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| Introduction | |
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| The Basics | |
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| Saying It Right | |
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| Pronunciation | |
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| Saying the Alphabet | |
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| Combinations of Sounds | |
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| Nasal Sounds | |
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| The International Phonetic Alphabet | |
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| Linking Words and Phrases: Liaison | |
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| Numbers from Zero to Ten | |
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| Intonation | |
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| Rhythm | |
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| Common Exceptions | |
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| Proper Nouns | |
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| Learn Some Common Nouns | |
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| Listen to Native Speakers | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Describing Things | |
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| Learn the Gender of Nouns | |
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| Recognize Masculine Nouns | |
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| Recognize Feminine Nouns | |
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| Learn Nouns with One or Two Genders | |
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| Recognize the Subject Pronouns | |
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| Master the Definite Articles | |
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| Learn the Definite Articles: le, la, l', les | |
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| Use the Definite Article with Abstractions | |
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| Use the Definite Article with Geographic Names | |
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| Use the Definite Article with Days of the Week | |
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| Use the Definite Article with Titles | |
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| Use the Definite Article in Special Cases | |
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| Learn Contractions of the Definite Articles | |
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| Master the Indefinite Articles | |
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| Learn the Plural of Indefinite Articles | |
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| Learn the Partitive Articles | |
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| Make Nouns and Adjectives Agree in Gender | |
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| Know Where to Place Adjectives | |
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| Learn Adjectives That Follow the Noun | |
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| Learn Adjectives That Precede the Noun | |
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| Change Placement to Change Meaning | |
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| Modify a Noun with a Noun | |
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| Make Nouns and Adjectives Plural | |
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| Learn Three Special Adjective Forms | |
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| Learn the Numbers Eleven to Sixty-Nine | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Actions in the Present Tense | |
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| Review the French Subject Pronouns | |
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| Distinguish Tu and Vous | |
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| Learn How to Use the Pronoun On | |
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| Learn Avoir and Etre | |
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| Conjugate the Verb Avoir | |
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| Talk About Age with Avoir | |
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| Conjugate the Verb Etre | |
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| Tell Time with Etre | |
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| Learn to Distinguish il est and c'est | |
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| Understand the French Verb System | |
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| Learn the Regular Present Tense Conjugation of -er Verbs | |
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| Ask a Question Using Intonation | |
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| Ask a Question Using n'est-ce pas | |
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| Learn -er Verbs with Spelling Changes | |
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| Learn the Regular Present Tense Conjugation of -ir Verbs | |
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| Learn Irregular -ir Verbs | |
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| Learn the Regular Present Tense Conjugation of -re Verbs | |
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| Learn Irregular -re Verbs | |
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| Practice Conjugating Regular Verbs | |
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| Understand Present Tense Usage | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Actions in the Present Tense with Irregular Verbs | |
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| Learn the Numbers Seventy to One Thousand | |
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| Use Numbers to Ask About Prices | |
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| Use Telephone Numbers | |
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| Use Numbers to Give Your Address | |
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| Learn Irregular Present Tense Verbs | |
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| Learn the Verb Aller | |
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| Learn the Verb Boire | |
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| Learn the Verb Connaitre | |
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| Learn the Verb Croire | |
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| Learn the Verb Dire | |
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| Learn the Verb Ecrire | |
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| Learn the Verb Faire | |
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| Learn the Verb Lire | |
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| Learn the Verb Pouvoir | |
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| Learn the Verb Savoir | |
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| Learn the Verb Vivre | |
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| Learn the Verb Voir | |
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| Learn the Verb Vouloir | |
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| Learn Some Irregular -ir Verbs | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| The Present and the Future | |
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| Express Yourself in the Present Indicative | |
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| Learn to Speak of Dates | |
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| Learn the Days of the Week | |
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| Learn the Months | |
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| Learn the Seasons | |
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| Learn About Greetings and Farewells | |
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| Learn Il y a | |
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| Create a Basic Sentence | |
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| Learn the Structure of a French Sentence | |
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| Use Transitive and Intransitive Verbs | |
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| Learn to Ask Questions and Give Answers | |
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| Use Est-ce que ... to Ask a Question | |
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| Invert Subject and Verb to Ask a Question | |
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| Use Intonation to Ask a Question | |
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| Learn Question Words: Comment? Quoi? Pardon? | |
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| Learn to Say No Using Ne ... Pas | |
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| Learn to Form Commands | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Express Yourself in the Present Subjunctive | |
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| Master Collective Numbers and Fractions | |
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| Learn the Collective Numbers | |
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| Learn Fractions | |
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| Learn to Add, Subtract, Multipy, and Divide | |
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| Learn the Verbs Venir and Tenir | |
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| Learn the Verb Falloir | |
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| Learn About Moods | |
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| Form the Present Subjunctive of -er Verbs | |
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| Form the Present Subjunctive of regular -ir Verbs | |
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| Form the Present Subjunctive of -re Verbs | |
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| Form the Present Subjunctive of Irregular Verbs | |
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| Learn When to Use the Subjunctive | |
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| After Verbs of Feeling | |
