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Oxford Take Off In French (Take Off in) | 
 enlarge | Author: Oxford Dictionaries
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
List Price: $45.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 103531
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 1.6
ISBN: 0199534330
Dewey Decimal Number: 440
EAN: 9780199534333
ASIN: 0199534330
Publication Date: May 5, 2008
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Product Description
Take Off In French makes learning or brushing up on the language quick, easy, and fun. Follow an intergrating course including activities and dialogues with native speakers so you can feel confident in day-to-day conversation. The course offers expert help when you are travelling with a handy phrase book and mp3 audio download for practice while on the move.
This complete language learning kit contains everything you need to speak, read, write and understand French, and gives you flexibility when learning. The pack includes a clear, easy-to-use coursebook, full mp3 audio available to download, 5 audio CDs, including an extra practice CD, a handy travel dictionary and phrasebook, and online activities and dialogues to support you as you pick up your new language.
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Nice resource to learn with September 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I reviewed the Oxford Take Off in Japanese about three weeks ago and was very disappointed. Fortunately this is not the case with Oxford's French version. I found the material to be much more in depth, interesting and easy to follow. There is also one more disc than the Japanese version and a pocket dictionary. One thing that did bother me was the different accents, often for the same words, but I guess that's true in all cultures. Anyway, I've worked with Take Off in French for a couple of weeks now, I'm very satisfied with it and would highly recommend it to anyone wanting to learn French (and not just for tourists).
 Oxford Take Off in French September 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A standard set of cd's and accompanying book to learn French. Memorizing and repeating beginning conversations in French. But what if you go to a restaurant in France and don't want to order what you've
memorized from the cd? Not enough of a pause between some phrases to repeat them, also some of the
phrases are too long to remember and you end up mumbling something that sounds like what you've just
heard. When attempting to use some of the phrases with French speakers, I was corrected for misuses of
words on a cultural level: "Salut" was only to be used as a greeting between men one French speaker told me, and another told me it was only used between young people. Always best to learn a language from someone who can teach you the cultural norms.
Build your vocabular with flashcards and writing the words on paper. Then get this product to help you master French basics! September 10, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I liked this language learning kit that includes the following: (1) 5 CDs, (2) a Companion Workbook to be used with the CDs, and (3) a Travel Dictionary & Phrasebook. I thought the whole kit was well organized, easy to follow, and contained great material for someone wanting to learn French. Only the first 4 CDs relate to the workbook. The 5th CD is merely for you to use to practice what you have learned.
There really is no way to easily and quickly learn a foreign language. And this little language learning kit is not a breakthrough product that is going to change that fact. But I'm sure this "product" will go a long way in helping someone learn French if they put their mind to studying and practicing.
During my childhood I started taking French classes in Third Grade and continued through to my freshman year in college. And what I was exposed to back then is what I was exposed to while listening to the CDs in this product.
While the CDs in this product will go a long way to help you hear the language. You still need to purchase yourself a deck of flashcards to help you visualize the vocabulary. And you need some paper and a pencil or pens to write, write and write some more the vocabulary you are interested in learning. There's something about actually writing the letters to words and forcing yourself to piece letters together into words that forces one to learn vocabulary. And this product doesn't do that for you.
But if you have the vocabulary in your head from flipping flashcards and writing the words over and over, then the CDs and the companion workbook will quickly get you up to spead in the language so you can tackle France on your own without an interpreter. 4 stars!
PS. Take a look at the Search Inside feature for this book that Amazon offers so you can see the Table of Contents for the workbook.
Plain and simple--It is working for me September 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I noticed the other reviews are going into extreme detail on the product dn what it has/does. The bottom line for me is whether I am actually learning French or not. Personally, I downloaded all of the mp3's (3 hours later . . .remind me NEVER to do that again) and I listen to them on my ipod. I keep the book in my car to glance at occasionally.
Results? Well, as much as I would like the mp3's to do the heavy lifting, as I have a full schedule already, I have to say this is a solid product. it is probably much more suited to someone who has time to sit and read the book and think about the exercises, but I think I am a perfect "real world" test case. I listen every few days on the commute (about 20 minutes before my brain starts swimming) and I am learning French. I haven't bothered with the CDs yet, but then again, that is why they have mp3s as an alternate.
look: compare this to two and three hundred dollar "listen and learn" courses. It's c-h-e-a-p! For the price I can highly recommend this for the casual to serious student. It is a bit stuffy at first, but then again it IS Oxford University. But it is approachable. If you take this course, figure in at least 3 sessions of listening a eek and ten to twenty minutes (more is better) of flipping through the activity book. Within a month or two you will be speaking French and annoying all of your friends.
 A nice take on the French primer September 1, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Take Off In French is is an intelligently packaged and produced -- and pretty serious -- language course from Oxford University Press.
It is not one of those foreign language courses that is only useful for tourists planning an excursion; this one also provides for those of us who primarily encounter French in an academic setting (but also like to peruse Le Monde and French Vogue).
If, however, what you seek is something to practice in the car, you may do better looking elsewhere. While many of the lessons require repeating French words and phrases -- and admittedly, those can be done while you are driving -- the course is more intensively interactive, with a substantial amount of reliance on the text-based exercises (which are excellent, by the way). It is a course for readers and writers, not just would-be speakers, of the language.
My only quibbles are minor and two.
First is a somewhat ambivalent one: The speakers on the CD -- some native, some obviously not -- exhibit a number of different accents. While this is undoubtedly beneficial insofar as it replicates the variety one is apt to encounter in real life situations, it is occasionally confusing. For example, while the stated point of one exercise is to demonstrate the similar vowel sound in the words "cafe" and "papa," there is a marked difference in how that vowel is pronounced by the speaker. To my ear, anyway.
Second, I also wish the paperstock in the books were a little heavier and did not bleed through so much.
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