[.ca] Teach Yourself Instant French (ISBN 0844202177)

Instant French (Teach Yourself):
This is excellent book for anyone who wants to learn French quickly. Although it's very basic, upon completion you should have a fairly good comprehension of French. The book is easy to understand and makes it simple for anyone to understand French, even if you have no prior knowledge to the language! At the end of the first week you'll be able recognize many basic words and it gets easier to understand as you go along. The only reason that I hesitate to give this five stars is because I think you're better off getting the version with the tape, that way you can improve your listening/speaking skills instead of just reading comprehension. But overall, vous parlerez francais parce que c'est livre est tres bon!

Did the trick...:
I have been learning french for around three years now and to be honest, i've hated every minute. I've been using this book for around four days now and learnt more than ever before. The truth was that I didn't want to learn how to talk about multi-coloured hamsters, I wanted to be able to go into a french conversation and be able to know what they were saying and be able to share my ideas. I'm going in for my french GCSE next year and although the book claims not to include grammar it provides the reader with varying speech perspectives allowing you to speak for yourself and for others eg. We are going now etc. I would definately approve this book and as it comes with a tape to improve pronunciation along with on-tape tests also covered in the book, you could learn french while in the car, jogging etc. I have to say, since I read this book I am tempted to buy, Instant Japanese...

C'est libre est Tres BON !:
I studied this book in the beg of JAN 2000. I have finished this book and all i can say is,,,ITS very good to excellent! ...after the end of the first week , you would be able to speak french..i wouldnt say in six weeks ,,more or so, I would say about 8 weeks...i devoted at least 1 hour a day to this course..sometimes 2...i have no previous knowledge in french and this book taught me to speak french after only 6 weeks..i would devote at least another week to review some words that i tend to forget...This book is excellent for a beginners course book...I am now currently studying the TEACH YOURSELF FRENCH book and audio..i would recommend this instant french book for anyone willing to learn a new language w/o the boredom of grammars nouns and tenses..