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| After Expressions of Doubt | |
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| After Impersonal Expressions | |
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| Learn the Verbs Couvrir, Offrir, and Ouvrir | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Describe Your Surroundings | |
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| Learn More About Adjectives | |
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| Review the Agreement and Placement of Adjectives | |
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| Use Multiple Adjectives in Descriptions | |
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| Use Past Participles as Adjectives | |
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| Master Demonstrative Adjectives | |
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| Learn the Indefinite Adjectives | |
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| Learn to Compare Things | |
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| Use the Comparative | |
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| Use the Superlative | |
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| Learn to Form and Use Adverbs | |
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| How to Form Adverbs | |
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| Where to Place Adverbs | |
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| How to Use Adverbs of Quantity | |
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| Use Adverbs to Compare Things | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Learn to Express Yourself in the Future | |
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| Learn the Interrogative Adjectives | |
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| Learn More About Partitive Articles | |
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| Learn to Form the Negation | |
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| Master the Most Common Negations | |
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| Learn to Use the Partitive De After Negations | |
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| Learn the Most Common Exceptions | |
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| Learn to Form a Negative Question | |
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| Respond to a Negative Question with Si | |
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| Use Multiple Negations | |
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| Learn to Express Yourself in the Future Tense | |
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| Review the Immediate Future | |
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| Master the Future Tense of Regular Verbs | |
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| Master the Future Tense of Irregular Verbs | |
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| Learn the Present Conditional Mood | |
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| Master the Forms of the Present Conditional | |
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| Learn to Use the Present Conditional | |
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| Learn About Concordance of Tenses | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| The Past | |
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| Express Yourself in the Past | |
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| Expressing Action vs. Movement | |
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| The Difference Between Action and Movement | |
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| The Thirteen Verbs of Movement | |
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| Two Helping Verbs: Avoir and Etre | |
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| Form the Passe Compose | |
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| Learn the Past Tense with Avoir | |
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| Learn the Past Tense with Etre | |
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| Use the Past Tenses in the Negative | |
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| Use Ne ... Personne with Compound Tenses | |
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| Learn When to Use the Passe Compose | |
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| Learn More Irregular -ir Verbs | |
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| Learn the Verbs Courir and Devoir | |
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| Learn the Verbs Mourir and Recevoir | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Use the Correct Past Tense | |
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| Describe Completed Actions: Passe Compose | |
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| When One Event Logically Follows Another in Time | |
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| When the Action Has a Specific Duration in Time | |
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| When English Uses the Past or Present Perfect | |
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| Learn the Imperfect Tense | |
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| Use the Imperfect Tense with Descriptions | |
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| Describe the Setting in the Past | |
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| Describe Past Actions with No Definite End | |
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| Describe Habitual Actions | |
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| Use the Imperfect in Conjunction with the Passe Compose | |
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| Use the Imperfect + Conditional to Say "What If" | |
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| Learn Verbs Commonly Used in the Imperfect | |
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| Formulate Descriptions Using the Imperfect | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Learn to Show Possession | |
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| Use De to Show Possession | |
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| Learn Possessive Adjectives | |
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| Son, Sa, and Ses | |
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| Leur and Leurs | |
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| Learn Possessive Pronouns | |
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| Learn Demonstrative Pronouns | |
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| Celui, Ceux, Celle, and Celles | |
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| Ceci, Cela | |
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| Ce (c') | |
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| Learn the Pronoun Tout | |
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| Tout as Adverb | |
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| Use the Tonic Pronouns | |
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| Add Stress to a Statement | |
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| With the Verb Etre | |
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| In Comparisons | |
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| When a Compound Subject Contains Both a Noun and a Pronoun | |
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| After a Preposition | |
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| With Possessive Adjectives | |
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| With Certain Idiomatic Expressions | |
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| When a Pronoun Is Used by Itself | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Learn to Link Ideas | |
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| Master Relative Pronouns | |
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| Qui, Que | |
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| Ce Qui, Ce Que | |
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| Lequel, Lesquels, Laquelle, and Lesquelles | |
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| Dont | |
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| Ou | |
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| Agreement of the Relative Pronoun | |
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| Tout Ce Qui, Tout Ce Que | |
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| Learn More About Conjunctions | |
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| Learn More Impersonal Expressions and Verbs | |
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| Learn to Use Linking Words | |
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| Learn to Compare Nouns | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Leisure Time | |
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| Master the Prepositions | |
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| Use Prepositions of Place | |
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| Geography | |
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| Prepositions for Geographic Places | |
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| French Names for Cities | |
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| Use Prepositions of Time | |
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| Prepositions with Special Meanings | |
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| Learn Some Special Uses of Prepositions | |
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| Master the Verb + Preposition | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Free Time | |
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| Use Pronouns to Avoid Repetition | |
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| Distinguish Between Direct and Indirect Objects | |
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| Master the Object Pronouns | |
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| Learn to Place Object Pronouns | |
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| Learn Agreement of Past Participles with Object Pronouns | |
