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This series has been conceived and created to suit the needs of those who are eager to learn the French Language through stories. It is specifically packaged for beginners; that is the A1 and the A2 levels. The first part; which is packaged for the A1 level contains two enthralling stories which help in creating and maintaining a progressive pace in the acquisition of the French Language.Consequently, the stories are enriched with vocabularies and expressions which the learner or the student needs to charge his confidence in readiness for the great learning ahead. Questions have been provided at the end of each story and it is recommended that the learner answers them before proceeding to the next story.Furthermore, there is a list of French and English key words or glossary also at the end of each story. These key words are furnished in case the words used in the stories should delve higher than the level of the learner or student. Although it is comprehensive, the glossary still leaves room for the learner to task his or her brain to fully grab the meaning and be able to reconcile them with the story.Finally, an audio recording has been provided to further facilitate easy acquisition of the language. I wish you good luck in your learning and I advise that you contact me on if you have questions or observations.

Mastering French (A systematic guide for the Anglophone learner) is an advanced study for those who are done with the beginner's edition: Beginning French Language. It is also ideal for individuals, schools and colleges. It envelops important topics on grammar, reading (by using the audiovisual), comprehension passages as well as exercises to help the learner become a better speaker and writer of the French language. There was a time when the cry in the Nigerian educational circle was the dearth of manuals and textbooks written by Nigerian scholars. The market was dominated by books written by foreigners. Today things are different as scholars in various fields write and publish books for the Nigerian market. The beauty of this development is the fact that such books published by our scholars take into account our environment, culture and values. Thus, our learners can identify themselves with the socio-cultural content of these books. The book in your hand is the second in series of textbooks for the teaching and learning of French Language in Nigeria. It represents the author's contribution to the propagation of French Language in Nigeria, especially at the Secondary and the Tertiary levels. Consequently, I envisage with certitude that it would create a niche for itself in the ever-expanding market of manuals and textbooks in French language. Apart from the main lessons, the book also pays particular attention to exercises (with workbook at the end of the book). The objective is to help learners assess themselves. For this purposes, the corrections to these exercises are included in form of CORRIG S towards the end of the book. Furthermore, the author's teach-yourself approach is laudable. It creates an ambiance of adventure and excitement. One yearns to learn French when it dawns on him that it is as simple as the author has made it. In other words, this book allows you to teach yourself. I highly recommend it, as it is suitable for undergraduates, secondary school students, bankers, journalists, business executives, lawyers, other professionals as well as debutants.

Tableaux de conjugaison (Temps, voix et modes des verbes fran ais) or Conjugation tables (tenses, voices and moods of the French verbs) is a book which seeks to simplify French verb conjugation especially for the Anglophone learners and students. French language verb conjugation is what some people consider as too "technical" to handle. As a result writing a French textbook to explain this "too technical" issue is a welcome decision and practice both to me as a lecturer and to students. Most of the time, the latter tend to compare the French verb style with that of the English and they conclude that French verbs are more difficult to conjugate. Consequently, some of them ask questions as to the easiest way to go about learning and mastering the verbs. In answer to their questions, I decided to write this book which someone described as "a nice little piece of work which carries a lot of weight". I wrote the 1st edition in 2010 and it was so good, that is it met the needs of students at that point in time. However, I came to realize that some topics were missing in the book and this I found out based on the questions that students ask on a daily basis. Allied to the above, I came up with this revised and updated edition. I have reworked the 1st edition and included a lot of important topics which will help learners in mastering the French verbs: vis- -vis: conjugation in all the tenses, ability to differentiate the moods of the French verbs, having an in-depth knowledge of voices - active and passive, a mastery of the direct and indirect object complements - by this, learners will be able to know the verbs which are direct and indirect complements during the study of pronoun complement. Furthermore, I have included some sentences with some of the verbs treated herein. To cap it all, this book also comes in a an audio-visual format to help the learner in pronunciation. Nevertheless, I must add that the audio-visual does not contain all that we have in the book. In this book, you will learn how to conjugate all the French verbs, in all the moods and tenses; including: 1.The Indicative mood (the present tense, the "pass compos ", the imperfect, the future tense, etc) 2.The Subjunctive mood 3.The Imperative/command 4.The Conditional, etc Furthermore, all is well explained in English Language. I sincerely hope that this whole package would satisfy your need as a leaner, more so as an Anglophone learner. In case you should have questions or criticisms, please, write me on [email protected] or [email protected].

The aim of this book is to simplify the French Language sound system so that it can easily be adopted by the Anglophone learner. Many learners ask questions as to why the French words are not pronounced as they are written and how they can pronounce and read well. The truth is that the French words are pronounced as they are written. What is necessary is to obey the rules of its phonology. Although, it has been totally acknowledges that there are too many rules in French language than one can remember, we also admit that without them, we can never make any headway in Phonetics and pronunciation. In this book, we are going to present the French phonetics in a simple and approachable manner for the Anglophone learner. In this way, you will know that it is not as difficult as you have always thought.