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Summary: International Business Consultant Says 'Two Thumbs Up'
Review: As a graduate of international business currently living and
working in Nimes, France I feel qualified to say that not only is Speaking Pain Free French 'pain free', it is also one heck of a bargain for the money.
If what you want is to learn to speak really useful French quickly and easily, (without paying an arm and a leg), then go buy this course. I did and it worked for me.
For reasons too numerous to list here, you will find yourself
being immersed in French, learning the pronunciation from Celine and getting explanations from an accentless American instructor, and enjoying the process of learning to speak French.
Rating: 
Summary: Good teacher, bad accent
Review: Despite my quibbles with this package, I learned a lot of French from it! I think Mr. Frobose has a very good system for learning, although a bit repetitive. His French speaker is charming and very easy to understand, but Mr. Frobose's French accent is bizarre. Fortunately, he lets his native speaker do the demonstrating. I was irritated by the errors in the tapes (you can't rewind and re-record?) and by the wasted space on them, and by the frequent references to a text that doesn't accompany this package. A far better cassette course, smooth, polished, and even entertaining, is the Pimsleur course put out by Sybervision, but it's also much more expensive.
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Summary: adequate. very repetitive.
Review: overall this is a useful series of casettes. you go thru letters, numbers, dates, and some basic vocabulary and phrases. and even though it's not particularly challenging, it will help you learn a few things and at least get you to practice things you already know.i think this tape series might be best suited for someone who doesn't already speak another foreign language, though. the listener is treated as though they have no concept whatsoever of grammar and that they never want to learn, either. there's not enough time spent teaching vocabulary on this tape, in my opinion. i was hoping to expand on the limited vocabulary i had from 9th grade french and that didn't really happen. i guess the fact on every tape approximately 20% of the time is devoted to teaching you: je veux, je vais, j'aime, and j'ai over and over and over and over again made me frustrated that more of that time wasn't spent teaching me new words. i know that repetition is good, but... the page numbers in the photocopied text do not correspond to the tape numbers spoken on the tape. after the first tape, it's not necessary for the speaker to say "dog dog chien chien", just say it ONCE in english and then twice in french. the native french speaker on the tape is really good. the english speaking guy has a very strange accent -- sorta like mr. garrison on southpark. i know that you're not listening to it to learn english, but his accent was so strange that i found it distracting at times. ...
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Summary: Brilliantly Painless and Effective!
Review: This group Language Dynamics has really come on to something. They have done what their motto suggests. They take the foreign out of language. What used to really intimidate me about most French courses is that they talk down to you. Not Language Dynamics. Their instruction is fluid, informal, effective, fast and easy. Based on the excellent results I have achieved with Speaking Pain Free French, I cannot recommend it too highly to you. Try it. It's the best.
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