Idiot's Guide to French (Idiot's Guide)

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Summary: Learn French in Your Car
Review: This program contains 4 CDs and 4 cassettes - so you can use either - as well as CD-ROM. The CD-ROM contains a selection of electronic books in pdf (Acrobat Reader) format - not only for French, but also for several other languages. You can print them out for reference.

You can listen to the program while driving, or while you're following the written material in the book. It works either way. The program is designed to help you to speak French. The lessons are presented in form of dialogues.

Dialogues are spoken in the beginning at a slow enough pace, and pronounced clearly, so that you would be able to follow. You will hear dialogue once, then each word of the vocabulary used, then the entire dialogue again at more conversational pace. One feature of this program is that English and French are recorded on separate channels, and by adjusting the volume on your left and right speaker, you can either listen to both French and English, or when you'd like to test yourself, you can listen only to French or English.

Dialogues are designed around business trip to France and begin with finding yourself at the customs, getting a cab, finding hotel, making a phone call, ordering food, shopping, even discussing a little bit of cultural and political tid-bits.

All in all it is a decent program.