Pimsleur Quick and Simple French for English Speakers

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Understand and speak French starting with these eight quick and simple audio lessons.

You're not just learning "phrases" with the Pimsleur Method, you're acquiring essential, conversational French!

You'll be thrilled to discover you can hold a real conversation in French when you have finished these eight 30-minute lessons!

Dr. Paul Pimsleur's original and unique method enables you to acquire French as effortlessly as children absorb their native language. You will succeed because the Pimsleur program makes sure that you learn vocabulary and grammar correctly and easily in conversational settings, without mindless repetition. Pimsleur is the only language program that includes exclusive, copyrighted memory training that ensures you always will remember what you have learned.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to French, Level 1

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You're no idiot, of course. Neither is the team of memory and linguistics experts who have designed the world's most effective foreign language self-study course. International travelers, students, and business people can now learn to converse in a new language in less than half the time they expect.

The Complete Idiot's Guide language audio programs are guaranteed to work for beginners, as a refresher course, and even with those who have been frustrated in other attempts to learn a foreign language. You can start learning today.

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to French, Level 2

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to French, Level 3

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to French, Level 4

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to French, Vocabulary

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Learn in Your Car: French, Level 1

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The Learn in Your Car language series is the first system ever designed to teach a language in your car...or anywhere...without a textbook. Simple and effective, you can learn to converse in another language while driving, walking, or doing tasks around the house. And now with Learn in Your Car from audible.com, you can turn your PC, your Rio, or any mobile device into your own personal language tutor.

Each course is organized the way you learn best - by learning words and phrases - and building these into sentences and clear conversations. Arrange hotel accommodations, order in restaurants, change money, and feel more at home next time you travel!

The Learn in Your Car language series is:

• Easy to use without a textbook
• Prepared by dialect-free professionals
• Available in levels for students of all abilities
• Designed to teach grammar basics through recorded examples

  Level 1 offers an introduction to key words, numbers, phrases, sentence structure, and basic grammar.

MindZeit Note: this is not a course to teach you the rules of French grammer directly, what it will give you is plenty of vocabulary and lots of useful phrases, which use the various parts of grammer. A pdf transcript of the vocabulary & phrases, is available for download, and would be very useful for beginners who need to see as well as hear the French words and phrases.

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Learn in Your Car: French, Level 2

Level 2 teaches more challenging vocabulary, additional grammar, and targeted sentences designed to generate confidence in your ability to comprehend and converse.

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Learn in Your Car: French, Level 3

Level 3 presents expanded vocabulary, advanced grammar, and more detailed sentences to extend your conversational skills.

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In-Flight French: Learn Before You Land

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Wondering how to make use of all that spare time on the plane while you are flying to Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, or Marseilles? Between your in-flight meal and your in-flight movie, try some In-Flight French!
This 60-minute program is the simplest way to learn just enough French to get through anything you'll run into, whether you're traveling for business or for pleasure. Short lessons make In-Flight French easy to use.

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French for Natalie: A New Friend

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Natalie is 8 years old and has only her kitten, Popsicle, to call a friend. All that changes, however, when her father encourages her to meet Marie, the new girl across the street. Through her friendship with Marie, Natalie learns a whole new language - French! She learns to say hello and good-bye, how to count to 10, the colors, foods, animals, and many other words and phrases. Natalie also finds out that life in Marie's native country of France is very different from her own. But she finally discovers that the things that make Marie different from herself are really the best things about her.

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All-Audio French

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Learn French Anywhere
If you have trouble finding time to fit in language lessons, All-Audio French is the perfect solution. Developed by the experts at Living Language, this program is designed for people on the move. You can learn French as you drive, work around the house, or exercise at the gym.

No Reading Required
An English-speaking narrator guides you through 35 short lessons. Just listen and repeat after native French speakers.

Vocabulary, Grammar, Dialogue, and Culture
Begin with vocabulary and grammar basics before hearing a lively dialogue that includes the most current French idioms and usage. Interactive exercises reinforce what you've learned. You'll also learn some intriguing facts about French customs and culture.

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Rush Hour French

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Sing your way to a new language, anytime, anywhere!... Original music and catchy songs help you remember everyday words, phrases, and sentences, and the exciting storyline keeps you involved. Fun to use alone or with your family!

MindZeit Note: This learn French course is accompanied by a pdf, so you can sing along!

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The Five Crayons: Berlitz Kids French, Adventures with Nicholas

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Berlitz Kids' The Five Crayons is the introduction to the Adventures with Nicholas series. Featuring easy French vocabulary and simple sentences, this story teaches colors, numbers from one to ten, rooms and furniture, animals, weather expressions, means of transportation, location words, and more. The ... program offers a catchy, thematically related song for each chapter. Listen to the audio story and sing along with each of the songs: it's a fun learning experience for students, parents, or teachers.

