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Providing a structured vocabulary for all levels of undergraduate French courses, this text offers coverage of concrete and abstract vocabulary relating to the physical, cultural, social, commercial and political environment, as well as exposure to commonly encountered technical terminology.
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This textbook provides a comprehensive and structured vocabulary for all levels of undergraduate French courses. It is divided into twenty thematic sections allowing for easy integration into modular courses. Words and phrases have been grouped into units and graded according to likely usefulness and difficulty. There are 750 accompanying exercises.
This new guide to French synonyms is the first to be produced specifically for English-speaking students of French. Its aim is to enable them to develop, broaden and enhance their awareness of the complexity and richness of French vocabulary by presenting in an easily accessible form information not readily available in traditional dictionaries. It contains a wide variety of material, both formal and informal, literary and practical. The tabular layout is designed for maximum ease of reference, with sample contexts and English equivalents for each French item. There are two indexes of French and English words.
French vocabulary book + French dictionary This French vocabulary book contains more than 3000 words and phrases which are grouped by topic to make it easier for you to pick what to learn first. On top of that, the index in the second half of the book provides you with a basic French-English as well as English-French dictionary which makes this a great resource for learners of all levels. What you can expect from this book: This French learning resource is a combination of French vocabulary book and a two-way basic French dictionary: Part 1 - Topic based French vocabulary book: This is the main part of the book and represents a list of chapters each containing French vocabularies for a certain topic. The French vocabularies in the chapters are unsorted on purpose to separate remembering them from a defined alphabetical order. You can start at any chapter and dive directly into the topics that interest you the most. Part 2 - Basic English-French dictionary: The index in the second half of the book can be used as a basic French dictionary to look up words you have learned but can't remember or learn new words you need. Part 3 - Basic French-English dictionary: Easy to use and with just the right amount of words, this third part finishes off with a second index that allows you to look for French words and directly find the English translation How to use this French vocabulary book: Not sure where to start? We suggest you first work your way through the verbs, adjectives and phrases chapters in part one of the book. This will give you a great base for further studying and already enough vocabulary for basic communication. The French dictionaries in part two and three can be used whenever needed to look up words you hear on the street, English words you want to know the French translation for or simply to learn some new words. Some final thoughts: Vocabulary books have been around for centuries and as with so many things that have been around for some time, they are not very fashionable and a bit boring, but they usually work very well. Together with the basic French dictionary parts, this vocabulary book is a great resource to support you throughout the process of learning French and comes in particularly handy at times when there is no internet to look up words and phrases.
Have you been trying to learn French and simply can’t find the way to expand your vocabulary? Do your teachers recommend you boring textbooks and complicated stories that you don’t really understand? Are you looking for a way to learn the language quicker without taking shortcuts? If you answered “Yes!” to at least one of those previous questions, then this book is for you! We’ve compiled the 2000 Most Common Words in French, a list of terms that will expand your vocabulary to levels previously unseen. Did you know that — according to an important study — learning the top two thousand (2000) most frequently used words will enable you to understand up to 84% of all non-fiction and 86.1% of fiction literature and 92.7% of oral speech? Those are amazing stats, and this book will take you even further than those numbers! In this book: - A detailed introduction with tips and tricks on how to improve your learning - A list of 2000 of the most common words in French and their translations - An example sentence for each word – in both French and English - Finally, a conclusion to make sure you’ve learned and supply you with a final list of tips Don’t look any further, we’ve got what you need right here! In fact, we’re ready to turn you into a French speaker… are you ready to get involved in becoming one?
This textbook provides a comprehensive and structured vocabulary for all levels of undergraduate French courses, including relevant higher and further education courses. It offers a broad coverage of concrete and abstract vocabulary relating to the physical, cultural, social, commercial and political environment, as well as exposure to commonly encountered technical terminology. Within each section, words and phrases have been grouped into manageable, assimilable units and broadly 'graded' according to likely usefulness and difficulty. The accompanying exercises for private study and classroom use are designed to reinforce the work done on lists, to develop good dictionary use, to encourage independent and collaborative learning, to promote precision and awareness of nuance and register, and to offer the opportunity for the development of cognate transferable skills, such as communicative competence, teamwork and problem-solving. The division of the book into twenty thematic sections allows it to be easily integrated into a modular course structure.
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. This brand-new title in Barron's foreign language vocabulary building series replaces a previous French vocabulary-building volume that had the same focus and general purpose. However, this new larger book presents approximately 13,000 entries--more than twice the number of words with definitions as the title it replaces. It also includes online audio, which coaches language students in correct pronunciation of French and presents approximately 10 hours of audio, which covers virtually the entire book. All vocabulary in this book is categorized under different themes. Each theme groups together many different words relating to similar topics, which helps students of French and travelers to France conveniently find words that are related by subject. Among each book's 24 separate subject themes are: business terms, medical terms, household terms, scientific words and phrases, units of measurement, clothing, food and dining, transportation, art and culture, and others.
An easy little dictionary to learn French vocabularyIf there was a method for you to learn French vocabulary quickly and efficiently, would you do it? Of course you would, who wouldn't like to learn faster!This is exactly what this book is about, an easy way to learn French vocabulary. French is already complicated in general and there is no need to make it any harder.With this little French dictionary, you will learn 2500 words by word families. But how does it work? Simply by learning one word, that word will lead you up to 11 words from the same family. To understand the meaning, there is a sentence for each word family. Also, everything is translated to English, and as you will see, you probably already know a lot of words without knowing it. This book is the perfect French vocabulary builder, an easy French book to take everywhere with you.Practice your pronunciation with the FREE Audio available on our website.
