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The fun and easy way to quickly enhance basic reading skills--now with CD-ROMs!

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Easy French Reader is based on the premise that the best way to learn a language is to start reading it, immediately Suitable for the raw beginner to intermediate-level language learner, this book features engaging readings of progressive difficulty that allow you to rapidly build your comprehension. The additional CD-ROM contains recordings of most of the 50 passages featured in the book, which can be used with a CD player, downloaded to an iPod or other mp3 player, or heard. via computer where the text can simultaneously be viewed on screen.

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The MANUEL DE PRÉPARATION includes vocabulary lists for the chapter’s theme; activities for diagnostic testing review of previously learned material; preparation for grammar, speaking, and reading activities in the MANUEL DE CLASSE; a systematic writing development program correlated to SYSTÈME-D 4.0 CD-ROM functional, grammatical, and lexical information; literary tenses; verb charts; an answer key for self-correcting exercises, diagnostic tests and retests; the audio script; a glossary of vocabulary; a grammatical reference; a functional vocabulary index; a thematic vocabulary index; and maps..
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Welcome to Vista Higher Learning's new introductory French program ESPACES: Rendez-vous avec le monde francophone ideal for 2-3 semester sequence, ESPACES features a flexible lesson organization designed to meet the needs of diverse teaching styles, institutions, and instructional goals. in French, espaces means spaces in the sense of spaces reserved for a particular purpose. The spaces in ESPACES are its major sections, and they are reserved for helping students to learn French and to explore the cultures of the French-speaking world in the most user-friendly way possible. The textbook treats vocabulary and grammar as tools for effective communication, incorporates learning strategy instruction to develop students' skills, and emphasizes culture as integral to learning the language and communicating successfully. * Distinctive integration of video Shot in France, the ESPACES video provides three hours of specially-shot, program-specific video. integrated up-front in each lesson of the student text, a dramatic episode reinforces the lesson's vocabulary and previews its grammatical points in an appealing, comprehensible way. At the end of each unit, the Flash culture segments, hosted by the ESPACES narrators, enrich students' cultural knowledge through a wide array of images, all related to the unit's theme. * Unique, user-friendly design ESPACES enhances learning with its one-of-a-kind, easy-to-navigate design built around color-coded sections that fit either completely on one page or on spreads of two facing pages. To further motivate and support students, the textbook pages are visually dramatic, and ressources boxes correlate all program ancillaries on-page, right down to the page numbers. * Rich, contemporary cultural presentation in each lesson of ESPACES, a vibrant Espace culture section brings to life the everyday life, language, accomplishments, and traditions of French speakers as they relate to the lesson's theme. At the end of each unit, an eye-catching Panorama section introduces students to the countries and regions of the French-speaking world. * Exciting integration of culture and multimedia Throughout ESPACES, three textbook sections are specially linked to high-interest multimedia delivered on the ESPACES super web site. Students enrich their cultural awareness by researching a task-based project in Projet, watching an authentic television clip in Le zapping, and listening to a song in interlude. * The basics of grammar in an innovative format ESPACES facilitates the learning of grammar by presenting each point on one self-contained two-page spread. Grammar explanations in the outside panels offer convenient on-demand support for the directed Mise en pratique exercises and open-ended Communication activities in the central, inside panels. * Practical, high-frequency vocabulary in each lesson, ESPACES introduces high-frequency vocabulary through expansive, full-color illustrations and reinforces it with two sets of activities: directed Mise en pratique exercises and open-ended Communication practice. * Process approach to skill building At the end of each unit in Lecture, À l'écoute, and Écriture sections, ESPACES carefully develops reading, listening, and writing skills, incorporating learning strategies and a process approach. * Focus on communication throughout ESPACES incorporates communicative activities throughout each lesson and in cumulative Synthèse sections that recombine the language of the corresponding lessons with that of preceding lessons..
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Helps students acquire proficiency in communicating within culturally-significant contexts, inviting students to examine and appreciate differences and similarities among individuals and cultures in an interconnected world..
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In recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America. More than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identified there, Cajuns and white Creoles being the most famous. In this guide to the amazing social, cultural, and linguistic variation within Louisiana’s French-speaking region, Carl A. Brasseaux presents an overview of the origins and evolution of all the Francophone communities.

Brasseaux examines the impact of French immigration on Louisiana over the past three centuries. He shows how this once-undesirable outpost of the French empire became colonized by individuals ranging from criminals to entrepreneurs who went on to form a multifaceted society—one that, unlike other American melting pots, rests upon a French cultural foundation. A prolific author and expert on the region, Brasseaux offers readers an entertaining history of how these diverse peoples created south Louisiana’s famous vibrant culture, interacting with African Americans, Spaniards, and Protestant Anglos and encountering influences from southern plantation life and the Caribbean. He explores in detail three still cohesive components in the Francophone melting pot, each one famous for having retained a distinct identity: the Creole communities, both black and white; the Cajun people; and the state’s largest concentration of French speakers—the Houma tribe.

A product of thirty years’ research, French, Cajun, Creole, Houma provides a reliable and understandable guide to the ethnic roots of a region long popular as an international tourist attraction..
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Get up and running with French

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Easy French Step-by-Step proves that a solid grounding in grammar basics is the key to mastering a second language. You are quickly introduced to grammatical rules and concepts in. order of importance, which you can build on as you progress through the book. You will also learn more than 300 verbs, chosen by their frequency of use. Numerous exercises and engaging. readings help you quickly build your speaking and comprehension prowess.

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This intermediate- to advanced-level reader contains fifteen unabridged short stories about women protagonists. Cultural, geographical, and historical information heightens students' awareness of each of the countries represented. Updated author profiles written in English help students place the stories within a literary and cultural context..
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For courses in Introductory French.

Anchored in the best current innovations in language instruction, Chez nous, 3/e presents a highly integrative approach to the teaching of French language and culture. This thematically organized program combines a process-oriented approach to language skills development with carefully sequenced practice that leads beginning students to self-expression in French. Learners are encouraged to discover culture through authentic materials, tasks, and an expansive cultural perspective that embraces metropolitan France and the Francophone world.

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