New French With Ease (Assimil Method Books - Book and CD Edition)) Pap/Com Edition

all right so I'm going to explain why Assimil is the greatest language learning product. so I took German for 6 years in high school and then I stopped in college because I had my foreign language credit so for a year I just spoke English and my German died and then that summer I had nothing to do so I bought this and started learning French. after I finished With Ease I moved onto the next level "En Pratique" ("Using...") and I finished around winter last year. so I wanted to do this study abroad in France to make use of my Assimil so I needed to get some French credit but I didn't have space in my schedule to take French classes so I had to take the placement test and I placed out of TWO AND A HALF YEARS of college French WITH EASE with this product ok. so I had that and then I was able to study abroad in Lyon France, and here I am a little over a year later at the end of my study abroad and it was all thanks to ASSIMIL FRENCH WITH EASE and ASSIMIL FRENCH EN PRATIQUE.so this product comes with like 4 audio cds an mp3 cd and a guide book. you can read the product description on the method but i'm going to tell you how I used it. you need to do your Assimil every day TOUS LES JOURS ok and TOUS LES JOURS you listen to an entire lesson several times. I found this way of using Assimil on some random language learning method website or whatever but here it is:1. listen to the recording without reading the lesson at all.2. read the lesson aloud in French3. listen to the recording again while reading the English text.4. read the lesson aloud in French5. listen to the recording again while reading the French text6. read the lesson aloud in French7. listen to the recording without looking at the text and repeat this until you understand everything that's being said and read the text aloud in french if you need to8. play the recording one last time and each sentence try and repeat what was said. if you don't remember it, play the sentence again. obviously do this without reading the textso you do this for every new lesson. also every day you want to read over the previous lessons you've done aloud in French. every seven days there's not a conversation but a grammar review so on those days go through all the stuff you've studied read it aloud, play it, whatever. the seventh days are when you consolidate your french. TOUS LES JOURS. also take that mp3 disc of lessons and somehow get it onto your phone or ipad or whatever music player and when you walk somewhere or are on the bus listen to the lessons you've done in like random order maybe dont listen to it while driving i dont want you to die. it also may help to make a Quizlet with vocabulary or something. it's probably a good idea to listen to French News slow or RFi radio as well to practice your listening.in conclusion I don't know about the other languages at all but the french one is a gem (assimil is a French company) and it requires you to have self-discipline to do it TOUS LES JOURS but if you put in the work papa assimil will provide for you 240% with employee benefits ok. seriously i was getting a haircut in France and the ladies commented on how good my French was and it was validation after a year of studying. just remember TOUS LES JOURS

I would recommend this more for someone who has already studied French for a few semesters, say 2-3 semesters and preferably more. The less you've studied French the more you will need to take your time. This system is great for people who can't necessarily take the time and go to France and feel even after having taken 7-8 French classes still have some trouble with listening and speaking. Once you get to listen 60 you will find a huge difference in terms of your listening skills. Do not rush through this and review constantly. The book asks you to go through the 50 chapters and then review. The starts when you reach listen 50.For example, when you get to listen 51, you are expected to then also review lesson one by translating in your mind from English to French. Every lesson has the dialogues in French on the left side and the translation in English on the other page. You should study this as much as you can almost every day for at least 10 minutes a day. The point is to try your best to be consistent. I will admit, I have not been 100% consistent. I would say relatively so. Don't be one to give up just because you haven't. If you are consistent say 60% of the time or more than half the time, then give yourself a break. This is not something to play in your car when it comes to the audio portion. This is not French Behind the Wheel. If you want something for your commute, get French Behind the Wheel and do 10 minutes of French with Ease at home.I have so many French materials including Michel Thomas, French in Action. I would put this in some ways with French in Action in terms of my finding very beneficial for training my ear with its system. I feel it relatively easy to see how things build up with French with Ease. The author is also very humorous. Some of the dialogues are funny. I also love the explanations the book has.I've been using this since June, and it's, now, August. I hope to finish this by September, but it's not a race. I highly recommend this for persons who really feel they need they need a better ear for French. It will seem hard in the beginning even if you've studied French for a while, but be patient. Don't try to do too much, or you will feel overwhelmed. Don't do too little or it will take forever. I try to do up to 30 minutes of this a day and sometimes up to an hour on rare occasions or just 10 minutes. If you just do 10 minutes, it is okay! Sometimes, I take a two-day break. I think that's okay, because I am relatively consisent. Don't be a perfectionist, enjoy the language as the authors say, don't view it as a chore! Bonne chance!!!!Que fais Monsieur Duclos le soir?