Reddit mentions of The Ultimate French Review and Practice

I find that it's really easy to teach yourself once you have a sound foundation. At that point, you sort of know what you don't know.

I broke my learning into a few main topics:

1. Grammar - Advanced French Grammar and this one
   
2. «La colle française» - (the glue) this mostly includes prepositions, adverbs, interjections, and temporal vocabulary--it's the little things which count!
   
3. Idiomatic expressions - phrases like, "it turns out that" and "on the spot" to "Rome wasn't built in a day"
   
4. Verbs
   
5. Nous + adjectives
   
   I listed them in the order I learn them. I really focus on #1-3 because I think they're the true indicators of fluency, and #3 makes movie-watching a lot easier. Verbs can be tricky if you can't spot their tenses and conjugated forms. Nouns and adjectives are the easiest to pick up. I make my own study decks using Anki.
   
   This and that are good for translating phrases.
   
   I think accents come naturally. Anyway, that's not so important if you can't formulate your ideas in coherent French ;) This is a fun site for testing out pronunciation.
   
   Hope this helps!

There are a few good grammar review books out there. The Ultimate French Review and Practice is good, as is Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French Grammar.

Depending on how well you read, a quick read of the Bescherelle books (in particular Grammaire would be good). You're reading in French and just getting a solid presentation of the grammar. It might be boring, but what I have done is read one small bit and then focus on that for the next little bit while I read/talk/speak. Then I grab another bit of grammar (doesn't even have to be related to the previous one) and just focus on that for a bit. I've found that you don't have to fully review every little bit to death- once you start using that part of your brain again things kinda just fall back into place on their own.

If you literally meant a textbook than here's a highly rated and cheap one http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0071744142?cache=9d038235a42201e0a4e3a28badfdfd5e&pi=SY200_QL40&qid=1406256742&sr=8-3#ref=mp_s_a_1_3

Also don't miss out on duolingo, a free online and phone app for learning languages. Bonne chance

Idiomatic expressions are a pain to understand, much less remember, but it is necessary to use the appropriate expressions to sound like a native speaker. Use Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, etc... but also have a grammar book you can consult, that would help you with expressions and phrases and the different ways in which verbs are employed. I strongly recommend The Ultimate French Review and Practice.

You're welcome!! Thank you for liking my explanation ヾ(＾-＾)ノ. My comment got downvoted for quite a few times so i thought that maybe I wrote something wrong (´･ω･`)? . Anyway, it depends on your level actually so may I know where your level is at now?

This one has the grammar book that is said to be good for any level. I've browsed through it and it's quite thorough. and there is also the vocab book on the same page.
https://www.reddit.com/r/French/comments/4n18w7/just_came_across_the_practice_makes_perfect/

For me I personally love this one, even though it's not really complete, but it's still very thorough. Ultimate French Review if u don't wanna buy it i'm sure the the pdf is somewhere on the internet. however i only recommend this for those who are at least A2, or preparing for B1, and you totally don't need it if you're sitting for A1.

>There are a few good grammar review books out there. The Ultimate French Review and Practice is good, as is Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French Grammar.

Would you recommend one over the other? Or both?

The Ultimate French Review and Practice and The Ultimate French Verb Review and Practice

These cover pretty much everything.

Oh, I see. No, I did not make it and I have nothing to do with it. I just found it at the bookstore and it worked really well for me. It is this book:

https://www.amazon.ca/Ultimate-French-Review-Practice-CD-ROM/dp/0071744142

Memrise and Duolingo do different things. Duolingo is for learning the basic grammar and vocabulary of a language; Memrise is just for memorizing vocabulary. I've already learned all the vocabulary on the Duolingo French course, so I have no use for it anymore. On Memrise, there is no limit to the number of words I can memorize. I add new words to my Memrise course every week. Plus, I find that Memrise has a more effective spaced repetition system, so it's much easier to remember the words I learn on it.

I am currently using this book: https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-French-Review-Practice/dp/0071744142

I really like all the Ultimate French series. There's one specifically for grammar http://www.amazon.com/The-Ultimate-French-Review-Practice/dp/0071744142