Essential 3000 French Conversation Words for Beginners - (Includes a free MP3 CD with the book)

Author: Wang Xiaofei
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: With the deepening and development of China's reform and opening-up, French, as one of the world's important languages (a working language of the United Nations), has become an indispensable tool for foreign political, economic, cultural, and technical exchanges, just like English. Vocabulary is the foundation and key to learning French. Learning a language always begins with simple words like "heaven, earth, people, above, middle, and below." However, vocabulary is also a challenge in learning French. Without a certain accumulation of vocabulary, there can be no breakthrough like "leaping over the dragon gate." Therefore, to help improve their reading skills and express various ideas fluently in French, we have timely launched this book, "3000 Conversational French Vocabulary for Beginners." We hope it can play a small role in your journey to becoming a French expert. This book is rich in content, highly practical, and easy to use. It systematically collects and organizes nearly 3,000 frequently used words in French conversations, with a focus on nouns and adjectives. The words are arranged in the order of fashion, food and drink, natural phenomena, time and dates, travel and sightseeing, sports and athletics, shopping, housing, medical and health care, transportation, cultural and leisure, education, emotional expression, professional and workplace, economic and finance, information and communication, agriculture, and industry. Each word is carefully selected, defined, and ordered to facilitate readers' mastery and memorization. After the words, there are phrases to help readers understand usage. The editors hope that after using this book, readers will learn the basic usage of these words. More importantly, in future French learning and practice, they will pay attention to the usage of common words and phrases, accumulate them carefully, and believe that their French proficiency will be effectively improved. If this book can provide readers with some inspiration or help, the editors will be greatly gratified. During the writing process of this book, we were greatly assisted by the French-speaking foreign teachers Hélène LEMERLE and Mattias MASSOULIER, who also recorded an MP3 disc for the book. We take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude.