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Excellent as a French refresher or beginner course.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 68 / 71
Date: May 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have had this cd-rom for approximately 4 months now and I am coming close to being very fluent en francais. It offers 3 complete courses, boasting vocabulary builders, lessons in grammar and verb conjugation, games to reinforce what you have learned and you can also have conversations with virtual characters so that you can practice speaking. I am engaged to a Frenchman and I just keep surprising him with how much I have learned. I go to France frequently, and this has made a huge difference in my linguistic skills. Future Francophiles (persons who love french language and culture), Good luck.

The best course yet!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 26
Date: November 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This course was very helpfull in helping me to learn French. I have purchased many French learning software and this is the best one yet. I really like the conversation CD where you are able to conversate with people at a party and they answer according to what you say out of the given list of options. This course started out very basic and is helping me to work my way up. The dictionary is helpfull also.

Excellent Value

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 22 / 22
Date: February 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This program is excellent value for the money. It provides a huge amount of material which will bring you up to the equivalent of a first year college French course at least on a conversational level. Previously, it did not work with Windows 2000, but there is now an easy to install patch. If you are thinking of travelling to France and have about 2 - 3 months to get through the course, this will provide you a basic level of French for getting around. I know, because that is what I did.

We can learn to speak French with Windows 2000 NOW

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 17 / 27
Date: September 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a great product! It NOT ONLY works with Win 95 and 98, BUT ALSO with Windows 2000 NOW. Login www.elanguage.com to download the patch for Windows 2000.

If you can get it to work, it's a great product

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: July 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones -- I have version 8.0 (not 8.0.1) and it worked fine on both my old computer running Windows 98 and my new one with Windows ME. Reading through the other reviews I feel like I dodged a bullet. Hopefully The Learning Company will straighten this whole mess out because if you can get the program to work, it's excellent. I especially like the interactive conversations (complete with video of the actors) and the short film clips. I'm looking forward to getting TLC's Learn to Speak Spanish...after a careful look at the reviews, that is...

Great for beginners or refresher course!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think the other reviewer who rated this item and gave it very few stars may have confused this with another french language program because this one does not come with an audio tape as you see above. Instead it's 4 dvd-roms that are just terrific. Real practise conversations using your microphone, lots of grammar information, pronunciation drills and quizzes. This software is terrific. I am looking forward to their new version which is coming out soon. I hope it includes onscreen flashcards and more extensive grammar drills, quizzes and help. That would be my only suggestion. For additionaly french grammar help I would highly suggest; "Essential French Grammar" by Seymour Resnick, "French Verb Drills" by R.de Roussy de Sales, and you will also find extremely helpful, "Pronounce it Perfectly in French" by Christopher Kendris, PH.D which was released by Barron's. Good Luck everyone!

Improves your pronunciation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: April 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a very professional tool to improve your languaje skills. I love to use the voice recognition feature and the accent assesment. It really helps you to speak clearly.

Lessons are very well designed and it covers everything: pronunciation, grammar, reading, listening, vocavulary etc..

It's an excelent tool :)

Learn to Speak French 8.0

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: May 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have just started using the program but have found it very easy to use, the Learning Company did a great job with this program and offering very helpful tools.

Learn to Speak Windows NT Version

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: November 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am very interested in this product and willing to buy one, my problem is I am using a Windows NT platform... do you have plan to sell this product to support Windows NT platform?

Good - if used as a supplement.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 256 / 263
Date: May 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Let me start off by saying that I am a native English speaker, and I am also an ESL teacher. I purchased this program so that I could use it to supplement my classes and give my students some extra practice. It has its up points and down points. Let me explain what I think of this program from a teacher's point of view. THE GOOD: 1) Like other "Learn to Speak" titles I would have to say that its strongest point is helping students learn vocabulary and pronunciation. It has some good vocabulary lists, a gauge that allows students to see how their recorded pronunciation compares to a native speaker, and wonderful simulated conversations that allow learners to practice English in a very life like manner. 2) It has several cultural movies about cities in the United States. They are very enjoyable and teach students about geography, history and U.S. culture while allowing them to practice their listening skills. 3) If students want to study something other than the lessons included on the four CDs, they can download additional lessons from the Internet. It is very easy to do, takes about ten minutes, and there are several topics to choose from. THE BAD: 1) The dictionary is good for nothing except helping students to pronounce words. Since this program is entirely in English, there is no translation for the words. It really is quite a useless dictionary! 2) You can't print anything! I thought it would be nice to print out the words and expressions so that students could take them home to practice them, but alas, you cannot. 3) The program (including instructions) is entirely in English. Don't get me wrong, there are many benefits to this, but if a student is using this for self-study I don't think they will get far before tiring of trying to understand all the English instructions. (For Spanish speakers I would suggest "Hablemos Ingles" from this same company.) 4) This program really is for lower level learners (first and second year.) My advanced students enjoyed the cultural movies, and found the simulated conversations novel, but the rest wasn't helpful to them. 5) If you already have version 7.0, then don't bother upgrading to this one. Only the simulated conversations are better. The movies and lessons seem to be the same - only organized a bit differently and in a more confusing manner. OVERALL: This is a good program if being used to supplement a current course or to give learners extra practice. I wouldn't recommend it for self-study because lower level students might have a hard time with the English instructions, and more advanced students would find it too easy. Definitely don't upgrade from version 7.0! If you are thinking about getting this program I would actually recommend that you get version 7.0 - you can find it for a much cheaper price, it is very nearly the same and it is organized better.

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