French in 3 Months with Free Audio App: Your Essential Guide to Understanding and Speaking French

by DK

Overview

Learn to speak French in as little as 3 months, and impress with your new language skills!

This educational fact-filled French language guide has a fresh new look and an accompanying audio app to get you speaking, reading and writing in French quickly and effortlessly. 

Inside this exciting French language book, you’ll find:

   • "Imitated pronunciation" sections that make unfamiliar French sounds less daunting to English learners
   • Word lists, key phrases and model sentences that build vocabulary 
   • Three self-assessment sections that allow the learner to engage with their own learning, and exercises follow each grammar lesson, reinforcing what has just been taught
   • Two mini bilingual dictionaries, meaning you can check words in both English and French

Learning a new language has never been this fun and easy with the latest edition of this classic self-study course providing all the resources needed to speak, read and write in French. Whether you’re a complete beginner or want to refresh your knowledge, Hugo: French in Three Months will have you speaking French fluently in just 12 weeks.

This carefully structured grammar-based course contains 12 weekly chapters filled with informative lessons on the key grammatical structures and presents a range of useful vocabulary, along with easy-to-follow exercises to boost your learning. It helps develop and refine reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, and teaches approximately 4,000 words.

Whether you’re learning a new language for work, a future vacation or as a hobby, the Hugo language course series is the perfect place to start. Learn languages like Dutch, German, Italian or Spanish in only 12 weeks! Each course includes an audio app to help with understanding and pronunciation. Language learning has never been so easy!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780744051605
Publisher:	DK
Publication date:	04/05/2022
Series:	DK Hugo in 3 Months Language Learning Courses
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	108,936
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jacqueline Lecanuet and Ronald Overy are former lecturers at South Bank University, who both had experience teaching French from beginner to postgraduate level. Lecaneut is a graduate of Caen and Lille universities and holds a postgraduate diploma in linguistics. Her late husband, Overy, authored textbooks in French, Spanish, and Russian.

Table of Contents

Pronunciation 7

Week 1 13

Articles: the, a, an, some

Gender of nouns

Plural of nouns

Subject pronouns: I, you, he, she, etc.

Addressing people

Avoir ("to have")

The negative

Vocabulary, exercises, and conversation

Week 2 24

Être ("to be")

Adjectives

Regular verbs ending in -er

Asking questions

Numbers

Vocabulary, exercises, and conversation

Week 3 35

Regular verbs ending in -ir

Demonstrative adjectives: this, that, these, those

Useful expressions using avoir

More negatives: never, nothing, etc.

Asking where?, when?, how?, etc.

The imperative: giving orders

Vocabulary, exercises, and conversation

Week 4 48

The present perfect Possessives: my, your, his, her, etc.

The expression c'est ("it is")

The time

More numbers

Seasons, months, dates, days of the week

The position of adjectives

Vocabulary, exercises, and conversation

Self-assessment test 1

Week 5 67

Regular verbs ending in -re

Irregular verbs ending in -re

Adverbs: saying how things are done

The pronoun "it"

Object pronouns: me, him, her, to him, to her, etc.

Vocabulary, exercises, and conversation

Week 6 83

Prepositions: in, to, from, etc.

Il y a ("there is/are")

Comparisons: more, less

Superlatives: most, least

Better, best, worse, worst

Talking about the weather

Verbs forming the past with être

The useful expression je voudrais

Using the expression il faut

Vocabulary, exercises, and conversation

Week 7 103

Quantity: much, many, enough, etc.

Talking about the future

Can, must, want, know

Countries

Numbers

Vocabulary, exercises, and conversation

Week 8 120

The imperfect tense ("used to do," "was doing")

Relative pronouns; who, whom, which, that

The conditional ("would")

More about pronouns

Savoir and connaitre (to "know")

Vocabulary, exercises, and conversation

Self-assessment test 2

Week 9 138

Demonstrative pronouns: this one, that one, these, those Possessive pronouns: mine, yours, hers, etc.

More question forms

More adverbs

Position of adverbs

Vocabulary, exercises, and conversation

Week 10 153

Reflexive verbs (se laver)

Verbs preceded by prepositions

Translation of "to" before an infinitive

Order of pronouns ("he gave it to me")

Useful pronouns: en, y, on

Vocabulary, exercises, and conversation

Week 11 170

Conjunctions: but, because, while, etc.

Numbers over 100

The passive voice

The present participle

More about the imperative

The imperative with pronouns

The past perfect ("he had gone")

Depuis ("since")

Venir de ("to have just …")

Vocabulary, exercises, and conversation

Week 12 188

The many uses of the verb faire

The past historic

Verbs with or without a preposition

Spelling changes

The subjunctive

Vocabulary, exercises, and conversation

Self-assessment test 3

Reading practice 210

Voyage en Europe

Key to exercises 212

Mini-dictionary 234

English-French

French-English

Index 255