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1.101 French Idioms (101... Language Series) by: Jean-Marie Cassagne, Luc Nisset January 01, 2000
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I'm not a French speaker or learner myself, but bought this as a gift for a friend who is tackling the language. I'm sure they'll enjoy it as it's quite fun compared to the dry language texts I had to wade through at school. It's interesting to see that some French idioms are quite similar to ours but have an unusual slant. For example, where we have 'Pushing up the daisies', they have 'Eating the daisies from the roots up'; we write 'Rubber cheques', and they write 'wooden' ones (like taking a 'wooden nickel'?). Others are quite surreal 'Falling backwards into apples' sound quite painful, but to the French this is a soft landing. Although it's amusing, the text is scholarly enough to be useful to the serious student and the cartoons are excellent. ... Read More:

2.Bescherelle Complete Guide to Conjugating 12000 French Verbs (English Edition) (Bescherelle 1) by: Bescherelle December 31, 1995
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OK, so it is impossible to make a book like this interesting - at least for me. However, I have had this book for about six months, and I still find it's the first book I reach for when I get stuck. 82 verbs are given a whole page, with 16 tenses written out in full - which is plenty. Although the cover says that there are 12,000 verbs, only the 82 verbs are explained in detail, though these are the ones you'll want most frequently. After that you are referred to one conjugated in the same way as the one you are interested in. At first this niggled because I like to see the word on the page, but then the book would be huge if every single verb was written out. Please not that you need to know the French word you are looking for as this isn't a dictionary ... Read More:

3.101 French Proverbs (101... Language Series) by: Jean-Marie Cassagne January 01, 1999
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I bought this book just before moving to France 7 years ago. It's amusing and the ilustrations are great!

4.Instant Recall French Vocabulary: Learn and Remember French Faster than You Ever Imagined Possible!: Learn and Remember French Faster Than You Ever Imagined Possible! (Instant recall) by: Michael Gruneberg November 01, 2001
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In response to the person who wrote: I haven't read this book but I was struck by the 'official review' apparently taken from the back cover of the book. The French word for bread is "pain" not "pan" - the method may work but if the information being taught is inaccurate this is not a useful tool. Well, I do own this, and the mistake is in the review, not the product. The back of the box actually says: The french for bread is pain. (PAHn) Imagine putting loaves of bread in a pan. (Because, although spelt pain, it is not pronounced pain). This is indeed a good method of learning vocabulary. This won't teach you French, on its own - its not meant to. ... Read More:

5.Merde!: The Real French You Were Never Taught at School: the Real French You Were Never Taught at School by: Genevi eve December 21, 1998
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Not an exhaustive or scholarly dictionary of 'argot', but a saucy guide to survival in everyday French as it is really spoken. Includes chapters on love, sex, food and drink, expressing anger and insults

6.1001 Most Useful French Words (Beginners' Guides) (Beginners' Guides) by: Buxbaum March 28, 2003
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For the price, this is a must buy for anyone learning French or needing a handy lookup. All words are placed in context with a French sentence alongside an English translation. Come on - for this price, do what I did an just buy it! Worth every penny!

7.French Stories (Dual-Language Books) from: Dover Publications Inc. 1991-05
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I bought this book on the basis of the review by another Amazon reader. He sounded like he was doing what I wanted to do - acquire reading skills. And he is right - this is an excellent reader. There's a wide range of stories and the translations on the opposite page are excellent. There is also an extensive vocabulary at the back and questions so you don't need a dictionary with you. There are brief introductions to each author, in English. It is excellent value for money and the language is sufficiently difficult to challenge anyone with reasonable skills in French but not so difficult as to make the task impossible. My level was just post O level (I didn't do A level but I had done an extra year of conversation). But I haven't touched French ... Read More:

8.RAPID FRENCH: 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music. Vol. 1 (Earworms Musical Brain Trainer) by: Earworms Learning July 15, 2005
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I bought this originally for myself as I am studying French, German and Spanish (for fun would you believe) but it is so easy to learn that my 7 year old has it on her iPod and we are starting to have conversations. (I also speak to her in German at times and due to how easy these CD's are, she is able to have limited chats in that too.) There are some tunes in the background which phrases are laid over in time, and you hear them and lock them in your mind along with the tune. The guys voice is almost hypnotic and the woman who speaks with him is clear and easy to understand making it ultra easy to repeat and learn. She will often make the odd comment about language rules, but the CD doesn't bombard you with nouns, verbs, conjucating ... Read More:

9.Collins Robert French Dictionary from: Collins July 07, 2008
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This is THE French dictionary to have. Don't bother with anything smaller. Extremely well organised, it will always have the answer for those tricky little usages where a lesser dictionary could have you making a fool of yourself. I see there's an new, 30th anniversary, edition out. I'm sure it'll be even better - but I'll be sticking with this one for a few years yet!

10.Easy French Reader: A Three-part Text for Beginning Students (Easy Reader Series) by: R. De Roussy De Sales October 01, 2003
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This is an excellent book for a beginner who wishes to go beyond the typical phrase book/audio materials. The way this book is written; the reader, even with a very basic knowledge in French, can understand, get the general idea and relate to the stories and facts presented. The sentences and phrases used in the book, particularly in the first sections (Julie and Marc in Paris), are constructed in an easy to understand manner. They, in a clever way, avoid the use of more complex grammatical features. Only a very basic French grammar would be required to read this book. The entertaining feature of the book combined with its straight forward sentence structure encourages the learner to read further and construct new knowledge and understanding in French.

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