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    French Key Words
    French Key Words
    French Key Words
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    French Key Words

    By Xavier-Yves Escande

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    The Basic 2000 Word Vocabulary Arranged by Frequency. Learn French Quickly and Easily.

    * New for 2017 – Completely revised and updated
    * A simple, fast, proven way to learn French with ease
    * First 500 words provides 75% common usage
    * Easy units - your confidence grows as your vocabulary grows     

    French Key Words provides an easy route to mastering excellent basic French. Easy-to-learn Unit Structure gets you the words you need to know quickly and easily. One hundred easy-to-master units of 20 words each. Learn French quickly and simply.

    These words are the essential foundation stones on which you intuitively build your language framework:

    The first five units (100 words) account for 63% of normal conversational French.

    The first 500 words account for 75% of normal conversational usage. The full 2,000 words will equip you for nearly all word occurrences in modern French usage in speech, newspapers, books, television etc. Also provides an all-in-one basic French-English dictionary and an All-in-one basic English-French Dictionary.

    The perfect aid - to learn French by using the simplest, most logical way to pick up a vocabulary of ten thousand words from two thousand. French Key Words presents you with the 2,000 word basic vocabulary ordered by frequency of occurrence in modern usage - in one hundred simple units. The book is a learning aid benefiting from computer analysis of a million words and consists of a list of the commonest two thousand key words in French, with their meanings in English, arranged in decreasing order of frequency.

    A simple, fast, proven way to learn French with ease.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Oleander Press
    Release dateJun 2, 2017
    ISBN9781386160724
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