Speak French ? Speak it better! If you've taken the time to learn French here's the proven way to take your vocabulary and listening-comprehension skills to the next level.

Produced in France by broadcasters and journalists, each monthly audiomagazine consists of an hour-long programme in French on audio cassette (or CD) packed with news, features, and interviews on what's going on in France. Previous guests include, politicians Francois Mitterand and Jacques Chirac and actors Juliette Binoche and Brigitte Bardot.

A booklet containing a word-for-word transcript and an extensive glossary accompanies the audio. In addition to translations into English of difficult words and phrases, the glossaries contain extensive biographical, historical, political, and cultural notes prepared by experienced editors - many who write for some of the world's most famous newspapers and magazines. An optional supplement exercises and grammar drills is also available in each issue.

When you're ready to subscribe you can do so without risk: every subscription comes with a money-back guarantee. If it's not for you, let Champs-Elysèes know within 30 days and they'll refund your money - you can even keep your first programme.

Berlitz's French Compact Disc Pack With Phrasebook
Berlitz Publishing

A book/audio combination pack that includes a best-selling Berlitz Phrase Book and provides the business or pleasure traveler with basic survival language skills and foreign language phrases.

Each pack has been completely revised to include up-to-date language, more cultural tips, and mini dialogues that depict typical situations a traveler may encounter. In addition, the audiocassettes now reflect the content materials of the Phrase Books. A narrator introduces and explains the language elements, refers to exercises in the Phrase Book, and prompts learners. Audio materials, all recorded by a variety of native speakers, explore, review, and reinforce the phrases, dialogues, and vocabulary of the text.

-- The Cassette Pack includes one 90-minute (or two 75-minute) cassette(s)
and the Compact Disc Pack includes one 75-minute (or two 75-minute) compact disc(s) featuring native speakers and providing over 400 essential expressions. --

Each pack includes a corresponding 192-page color-coded Berlitz Phrase Book to help reinforce skills.

CD Pack Retail Price: $19.95 Our Price: $17.95*

501 French Verbs
Christopher Kendris

Fully conjugated in all the tenses in a new easy to learn format alphabetically arranged.

* Verbs conjugated with avoir or etre
* Formation of present and past participles
* Tables showing the derivation of tenses of verbs conjugated with avoir and etre
* Sample English verb conjugation
* A summary of meanings and uses of French and English verb tenses and moods

Retail Price: $13.95 Our Price: $12.55*

Larousse Pocket Dictionary: Francais-Anglais English-French
Produced by Larousse

The new Pocket dictionary is the ideal companion for those who wish to understand and speak everyday French.

* 55,000 words and phrases
* 80,000 translations
* up-to-date coverage of contemporary French
* the latest terminology
* includes abbreviations, acronyms and proper nouns
* pronunciation

Retail Price: $5.95 Our Price: $5.35*

French in 10 Minutes a Day
Kristine Kershul Hagar Shirman Jan Fisher Brousseau

A textbook/workbook for learning French quickly, along with cultural information and practical travel tips.

With expanded contents, all-new illustrations, and a take-along Pocket Pal, this new and improved language series allows travelers, students and international business executives to learn French faster and easier than ever.

Retail Price: $17.95 Our Price: $16.15*

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning French
Gail Stein

Packed with exercises, activities, and cultural tidbits, this book features idiot-proof techniques to help master pronunciation, grammar, and usage, readers are also given quick and easy methods to phrases and terms used by native speakers.

Designed to make mastering French enjoyable and entertaining.
Provides enough information to start speaking a little French in just a few days.
Provides advice on conversing with native speakers, mastering pronunciation, and language cues for every stage of a trip to France.

Retail Price: $16.95 Our Price: $15.25

Listen and Learn French
Listen & Learn R. Learn Listen Dover Publications Incorporated (Editor)

Dove's Listen & Learn series is the only language-learning system designed specifically to meet the needs of people with limited study time.

Utilizing the phrase method advocated by most language authorities as the fastest and most efficient approach, the courses will bring remarkable results, even if you have never studied a foreign language. Includes phrasebook.

Retail Price: $10.95 Our Price: $9.85*

Living Language All Audio French
Annie Heminway

The most complete, up-to-date all-audio course available!

* Learn Anywhere
* No Reading Required
* 6 Cassettes
* 6 Hours

If you have trouble finding time to fit in language lessons, All-Audio French is the perfect solution. Developed by the experts at Living Language®, this program is designed for people on the move. You can learn French as you drive, do household chores, or work out at the gym. Short, Easy-to-Follow Lessons - No Reading Required An English-speaking narrator guides you through the short, easy-to-follow lessons - all you have to do is listen and repeat after the native French speakers. No reading is required, but a listener's guide is provided if you want to look up spelling or grammar rules. Vocabulary - Grammar - Dialogues - Culture Each lesson begins with vocabulary and some grammar basics before introducing a lively dialogue that includes the most current French idioms and usage. Interactive exercises reinforce what you've learned. You'll also find out some intriguing facts about French customs and culture. All-Audio French is a complete, thoroughly enjoyable learning experience!

