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The best program to learn French?

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stephcaines
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Canada
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Studies: French

 
 Message 1 of 5
16 January 2012 at 7:03am | IP Logged 
I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good program to learn FRENCH? I have always
been interested but once I started reading reviews it didn't sound all that great.. I'm
looking to fully learn the language, if I need to use additional resources that's fine
as well.

I did french immersion in high so I do have a basic understanding, but I really have
trouble with verbs and conjugating.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
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newyorkeric
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16 January 2012 at 7:46am | IP Logged 
Michel Thomas, Assimil French With Ease, Pimsleur, French in Action...

If you do a google search on this forum, you will find a lot of discussion of these programs.
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stephcaines
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Studies: French

 
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16 January 2012 at 8:31am | IP Logged 
newyorkeric wrote:
Michel Thomas, Assimil French
With Ease, Pimsleur, French in Action...

If you do a google search on this forum, you will
find a lot of discussion of these programs.


I have actually but unfortunately I can't find any
recent posts so I was wondering if certain programs that may have been useless years
ago have improved?

Edited by stephcaines on 16 January 2012 at 8:33am

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newyorkeric
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16 January 2012 at 2:08pm | IP Logged 
All of these programs are considered high quality.

Michel Thomas is great for grammar so maybe you should try that first.

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microsnout
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16 January 2012 at 7:11pm | IP Logged 
If you were in French immersion in high school then you must be pretty good at speaking and listening so the more
audio based programs will likely not be too useful. No one in Canada speaks like in an Assimil lesson (nor in
France really). For grammar I liked the Living Language Ultimate package which contains grammar exercises in
each of 40 chapters plus review exercises. Also, the Schaums French Grammar book has more exercises than you
will ever need for verb conjugation.

Edited by microsnout on 16 January 2012 at 8:03pm



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