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 enlarge | Author: Christian Aubert
Publisher: SmartFrench
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
Buy New: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 57843
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 44
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0972947426
EAN: 9780972947428
ASIN: 0972947426
Publication Date: February 1, 2004
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Condition: Unique method. Authentic interviews. "A Must" William Martin, ex-political editor, Oakland Tribune.
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| Customer Reviews:
 SmartFrench March 28, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Not suggested for true beginners. You are expected to listen to French conversations and repeat the words over and over. Disappointing.
 Good product for what it does March 18, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
The key is to understand what it is, and what it's not. It's not a comprehensive language course. It is a set of dialogues which can help tune your ear to French, and help with your pronunciation. It is not a competitor for Pimsleur, which develops your recall response in the foreign language, or Learn in Your Car, which hones your grammar skills. If you're looking to purchase your primary language learning tool, this probably shouldn't be it, but if you're looking for something to complement other materials, this has it's niche. Many of the 5 star reviews are a bit too full of praise - this product won't learn the language for you, and must be used with other products if you hope to speak any french.
 Enchantee March 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
SmartFrench Audio CD Intermediate/Advanced
This is really helpful if you know a lot of French, but still don`t feel that you have reached fluency. It really helps you by pointing out the difference between written French and spoken French.
personal opinion February 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Do not buy this package if you do not have a very solid knowledge of french grammar and know to speak french well.It will not help you.
The package is designed to improve the pronanciation and speaking ability in French for the people who already have good knowledge of french language.
A better solution will be a French course with more lessons,new grammar rules for each of these, and audio CDs spoken by native speaking french people for these lessons
Great method to tune your ear to "real" spoken French/ comprehend it/ and start speaking it. January 28, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
What I LOVE about this SmartFrench CD are the interviews with 19 different people (chef, fashion model, musician--you get the idea). You can listen to each person talking about their career (very interesting!). There is a very high quality booklet included with the CD. The booklet contains the text of what each French person is saying about their career. The French words are color coded so that whatever is not pronounced (silent) is printed in another color. That is SO helpful to me! Now I am able to read a little, too. The English text is also included. French text on left page, English on right--so you can compare.
It's one thing to learn French in a classroom, but it is different thing entirely to hear it spoken by native French speakers. This CD helps to tune your ear so that it makes sense.
I use the booklet a lot. It goes over how to pronounce the alphabet, numbers and silent letters. It has charts of `sounds'. I have a lot of materials at home to help me learn French, and most methods forget to teach/review the basics.
Also included are "Useful dialogues when you visit France" for use in the subway, on the street, in the taxi, cafe, at the concierge's desk, restaurant, a friends wedding, post office, museum, hotel and airport.
I really love using this SmartFrench CD. I was a beginning French speaker before our trip to France 3 months ago. Being in France helped attune my ear to the language, but I could only pick up a few words. This CD is helping me to comprehend a LOT more French when I hear my French friends talking, and I am beginning to speak so that I am understood!
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