You can blurt out Merci! and Oui! and Garcon! as well as the next tourist, but your French lacks a certain je ne sais quoi. That just won't do if you're touring the City of Light or sunning in Tahiti or ordering a la carte in a Montreal cafe. This pocket-sized primer is your passeport to one of the world's most beautiful-and useful-languages.Suitable for travel or a refresher course, this work includes highlights such as: - commonly used French phrases- pronunciations and conjugations- grammar and sentence construction- useful words and terms- helpful French-English and English-French dictionaries.
This textbook includes all 13 chapters of Français interactif. It accompanies www.laits.utexas.edu/fi, the web-based French program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2004, and its companion site, Tex's French Grammar (2000) www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/ Français interactif is an open acess site, a free and open multimedia resources, which requires neither password nor fees. Français interactif has been funded and created by Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services at the University of Texas, and is currently supported by COERLL, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning UT-Austin, and the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE Grant P116B070251) as an example of the open access initiative.