Learning Materials
Rough Guide French Phrasebook (Rough Guides). Mini dictionary-style phrasebook with both English-French and French-English sections, along with cultural tips for tricky situations and a menu reader. Mini French Dictionary (Harrap/Prentice Hall). French-English and English-French, plus a brief grammar and pronunciation guide. Breakthrough French (Pan; book and two cassettes). Excellent teach-yourself course. French and English Slang Dictionary (Harrap/Prentice Hall); Dictionary of Modern Colloquial French (Routledge). Both volumes are a bit large to carry, but they are the key to all you ever wanted to understand about the French vernacular. Verbaid (Verbaid, Hawk House, Heath Lane, Farnham, Surrey GU9 0PR). CD-size laminated paper "verb wheel" giving you the tense endings for the regular verbs. A Vous La France; Franc Extra; Franc-Parler (BBC Publications/EMC Publishing; each has a book and two cassettes). BBC radio courses, running from beginners' level to fairly advanced.
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