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Learn how to speak French
French is the official language
in 29 countries, most of which are members of la
francophonie, the community of French-speaking countries. It
is spoken as a first language in France, southern Belgium,
western Switzerland, Monaco, certain parts of Canada and by
various communities elsewhere. As of 2015, 40% of the
francophone population (including L2 and partial speakers)
is in Europe, 35% in sub-Saharan Africa, 15% in North Africa
and the Middle East, 8% in the Americas, and 1% in Asia and
Oceania. Approximately 80 million people in the world
speak French.
This foreign
language course was developed by The Foreign Services
institute. It is meant to be used as a crash course in
a foreign language for basic conversational ability by a
foreign traveler or diplomat. It is an introductory
course meant for beginners and includes basic conversational
language by native speakers.
This course
consists of a Basic Course, a FAST course, a headstart
course for Belgium, and an Introduction to French Phonology.
All told there are 349 lessons in mp3 format, with multiple student texts
in PDF format of over 3,500 pages. Adobe Reader is
required to view the PDF files, while the mp3 files can be
listened to by any audio player on your PC.
Total run
time of course: 116 hours, 2 minutes, 41 seconds.
A must have resource for any foreign traveler!
Notice:
Please note, this disk is only for use in your computer's
drive! It will NOT play in the DVD Player hooked up to
your TV or the CD player in your car!
This is a DVD-ROM disk, so you need a DVD-ROM drive on your
PC to play it.
This disk contains this
foreign language course in MP3 format. This is not for
use in your CD player, it is not for your DVD player, even
if they play MP3 disks. This disk is only formatted to
be opened in your computer. You have to insert this
disk in your PC, click on "My Computer" and click on the
disk to open the files. You can copy the MP3 files to
your PC, and then load them on to any MP3 player of your
choice. Please note: that if you try to
play this disk on anything other than your computer, it
won't work! |
