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A fifteen-unit basic language course focuses on communication needs, making travel arrangements, getting directions, shopping, and ordering from a menu…. More >>
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Just Listen ‘N Learn French
#1 by Anonymous on July 24th, 2010
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I took the Just Listen N Learn course before I went to France and it was a big help. What I liked the most is that they recorded “ordiinary” voices, not trained actors in a studio setting. I got used to hearing French as spoken by natives, with a variety of accents, and the umms and errrs in normal conversation. I recommend this to anyone. It sure was a big help for me.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Ariel on July 24th, 2010
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I used this program in conjunction with a non-credit French course taught at my local community college. I think the program is very good because the recordings are obviously of real French speakers in their native situations. It is almost impossible to understand some of them; they speak so fast, the words are all slurred together. But I know that when I travel in France, I will be better prepared to understand native speakers, for having listened to the tapes over and over! Also, I like that they record even small children on the tapes, and that’s encouraging, because they don’t always speak correctly (I am not the only one!). My major complaint about the program is that it uses cassette tapes, which are very outdated! I had a hard time even finding a cassette player in my home, and I only have a CD player in my car. Its very hard to find a place to listen. Then, you have to keep rewinding the tape back to relisten, and its the pits to find the exact spot where the last unit or lesson began. If they put it on CD, it would be great!
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on July 24th, 2010
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I agree with the review by James McCoy, avoid this one! This set is difficult to understand and not formated in a user friendly manner. My biggest frustration is the multiple lessons on each track of the CD – making it very difficult to go back and repeat just what you need to listen to again rather than all of the lessons in a segment. To follow their lessons as intended you would have to constantly go between the book and the CD, making it very difficult to make much progress while driving. I ultimately purchased another French CD to replace this.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Dillon S on July 24th, 2010
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This is a great kit, a great way to get started on French, but it definatly isn’t thorough. First of all, let me tell you that if you expect to take full advantage of this kit, you should have a partner or at least someone who speaks French. The kit doesn’t let you practice enough with speaking the language yourself.
But, it does help you a lot with understanding the language. The conversations on the tape are authentic, which lets you hear French as it is usually spoken. It can be a little bit fast, but that just helps you to understand French better when you actually listen to a French person.
The kit also teaches you a little about other French speaking countries and their customs, which is great. Additionally, it also teaches you some about grammar, which is a must in any language.
I bought this kit(and the Plus kit, which I will start soon), as a way to get myself ahead in my French class I’ll be taking when I get back to school. So if you’re a student and planning on taking French, then this kit is DEFINATLY for you. It doesn’t make you perfect, but it should make your first year of French much easier, since most of it will be a review…
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Suzie on July 24th, 2010
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This review refers to the CDs: I have about 6 years of junior high/high school French, so I would consider myself intermediate but by no means fluent. The CDs were great in helping me with my pronunciation and listening skills (as an Anglophone my pronunciation is horrible), and I was able to review one lesson a day during my daily car commute. I like the fact that the speakers are actual French speakers, although the background noises were indeed distracting and made it hard to hear at times.
The problem with other CDs I’ve tried were that they repeated boring conjugations that would never stick. At least with learning from this CD if you misconjugate, the listener would at least understand what you mean. This CD was actually fun to listen to.
Rating: 5 / 5