What can I say?... these "dummy" books have a purpose, and this one is no different. It's a helpful addition to the French class I'm taking where everything is explained in French. Take this to your favorite cafe to study with a glass of wine... you'll be happy. (Don't wave around the cover though!) Read more

I recently became interested in learning to speak French. I had three semesters of French in college 24 years ago and I spent a summer working in French-speaking Brussels as a supermarket checker. My goal was to become a Francophone. I had a good start, but life happened and I let it go.... Two months ago I suddenly got inspired to pick it up again, quite a daunting prospect as I had forgotten almost everything and many grammatical points I never learned in the first place, Now I'm really feeling the love for the French language! I found Laura's book and I've worked though all of it and my knowledge and understanding of French grammar is quite strong as a result. It has also helped me learn, or re-learn a lot of vocabulary. This book is thorough, logically laid out, and concise. I found each chapter to be the perfect amount of material to complete in one sitting; studying a chapter and doing the written exercises took me about an hour. There are aspects of French grammar that are tricky, to be sure, but Laura explains them in the most intuitive way possible and provides lots of examples throughout every chapter. Despite this book being 'intermediate' it contains all the grammar one needs to speak and understand French. She doesn't include any of the "weird" tenses except the passé simple (by weird I mean uncommon in spoken French, but rather literary tenses). As an intermediate learner you don't want to clutter your brain with all that stuff anyway, at least I don't! Finally, I enjoyed Laura's humor and levity in her descriptions. It made this book all the more enjoyable. Now, with my strong command of French grammar and vocabulary I'm listing to French podcasts every day and it's amazing how far I've progressed in just two months. I plan to join a French conversation group soon. Si vous voulez améliorer votre Français, je recommende fortement ce livre :-) Read more

I bought this because I am subscribed to Laura Lawless's lessons on line. It is well written and takes you through explanations and gives exercises. You can choose your own topics so you can go straight to your own particular difficulties. It is written with good humour and is very concise and detailed with an understanding of what it is like to be stumbling around at this level. Laura's on line free subscription newsletter offered very good advice about how to go about learning French. The very lack of a hard sell encouraged me to buy this book. Read more

En cuestión de las características físicas las hojas son un poco delgadas. Read more

Great Book, helped me a lot to review and remember what I learned in school. Read more