Product Description

Hundreds of thousands of people have already learned French with the popular beginners’ course, The French Experience. At home or in a class, you can use this hugely successful course to develop your listening, reading, writing and speaking skills. You can also gain valuable insights into French culture. Using the extensive range of media available, from the course book, to the audio CDs or cassettes, to the popular accompanying television series and free online activities, The French Experience can help you reach the equivalent level of a first qualification, such as GCSE.

Course Book

• 16 structured units present the main language of the course.

• Four revision and assessment units reinforce learning using activities and language ‘check ups’

288-page, full-colour book 

Audio

• Authentic dialogues and interviews allow you to hear native French speakers using everyday language

• Activities focus on listening and recognising, and progress to speaking and understanding to help you develop your conversational French

4 x 75-minute audio CDs

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14210 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-10
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Customer Reviews

Helpful for beginners
I found this pack useful for the beginning of a french course. You can't listen to the CDs in the car though, you need to have the book in front of you, which I found frustrating. I wanted to listen on the way to work, so ended up getting free Podcasts to listen to - they were better than the CDs in this pack. Having said that, the book guides you through lots of different sections, such as food and travel, and the CDs have exercises on each section. In the book, there are transcripts of the CD interviews as well as paper based exercises and additional info like background details of France - although there are not many of these. The most useful thing I found about this course was the boxes in each section of the book called 'Info Langue' and 'Mot a Mot' and the verb info. I am now 3 months into leanring French and I need a more detailed book than this but it has defeinately really helped me.

Not very useful for complete beginners
I was attracted to buy this pack because of the excellent Spanish language pack (SUENOS) published by the BBC. To my disappointment, I find the French Experience pack not very useful for beginners! It doesn't explain much about the sentences and use of phrases. It is also hard to follow the audio tracks. The Spanish pack contains many interesting facts about the Spanish-speaking world but this is not the case in the French Experience pack.

OK but not as main study material
I have been studying French now for around six months and originally bought this to suplement the 1 hour a week French Class. I don't find it that great as a course in french. Basically it does not go into the language in enough depth, its OK as background and a supplement but you very quickly need verb tables and a broader text book if you are serious about the language. The CDs are useful as they are recorded interviews with French people so provide useful listening opportunities.