(Part 2) Best products from r/learnfrench

Some months back, people recommended Bescherelle. I got one, and am happy with it. This thing is so widely used, it has become a common name for these sorts of things.

Hi! I would love to get this book. Is this it?: Teach Yourself Complete French (Teach Yourself Language) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0071663770/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_nb7PCbGEYP9G1

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

you chose 2 grammar book. the second book, the "easy" one, might be too simple for an intermediate. if you want simple grammar drills for repetition, then it could still be useful. for vocabulary, I got this workbook-- "frequency dictionary for french: core vocabulary for learners" by deryle lonsdale.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415775310/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

5000 top vocabulary. I want to make an anki deck with it (app flashcard deck)...... I downloaded a vocabulary premade deck-- not french, spanish-- the deck was terrible as flashcards for me..... the entries were so lengthy with sentence structure examples. horrible for speed drills. maybe there are good premade french decks, but I thought I would start off with exactly what I want by building my own.

edit: fluent-forever recommends adding images and sound to basic anki flashcards when building your own deck. I'll see how my basic cards go first. I want to focus on speed drills and skype conversations with an italki professional tutor. here's fluent-forever's anki advice..... https://fluent-forever.com/chapter2/

This isn’t an online resource but I have found this series of books immensely helpful for grammar:

Grammaire Progressive Du Francais: Niveau Debutant (French Edition)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/2090381140/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_op30BbGBQFNMB

(The answers are in a separate booklet, FYI)

It looks like the DVD (at least the one listed on Amazon US) offers a French language track. If you don't want to buy it yourself, you can try borrowing it from your local library or suggesting they buy it if they don't already have a copy. I've been doing that with a lot of movies lately and just finished watching Happy Death Day with French subtitles.

For English we use a desk calendar, and it often supplies interesting words though we're native speakers. Mine hangs on the wall in front of the toilet. There's one for learning French.

Get a bilingual book maybe? Like Alice in Wonderland or something.

Spiral is a good tv show, it’s a police drama. I’m an American that speaks French and it can be a little rough for me sometimes but you learn some new words here and there

It's 9 dollars on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/2278061208/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_clYRDbE2JF67N

This was just $0.99, so I splurged and picked it up for my kindle. I'll read one of the self contained stories out loud to myself sometimes in the evening to work on my pronunciation. It's no Wayside School is Falling Down, but for the price I'm okay with that.

https://www.amazon.fr/Communication-progressive-français-Nouvelle-couverture/dp/2090382112/ref=asc_df_2090382112/?tag=googshopfr-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=228730054948&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=248177524729956503&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9055980&hvtargid=pla-385365161728&psc=1
Just an example..you need A1

It opened the FR amazon for me, but you can try the other versions too

That's the old version. Here is the new version https://www.amazon.com/Complete-French-Beginner-Intermediate-Course/dp/144417729X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=K8WE4UE6OFY6&keywords=teach+yourself+complete+french&qid=1554494385&s=gateway&sprefix=Teach+yourself+complete+&sr=8-1

Is this the Assimil you are referring to? I've noticed there are a lot of different versions.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/French-Ease-Assimil-Method-Books/dp/2700520130/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482105425&sr=1-2&keywords=french+assimil

https://www.amazon.ca/Graduate-Bilingual-Dustin-Hoffman/dp/B00079Z9VO

In my French class we use a textbook called Débuts which has an accompanying movie (Le Chemin du retour) that was designed to show you the text material in action.

https://www.amazon.com/Débuts-Introduction-H-Jay-Siskin/dp/007338643X

https://www.amazon.fr/Futurama-Lint%C3%A9grale-Saisons-longs-m%C3%A9trages/dp/B00ZB8IUSK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522610527&sr=8-1&keywords=futurama

For those of you outside of the US replace the .com in the URL with your country code, eg. for Canadians: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07H93D4WW instead of https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H93D4WW

Go to the .com page and change '.com' to '.co.uk' and it should work

Edit: link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07H93D4WW/ref=pe_385721_48724741_TE_M1DP

> Do you have the French frequency list somewhere neatly structured in a spreadsheet or something with the definitions or do you know of a place where I can find this without needing to look up 2000 words separately?

Not OP, but I spent the day turning this dictionary into a flashcard-friendly spreadsheet. I'm still in the process of collecting decent sound samples, so the last column can be ignored for now.

The frenchsounds youtube channel.

The Savoir Dire: Cours de Phonétique et de Prononciation book.

Perhaps getting familiar with the IPA phonetic notation for French.