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The Ultimate French Review and Practice
by David M Stillman, Ronni L Gordon
from McGraw-Hill
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Probably best as a French refresher course 
I started learning French in grade school and stopped midway through high school, more than ten years ago now. Since then my French slowly began to disappear. Eager to regain my proficiency in this most beautiful language, I picked up this CD course, and was pleasantly surprised to find that I could understand a good portion of it from the first listen. However, for beginners, the vocabulary, sentence structure and speaking manner may be too advanced. As previous reviewers noted, the dictations are often... more info
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Good practice hampered by audio quality issues
The books in this series are quite excellent, but I was very disappointed in this audio CD. The exercises are fine (albeit too fast-paced for anyone but a real expert), and do indeed poke into some excellent grammar points that are not typically covered even in a fourth-semester college French class.
My issue is with the audio quality. It's clear that the producers of this CD merely took a VERY BAD cassette version of this course and made a CD from it without doing any processing at all. The tape hiss... more info
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A very good grammar review 
This is a wonderfully priced grammar review. It is not quite as polished (there are a few typos) as the second book by these two authors, "Ultimate Verb Review," but it is pretty good. It covers nouns, verbs, conjunctions, pronouns, basically everything you need to practice your French. I would suggest it as a good way to recall the French you've lost since high school, or as a good supplement to a college level course. You should also get the "Ultimate Verb Review" which treats French verbs in an even more... more info
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Great for on the go!!
The book is great, but the audio is even better! For me it's been great refreshing my French as I drive to work. Of course, as the audio packaging indicates, it's intended for intermediate French-speakers. Beginners may find that the presenters speak fairly quickly. That aside, the sound quality is actually quite good too. If you think the audio on "Ultimate French" is bad, you haven't heard the audio on "Mastering French!" Overall, I highly recommend!
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