Customer Reviews
Great cd set! - By: cduk2001, 21 Aug 2008 
This is a fun & enjoyable cd set that is easy to follow. The example spoken & written phrases are exactly what you want to hear & see when you are new to a language.I liked the fact that is alll seems modern & not at alll like the old fashioned text that we learned in school.
I downloaded the discs to my Mp3 & made much more prgress than I expected leading up to our visit to France. Highly recommended!
A good introduction to the language - By: Pure Pianist, 05 Aug 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 & 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 & 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 - & the succinct & 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 & 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 & 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 alll the better!
Not double dutch - By: M. de-layen Vian, 25 Jul 2008 Sometimes titles like these can equal hard graft. Listening & re-listening. Whilst there is by its very nature an element of this -this hand holding exercise works rather nicely & begins at a nice easy level. My french was years ago intermediate & 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. - By: M. Price, 21 Jul 2008 
Having learnt French from the age of 11 to 15 & forgetting it alll 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 & 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 smalll 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 reallly weren't what I was expecting & 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 & 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. - By: Stuart Burns, 17 Jul 2008 I've never been very good with language. English often defeats me, Spanish confuses me, & what French I can remember was absorbed through osmosis from seeing hundreds of films set in Paris & fancying my teacher. Any kind of language course is going to help, even something as simplistic as this, & though it's relatively interesting to work through the exercises, its difficult to know exactly who its for other than an absolute beginner, & there can't be many of those, that like me, didn't at least try to memorise the verbs & tenses as homework. I don't think there's enough here to bluff your way through a Galllic holiday & wouldn't something more in-depth begin with these principles anyway?
