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• Introduction 1Book I: Speaking in Everyday Settings 7Chapter 1: Warming Up with Some French Fundamentals 9Chapter 2: Un, Deux, Trois: Numbers, Dates, and Times 27Chapter 3: Greetings, Goodbyes, and Small Talk 45Chapter 4: Getting Personal: Discussing Your Home, Family, and Daily Routine 63Chapter 5: Talking Business and Politics 85Chapter 6: Shopping at a Store and Online 101Chapter 7: Buying, Preparing, and Tasting Foods 121Book II: Exploring and Wandering About 143Chapter 1: Making Plans and Discovering New Places 145Chapter 2: Enjoying a Night on the Town 179Chapter 3: Money Matters 201Chapter 4: Home Is Where Your Suitcase Is: Looking for Accommodations 213Chapter 5: Getting Around 229Chapter 6: Dealing with Emergencies 249Book III: Building the Grammatical Foundation for Communication 265Chapter 1: Building Strong Sentences with the Parts of Speech 267Chapter 2: All Agreed? Matching Gender and Number of Nouns and Articles 289Chapter 3: Dealing with the Here and Now: The Present Tense 305Chapter 4: Commanding and Instructing with the Imperative Mood 331Chapter 5: Asking and Answering Questions 349Chapter 6: Communicating Clearly with Infinitives and Present Participles 369Book IV: Getting Down to Detail and Precision in Your Communication 379Chapter 1: Specifying Relationships with Prepositions 381Chapter 2: Describing with Flair: Adjectives and Adverbs 401Chapter 3: Taking Shortcuts with Object Pronouns 419Chapter 4: Tying Ideas Together with Conjunctions and Relative Pronouns 439Chapter 5: Getting That Subjunctive Feeling 453Chapter 6: What Lies Ahead and What Could Happen: Simple Future and Present Conditional 471Book V: Going Back in Time 485Chapter 1: Been There, Done That: Passé Proche and Passé Composé 487Chapter 2: How Was It? What Was Going On? The Imparfait 503Chapter 3: To the Past and Beyond: Other Past Tenses 515Book VI: Appendixes 529Appendix A: Verb Tables 531Appendix B: French-English Mini-Dictionary 587Appendix C: English-French Mini Dictionary 607Appendix D: Fun & Games 627Appendix E: About the CD 665Index 669

The Experts at Dummies are smart, friendly people who make learning easy by taking a not-so-serious approach to serious stuff.

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• Introduction 1Book I: Speaking in Everyday Settings 7Chapter 1: Warming Up with Some French Fundamentals 9Chapter 2: Un, Deux, Trois: Numbers, Dates, and Times 27Chapter 3: Greetings, Goodbyes, and Small Talk 45Chapter 4: Getting Personal: Discussing Your Home, Family, and Daily Routine 63Chapter 5: Talking Business and Politics 85Chapter 6: Shopping at a Store and Online 101Chapter 7: Buying, Preparing, and Tasting Foods 121Book II: Exploring and Wandering About 143Chapter 1: Making Plans and Discovering New Places 145Chapter 2: Enjoying a Night on the Town 179Chapter 3: Money Matters 201Chapter 4: Home Is Where Your Suitcase Is: Looking for Accommodations 213Chapter 5: Getting Around 229Chapter 6: Dealing with Emergencies 249Book III: Building the Grammatical Foundation for Communication 265Chapter 1: Building Strong Sentences with the Parts of Speech 267Chapter 2: All Agreed? Matching Gender and Number of Nouns and Articles 289Chapter 3: Dealing with the Here and Now: The Present Tense 305Chapter 4: Commanding and Instructing with the Imperative Mood 331Chapter 5: Asking and Answering Questions 349Chapter 6: Communicating Clearly with Infinitives and Present Participles 369Book IV: Getting Down to Detail and Precision in Your Communication 379Chapter 1: Specifying Relationships with Prepositions 381Chapter 2: Describing with Flair: Adjectives and Adverbs 401Chapter 3: Taking Shortcuts with Object Pronouns 419Chapter 4: Tying Ideas Together with Conjunctions and Relative Pronouns 439Chapter 5: Getting That Subjunctive Feeling 453Chapter 6: What Lies Ahead and What Could Happen: Simple Future and Present Conditional 471Book V: Going Back in Time 485Chapter 1: Been There, Done That: Passé Proche and Passé Composé 487Chapter 2: How Was It? What Was Going On? The Imparfait 503Chapter 3: To the Past and Beyond: Other Past Tenses 515Book VI: Appendixes 529Appendix A: Verb Tables 531Appendix B: French-English Mini-Dictionary 587Appendix C: English-French Mini Dictionary 607Appendix D: Fun & Games 627Appendix E: About the CD 665Index 669

The Experts at Dummies are smart, friendly people who make learning easy by taking a not-so-serious approach to serious stuff.

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• Introduction 1Book I: Speaking in Everyday Settings 7Chapter 1: Warming Up with Some French Fundamentals 9Chapter 2: Un, Deux, Trois: Numbers, Dates, and Times 27Chapter 3: Greetings, Goodbyes, and Small Talk 45Chapter 4: Getting Personal: Discussing Your Home, Family, and Daily Routine 63Chapter 5: Talking Business and Politics 85Chapter 6: Shopping at a Store and Online 101Chapter 7: Buying, Preparing, and Tasting Foods 121Book II: Exploring and Wandering About 143Chapter 1: Making Plans and Discovering New Places 145Chapter 2: Enjoying a Night on the Town 179Chapter 3: Money Matters 201Chapter 4: Home Is Where Your Suitcase Is: Looking for Accommodations 213Chapter 5: Getting Around 229Chapter 6: Dealing with Emergencies 249Book III: Building the Grammatical Foundation for Communication 265Chapter 1: Building Strong Sentences with the Parts of Speech 267Chapter 2: All Agreed? Matching Gender and Number of Nouns and Articles 289Chapter 3: Dealing with the Here and Now: The Present Tense 305Chapter 4: Commanding and Instructing with the Imperative Mood 331Chapter 5: Asking and Answering Questions 349Chapter 6: Communicating Clearly with Infinitives and Present Participles 369Book IV: Getting Down to Detail and Precision in Your Communication 379Chapter 1: Specifying Relationships with Prepositions 381Chapter 2: Describing with Flair: Adjectives and Adverbs 401Chapter 3: Taking Shortcuts with Object Pronouns 419Chapter 4: Tying Ideas Together with Conjunctions and Relative Pronouns 439Chapter 5: Getting That Subjunctive Feeling 453Chapter 6: What Lies Ahead and What Could Happen: Simple Future and Present Conditional 471Book V: Going Back in Time 485Chapter 1: Been There, Done That: Passé Proche and Passé Composé 487Chapter 2: How Was It? What Was Going On? The Imparfait 503Chapter 3: To the Past and Beyond: Other Past Tenses 515Book VI: Appendixes 529Appendix A: Verb Tables 531Appendix B: French-English Mini-Dictionary 587Appendix C: English-French Mini Dictionary 607Appendix D: Fun & Games 627Appendix E: About the CD 665Index 669