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Title: Ultimate French: Basic-Intermediate on CD by Annie Heminway ISBN: 0-609-60734-0 Publisher: Living Language Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 8 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (12 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: How do you fit "two years of college French" into such a small book? Only touch upon topics briefly. The CDs are even worse. Basically select parts of each lesson are read once on the CD with pauses for you to repeat. Each CD lesson corresponds to a lesson in the book and is less than ten minutes long. Since even a dedicated student would would have trouble doing more than one lesson per day, you're looking at 10 minutes of audio per day max. That just doesn't cut it for someone who wants to really learn a language. The book would make a decent supplement to a good audio course and the audio portion of this course would make a less than ideal companion to some good books. Combined you get a course that is severely lacking. For a great audio course I recommend the Pimsleur series.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for the beginner or someone who just wants to brush up
Comment: I had a sudden desire to brush up on my French after taking three years in high school over a decade ago, so I picked up this book help me review. I found this book to be effective at teaching basic concepts while keeping my interest. The format is easy to read and organized well, the dialogues are never boring. I have other introductory French books which are less organized, difficult to read or follow, and have boring unrealistic dialogue. I tend to begin those only to stop part way through. However, Ultimate French is different. It helped motivate me to completion. I plan on starting the next book in the series, the Advanced Ultimate French book.
BTW, I agree with the reader from Indonesia about the number of questions in each exercise. I feel I could get a better grasp of the concepts if there were more of them.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good introduction to the language
Comment: This book and CD set provides an elementary foundation in French. The complaints others have made about the brevity of the exercises and dialogues are accurate; however, before people dismiss the Living Language series they should recall its purpose. If you want to get a basic understanding of a language without mortgaging your house, Living Language is for you. The Pimsleur progams that everyone speaks so highly of come in two versions--one with no written material for roughly the same price and another with a $300 price tag.
Living Language set can easily be supplemented with de Sales' French Verb Drills and The Rosetta Stone Language CDs for additional exercises and hours of additional audio material.
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Title: Ultimate French Advanced (CD Pkg) by Living Language ISBN: 1400020573 Publisher: Living Language Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $79.95 |
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Title: Ultimate Spanish: Basic-Intermediate on CD by Irwin Stern ISBN: 060960757X Publisher: Living Language Pub. Date: 03 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: The Ultimate French Review and Practice: Mastering French Grammar for Confident Communication by David M. Stillman, Ronni L. Gordon, NTC Publishing Group, Author Unknown ISBN: 0658000748 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Ultimate Italian: Basic-Intermediate (Manual and CD) by Salvatore Bancheri, Ph.D. Michael Lettieri ISBN: 0609607359 Publisher: Living Language Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Ultimate German: Basic-Intermediate by Heidi Singer, Ingeborg Lasting ISBN: 0609607332 Publisher: Living Language Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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