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Title: insuffiisant
Review: I just finished three quarters of French with this pseudo-text in a high school adult education course. The teacher is a Suisse lady and a gem, but the book is wholly inadequate even as a superficial introduction. The book proves that language is NEITHER fast nor fun. Only the present tense is introduced. The sunbjunctive and some idiomatic expressions are dropped into the text and then left unexplained. Worse yet, the vocabulary is designed for serious [i.e., fabulously rich] shoppers. You will learn such expressions in Frech as "a ring without a setting" and "pendent earrings" and how to get your watch fixed, but you will never carry on a simple conversation with a French speaking person. Quel dommage! Get a real textbook or if you can get help on pronunciation, a do-it-yourself book like Adrianne's old "French in 32 Lessons" or Berlitz.
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