MindZeit note: this learn French for Kids course is accompanied by a downloadable booklet in Microsoft Word Format.

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The Missing Cat: Berlitz Kids French, Adventure with Nicholas

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Where is Princess? Berlitz Kids presents a fun and effective introduction to French. In The Missing Cat, the second story in the Adventures with Nicholas series, we meet Nicholas and his family, hot on the trail of their beloved cat Princess, who has disappeared from her basket. Find out what happens when the whole family sets off in search of Princess in this lively tale with a very happy ending! Their search introduces youngsters to basic words and phrases, greetings and salutations, numbers, days of the week, members of the family, places in a city, colors, food, and more.

MindZeit note: this learn French for Kids course is accompanied by a downloadable booklet in Microsoft Word Format.

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A Visit to Grandma: Berlitz Kids French, Adventures with Nicholas

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You and a child can enjoy learning French as you listen to the story of Grandma's birthday. The third story in the Berlitz Kids' Adventures with Nicholas series, A Visit to Grandma takes children through an exciting language-learning adventure.

MindZeit note: this learn French for Kids course is accompanied by a downloadable booklet in Microsoft Word Format.

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French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew (Unabridged audiobooks)

Author: Peter Mayle

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Ranging far from his adopted Provence, Peter Mayle now travels to every corner of France, armed with knife, fork, and corkscrew. He takes us to tiny, out-of-the-way restaurants, starred Michelin wonders, local village markets, annual festivals, and blessed vineyards.

We visit the Foire aux Escargots at Martigny-les-Bains - a whole weekend devoted to the lowly but revered snail. We observe the Marathon du Médoc, where runners passing through the great vineyards of Bordeaux refresh themselves en route with tastings of red wine (including ChĊteau Lafite-Rothschild!). There is a memorable bouillabaisse in a beachside restaurant on the Côte d'Azur. And we go on a search for the perfect chicken that takes us to a fair in Bourg-en-Bresse.

There is a Catholic mass in the village of Richerenches, a scared event at which thanks are given for the aromatic, mysterious, and breathtakingly expensive black truffle. We learn which is the most pungent cheese in France (it's in Normandy), witness a debate on the secret of the perfect omelette, and pick up a few luscious recipes along the way. There is even an appreciation and celebration of an essential tool for any serious food-lover in France - the Michelin Guide.

Here we have all the glory and pleasure of the French table in the most satisfying audiobook yet from the toujours delightfully entertaining Peter Mayle.

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A Good Year (Unabridged audiobooks)

Author: Peter Mayle

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Peter Mayle once again returns to the beautiful but complicated world of Provence, to find that the highly competitive boutique wine trade has hidden depths that cannot be hidden by the sunny grape arbors above the ground. Mayle's usual fish-out-of-water British protagonist comes to inspect a Provencal vineyard left to him by his newly-dead uncle. While handling the details of the estate, he is distracted by two gorgeous women, but not distracted enough to overlook that his caretaker desperately wants the vineyard's land. When a beautiful young Californian arrives on the scene, with both a credible claim to the vineyard and a fount of viticultural knowledge, the plot begins to twist and curve into elegant complication and release.

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The Sun King: Louis XIV at Versailles (Unabridged audiobooks)

Author: Nancy Mitford

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Of all the crowned heads of Europe, there was none to match the dignity, grace, and magnificence of Louis XIV, the greatest king in French history. And there was no other palace to match the glory of Versailles at its zenith.

From the moment of his accession to power in 1660, Louis took firm control of the reins of power, confounding everyone at court and in bureaucratic circles. And when that power was firmly in hand, he began building what author Nancy Mitford calls "the love of his life", Versailles. From its beginnings as a simple hunting lodge for Louis XIII, Versailles went on to become the epitome of the lavish royal residence, the pride of France and the envy of monarchs everywhere. It was a byword for fashionable elegance, courtly manners, and refined taste. It was also a hotbed of deadly political intrigue and sexual politics.

In this witty and exciting book, you will hear how Louis kept his aristocratic dandies under his control, how he used his mistresses to his advantage, and how he decided whether or not to legitimize his many offspring. Listen as legendary mistresses Madam de Maintenon and Madam de Montespan engage in a duel of hearts to win the king's favor. Find out how the king managed his incredibly complex household of thousands, and how he ruled the most powerful nation on earth from his heavenly residence.

Nancy Mitford has produced a masterpiece of biographical entertainment, certainly one of the most charming, witty, and moving works ever written about Louis XIV and his time.

This audiobook also includes a brief prologue by Arthur James Grant, Louis XIV: A Brief Biography.

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