Beginning French for the utterly confused

Table of Contents
 Preface
 Guide for the User
 Guide to Pronunciation
 Vowels
 Semivowels
 Consonants
 Stress
 Silent letters
 Liaison
 Written accents
 Dieresis
 CHAPTER 1 À l\'école de langues
 Do I Need to Read This Chapter?
 Dialogue 1.1
 Get Started
 Subject Pronouns
 Regional variations
 Verbs
 The French Alphabet
 Dialogue 1.2
 Useful Vocabulary
 Verbs
 Question words
 Expressing Quantity: Numbers 0-69
 Expressing one\'s age
 Giving your address
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 ANSWER KEY
 CHAPTER 2 La nouvelle collègue
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 Dialogue 2.1
 Get Started. Expressing quantity: Numbers after 70Giving the date
 Introducing people
 Saying good-bye
 New verbs
 Prepositions à and chez
 Regular plural nouns with -s
 Yes/No questions
 Dialogue 2.2
 Useful Vocabulary
 New verbs
 Asking who someone is
 Negation with ne ... pas
 Stressed pronouns
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 CHAPTER 3 Les vacances de Maxime
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 Dialogue 3.1
 Get Started
 Verbs
 Expressing likes and dislikes
 Family members
 Expressing possession: Possessive adjectives
 Demonstrative adjectives
 Dialogue 3.2
 Useful vocabulary
 Making polite requests. Pas de (negation with avoir)Dialogue 3.3
 Useful vocabulary
 Information questions: qu\'est-ce que c\'est and qui est-ce?
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 CHAPTER 4 Vive le carnaval!
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 Dialogue 4.1
 Get Started
 To buy and to pay
 The verb pouvoir
 Vocabulary: Means of transport
 Clock time
 Il y a
 Ordinal numbers
 Currencies in French-speaking countries
 Dialogue 4.2
 Useful vocabulary
 Forming questions: Inversion of verb and subject
 pourquoi? ... parce que . . .
 Expressing daily routines with reflexive verbs
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 ANSWER KEY. CHAPTER 5 L\'entrevue de VincentDo I Need to Read This Chapter?
 Dialogue 5.1
 Get Started
 Expressing past events: le passé composé (1)
 Dialogue 5.2
 Useful vocabulary
 Expressing past events: le passé composé (2)
 Adverbs
 Prepositions with place names
 Preposition pour
 Dialogue 5.3
 Useful vocabulary
 The passé composé of pronominal verbs
 Past participles used as adjectives with être
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 CHAPTER 6 Deux fêtes et un mal de tête
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 Dialogue 6.1
 Get Started
 Expressing recently passed events
 Expressing future events. Locating events in time or temporal expressionsDialogue 6.2
 Useful vocabulary
 Expressing actions that are happening at the moment of speaking and simultaneously
 Giving orders: The imperative
 Parts of the body
 Talking about health
 Dialogue 6.3
 Useful vocabulary
 Giving directions: Useful expressions
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 CHAPTER 7 J\'ai perdu un livre!
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 Dialogue 7.1
 Get Started
 Direct object pronouns
 Expressing possession (2)
 Colors
 Dialogue 7.2
 Useful vocabulary
 Indirect object pronouns
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