Glossika Beginner's Guide to FRENCH Grammar and Word Order


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How to construct French sentences: our color-coded sentence patterns show you the relationship between English and French sentences. Includes several dozen complex verb patterns. Welcome to your new adventure in learning French. We strongly recommend getting our partner guide "French Pronunciation and Grammar" (https://ai.glossika.com/free-download/learn-french). This is the perfect guide to get started in French to boost your Glossika sentence training. This guide gives you what you need to start understanding full sentences in French. Just knowing vocabulary and grammar rules isn't enough. Color-coded sentence patterns let you see all the parts of a sentence at once, especially in complex verbal constructions. What's Inside - Introduction to Roles as parts of speech - Dozens of sample sentences covering the following 1. Stative verbs, including modal verb combinations 2. Stative verb and predicate clause combinations 3. Existential verbs, Causative verbs, Active verbs, Time expressions >> Sign up (https://bit.ly/2N9Nwap) now and start 7-day free trial! >> Learn French with Glossika: https://bit.ly/2PS3kMb >> Download all Glossika guides here: https://ai.glossika.com/free-download




Glossika Guide to RUSSIAN Pronunciation & Grammar


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In-depth reference for all levels! Learn the alphabet, advanced pronunciation tips, and alternative methods to mastering one of the world's hardest grammars. This handy companion will guide you through some of the major features of Russian - the most spoken language in the East Slavic language family. Get a comprehensive introduction on pronunciation and grammar, so you can easily take up Russian without hesitation. You’ll find these linguistic references useful at any stage of your personal language training. Find out how you can read Russian in 3 simple steps! >> Sign up (https://bit.ly/2Nesd7F) now and start 7-day free trial! >> Learn Russian with Glossika: https://bit.ly/2xW6VCl >> Download all Glossika guides here: https://ai.glossika.com/free-download




New French With Ease


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"Méthode d'apprentissage du français pour anglophones.




Glossika Guide to FRENCH Pronunciation & Grammar


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The secrets to pronunciation: how the French actually speak! Learn to recognize all the parts of speech. This guide gives you the all the essentials to build up a solid foundation in French pronunciation, including tips and tricks to sound more like a native speaker. Our comprehensive overview on parts of speech and how French grammar is structured will enable you to master the most essential verb conjugations and tenses quickly. What's Inside 1. A guide to French IPA, with a guide to modern sound changes of 21st century French, with special regard to nasal vowels 2. How to pronounce final consonants, plurals, and a special guide to 'tous' and 'plus' 3. The history of French words: how to recognize words you probably already know by simple spelling changes 4. Quick guide on how to know the gender of French vocabulary 5. When to use vous and tu, nous and on 6. Most essential verbs and verb conjugations, with a chapter dedicated to negation 7. Basic verb tense patterns with time words 8. Most essential adverbs and prepositions >> Sign up (https://bit.ly/2p7jIgl) now and start 7-day free trial! >> Learn French with Glossika: https://bit.ly/2zM5lnN >> Download all Glossika guides here: https://ai.glossika.com/free-download




Ultimate French Advanced


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This course combines advanced conversation with grammar, including cultural notes, in 20 lessons.




Advanced French Grammar


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This 1999 reference grammar, written for advanced students of French, their teachers, and others who want a better understanding of the French language, combines the best of modern and traditional approaches. Its objective is not only practical mastery of the language, but familiarity with its structure. Taking into account modern linguistic research, Advanced French Grammar approaches the French language primarily through the study of syntactic structures, but without excessive emphasis on formalism. It provides a generous number of examples, based on the author's own experience of teaching French to English-speakers, to help the student to understand the different meanings of apparently similar syntactic alternatives. The norms of 'correct expression' are given together with current usage and deviations, and appendixes provide information on the 1990 spelling reforms and on numbers. A substantial index of French and English words and of topics provides easy access to the text itself.




