This course is designed to familiarize you with the situations you are likely to encounter abroad, and to provide you with the language skills you need to cope effectively with those situations. The Metropolitan French FAST course is ideal for the long term visitor, student, or permanent resident of France. Forty lessons include finding an apartment; an automobile crisis; calling a doctor; taking the Metro, train and taxi; and ordering in a restaurant. Cultural notes on contemporary French personalities, driving laws, price comparisons for clothes, important telephone numbers for the American visitor, and a glossary of useful words and expressions are included.
Archive download
The whole course is available as an archive here French Fast (Metropolitan)
Lesson 01 | Tape | Lesson 11 | Tape | Lesson 21 | Tape | Lesson 31 | Tape |
Lesson 02 | Tape | Lesson 12 | Tape | Lesson 22 | Tape | Lesson 32 | Tape |
Lesson 03 | Tape | Lesson 13 | Tape | Lesson 23 | Tape | Lesson 33 | Tape |
Lesson 04 | Tape | Lesson 14 | Tape | Lesson 24 | Tape | Lesson 34 | Tape |
Lesson 05 | Tape | Lesson 15 | Tape | Lesson 25 | Tape | Lesson 35 | Tape |
Lesson 06 | Tape | Lesson 16 | Tape | Lesson 26 | Tape | Lesson 36 | Tape |
Lesson 07 | Tape | Lesson 17 | Tape | Lesson 27 | Tape | Lesson 37 | Tape |
Lesson 08 | Tape | Lesson 18 | Tape | Lesson 28 | Tape | Lesson 38 | Tape |
Lesson 09 | Tape | Lesson 19 | Tape | Lesson 29 | Tape | Lesson 39 | Tape |
Lesson 10 | Tape | Lesson 20 | Tape | Lesson 30 | Tape | Lesson 40 | Tape |
The Sub-Saharan French FAST course presents cultural and functional information useful to you in French-speaking areas south of the Sahara desert. The course provides background information, samples of language that you may hear and reproduce, exploration of relevant grammar, supplementary vocabulary, and communicative uses of language for real or simulated purposes. You learn vocabulary and structures for everyday usage. The course is recommended for those seeking a functional knowledge of the language.
The course presents topics including ordering a meal, registering at a hotel, meeting neighbors, asking directions, hiring staff, and getting one's car repaired.
Archive download
The whole course is available as an archive here Sub-Saharan French Fast
Lesson 01 | Tape | Lesson 14 | Tape | Lesson 27 | Tape |
Lesson 02 | Tape | Lesson 15 | Tape | Lesson 28 | Tape |
Lesson 03 | Tape | Lesson 16 | Tape | Lesson 29 | Tape |
Lesson 04 | Tape | Lesson 17 | Tape | Lesson 30 | Tape |
Lesson 05 | Tape | Lesson 18 | Tape | Lesson 31 | Tape |
Lesson 06 | Tape | Lesson 19 | Tape | Lesson 32 | Tape |
Lesson 07 | Tape | Lesson 20 | Tape | Lesson 33 | (Missing) |
Lesson 08 | Tape | Lesson 21 | Tape | Lesson 34 | (Missing) |
Lesson 09 | Tape | Lesson 22 | Tape | Lesson 35 | (Missing) |
Lesson 10 | Tape | Lesson 23 | Tape | Lesson 36 | (Missing) |
Lesson 11 | Tape | Lesson 24 | Tape | Lesson 37 | (Missing) |
Lesson 12 | Tape | Lesson 25 | Tape | Lesson 38 | (Missing) |
Lesson 13 | Tape | Lesson 26 | Tape |
Lesson 01 | Tape | Lesson 13 | Tape | Lesson 25 | Tape | Lesson 37 | Tape |
Lesson 02 | Tape | Lesson 14 | Tape | Lesson 26 | Tape | Lesson 38 | Tape |
Lesson 03 | Tape | Lesson 15 | Tape | Lesson 27 | Tape | ||
Lesson 04 | Tape | Lesson 16 | Tape | Lesson 28 | Tape | ||
Lesson 05 | Tape | Lesson 17 | Tape | Lesson 29 | Tape | ||
Lesson 06 | Tape | Lesson 18 | Tape | Lesson 30 | Tape | ||
Lesson 07 | Tape | Lesson 19 | Tape | Lesson 31 | Tape | ||
Lesson 08 | Tape | Lesson 20 | Tape | Lesson 32 | Tape | ||
Lesson 09 | Tape | Lesson 21 | Tape | Lesson 33 | Tape | ||
Lesson 10 | Tape | Lesson 22 | Tape | Lesson 34 | Tape | ||
Lesson 11 | Tape | Lesson 23 | Tape | Lesson 35 | Tape | ||
Lesson 12 | Tape | Lesson 24 | Tape | Lesson 36 | Tape |