Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French Grammar, Premium Fourth Edition (NTC FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

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Indeed, a qualified teacher provides a learning space where you can activate your knowledge and use it in everyday life. The ‘Profil d’une Oeuvre’ series , published by Hatier in the 1970’s and 80’s, is also very wide-ranging.

From present tense regular verbs to double object pronouns, this comprehensive guide and workbook covers all those aspects of French grammar that you might find a little intimidating or hard to remember. From the brand behind the best bilingual dictionaries out there, you can expect lists of useful and interesting French vocabulary. These examples would make sense to someone who already has the knowledge (perhaps revising) but if you are using the book from beginning to end they are inappropriate, actually unhelpful. While you might think you know French literature, “Un Style Certain” contains dozens of fascinating references, mainly unknown to non-French speakers. The combination of reference grammar and manual of current usage is an invaluable resource for students and teachers of French at the intermediate to advanced levels.When it comes to tricky grammar points, seeing the rules in action can often be responsible for the elusive “a-ha” moment. This book didn’t earn its reputation by accident—it contains some of the most accessible and clearest explanations of the hardest rules out there. For me, that means using a book that explains why something works and allows me to easily review what I've learned. Delatour and others, Grammaire du francais ( 1991), which is the book used on the Cours de Civilisation Française of the Sorbonne.

The Cambridge French-English Thesaurus, by Marie-Noelle Lamy ( 1998) would be useful for your first-year work, but you would outgrow it before the end of the course. All the examples given fit into the context of the story so they will be easier and quicker for you to understand and you'll be able to concentrate on the grammar. Audio for pronunciation and listening practice: Improve your listening and pronunciation skills in French by listening to the audio narrated by a native French speaker. I really think that, especially for a book on grammar, it is pretty poor to have such a badly proofread book published.

Coversallofthebasics,andthemorecomplicatedbitswithexercisesattheendofeachchapter,withanswersattheback.