Basic French in 12 Weeks

Welcome to "learn French in 12 weeks”. The purpose of this book is to help you create your own personal phrase book. Instead of giving you a couple of thousand ready made sentences, I help you understand the mechanism of the French language. Once the mechanism of a language is understood all you have to do is get the parts you need, put them together in the correct order (which is taught in this book) "et voila” (there you are). Can you remember when you were little, did you learn to say perfect sentences and then say them or did you just communicate with just the words you had at the time? If you are like most of us you probably used the later option because any communication is better than none. Well! I think so anyway. If you think that you need to speak perfectly a language to be able to communicate this book is not for you. Just put it back and select another one. If you are still reading this book i have a feeling that all you want to do is to pick up the basic skills to be able to really communicate in French. You can always learn more vocabulary as the need arises. Did the method you used to learn your mother language work? I have a feeling it did! * * * * * * * * This book is made of four parts. - General rules: this part will give you a general idea of the pronunciation of the French language and its grammar. - Structures: the key to understand how the French language is built. With this part you can start building French sentences instantly. - Appendix: use it as a reference for vocabulary and common phrases, verbs, pronouns, numbers, date and time. - Exercises: each exercise is set to be done within a week. If at the end of a week you have not finished your exercise, it is more important to get onto the following week than to stagnate on the one week. The way the exercises are set you will benefit more by moving on than by trying to finish the previous week. The idea is to understand how to build a sentence in French. There are only a few basic structures, once you are familiar with them, all you need to do is start building (ie. You learn : "i want some bread” when you are familiar with it start replacing words "you want some bread”, "he wants some water”, "they need some water”, "i need lots of water” "i have lots of bread”... Before you know it you will have learnt the sentences and vocabulary that you need for basic conversation. If you want to learn French with a minimum of effort follow this simple advice. - Read thoroughly all the english text within this manual from start to finish at least once. This will make you aware of how much information is made available to you and it will be much easier for you to find what you need later. - Get a little note pad and a pen that will remain with you day and night. - Anytime you think of something that you would like to know how to say in French write it down immediately on your little pad in English .it could be a word or