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Read and Speak French - step1 - / CDROM teaches French Vocabulary, Basic Grammar, Pronunciation and Reading to beginner students. The course is contained in a CDROM that is installed on the student's computer and is designed to teach adults or children. This French course is easy and fun to use, requires only the mouse and employs hundreds of custom-made color pictures, native speaker pronunciation and illustrated printouts.
The course assumes no prior knowledge of French and covers the language material taught in about 200 school hours. Course format provides the presentation of learning material using multicolor French text to highlight dinstict word parts, illustrating custom-made color pictures, clickable French sound and explanatory English text. Understanding of the material is evaluated through interactive exercises that enhance comprehension and incorporate multicolor French and English texts, pictures and sounds. The course teaches about 1000 words, phrases and sentences using 100 lessons that take about 50 hours to complete.
This course is designed to be useful to children or adults (age greater than 5 years). Course is suitable for use at home or in schools.
It provides a vocabulary referring to daily life themes such as greetings, weather, numbers, clothing, food, animals, colors, sports, parts of the body and many more.
It covers the basics of French grammar: spelling, gender and number, basic tense conjugation, sentence structure, interrogative and negative sentence.
It gives a solid background about French phonetics and teaches the correct pronunciation.
Rapid Language Acquisition Techniques are used to speed up the learning process. Teaching material is presented in many different ways (picture, sound, text and handwriting) in order to create multiple stimuli for enhanced memory recall.
The comprehension of the material taught throughout the course is tested
with helpful exercises.
"Match Sound with Picture" tests
sound comprehension.
"Match Sound with Text" tests the
relation between sound and corresponding text.
"Match Text with Picture" tests
reading.
"Find the Article" tests knowledge
of noun gender.
"Find the Sound" tests the recognition
of sounds present in spoken words.
"Fill in the Blanks" tests and
teaches understanding of French sentence structure.
"Unscramble the Words" tests and
teaches Sentence Generation.