Product Description

Look and learn - the quick and intuitive way to learn and recall everyday vocabulary in French. Whether for business or leisure, this introduction to key vocabulary covers a range of subjects from food and drink to sports and leisure. With scenes and items from everyday life clearly labelled, it's easy to find the words you want in this dictionary that shows you what others only tell you.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20502 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-04
• Original language: French, English
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Customer Reviews

Well worth getting
This book is really useful especially when shopping - if you don't feel confident enough to attempt the pronunciation you can point to the picture to make yourself understood. As has been mentioned it will help to enlarge your vocabulary. This book attracted much interest from friends and family - I thought I might not get it back. Buy it, you won't regret it, as they say, a picture says a thousand words.

Excellent visual reference
As a graduate of french I wish this book had been available at the time I was learning the language. It really is excellent and it's hard to explain how good it is as it just has the same words in it as any other dictionary.

However the visual approach coupled with the compartmentalisation into intuitive categories which largely map to activities/events in daily life is alluring and persuasive - to the point that when you pick it up you almost don't want to put it down because you're drawn into looking at all the related words of a topic. In short, where with a traditional dictionary you use it to look up individual words, the visual french approach allows you to do the same but then see all the related vocabulary pointed out to you, e.g. you want to know what eyebrow is in french - no problem, but then you get to see the words for all the other features of the face - and body if you want.

Two final things. 1) a small criticism - for words beginning with a vowel you're not told the gender of the noun 2) the book of course needs to be complemented with other reference books as it focuses mainly on nouns - nevertheless, an excellent addition to any reference library on the french language.

A great way to learn and re-learn French
If, like most people you learn by visual references, then you'll find this book a great way to increase your French vocabulary. Each word has a picture associated with it, which I find makes it much easier to learn from.

Words are grouped by subject, and not alphabetically. So it's not a good dictionary (although there is an index), but it is good if you want to increase your vocabulary in certain areas.