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 | | Horizons (with Audio CD) by Joan H. Manley, Stuart Smith, John T. McMinn, Marc A. Prévost ISBN-10: 9781413033076 ISBN-10: 1-4130-3307-5 ISBN-13: 9781413033076 ISBN-13: 978-1-4130-3307-6 Hardcover 2008-02-12 Heinle Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description HORIZONS is a complete elementary French program that makes learning French easier through its step-by-step skill-building methodology, flexible and accessible approach to grammar and new vocabulary, and creative yet sophisticated coverage of Francophone culture. Through varied interactive activities and clear grammar explanations, the text helps you communicate effectively in French while culturally connecting you to the Francophone world. HORIZONS features a clear, easy-to-follow structure that carefully guides you, Compétence by Compétence, through your first year of elementary French. | ||
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thanks thank you very much for the book, even it was little bit late, but it's OK, it is realy clean like new, | ||
This was a miserable experience! I am, until recently a 4.0 student, and heading toward a junior at a university. I had french years ago in high school, and one meager college class for grins years ago - it was understandable, enjoyable, and I was excited to revisit it after several years while taking some other college courses (a core requirement - I have no choice). I'm even visiting France this spring, so looking for the bright side. What a shock to begin this series of classes in this book! This is extremely dense, and often presents ideas before you know what they are talking about - so you spend an extensive amount of time trying to decipher what they are saying. Many words and phrases are either not in the text dictionary, any many of the verbs are not conjugated, though you are expected to know them. (so go on line, no big deal...but...) I have started on Rosetta Stone - far more comprehensible, but who has time with this course taking so much time! The first several sessions in Horizon teaches you "tu" instead of "toi" -- ( I remember toi from 20 years ago!!) My instructor advised no, it's tu. Well it is in this book - until you get half way through, and suddenly its toi....out of the blue - no explanation. You have to unlearn things you may have learned correctly, learn them wrong, and then circle back after they've "built" you to the level they want...and then relearn it - what a nightmare!! This is a 5 hour a week class, and I easily spend 20+ hours on homework, and am still struggling. As I say, I have always been a good student -- even my tutor (who is a native french person) looks at it and shakes her head. I'd stay clear of this, and if your university is using it, find another class elsewhere that has not been sold a bill of goods by the Horizons sales reps. Also - to mention, I have found several errors in the supporting lab and CD, that are not consistent - for example, I'm in chapter 7 of the oral exercises as we speak, and in the workbook, I'm trying to do exercise B (page 235), however there is no exercise B - they have D recorded twice....in the last written lesson, if I followed their guide, they had my brother going to bed, and in the next frame I, in the story Patricia, would be going to bed with Henri. In the answer book, it says Henri, my brother, is going to bed -- in the next frame it shows me, Patricia, going to bed with Henri!! (CH 7, exercise D, p122, Competence 3) These are just examples of things I've come across - but it appears that when they updated, they didn't do much in the way of consistency. Anyway - I can't say strongly enough how much I dislike this book and the associated collateral. | ||
shipment on my book received my book in a quick time frame. was in good condition and also the cd's. | ||
Horizons has an easy-to-follow structure Here is a book I have used over and over to teach students a first year of French at college level. It has an easy-to-follow structure, making lesson planning simple for me and giving the students an organization that makes studying and learning easier. The "Résumé de grammaire and vocabulary" at the end of each chapter also make review easy. | ||
ehhh I bought this book for my college Fre101-102 class and found that most of it is written in French. I only got by becuase I previously took Fre101-102 through Honors Fre110 in highschool. (i know how to speak it already). thia is a good book as a refresser, but not for just starting out. Although i highly recommend the CD's it comes with. | ||