IT, SPEAK IT

What is the Pimsleur® difference?

The Pimsleur Method provides the most effective language-learning program ever developed. The Pimsleur Method gives you quick command of French structure without tedious drills. Learning to speak French can actually be enjoyable and rewarding.

The key reason most people struggle with new languages is that they aren't given proper instruction, only bits and pieces of a language. Other language programs sell only these pieces -- dictionaries; grammar books and instructions; lists of hundreds or thousands words and definitions; audios containing useless drills. They leave it to you to assemble these pieces as you try to speak. Pimsleur enables you to spend your time learning to speak the language rather than just studying its parts.

When you were learning English, could you speak before you knew how to conjugate verbs? Of course you could. That learning process is what Pimsleur replicates. Pimsleur presents the whole language as one intergrated piece so you can succeed.

With Pimsleur you get:

• Grammar and vocabulary taught together in everyday conversation,

• Interactive audio-only instruction that teaches spoken language organically,

• The Flexibility to learn anytime, anywhere,

• 30-minute lessons designed to optimize the amount of language you can learn in one sitting.

Millions of people have used Pimsleur to gain real conversational skills in new languages quickly and easily, wherever and whenever -- without textbooks, written exercises, or drills.

About the program:

Conversational French includes the 10 lessons from Pimsleur's Basic French plus an additional 6 lessons. The 16 lessons in Conversational French are the same first 16 lessons in the Pimsleur Comprehensive French Level 1. Once you complete the 16 lessons in this edition, we are confident that you will want to continue on and complete the full, 30-lesson Level 1. When you also purchase the Comprehensive French Level I Program directly from Simon & Schuster, we will give you a rebate of $150.00. Please see the bottom of this package for details. Note: The purchase of this product alone does not qualify for any rebate.

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BookLender review by John on 2011-03-03 12:33:28

Although French is a latin language and English is germanic, there is more than enough borrowed words that allow easy learning for an English speaker. This is a program that has been proven to work. I have used this program along side Rosetta Stone, and although Pimsleur gives you much less vocabulary, it gives you the correct pronounciation that is lacking in Rosetta. It also gives the first steps in conjugations, something that Rosetta also lacks. This along will push you along the right road in learning French. Used along with other tools, you can learn French. The right way. Definately worth a listen.