Pronounce It Perfectly in French

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Summary: French Pronounced Perfectly
Review: As with Christopher Kendris's other French language books, Pronounce It Perfectly delivers impeccable grammar and pronunciation techniques. A relative newcomer to french language, I started with Mr. Kendris's French Now! workbook. This book teaches one how to conjugate verbs and formulate sentence structures. Pronounce It Perfectly then continues with another workbook and 2 cassettes which makes the task of learning French with the correct pronunciation flow very smoothly. Then continue on with his 501 French Verbs: Fully Conjugated......Arranged. You can't go wrong with Mr. Kendris's line of books, and definetely do not try to speak without first listening to the cassettes. They will make you more comfortable and understandable in the long run.

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Summary: Really helped my French pronunciation!
Review: At first I was sceptical, but my doubts fell away after I started working through this book and tape combination. This is a very systematic and logical guide to French pronunciation that approaches it from the angle of French spelling rather than of the sounds (e.g., how to pronounce 'euil' in various words.) My spouse (whose French is excellent) commented right away that my accent was much improved! The only minor criticism I have (and the only reason for 4 instead of 5 stars) is that the book doesn't use the International Phonetic Alphabet symbols; I would recommend to anyone using it that he or she find a way to match up the sounds with the corresponding IPA symbols. This will help when trying to figure out the pronunciation of new words shown in a dictionary. Other than that, highly recommended!