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Schaum's Outline of French Vocabulary, 3ed (Schaum's Outline Series) [Kindle Edition]

Mary Coffman Crocker
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Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples, solved problems, and practice exercises to test your skills. This Schaum's Outline gives you Practice problems with full explanations that reinforce knowledge Coverage of the most up-to-date developments in your course field In-depth review of practices and applications Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores! Schaum's Outlines-Problem Solved.

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Study faster, learn better-and get top grades with Schaum's Outlines

Millions of students trust Schaum's Outlines to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hundreds of examples as well as practice exercises to test your skills.

Use Schaum's Outlines to:

  • Brush up before tests
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Fully compatible with your classroom text, Schaum's highlights all the important facts you need to know. Use Schaum's to shorten your study time-and get your best test scores!

This Schaum's Outline gives you:

  • Clear presentations of everyday words and phrases, including those useful for traveling or living in French-speaking regions
  • Complete coverage of the vocabulary used in today's spoken and written French
  • Helpful explanations of variant usages in France and Canada

Chapters include: At the airport * On the airplane * Passport control and customs * At the train station * The automobile * Asking for directions * At the hotel * At the bank * At the post office * A telephone call * At the hairdresser's * At the laundry * At the restaurant * Shopping for food * At the clothing store * The computer * At home * At the doctor's office * At the hospital * At the theater and movies * Sports * The beach * Skiing * Camping * The weather * Education * At work * A job application * Numbers * Weights and measures * Time

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 7077 KB
  • Print Length: 456 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 3 edition (13 Oct 2008)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B001FA0NP6
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #143,791 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great vocab book 30 Nov 2011
Format:Paperback
This is my 2nd vocab book, having also bought the book Mastering French Vocab from Amazon. They're both very different. What I like about this book is that it includes vocab for everyday situations, such as at the supermarket, at the clothes store, etc. All the vocab is therefore immediately useful. In addition, the vocab is also used in sentences and phrases rather than just being a dull list of words. Each section also includes some small exercises to test your retention of words with an answer key contained in the appendices. The appendices also have useful vocab, such as food and drink, the Francophone world.

The main problem with this book is the lack of phonetic spelling of the words or an accompanying CD. It's all very well learning a list of words but it's pretty useless if you have no idea how to pronounce those words properly at the end of it. For that reason, I've only given this book 3* because it seems to be a major flaw to me.
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not so great 21 Aug 2010
By Caraculiambro - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I am usually a staunch proponent of the Schaum's We-Ain't-Here-To-Be-Your-Friend method, but I have to say this is one of the more disappointing books in my impressive collection of Schaum's outlines.

GOOD:

1. It gives you a ton of vocabulary: each chapter is broken down by subject.
2. All the answers to the exercises are in the back . . . not just the odd! Perfect for self-studiers.

BAD:

1. The exercises are poorly done! They could have been much better. Instead, most of them are along the lines of "J'ai un ___________________." And you're supposed to know what to put there? Many of them, upon careful examination, were solvable, but the lion's share of your attention, I submit, will be spent in deduction and logical elimination -- not so much vocabulary mastery. (Good practice for a IQ test, though.)

2. Although there is a complete glossary at the back, there is no master list of words in each chapter at the end of each chapter.

3. As the words are introduced in each chapter, the genders are not given. Thus for the ones ending in -e (and others) you have to flip back to the glossary to get this information!

4. Book awfully lazy about explaining the differences between words with closely similar definitions.

5. The book's choice of vocabulary is kind of unfortunate. Basically it's a pocket guide to tourist French, writ large. Chapter after chapter sees us "At the Mechanic's," "At the Hairdresser's," "At the Restaurant," etc. There is not really any effort to compile common phrases in French that are not specific to such shops. If you're about to go to a French-speaking country, that's fine -- although working through this book would represent a ton of effort for just a simple vacation. Instead what this is going to mean for most students is that they won't be prepared for French 201, where you begin reading stories and literature: no, instead all of the vocabulary herein is of a practical bent and will not do much for you if you plan on continuing in university French, where you'll soon come up against literary French.

It needs a partial re-do, preferably from some former student who has had to hump these miles.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
You will need this book 1 May 2009
By Palm Trees - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I wholeheartedly recommend this book. Schaum's Outlines were the foundation for my becoming fluent in Spanish (they were my high school Spanish textbooks 20 yrs ago). I am fluent in Spanish, currently living in Latin America. I am now being reassigned to France and have 6 months to master French -- I immediately went on Amazon and ordered this book and some others. The Schaum's series are the best, clearest and most comprehensive with thousands of exercises. This is the first time I've ever made the effort to recommend a book! 5 stars.
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