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As some one who studied french 10 years ago in high school and college and looking to brush up for a week in france, book learning was easy but HEARING, PRONUNCIATIOn and SPEAKING were the hard parts. I broke down and purchase this at a store because my local library had NO audio books that weren’t already checked out. The lessons are (8) 30-minute lessons. But the lessons are weird esp if you are using this to “brush up”. The first lesson was a few sentences of speech. You then spent the next half hour of that lesson repeating EACH syllable of each word in each SHORT conversation over and over again.. No wonder they can easily package (8) 30 minute lessons. The lessons are strangely presented. It explains in what context you might use a particular phrase. For example, if you wanted to ask someone if they spoke french, you’d want to use the phrase “Est ce vous parlez l’anglais? (Do you speak English?)” Well DUH!!!! The lessons seemed geared to making you memorize key phrases, which is a bit difficult when you can’t see the words that you’re pronouncing, which then makes it only memorizing sounds you hear. For example the first lesson is only 7 sentences long, about two people going back and forth if they understand french or english. Bits and pieces of each sentences are recylcled over and over again in the the other sentences of this same lesson. 27 minutes devoted to this first lesson. You also need a good EAR to hear the subtleties of the french nasal pronunciation. Now I’m just mad that I tore the darn plastic off and the store won’t let me return this garbage. Thank god I used a gift certificate that someone gave me as opposed to my own good money.

Don’t think that you are getting 8 different lessons. Each subsequent lesson spends about 70%-80% reviewing the previous lesson. The quality of the lessons are good though, but I wish I knew that the 8 lessons don’t teach much French at all. I would save the money and buy the full French 1 Language Program which has 16 CDs (the first 4 are very similar to this one).

This is one of the best books on beginner’s French, although ‘quickly’ and ‘easily’ are not the right words to use – French is certainly not a quick and easy language to learn. Both Spanish and Italian are much easier.

There are only two books on Beginner’s French I recommend, this Made Simple-book and French Demystified: A Self – Teaching Guide.

If you want to learn at a slower pace and not so intensively then Demystified is a better choice, this Made Simple-book is more intense, which makes it more difficult for some people.
They are equally good in my opinion and I enjoyed working with both: Demystified feels more laid-back and not so stressful, but Made Simple has more reading passages and a larger variety of exercises.

This book is an updated version of the older French (Made Simple Books). You may ask yourself whether it’s worth the extra money to get this new edition rather than the old one…well, I have both of them and I say: Yes !

Why ?:
> the book is a standard-sized textbook and not pocket anymore
> fonts are larger, making the text easier to read
> updated modern vocabulary
> more excercises
> the grammar is more thoroughly explained
> more reading passages
> the pronunciation guide uses a simpler system based on American English
> the story takes place partly in the US and partly in France – the previous books took place in the UK and France

The prospective buyer should note that the first 2-3 chapters will explain the pronunciation to you, but in the following chapters only certain words and phrases that deviate from the standards are shown with a pronunciation guide.

All the dialogues in each chapter are part of a story that runs through the book: an American businessman in New York who wants to learn French and go to France for a visit, he is being taught by Frenchman living in New York.

As you might have guessed, you build up a basic business-vocabulary with words such as: ‘office, buyer, client, shipment…’
But, you also learn every-day words like: food and drinks, telling the time, words for traveling, talking about hobbies etc.

Each chapter is relatively short and you should be able to go through one in as little as 30 minutes, excercises included.

This book follows a very effective design that worked well for me:
i) shorter chapters
ii) relatively short vocabulary lists in each chapter
ii) slower and more gradual coverage of grammar

The combined effect of all these is that I learned in a truly gradual manner, and because I could go through a chapter in just 30 minutes it didn’t feel like a chore to study with this book.

By the way, expect 6-9 months to complete this book, because it is equivalent to a one-year course at college or uni.

Hi Roadrunners – thanks for your comments! We’ve been learning French since September! I’m so glad you enjoyed our songs – and it’s great you recognised le gouzi gouzi – that’s the Hokey Cokey in French! I don’t think Le Gouzi Gouzi means anything more than Hokey Cokey does – but then maybe hokey cokey means something more that I don’t know about! MFL stands for Modern Foreign Languages (we can teach what we like in Primary Schools, we do French at Middleham because the secondary school most children from here will go to teaches French) but I’ve also taught Spanish and I know a school that does Mandarin! AST is an Advanced Skills Teacher, and our French ones are amazing!!! We usually do a little bit of French each day, even if it’s just answer the register or sing a song, or a PE warm-up or maths game, however we only have one lesson a week – usually about 45 minutes.

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