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French for Beginners - Angela Wilkes

Description: ISBN 0746000545 / Genre: Languages / Author: Angela Wilkes / Paperback / 48 Pages / Book is published 1998-04-04 by Usborne Publishing Ltd

Newest Review: ... from other beginner's manuals as they have two advantages: 1) They provide context and act as visual aids: Seeing the ... more

... sentences being used in appropriate circumstances helps to encode the information, so that it is more easily memorised. 2) They make learning more enjoyable: There is a comedic aspect that pervades the illustrations, that make what could otherwise be a tedious endeavour a much more interesting and fun experience. The humour can be found on many levels: in the expressiveness of the drawings; in the slighty (or not so slighty) zany situations; in the little details, that are sometimes not immediately picked up on, so tha...more

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French for Beginners - Angela Wilkes: J'aime ce livre!!! (685 words)
by - written on 12/08/09 (Very useful, 116 readings)
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I've had a copy of this book since I was a child. My father is a french speaker, so when I learned to read he bought me this book to get used to reading french. Fast forward some years, and I saw it again on sale, and was delighted to see that not only the content remains the same, but that I still remembered every single illustration, even though I hadn't looked at them since I was 7 or 8. The book introduces readers to the basics of the french language: * How to greet people * Naming things * Arranging things * Telling where things are * Saying what you like to eat * Going Shopping * Talking ... Read the complete review