"Available October 2003 Created for the serious language-learner, our deluxe Ultimate French Advanced course has been revised and updated. It teaches a sophisticated level of conversation and grammar and is equivalent to two years of college study. Free additional exercises are now available on line! Perfect for the businessperson and anyone traveling or living abroad, Ultimate French Advanced course contains a 400+ page book with eight 60-minute CDs covering 20 lessons. Each lesson includes lively, up-to-date dialogues, vocabulary, exercises, culture notes, and detailed explanations of grammar and usage. KEY FEATURES: - Ideal for anyone planning to live or conduct business abroad - Includes extensive business vocabulary and details of business etiquette - Free extra practice on line with more than 100 additional practice sections - Updated with new vocabulary and information about culture and everyday life; and now include references to the euro - Now available on CD for ease in moving between lessons-perfect for use in the car, at the gym, or anywhere you please

Once users have mastered the basics with "Ultimate French: Beginner -- Intermediate," they can take their language learning even further with "Ultimate French: Advanced. "This thematically organized course teaches both general language and language specific to international business, and will increase fluency through advanced-level conversations, add depth to vocabulary, and perfect pronunciation and grammar. Key features: - 8 CDs and 385+ page coursebook - Dialogues on a wide range of everyday and business themes provide up-to-date vocabulary and help to develop advanced-level listening and speaking skills - Simple presentation of advanced grammar - Real-world listening, speaking, reading, and writing tasks include: writing resumes and business letters, job hunting, and more - Build advanced-level readings skills with original texts reprinted from various sources, including magazines, newspapers, and literature - Short essays on culture and society provide topics for classroom discussions and further exploration - Two sets of recordings to learn at home and on the go - The most reasonably priced comprehensive course

Gain confidence in your French-language communication using the method trusted by more than 200,000 students The Ultimate French Review and Practice gives you a good grasp of grammar so you can build your skills and confidence in communication. Each grammatical concept is explained and illustrated with engaging sentence examples; you'll also get extensive exercises offer practice at applying this knowledge in everyday conversation. This book + download package includes: More than 400 exercises, in addition to 200 exercises on the accompanying download A Pre-Test that identifies your strengths and weaknesses and a Post-Test that helps you review your progress, both on the download Topics include: Verbs--Basic Forms and Uses, Present Tense, Present Tense of Irregular Verbs, Negative Sentences, Interrogative Sentences, Imperative, Passé Composé, Imperfect, Imperfect versus Passé Composé, Reflexive Verbs, Future and Conditional, Conditional Sentences, Pluperfect, Future Perfect, and Past Conditional, Passe Simple, Present Participles, Uses of the Infinitive, Nouns and Their Modifiers, Pronouns, Nouns: Gender, Number and Articles, Uses of Articles, Stressed Pronouns, Subject-Verb Agreement, Possessive and Demonstrative Adjectives and Pounouns, Interrogative Adjectives and Pronouns, Adjectives, Comparative and Superlative, Object Pronouns, Numbers, Time, Dates, Adverbs, Negatives and Indefinites, Prepositions, Prepositions with Geographical Names, Verbs in Two-Clause Sentences, Relative Clauses, The Present Subjunctive, The Past Subjunctive, Literary Subjunctives, The Subjunctive, Idiomatic Usage, The Passive Voice and Substitutes for the Passive, Important Idioms and Proverbs, Verb Charts

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

Master the essential building blocks of French-language fluency with facilite The Ultimate French Verb Review and Practice is your key to acquiring enhanced skills on the road to French fluency. More than just another French verb guide, it provides you with a concise review of verb forms and extensive practice in using verbs in context. With this knowledge in your tool kit, you will be able to construct authentic French sentences with increased confidence. As you work through a series of increasingly demanding exercises, you'll quickly build your mastery of the French sentence--from simple subject-plus-verb sentences to more sophisticated ones, including conditional and compound sentences. This second edition is enhanced with new review exercises, accompanied by online audio available free on McGraw-Hill's unique Audio Study Player. These bonus elements help build your confidence in using French verbs effectively in key sentence structures. The ideal resource for advanced beginners through advanced learners of French, The Ultimate French Verb Review and Practice gives you: Numerous examples of how French verbs and sentence structures work in everyday language Exercises in a variety of formats, including sentence completion, sentence building, dialogue writing, translation, verb-form replacement, and more Hundreds of verbs listed in both structural and semantic groupings Up-to-the-minute coverage of contemporary French, including computer and technology verbs Dozens of clear, concise, at-a-glance charts and tables

'Ultimate French Beginner-Intermediate' includes - 40 lessons in a comprehensive 416-page textbook - Each lesson contains a lively and authentic dialogue, vocabulary, grammar and usage, step-by-step character writing, cultural highlights, and plenty of practice; 8 hours of recordings with an ingenious two-step approach - Learn at home and Learn on the go.