Level: Basic-Intermediate

Retail Price: $29.95 Our Price: $23.96*

French: Learn in Your Car CD Volume 2
Henry Raymond


Retail Price: $34.95 Our Price: $27.96*

French for Dummies with CD (Audio)
Jean Antonin Billard  Dodi-Katrin Schmidt  Dominique Wenzel  Michelle M. Williams  Juergen Lorenz
Berlitz Publishing (Translator)

The renowned Berlitz approach with a fun and friendly twist! Whether you're a student, a traveler, or just want to pick up basic French, you'll find this text is packed with practical lessons, cultural facts, fun and handy references -- including a French-English mini-dictionary, common verb lists, and more! Includes dialogues from the book on the enclosed audio CD.

Retail Price: $24.99 Our Price: $19.99*

Living Language French Complete Course (2 Cassettes)
Living Language  Ralph Weiman

Speak French with confidence in just 6 weeks!

Living Language® French Complete Course is a step-by-step guide to the basics of French conversation and grammar. This revised course uses the highly effective speed-learning method developed by U.S. government experts to teach foreign languages to overseas-bound servicemen and diplomats.

40 lessons on two 90-minute cassettes

Begin with simple words and phrases and progress to more complex expressions. Just listen and repeat after the native speakers. Only French is spoken on the recordings, so you learn naturally, the way you learned English. The accompanying French coursebook includes the English translations.

French Coursebook

The pocket-size book contains all the translated phrases from the recorded lessons, plus additional vocabulary, detailed explanations, and quizzes. The book also features verb charts with all tenses included and a comprehensive summary of French grammar.

French-English/English-French Dictionary

More than 20,000 words are defined. Idiomatic expressions and common phrases show how words are used in everyday conversation. The dictionary doubles as a phrasebook. 1,000 of the most frequently used words are highlighted for easy reference.

The best-selling language course that really works - revised, updated, and expanded! For Beginners or Those Who Want a Thorough Review.

Retail Price: $22.50 Our Price: $18.00*

Webster's New World French Dictionary: French/English English/French
Webster's Alain Duval Helene M.A. Lewis

From the first name in language reference come these handy, pocket-sized bilingual dictionaries - the first to carry the trusted Webster's New World name!

Ideal for students, travelers, and anyone who needs a quick foreign-language reference source, each of these convenient, portable paperbacks includes up to 90,000 easy-to-read entries, and each book provides complete coverage of all the words and terms in standard usage, plus common technical jargon and Americanisms.

Retail Price: $12.00 Our Price: $10.80*

French with Michel Thomas
Michel Thomas

Learn a foreign language from the man who teaches the rich and famous in a relaxed, total-immersion process based on understanding, not drills.

Without books, memorization, or homework it gets learners speaking immediately.

Michel Thomas will have you speaking sentences almost from the beginning, even if you have never succeeded in learning a language before. In just a couple of hours, you will be able to express yourself in basic French, naturally, and effortlessly.

This program contains eight hours of recordings on eight compact discs.

What People Are Saying "The excitement of learning something new was overwhelming . . . Learning Spanish with Michel was the most extraordinary learning experience of my life -- it was unforgettable." Emma Thompson, Academy Award-winning actress and director

Retail Price: $79.95 Our Price: $63.96*

Merde!: The Real French You Were Never Taught in School
Genevieve  Michael Heath (Illustrator)

Do you remember when you were learning French at school and looked in vain through your dictionary for all the dirty words?

Have you thought you had a reasonable command of the language, then seen a French film or gone to France only to find that you could barely understand a word? You were, of course, never taught real French by your boring teachers, who failed to give you the necessary tools of communication while stuffing the subjunctive imperfect down your throat. French argot (slang) is not just the dirty words (though, have no fear, you will find them here); it is an immensely rich language with its own words for very ordinary things, words that are in constant use.

Here, then, is not an exhaustive or scholarly dictionary of argot (that would be ten times thicker) but a guide to survival in understanding everyday French as it is really spoken.


Retail Price: $9.00 Our Price: $8.10*

Barron's Mastering French (13 CD's with Book)
Monique Cossard Robert Salazar

If you want more from a language course than lists of phrases for travelers, you've come to the right place.

This comprehensive book/compact disk program will help you develop total fluency--in less time than you ever thought possible. You'll master grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary as you gain complete spoken command of the language.

Retail Price: $89.95 Our Price: $71.96*