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Immersionplus French Complete: The Final Step to Fluency! (French Edition) Audio CD – Audiobook, January 1, 2005

French Edition by Inc Penton Overseas (Author)

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Each program consists of a variety of entertaining dialogues introduced briefly in English, and then spoken entirely in the target foreign language. The vignette is first heard at a normal conversational rate, then at a slower rate to aid comprehension. The same dialogue is then repeated at the normal conversational rate used by native speakers.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penton Overseas Inc (January 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ French
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1591252261
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1591252269
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.25 x 7.75 inches

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I love being able to listen to dialogues from native French ...

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2018

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I love being able to listen to dialogues from native French speakers at different speeds to help with my comprehension.

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Rick

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Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2007

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There are several language audio CD's on the market that are really fabulous for the beginnner but I had not yet seen one really good language audio CD course for either intermediate or advanced users. The "Immersionplus French Complete" may be the exception in this case. Even though the audio CD's in this course do not contain any interactive features, these are still among the best French language audio CD's available for those particular users. Each one of the interesting stories in the audio CD's is spoken by native speakers three times. The stories are spoken first at a normal pace, the second time at a slower pace, and again a third time at a normal pace. With this novel approach, Penton Overseas has done a really fantastic job of enriching one's listening, understanding and conversatonal skills of the French language.

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Lisa Ferns

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2015

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This is a very helpful way to brush up on your French.

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SJHowie

If only I had the guide book.

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2011

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I ordered these lessons form a vendor on Marketplace, though i received it in a few days' time, the manual was not inside. I have started with the first cd and I understand much of it, but I am not sure what I am hearing at other times. I really need the guide with the french text and english translations, that should have been with the package. The seller is willing to refund mony, but cannot provide the guide. Does anyone know how i can get this guide? I looked on the products site and had no luck. Does anyone have an electronic version or some such of this guidebook? Any help would be appreciated. This is the product missing the guide:
Immersionplus French Complete: The Final Step to Fluency! (Immersionplus(tm) Audio Series) (French Edition)

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Palehose Prof

Helpful, But Could Be Better

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2009

I am an intermediate speaker of French and have used a number of French self-language-learning systems over the years. I bought Immersionplus specificially because I wanted more practice in comprehending spoken French.

This product is definitely not for someone with a limited knowledge of French. It consists of a number of conversations between two or three persons on topics such as going to a restaurant, going on a cruise, and shopping. Each conversation is broken down into a number of parts, generally three. The conversations are interspersed with each other; for example, part one of going to the restaurant might be followed by part one of going fishing, etc. Each part is played three times: first, at "normal" speed, then at a slower speed, and then at the normal speed again. The set is composed of three CDs in all and contains a book with all the conversations both in French and in English translation.

The topics are ok, more suitable for someone who really wants to live in France than for someone who will be there for a short time as a vacationer. I thought the "normal" speed was quite fast, with no pauses that one often sees in regular speech. However, it probably is quite ordinary speed for the French. I missed large parts at this speed my first time through the conversation.

I found the slow speed to be more comprehensible and picked up much more this time through. However, especially when I did not know the vocabulary, I typically did not understand everything. At this point, I generally replayed the slow speech while following it in the book, and this helped greatly. When I went back to the normal speed, I could follow much better.

In some cases, the slow speed was too slow, and it was difficult to follow the rhythm of the conversation.

I sometimes had trouble knowing who was talking; for example, the father and his grown son in the fishing conversation sounded very similar. Also, I didn't like the way the conversations were interspersed with each other; I would have liked all the parts of one topic to be together instead of spread out throughout the CDs.

The booklet was helpful and the conversations did teach me (through induction) some grammatical constructions and idioms that I did not know. It would have been helpful if each conversation had pointed out some of the grammatical fine points in the conversation.

Overall, this is one of the better products I have found for practicing comprehension of spoken French.

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desmond

Penton Makes Curious Choices

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2005

First of all, a word about Penton Overseas:

I bought all three levels of Penton's "Learn in Your Car French" and after having tried Michel Thomas, Pimsleur and others, I quickly realized LIYCF was the very best of the bunch. Very thorough in terms of vocabulary, pronounciation and also very easy to use. (After a year of daily study, I am at the final side of the last tape: it's that thorough!)

Having said that, I feel ImmersionPlus is also a very strong product. (I also recommend SmartFrench for a similar sort of product.)

However, I find two things baffling about ImmersionPlus:

1) The literature says we hear "a variety of regional accents." While I agree pronounciation of certain words differs from speaker to speaker (e.g. "de-MAIN" vs. "de-MAHN" for "demain,") **no attempt is ever made to inform listeners where each accent is from**, meaning listeners never get a clear idea which accent they should be focusing on if they want their accent to have any sort of consistency.

2) Even stranger, the English seems to go out of its way to resemble the French as little as possible, putting words in the mouths of the French speakers for seemingly little purpose. For example: "Touchons du bois" ("touch the wood," or "knock on wood") is translated "keep your fingers crossed". This happens throughout. It's pointless and just plain aggravating.

4 Stars. And fire the translator. If he wants to write his own ideas that badly, he should get back to work on that novel and give up translation. French is hard enough without confusing things unnecessarily.

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Mike313

Itls OK

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 10, 2014

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I guess the real mark of how good something is is whether you use it or not. I used this a bit when I got it but I quickly reverted to using a book. One reason is that I copied it onto my MP3 player and found it a hassle to manage the tracks. I later discovered that my local library had a copy. So maybe try it- if it's available from your local library - before you buy it.

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