Basic French: Audio-Forum Self-Instructing Course

12 Audio Cassettes, Units 1-6. Produced by Audio Forum, CT. The study method applied here is unsurpassed, because the cassette player becomes your "tireless teacher," repeating the same phrase, time after time, with no change in inflection, while you have time to respond during the pauses on the recording. You test yourself, correct your errors, and repeat as often as you wish. All the voices you hear on the recordings are those of native French speakers. Once you learn a pattern you then learn how to use that pattern in many other contexts. In this way, you are not simply learning to mimic, but to use your new language creatively. You learn from this course by listening and repeating, and repeating again. The process is very similar to the way you learned your first langauge, which you probably spoke fluently long before you could read or understand rules of grammar.