Essential Life Skills is the first fully illustrated self-development series on the market. Each title explores both personal and professional contexts to improve confidence and a... more...variety of personal skills across many areas.
Advantages: Some unusual inclusions Disadvantages: Assumes aspects of grammar have been studied previously
A wide choice of materials is available for beginners learning French, but resources that help you attain fluency and teach the finer points of grammar are harder to find. One that definitely warrants consideration is TEACH YOURSELF IMPROVEYOUR FRENCH. It comprises a book and two sixty-minute CDs for learners at intermediate level.
The ten units contain dialogues with explanatory vocabulary lists and language activities based upon the dialogues. There are in addition two of Victor Hugo's poems, one or two passages about France's geography, economy and education system, a weather forecast and a President's New Year address. Business vocabulary is introduced as well as colloquial style. You can hear an official phone call and a more informal one, and learn how to compose a letter as well as fill in forms in French.
The grammar ...
My five year old daughter is mad keen on all the Disney princesses so for her birthday recently we bought her the Disney Princess Memory Game as a little extra. Most people probably know the basis of memory games where you have a number of cards face down on a table and the challenge is to find matching pairs. It's the sort of game that can easily be played with an everyday deck of cards but with the Disney Princesses it was definitely that little more exciting for my daughter.
This game is made by Ravensburger and comes in a very colourful sturdy box. The game contains thirty two cards depicting sixteen different pictures featuring the six Disney princesses - Cinderella, Snow White, Jasmine, Ariel, Sleeping Beauty and Belle. All of the pictures are beautiful in true Disney style and my daughters just enjoy going through, sorting them ...
Advantages: Good for building confidence and constructing general sentences Disadvantages: Focuses on conversation; no specific vocabulary fields
The Spanish Language Builder is intended as a follow-on to Michel Thomas's initial eight-hour course as well as his advanced course in Spanish. It comprises two hour-long CDs and, unlike the beginners' course, this time there is a thirty-two page booklet, pages 9 to 28 of which actually list expressions in Spanish. The aim of the Language Builder is to increase your vocabulary and boost your confidence in conversation.
Having an interest in learning foreign languages and having learned some Spanish in the past, I thought the Language Builder would be a good way of picking up my Spanish again. I know quite a few people who have found Michel Thomas's French beginners' course useful but perhaps not sufficient as a stand-alone method of language learning. I don't hide the fact that I am very sceptical of learning any language ...
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Product details
Edition
Paperback
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Series
Essential Lifeskills
Author
David Thomas
Title
Essential Lifeskills: Improving Your Memory
Genre
Lifestyle
Type
Non-Fiction
ISBN
0751348953
EAN
9780751348958
Manufacturer's product description
Essential Life Skills is the first fully illustrated self-development series on the market. Each title explores both personal and professional contexts to improve confidence and a variety of personal skills across many areas.
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