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| Learn Exceptional Placement of Object Pronouns | |
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| Use Object Pronouns with Commands | |
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| Use Object Pronouns with Infinitives | |
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| Learn Vocabulary to Talk About Your Leisure Time | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Around the House | |
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| Use Pronouns to Ask Questions | |
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| Learn the Interrogative Pronouns | |
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| Qui/Qui Est-Ce Qui | |
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| Qu'est-Ce Qui | |
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| Qui/Qui Est-Ce Que | |
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| Que/Qu'est-Ce Que | |
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| A Qui/A Quoi/Avec Qui/Avec Quoi | |
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| Lequel/Laquelle/Lesquels/Lesquelles | |
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| Use Single Pronouns to Ask Questions | |
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| Use Common Question Words | |
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| Learn the Present Participle | |
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| Present Participles as Adjectives | |
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| Present Participle Replaces a Relative Clause | |
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| Present vs. Past Participle | |
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| Present Participle vs. Infinitive | |
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| Learn Vocabulary to Talk About Where You Live | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Going Places | |
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| Talk About Time, Dates, and Weather | |
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| Learn Expressions with Time | |
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| Learn About Dates | |
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| Talk About the Weather | |
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| Use Depuis + Present Tense | |
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| Learn More About the Subjunctive | |
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| Learn Vocabulary to Talk About Your Travels | |
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| Passports and Visas | |
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| Driving in France | |
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| Major National Holidays in France | |
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| Money Matters | |
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| Emergency Phone Numbers | |
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| Business Travel Division | |
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| Travel Vocabulary | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Stepping Out | |
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| Eating Out | |
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| Express Yourself in Past Time | |
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| Master the Futur Anterieur | |
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| Learn the Plus-Que-Parfait | |
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| Learn the Past Conditional | |
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| Learn the Past Subjunctive | |
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| Learn Vocabulary to Talk About Meals | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| At Work | |
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| Describe Your Daily Routine | |
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| Learn the Present Tense of Reflexive Verbs | |
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| Learn the Past Tense of Reflexive Verbs | |
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| Use Reflexive Verbs in Commands | |
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| Use Reflexive Verbs | |
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| Special Uses of Reflexive Verbs | |
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| Learn Vocabulary to Talk About the Workplace | |
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| Use the Pronouns Y and En | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Going Shopping | |
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| Learn to Say "Can I?" and "May I?" | |
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| Learn to Say "Must I?" and "Should I?" | |
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| Use the Verb Devoir | |
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| Use the Verb Falloir | |
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| Learn More About Infinitives | |
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| Infinitive Used as a Noun | |
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| Infinitive to Replace the Subjunctive | |
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| Infinitive Used as a Command | |
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| Past Infinitives | |
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| Learn Vocabulary to Talk About Going Shopping | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Campus Life | |
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| Master Idiomatic Expressions | |
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| Etre | |
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| Avoir | |
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| Faire | |
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| Valoir | |
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| Se Passer and Arriver | |
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| More Idiomatic Expressions with Etre | |
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| Idiomatic Expressions with Avoir | |
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| Idiomatic Expressions with Faire | |
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| Learn Common Sayings and Proverbs | |
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| Learn Vocabulary to Talk About Campus Life | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| The Real World | |
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| Communicating in the Real World | |
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| Learn Conversational Shortcuts | |
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| Learn How to Simplify Your Language | |
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| Learn to Use the Right Word | |
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| Master the Use of Filler Words | |
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| Learn Parts of the Human Body | |
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| Learn Parts of a Car | |
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| Learn Parts of a Computer | |
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| Learn About Slang | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| In Case of Emergency | |
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| Master the Passive Voice | |
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| Learn to Use the Passive Voice | |
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| Learn When to Avoid the Passive Voice | |
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| Doing Something vs. Having Something Done | |
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| Learn Vocabulary to Talk About Illnesses and Emergencies | |
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| At the Doctor's Office and the Hospital | |
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| At the Dentist's Office | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Managing Your Business | |
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| Construct a Curriculum Vitate (CV) | |
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| Lettre de Motivation | |
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| Master Business Conventions | |
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| Basic Correspondence | |
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| How to Begin a Commercial Letter | |
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| Talking on the Telephone | |
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| Master Business Situations | |
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| At the Bank | |
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| On the Stock Market | |
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| Learn Vocabulary to Talk Business | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Understanding Formal Writing in French | |
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| Learn to Read the Newspaper | |
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| Use the Literary Tense | |
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| Learn to Read Literature | |
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| Learn How to Write Informal Notes | |
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| Invitations | |
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| Requests for Information | |
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| Business Cards | |
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| Learn to Format a Letter | |
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| Learn Vocabulary to Talk About Literature and the Arts | |
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| Hour's Up! | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Verb Conjugation Charts | |
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| Answer Key | |
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| Index | |