French Fluency 1


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Glossika Mass Sentences * Fluency training for serious language learners. * Recommended for High Beginners (A1 A2) as Supplementary Training to your current studies; some working knowledge required; good for brushing up or breaking through a plateau. * Vocabulary Index included (includes varying pronunciations of each conjugation/declension with a frequency count). * 1000 bilingual sentences with pronunciation guide in phonetic International Phonetic Alphabet with liaisons. * Accompanies the audio sold separately at Glossika.com, which includes hands-free spaced repetition. * Authentic and informal language use by native speakers, gradually building up sentence structures. FEATURES: * Serves as reference material to the audio training. * Lots of repetition of key syntactic components and vocabulary. * Introduces how to render foreign names and placenames in natural dialogue (with appropriate declensions and conjugations). * All sentences are bilingual in format and includes International Phonetic Alphabet to help you master the correct pronunciation (in phonetic form, which means we write out all the liaisons between words). * Informal, friendly language. Formal language used where appropriate. * Covers the following syntactic structures: predicates, adjectives, nouns, present and past verbs, habitual, continuous and completed actions INCLUDES: * If you're serious about getting fluent in 3 months, follow our intensive schedule to finish Fluency 1-3 in 3 months. * Each book trains 1000 sentences, with Fluency 1 surpassing more than 1000 vocabulary words used in context and collocations. SAMPLE (some letters may not display correctly on your screen, so you can get the embedded font editions from www.glossika.com directly): 278: We often sleep late on weekends. Nous faisons souvent la grasse matinee les week-ends. nu fᵊzɔ̃ suvɑ̃ la ɡʁas matine le wikɛnd ] 383: What do you usually do on weekends? Que fais-tu d'habitude les week-ends? ko fɛ ty d‿abityd le wikɛnd ] 434: What do you usually do on weekends? Que fais-tu generalement les week-ends? ko fɛ ty ʒeneʁalᵊmɑ̃ le wikɛnd ] 563: Why were you late this morning? - The traffic was bad. Pourquoi etais-tu en retard ce matin? - La circulation etait mauvaise. puʁkwa etɛ ty ɑ̃ ʁᵊtaʁ so matɛ̃ - la siʁkylasjɔ̃ etɛ movɛz ] 624: I enjoyed the party. How about you? Did you enjoy the party? J'ai aime la fete. Et toi? As-tu aime la fete? ʒ‿ɛ eme la fɛt e twa a ty eme la fɛt ] 731: How fast were you driving when the police stopped you? A quelle vitesse conduisais-tu quand la police t'a arrete (♀arretee)? a kɛl vitɛs kɔ̃dɥizɛ ty kɑ̃ la polis t‿a aʁete (♀aʁete) ] 807: I've seen that woman before, but I can't remember her name. J'ai deja vu cette femme, mais je ne me souviens pas de son nom. ʒ‿ɛ deʒa vy sɛt fam mɛ ʒo no mo suvjɛ̃ pa do sɔ̃ nɔ̃ ] 821: Are you married? How long have you been married? Es-tu marie (♀mariee)? Depuis quand es-tu marie (♀mariee)? ɛ ty maʁje (♀maʁje) dᵊpɥi kɑ̃ ɛ ty maʁje (♀maʁje) ] 879: When was the last time you went to the movies? - Just last week. Quand es-tu alle (♀allee) au cinema pour la derniere fois? - La semaine derniere. kɑ̃ ɛ ty ale (♀ale) o sinema puʁ la dɛʁnjɛʁ fwa - la sᵊmɛn dɛʁnjɛʁ ] 974: We've lived in Paris for six (6) years. We lived in Paris for six (6) years, but now we live in Rome. Nous avons vecu a Paris pendant six ans. Nous avons vecu a Paris pendant six ans, mais maintenant nous vivons a Rome. nu z‿avɔ̃ veky a (...) pɑ̃dɑ̃ si z&#




The Chinese Language


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"DeFrancis's book is first rate. It entertains. It teaches. It demystifies. It counteracts popular ignorance as well as sophisticated (cocktail party) ignorance. Who could ask for anything more? There is no other book like it. ... It is one of a kind, a first, and I would not only buy it but I would recommend it to friends and colleagues, many of whom are visiting China now and are adding 'two-week-expert' ignorance to the two kinds that existed before. This is a book for everyone." --Joshua A. Fishman, research professor of social sciences, Yeshiva University, New York "Professor De Francis has produced a work of great effectiveness that should appeal to a wide-ranging audience. It is at once instructive and entertaining. While being delighted by the flair of his novel approach, the reader will also be led to ponder on some of the most fundamental problems concerning the relations between written languages and spoken languages. Specifically, he will be served a variety of information on the languages of East Asia, not as dry pedantic facts, but as appealing tidbits that whet the intellectual appetite. The expert will find much to reflect on in this book, for Professor DeFrancis takes nothing for granted." --William S.Y. Wang, professor of linguistics, University of California at Berkeley




Fluent Forever


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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. “A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.




Colloquial French


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Colloquial French: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to French as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in French in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Colloquial French is exceptional; each unit presents a wealth of grammatical points that are reinforced with a wide range of exercises for regular practice. A full answer key, a grammar summary, bilingual glossaries and English translations of dialogues can be found at the back as well as useful vocabulary lists throughout. Key features include: A clear, user-friendly format designed to help learners progressively build up their speaking, listening, reading and writing skills Jargon-free, succinct and clearly structured explanations of grammar An extensive range of focused and dynamic supportive exercises Realistic and entertaining dialogues covering a broad variety of narrative situations Helpful cultural points explaining the customs and features of life in France. An overview of the sounds of French Balanced, comprehensive and rewarding, Colloquial French is an indispensable resource both for independent learners and students taking courses in French. Audio material to accompany the course is available to download free in MP3 format from www.routledge.com/cw/colloquials. Recorded by native speakers, the audio material features the dialogues and texts from the book and will help develop your listening and pronunciation skills.