Product Description: Enjoy learning the French you need! Finally an entertaining, non-intimidating way for you to build speaking proficiency! This French course covers 10 key situations--from greetings and buying food and drink to shopping, asking for directions, and visiting locals--and includes two dialogues per topic...read more

Product Description: Many people learn French for years at school, only to reach a plateau beyond which they never emerge. This is an effective short-cut to fluency. "Better French" helps the reader by showing them the right way to use problem words. It addresses the subtleties of the language...read more

Product Description: Left detachment constructions (LDs) (e.g. un buffet de campagne, c’est un meuble) are examined in a corpus of informal spontaneous conversation between educated native speakers of French. The overwhelming majority of these constructions are shown to have a clearly pragmatic motivation...read more