Practice Makes Perfect helps you put your French vocabulary and grammar skills together!

You may have all the vocabulary down pat and every grammar point nailed--but without the skill of knowing how to put these elements together, communicating in your second language would be nearly impossible. Practice Makes Perfect: French Sentence Builders picks up from where other grammar books leave off, showing you the variety of structures and how to combine them to make solid sentences. And like every Practice Makes Perfect title, these books feature crystal-clear explanations, numerous realistic examples, and dozens of opportunities to practice, practice, practice!

Master the words and phrases necessary for handling everyday situations

Practice Makes Perfect: French Vocabulary helps you develop your vocabulary by providing practice in word-building and encouraging you to analyze new words for an ever-increasing vocabulary. Each chapter of this comprehensive book focuses on a theme, such as family or travel, so you can build your language skills in a systematic manner. As you lay the foundation for an increasing vocabulary, you are able to perfect your new words with plenty of exercises and gain the confidence to communicate well in French.

Practice Makes Perfect: French Vocabulary offers you:

• More than 120 exercises
• Concise grammatical explanations
• A new chapter on contemporary vocabulary
• An answer key to gauge your comprehension

With help from this book, you can easily speak or write in French about:

Different occupations and jobs * French holidays and traditions * Taking the train * Growing your own garden * Where it hurts on your body * Your house * Your family and friends * What you studied in school * Your favorite TV show * Your family's background . . . and much more!

Gain the language skills you want

Practice Makes Perfect: Basic French is the proven companion to your French-learning experience. In each bite-sized lesson, author Eliane Kurbegov explains one—and only one—grammar concept and illustrates it with clear examples. These lessons are purposefully short, so you can complete them in twenty minutes or less, and go at a pace that works for you.

You will, or course, get plenty of practice, practice, practice using your new skills. And this new edition is accompanied by flashcards and audio recordings, available online and via app, that will provide a new dimension and flexibility to your study. Whether you are learning on your own or taking a beginning class, this book will build your confidence in French.

Master conversation with this bestselling workbook for learners of French

Practice Makes Perfect: French Conversation is the go-to guide for expanding your conversational fluency. Organized into 10 units, it presents realistic everyday dialogues, followed by helpful instruction on correct syntax and word usage, as well as lots of conversation-ready phrases. Each dialogue is also followed by a variety of exercises that give the opportunity to put new concepts into action and encourage you to construct your own personalized conversations.

THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU TO:

· Engage in dialogues that illustrate practical conversations

· Expand your vocabulary

· Understand new concepts with numerous realistic examples

· Build new conversation skills through extensive practice

THE BONUS APP THAT ACCCOMPANIES THIS BOOK PROVIDES:

· STREAMING AUDIO recordings of all 40 dialogues in the book

· SPEECH-BY-SPEECH presentation for clear understanding

· AUDIO ANSWER KEY for 30 dialogue-based exercises

· PROGRESS TRACKER to assess your progress

Master French grammar through hands-on exercises and practice, practice, practice!

Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate French Grammar helps you take your grammar skills to a higher level and gives you the confidence to speak and write in your new language. This workbook leads you through French grammar using concise, easy-to-understand language, keeping you focused on achieving your goal of total fluency.

Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate French Grammar is packed with:

• Example sentences that illustrate and clarify each grammatical point
• Hundreds of exercises in formats suited to your learning style
• Practical and high-frequency French vocabulary

Master these tricky subjects:

Prepositions and prepositional phrases * Idiomatic uses of irregular verbs * Negative and interrogative structures * Imparfait and passe compose * The subjunctive mood * Relative pronouns

• Engage in dialogues that illustrate practical conversations
• Expand your French vocabulary
• Understand new concepts with numerous realistic examples
• Overcome common stumbling blocks to fluent speaking
• Build new conversation skills through extensive practice
• Improve your pronunciation skills
• NEW: Communicate more effectively in person—and virtually via Skype and Zoom

• Hundreds of engaging exercises enhanced with digital support through iOS, Android, and a desktop application, featuring vocabulary flashcards, exercise answer keys, and self-testing recording and replaying functions
• Streaming audio recordings for all exercise answers in French
• Record yourself and replay function to compare against native speakers
• NEW: Full chapter of review exercises
• NEW: Audio practice focused on French sounds that learners find difficult to pronounce correctly
  
  

• Two full-length practice exams in the book with all questions answered and explained
• One full-length online practice exam with audio and answer explanations
• Downloadable audio and audio scripts for all listening exercises, exemplary conversations, and oral presentations
• Expanded open response and oral presentation section
• Tips and strategies for mastering all skills and tasks required for success on the exam
• Practice for multiple-choice sections, the persuasive essays, and the audio portions of both practice exams

Harness the power of suffixes and prefixes while adding more than 4,000 words to your French vocabulary!

How do you turn Scotland into a Scottish citizen? Or change your brother into a colleague?* It isn't magic, it's suffixes and prefixes. When attached to base words, they have the ability to change meanings to indicate quantity, profession, gender, size, status, relationship, style, and much more. Mastering these word parts will enable you to increase your vocabulary greatly. Practice Makes Perfect: French Vocabulary Building with Suffixes and Prefixes presents 100 suffixes and 60 prefixes accompanied by their meanings, English equivalent when applicable, part of speech, and gender. Grouped by difficulty level, each prefix or suffix is fully explained and followed by a list of terms using the added word part. Like all Practice Makes Perfect workbooks, you will get plenty of practice, practice, practice using your newly acquired skills. And for convenient study on the go, download the free companion app that features hundreds of words in a flashcard format. Whether you are learning on your own or taking an advanced beginning or intermediate French class, Practice Makes Perfect: French Vocabulary Building with Suffixes and Prefixes will help build your confidence in using your new language.

*Ecosse (Scotland) becomes Ecossais (Scot); frere (brother) becomes confrere (colleague)

This workbook helps you:

• Learn how to use suffixes and prefixes to expand your French vocabulary
• Determine the meanings of unfamiliar terms by recognizing their word beginnings and endings
• Become more comfortable communicating in French

Sharpen your FRENCH grammar with skill-building exercises

If you want to be proficient in French, you eventually have to master its grammar. The best way to perfect your grammar skills is through drills, drills, and more drills. Covering all facets of French grammar--from prepositions and pronouns to verbal forms and tenses--French Grammar Drills helps you learn often-perplexing topics through hands-on experience.

This edition features:

• More than 175 exercises that demonstrate how the French grammar system works
• Authentic examples that illustrate correct grammar usage
• A new review section to reinforce your learning
• An answer key to give you immediate clarification on any concept

Topics include:

Indefinite and definite articles * Demonstrative adjectives * Possessive pronouns * Conjunctions * Imparfait and passe compose * Verbal expressions and idioms * and more

Learn how to speak French fluently and spontaneously

Practice Makes Perfect: French Conversation gives you helpful instruction on correct pronunciation, grammar, syntax, and word usage, keeping in mind the typical problems of native English speakers like you. Each section includes a series of exercises that gives you extra practice in using new concepts and encourages you to construct personalized conversations. The lessons will reassure even grammar-phobic learners that you can achieve a confident speaking style.

Offering a winning formula for getting a handle on speaking French right away, Practice Makes Perfect: French Conversation offers:

• Engaging dialogues illustrate practical conversational situations
• Example phrases or sentences clarify each point
• A variety of exercises for practice, with an answer key that provides instant feedback and reference
• Practical and high-frequency vocabulary used throughout