Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.8 / 5.0

A must if you're traveling to a French-speaking country!:

Having had a year of French in college, I was concerned that this Audio book would be too basic for me, but I found out it wasn't! It does cover some very basic things (greetings, numbers, etc.) which would be more helpful for beginners, but it also covers typical situations in a trip (airport, restaurant, accommodations, etc.), for which the vocabulary and grammar may not be learned until advanced level courses.

It comes with 2 Audio CD's of about 70 minutes each, broken into 12+ lessons. The book has... more info

thank goodness i saw this in the store!:

i just returned from my first trip to paris. although i had two years french in college, that has been ~14 years and i was fairly concerned about being able to communicate well. i did some review work with conversational french tapes and was going to depend on that when a friend pointed this book out to me. i bought it to take along.

this book is a treasure trove of useful phrases and cultural information, a lot of which is not in the travel guides. the dictionary at the back was very useful, although i... more info

Fodor's French for traveler's:

I used this book to review my french before a trip to Paris. I've used several similar books by other authors in the past. This one is the best. The dictionary in the back, and the section on grammar were very helpful. Highly recommended.

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