Learn French Now is an interactive software package for learning French. This product is geared to provide skills and resources for the learners to learn the target language efficiently.

This product not only teaches vocabulary and grammar but also provides online features that create an interesting learning atmosphere for effective learning to take place.

Learn French Now consists of a vocabulary of over 10,000 words, a collection of several hundred phrases, full length videos, native speaker pronunciation, record-playback-compare possibilities, a slow-sound component, an alphabet reference guide, conversation practice, word dictation, grammar tutorial, word and root search, interactive games, on-line testing, and personal progress tracking. All these innovative and varied techniques are utilized to make the learning process easy, fast and fun.

The set of 2 CDs in Learn French Now contain four lessons, namely - The Most common Words in French, Survival Phrases in French, Conversations in French and A French Surprise Birthday Party. As this is a software program, there are interactive games and activities to make learning interesting and fun as opposed to the traditional and boring methods.

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"Learn French Now! is a user-friendly and technically sound program."
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"The interactive dialog is the greatest aspect of this software. It allows you to read, listen, or participate in interactive conversations."
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"FrenchNow! Deluxe works by immersing you in the French culture. You can listen to live conversations, watch videos from France and read interesting articles."
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"The speech recognition allows for oral practice. The video immersion allows for some conversational and listening practice."
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Learn French Now takes advantage of the multimedia and interactive capabilities of the software base and builds the teaching methodology on this improved base. This helps much in the learning process. There are, of course, certain negatives like the unresponsive voice recognition and the difficulty level of some games, but in comparison to all the positive things that this product has to offer, these negatives are negligible.

Company Info:

Learn French Now is a product of Transparent Language, who is a leading provider of language learning software for consumers, government agencies, educational institutions, and businesses. Established in 1991, Transparent Language has helped many individuals learn new languages quickly, easily, and effectively. Their products are used in more than 12,000 schools and universities, as well as top government language schools, such as the Foreign Service Institute and the Defense Language Institute.

Product features:

• Interactive, interesting and fun
  
• Detailed yet easy to understand
  
• Makes full use of software capabilities
  
• Highly informative and effective
  

Technical Details:

• Set of 2 CDs
  
• Vocabulary of over 10,000 words
  
• Lots of multimedia content
  
• Speech recognition and interactive games
  

Price: (At Time of Review)

$69.95