TALK FRENCH TODAY

- A FRENCH LANGUAGE TUITION COMPUTER CD -

WRITTEN, DEVELOPED AND PROGRAMMED BY:-
EDUCATOR DISCS & VIDEOS,
John & Rosalind Stinchcombe Associates Ltd.,
Waitakere 0614, Auckland, New Zealand.
TALK FRENCH TODAY!
PARLEZ EN FRANÇAIS AUJOURD'HUI!

WITH THIS CD, YOU CAN USE YOUR COMPUTER TO LISTEN TO THE FRENCH LANGUAGE,
WITH THE TEXT ON SCREEN IN FRONT OF YOU - SENTENCE BY SENTENCE -
WHILE YOU BEGIN TALKING IN FRENCH AT YOUR OWN PACE, AND
LET YOUR COMPUTER CHECK OUT YOUR UNDERSTANDING!
"TALK FRENCH TODAY!" AUDIO-LINGUAL
TRAINING UNITS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6
NOW AVAILABLE AS A VERY USEFUL, INTERACTIVE TUITION KIT ...
PRICED AT ONLY AUST$25.00 in Australia / £10 STERLING in the U.K. / NZ$25.00 in New Zealand / CAN$20.00 in Canada / or 15 Euro in the Euro Zone Countries of the European Union / or US$20.00 anywhere else in the world!
UNIT 1: LES SALUTATIONS ET LA CAUSETTE. (Greetings and Small Talk.)

UNIT 2: POUR TROUVER LE CHEMIN. (Finding the Way.)

UNIT 3: POUR FAIRE CONNAISSANCE AVEC QUELQU'UN EN FRANÇAIS. (Getting to Know Someone in French.)

UNIT 4: LES ACHATS. (Shopping.)

UNIT 5: LES VACANCES. (Holidays.)

UNIT 6: LA SANTÉ ET LA VISITE AU MÉDECIN. (Health and Visiting the Doctor.)

Increased fluency in greeting, in making polite requests, and in conducting casual social or goal-orientated conversation, are just a few of the many benefits students can expect to gain from working their way conscientiously through all six units of this course.

When students have completed the course, they should know how to enquire about the way in FRENCH, understand directions received and explain the way to others. They should be fluent in asking about and expressing prices, and in making other requests and responses associated with shopping. They should have gained all the necessary oral language skills to make someone's acquaintance in FRENCH, and to know how to talk about holiday plans and travel. PLUS MUCH MORE - in terms of mastering the pronunciation and idiom of modern spoken FRENCH! This CD will also help develop the user's ability to write modern FRENCH, with dictation exercises and two-way translation drills.


HOW TO MAKE THE BEST USE OF `TALK FRENCH TODAY!'

`TALK FRENCH TODAY!' OFFERS FIVE DIFFERENT AUDIO OPERATING MODES PLUS THREE SILENT OPERATING MODES.

THE FIVE AUDIO OPERATING MODES (WITH FULL SOUND) ARE:-

FRENCH SOUND AND TEXT WITH AUTOMATIC TEXT ADVANCE, FRENCH SOUND AND TEXT WITH KEY-PRESS ADVANCE, INDIVIDUAL PHRASES OF FRENCH WITHOUT TRANSLATION, INDIVIDUAL PHRASES OF FRENCH WITH TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH, AND INTERACTIVE QUESTIONS RELATING TO FRENCH SOUND AND TEXT.

THE THREE SILENT MODES OF OPERATION AVAILABLE ARE AS FOLLOWS:-
French Text without Sound, Translation into English without Sound, and French Text with Translation into English without Sound.

HOW ALL THE DIFFERENT OPERATING MODES CAN GET TO WORK HELPING YOU
TO BUILD UP YOUR FRENCH

To begin with, the INDIVIDUAL SENTENCES WITH TRANSLATION Option offers you the opportunity of seeing both the French text and the English text displayed simultaneously while you listen to the reading.

Use this purely to familiarise yourself with meaning of the sentences: being read aloud. Once you are familiar with the meaning, dispense with the simultaneous translation display, and run the program in AUTOMATIC TEXT ADVANCE Mode.

In AUTOMATIC TEXT ADVANCE Mode, only the French text will be displayed... Listen to the French carefully, many times, keeping an eye on the French text and simply trying to understand as much of the reading as you possibly can.

If there are still some sections of the French which you cannot fully understand, keep selecting the Translated Text Disply Without Sound Mode to review the translation of the whole passage at your leisure, again and again, until you feel you understand everything in the written text.


When you feel your understanding of the written text is complete, begin to monitor your ability to follow the spoken French. Do this by selecting the SOUND WITH MOUSE/KEY-PRESS TEXT ADVANCE Mode.

The SOUND WITH MOUSE/KEY-PRESS TEXT ADVANCE Mode is essentially an easy-to operate MANUAL Text Advance Mode. YOU, the user, have to advance the text display by key-press or mouse click to keep pace with the sound. Keep on practising this until you are easily able to advance the text manually in pace with the reading. By the time you have reached that stage, your aural comprehension will have reached a sufficient level for you to be able to devote serious attention to speech practice.

Read UNIT 1 aloud yourself, phrase by phrase, along with the computerised reading. When that too becomes easy to you, read the passage aloud in French without accompanying sound from the computer. To do this, select the French TEXT DISPLAY WITHOUT SOUND Mode.

When you can handle this with ease, check yourself out on the INTERACTIVE QUESTIONS Routine, for UNIT 1. This will deliver a different set of questions each time you run it. Some of the questions are designed to check your auditory recognition and understanding of spoken French, and others aim to check your understanding of written French. Keep working at the INTERACTIVE QUESTIONS Routine until you accomplish at least two consecutive runs without errors.

When you have thoroughly mastered UNIT 1, use the mouse to select UNIT 2, and begin the whole process again with UNIT TWO, working with all the various routines from SOUND WITH AUTOMATIC TEXT ADVANCE right through to INTERACTIVE QUESTIONS - and carry on in this manner all the way to UNIT SIX. By the time, you have mastered UNIT SIX, you will have progressed quite some way into French talking territory!

IF YOU THINK YOU NEED SOMETHING MORE ADVANCED, CLICK HERE FOR FULL INFORMATION ABOUT A SOMEWHAT MORE ADVANCED FRENCH LANGUAGE TUITION CD CALLED "THINK FRENCH!"

AND HERE'S THE REALLY GOOD NEWS ...


Both "Talk French Today!" and "Think French!" are at present available (when purchased together as "The Two-CDs French Language Tuition Combination Package") for altogether just:-

AUST$40.00 in Australia / £16 STERLING in the U.K. / NZ$40.00 in New Zealand / CAN$32.00 in Canada / or 24 Euro in the Euro Zone Countries of the European Union / or US$32.00 anywhere else in the world!!!

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