Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One, Premium Second Edition 2nd Edition

If you're looking to learn French, Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One, Premium Second Edition is an excellent resource to have. The comprehensive guide covers everything from grammar to vocabulary, and includes exercises to help reinforce what you've learned. Highly recommended for both beginners and those looking to brush up on their French skills!

My mom 😍 loved it

To be fair, nothing as far as I can see on the book markets it as ‘for beginners,’ so I guess it might be my fault as a buyer for not being more cautious.I bought this book as a total beginner to French and I must say that the (pictured) exercises in the first chapter of the book are already seemingly impossible for the already uninitiated in the language.I am having a very unprofitable experience with this book already due to not having enough base knowledge to perform the tasks in each exercise.I already speak three languages, one of which (Korean) I acquired through self-study and living in the country, so this does not come from a position of ignorance on my part in relation to foreign languages.I will save this book for when I approach an intermediate or high-intermediate level as I think it will be an invaluable resource at that point. Until then, this title will be taking a back seat to something a tad more beginner friendly with which I can get my bearings.It is chalk full of topical vocabulary on intermediate to even advanced subjects (geography, nature, and so many more) as well as in depth gramatical breakdowns. It moves well beyond beginner basics (body descriptions, time, colors, etc). This is a strong point of the book.

This book is amazing if you are a beginner in French! I highly recommend this language book! The author is amazing and makes it easy you learn French! 5 stars!

But that doesn’t make this a bad learning tool. Keep in mind it is basically a composite of parts of a few different books (probably to make some more money) so that may explain the appearance of a lack of cohesiveness. Yes right from the start one is thrown into some non-beginner vocabulary. Had I not had a solid grounding to begin with I would have been angry as well as this is a substantial cost.That being said I’m very happy with this purchase. The lack of cohesiveness is a positive as rather than getting lost in the weeds of a particular grammar point for pages on end, I’m exposed but at the same time challenged to use my knowledge of other parts of speech and vocabulary expansion at the same time. Of course this necessitates a pretty thorough comprehensive understanding to begin with, not necessarily advanced but solidly at an intermediate level with prior exposure to the whole French grammar spectrum.I haven’t jumped around yet, basically started at the beginning and gone from there. It’s possible one could piece together beginner level topics by jumping around but there are much better (and less expensive) alternatives. I purchased the kindle edition and have not experienced any problems other than occasional quirkiness when navigating back and forth between the answer key and the text.

It's detailed, maybe way too detailed for absolute beginners, but it is wholesome, covers everything you need to know in around 650 pages, you definitely should use easier books alongside with this one,so far, I am enjoying it 👍🏻

This is an odd book. I read the reviews criticizing its take no prisoners approach from page one and then bought it anyway, but I truly had no idea about what this book intends to do, and for that matter, I don't think the authors do, either.I'm sure there will come a fleeting window when this book will find its usefulness and I intend to find it, but I can't help but wonder at what must be the vanishingly small true audience this book is aimed at, that has fairly extensive knowledge of French vocabulary and grammar from the start and yet knows nothing about the accents and cedille and how they affect pronunciation(for example).From the very beginning the exercises will challenge you to answer questions that require vocabulary it makes not even a passing effort to address and a certain level of grammar as well, most of which is covered... eventually. There are so many resouces out there that this could be made to be useful; it's just strange how it alternately expects its readers to have rank beginner and intermediate french knowledge. not to mention it makes no effort to build knowledge from simple to complex - it has some other organizing principle. If I happen to crack the code, I'll certainly add it to this review, for now and for any French student who doesn't have a couple thousand words in vocabulary and solid grammar foundation, it's a hard thing to recommend.

This book is not good for a complete beginner who is doing self study.I bought this book to get me started before an upcoming beginning French class. It may be a good reference and practice book later on after I have some classes under my belt but to get started, no. When trying to do the very first exercises, there is an assumption the reader already has some French vocabulary or is willing to complete the exercises by guessing at the meaning. I'd rather have a book that starts with simple vocabulary building, simple grammar rules and a feeling I understand what is going on. On the other hand, McGraw Hill, the publisher has an app that goes with this book and all their other French language books that contain audio files, flash cards, glossaries that look very useful!