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Title: Foreign service diplomats?
Review: I have the CD version of this course, and although I did not pay full price, it was still too expensive considering the content. The repetition is helpful for pronunciation, but the same sentences are repeated over and over in every exercise ... so you walk away knowing how to say three sentences in varying forms, with little useful vocabulary.In addition, the recording quality is quite low, with other conversations often audible in the background of the dialogue and a constant hiss.While perhaps a passable foundation for someone with time to spend, it is certainly not the best course to prepare you to travel in France. At the least, it would need to be combined with a course that teaches some minimal vocabulary useful for travel situations. I just returned from several days in Paris, and found myself essentially dependent upon sign language, even after completing 10 of the 13 CDs in the set.
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