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Dear French language student, Mastering French Conversation by Dr. Brians Languages is based on the highly acclaimed language learning program developed by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) for US Government personnel in the 1940s. The training enabled professionals to live and work in a foreign country.

With the second installment of Mastering French Conversation, we expand our ability to converse in French. As before, the drills allow you to practice hearing, understanding and formulating sentences in French. In this way you learn to think in French. You are preparing for live conversations on the streets of Paris. This program is likely the most intensive and demanding audio self-help French program available. If you really want to master French conversation, this course is for you.

Dear French language student, our approach to teaching French is straightforward: one learns how to speak French by speaking French. To this end, we have developed oral drills that allow you to practice French conversation. While the drills are demanding, they are also effective in improving your hearing, understanding and speaking skills.

Our Mastering German Conversation series gives students the opportunity to train their conversation skills with oral drills. Each module focuses on a specific aspect of grammar. This module focuses on the future tense and passive voice.

This unit is a spoken phrase book allowing you to practice speaking and understanding travel related phrases. In units one through five, we have introduced travel-related vocabulary and verbal exchanges you will encounter often; this unit builds on that foundation.

Mastering French Conversation by Dr. Brians Languages is based on the highly acclaimed language learning program developed by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) for US Government personnel in the 1940s. The training enabled professionals to live and work in a foreign country. The FSI approach is straightforward: You learn how to speak French by speaking French. The FSI-inspired Guided Imitation drills allow you to practice conversation. As the drills progress, you become able to formulate your own sentences. You are preparing for live conversations on the streets of Paris.

Train your French with this Mastering French Literature audiobook by Dr. Brians Languages. This audiobook is based on the classic La Pétition by Frédéric Bastiat, who wrote numerous articles concerning political economics in the mid-1800s. This audiobook is intended for intermediate to advanced French students.

This is our last and most advanced module focused on learning to use the perfect tense in spoken German. The major components of this unit are: advanced practice for "sein", "haben", and "modal" verbs in the present perfect tense; advanced practice for comparison constructions; additional vocabulary useful for office and social life; and advanced practice for correct application of gender, case, and adjective endings. At the end of the unit, the student will have a strong grasp of using past participles in free-flowing speech.

This module continues your focus on learning to use the perfect tense in spoken German. After working through the drills, you will have a better grasp of formulating concepts in the past tense. Also, you will be able to interact at a basic level around the office, when talking about travel and weather, and when visiting a restaurant.

Our Mastering German Conversation series gives students the opportunity to train their conversation skills with our oral drills. Each module focuses on a specific aspect of grammar. This module focuses on the perfect tense. The perfect tense places action in the past.

Continue to develop your verbal French skills with unit 5 of the Mastering French Conversation series. This course will cover indefinite adjectives, noun-markers in negative constructions, large numbers, impersonal verbs, the verb "faire", and more!

Like unit one, this module focuses on modal verbs. We also briefly introduce the perfect (past), future, and subjunctive tenses. We expand vocabulary associated with the house, and practice gender and adjective endings in real-time speech.

The Mastering German Conversation series is designed for students who - at a minimum - wish to be able to hold basic conversations in German. Our programs allow students to practice conversing in German to a much greater extent than what is possible in a classroom setting. The progression of the course starts with simply repeating set phrases, which anyone can do. Then, we steadily bring the student to a place where he can formulate complete and accurate sentences in real-time conversation.

Mastering German Conversation by Dr. Brians Languages is based on the highly acclaimed language learning program developed by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) for US government personnel in the 1940s. The training enabled the students to live and work in foreign countries.

Mastering German Conversation by Dr. Brians Languages is based on the highly acclaimed language learning program developed by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) for US Government personnel in the 1940s. The training enabled the students to live and work in a foreign country.

Dear German language student: Mastering German Conversation by Dr. Brians Languages is based on the highly acclaimed language learning program developed by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) for US government personnel in the 1940s. The training enabled the students to live and work in foreign countries.

Mastering German Conversation by Dr. Brians Languages is based on the highly acclaimed language learning program developed by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) for US government personnel in the 1940s. The training enabled the students to live and work in foreign countries. The FSI approach is straightforward: You learn how to converse in German by speaking in German.

This German course trains with the Guided Imitation Method, a Foreign Service Institute (FSI) technique for learning languages. The approach guides you to imitate native speakers using oral drills. You hear, understand, and respond in the foreign language.

The most challenging grammar rules for students of the German language are gender, case and adjective endings. These rules are especially tricky in free-flowing dialogue. Mastering German Conversation provides eight and a half hours of verbal practice with these rules.