Learn French from Native Speakers

Learn French Pronunciation

Planned in two volumes, French Basics Course has been designed to help students reach a level of proficiency which will enable them to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations.

For beginning students, the twenty-four units are designed for a six-month intensive training program. Each unit presents a situational topic introduced in a dialogue, and usually five grammar points. Each grammar point is preceded by grammar notes which generally are expressed in non-technical terms.

Other units include materials of the following kinds.

A dialogue to provide a body of natural French conversation as a source for subsequent drills and exercises.

Useful words to supplement the vocabulary with a limited number of additional words, usually related to the topic of the dialogue.

Vocabulary awareness to enable the student to better identify the elements of the utterances he learned as a whole and to regroup and review vocabulary.

Drills of six different kinds, each type designed for a specific purpose.

• Lexical drills to manipUlate already acquired vocabulary and improve fluency.
• Learning drills to introduce new grammar points (with reference to the corresponding grammar notes).
• Practice drills to give the student an opportunity to illustrate in sentences the grammar points just covered.
• Questions
• Answer
• Review Drills

Situations to improve comprehension and serve as a basis for questions and elementary conversation.

Narrations to provide reading material and introduce a very limited number of vocabulary items.

Written exercises to offer to the student opportunity to relate the spoken language to the writing system.