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French All-In-One for Dummies, with CD

French All-In-One for Dummies, with CD

Marc Notes: Includes index.;Text in English and French. Jacket Description/Back: Your all-encompassing guide to speaking, reading, and writing French French is a beautiful language but can be quite difficult to...

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Marc Notes:
Includes index.;Text in English and French.

Jacket Description/Back:

Your all-encompassing guide to speaking, reading, and writing French

French is a beautiful language but can be quite difficult to learn. With French All-in-One For Dummies, you'll have access to over 700 pages of friendly, hands-on instruction for perfecting your French speaking, reading, and writing skills. Featuring enhanced practice opportunities and an accompanying CD that helps improve your skills right away, learning French has never been easier. Voila!

  • Talkin' the talk -- get your feet wet with some basic French pronunciations, find out what the accent marks mean, and get the lowdown on French grammar
  • Out and about -- get the know-how to confidently navigate public transportation, dine out, find a hotel, and handle an emergency in French-speaking regions of the world
  • Get down with grammar -- grasp the various parts of speech, including nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and verbs, and then move on to conjugating verbs and building sentences
  • Oh la la -- discover how to express your attitude more clearly by putting your verb in the indicative, imperative, or subjunctive mood

Open the book and find:

  • Pronunciation of the French alphabet
  • How to get numbers, dates, and times in line
  • Common greetings, small talk, and conversation
  • Tips for identifying gender and dealing with tenses
  • Verb tables
  • Prepositions, conjunctions, and other linking words
  • The 4-1-1 on asking and answering questions
  • French-English and English-French dictionaries
  • Games and exercises

Bonus CD Includes

More than 30 audio tracks to help improve your listening comprehension and speaking skills

Please see CD appendix for complete system requirements.

6 Boks in 1

  • French For Dummies
  • Intermediate French For Dummies
  • French Verbs For Dummies
  • French Essentials For Dummies
  • French Phrases For Dummies
  • French For Dummies Audio Set


Biographical Note:

The Experts at Dummies are smart, friendly people who make learning easy by taking a not-so-serious approach to serious stuff.



Table of Contents:

Introduction 1

Book I: Speaking in Everyday Settings 7

Chapter 1: Warming Up with Some French Fundamentals 9

Chapter 2: Un, Deux, Trois: Numbers, Dates, and Times 27

Chapter 3: Greetings, Goodbyes, and Small Talk 45

Chapter 4: Getting Personal: Discussing Your Home, Family, and Daily Routine 63

Chapter 5: Talking Business and Politics 85

Chapter 6: Shopping at a Store and Online 101

Chapter 7: Buying, Preparing, and Tasting Foods 121

Book II: Exploring and Wandering About 143

Chapter 1: Making Plans and Discovering New Places 145

Chapter 2: Enjoying a Night on the Town 179

Chapter 3: Money Matters 201

Chapter 4: Home Is Where Your Suitcase Is: Looking for Accommodations 213

Chapter 5: Getting Around 229

Chapter 6: Dealing with Emergencies 249

Book III: Building the Grammatical Foundation for Communication 265

Chapter 1: Building Strong Sentences with the Parts of Speech 267

Chapter 2: All Agreed? Matching Gender and Number of Nouns and Articles 289

Chapter 3: Dealing with the Here and Now: The Present Tense 305

Chapter 4: Commanding and Instructing with the Imperative Mood 331

Chapter 5: Asking and Answering Questions 349

Chapter 6: Communicating Clearly with Infinitives and Present Participles 369

Book IV: Getting Down to Detail and Precision in Your Communication 379

Chapter 1: Specifying Relationships with Prepositions 381

Chapter 2: Describing with Flair: Adjectives and Adverbs 401

Chapter 3: Taking Shortcuts with Object Pronouns 419

Chapter 4: Tying Ideas Together with Conjunctions and Relative Pronouns 439

Chapter 5: Getting That Subjunctive Feeling 453

Chapter 6: What Lies Ahead and What Could Happen: Simple Future and Present Conditional 471

Book V: Going Back in Time 485

Chapter 1: Been There, Done That: Passé Proche and Passé Composé 487

Chapter 2: How Was It? What Was Going On? The Imparfait 503

Chapter 3: To the Past and Beyond: Other Past Tenses 515

Book VI: Appendixes 529

Appendix A: Verb Tables 531

Appendix B: French-English Mini-Dictionary 587

Appendix C: English-French Mini Dictionary 607

Appendix D: Fun & Games 627

Appendix E: About the CD 665

Index 669





Author: The Experts at Dummies
Publisher: For Dummies
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 2012-10-09
BISAC: Language Study|French|Education|Teaching|Subjects - Arts & Humanities|Education|Reference
Subjects: French language|English|Dialects|Canada
Weight: 2.35 lbs
ISBN: 9781118228159
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9781118228159

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