modestblues Newbie Bahamas Joined 5556 days ago 33 posts - 54 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 1 of 22 13 September 2009 at 5:44am | IP Logged |
What are the best tools and programs to use for learning french? Listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The whole thing.
All advice is appreciated.
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fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7145 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto
| Message 2 of 22 13 September 2009 at 8:34am | IP Logged |
I think the old and new versions of Assimil French are the best courses I have seen and use them with French in Action where you have books, video and audio.
After working through them you should be fluent.
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baryonic Bilingual Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5598 days ago 26 posts - 28 votes Speaks: Hindi*, Punjabi*, English Studies: French
| Message 3 of 22 13 September 2009 at 7:44pm | IP Logged |
Speaking of Assimil French, is there a difference between French with Ease and New French with Ease? I know that the original French without pain is completely different but am curious to know how much did they change when they edited French with ease.
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fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7145 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto
| Message 4 of 22 14 September 2009 at 2:42am | IP Logged |
The main difference is they added more lessons. The books are very similar. Just a word or two has been changed in some lessons.
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baryonic Bilingual Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5598 days ago 26 posts - 28 votes Speaks: Hindi*, Punjabi*, English Studies: French
| Message 5 of 22 14 September 2009 at 6:25am | IP Logged |
So there's no need to buy the earlier version.. Thanks for the info.
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coyote Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6241 days ago 32 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French
| Message 6 of 22 18 September 2009 at 5:39pm | IP Logged |
fanatic wrote:
I think the old and new versions of Assimil French are the best courses I have seen and use them with French in Action where you have books, video and audio.
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Agree with fanatic. I would add Michel Thomas as a good place to start.
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lachat Triglot Newbie Joined 5562 days ago 23 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch, French Studies: Italian
| Message 7 of 22 20 September 2009 at 7:52pm | IP Logged |
This is some courses that I have used to learn French.
Michel Thomas
Pimsleur 1 - 3
Linguaphone all-talk
Earworms learning
Hugo French in Three months
French Starter kit
Instant French
French in Action
BBC Muzzy French
Learn in your car French (not very good)
Eurotalk
Before you Know it
Edited by lachat on 20 September 2009 at 7:53pm
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anytram Bilingual Tetraglot Groupie France Joined 5668 days ago 85 posts - 89 votes Speaks: German*, Polish*, French, English Studies: Japanese
| Message 8 of 22 30 September 2009 at 5:02pm | IP Logged |
I really liked Klett's "Découvertes" the green édition when we used it at school, but I don't know how good it is for self-study. (The grammar books are really cool and I also had the programm at some point, which was nice for revision.)
But than again it might be French/German only, though there might be an English version.
(I liked none of the ASSIMIL courses I've seen so far, by the way.)
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