Power French Accelerated/8 One-Hour Audio Lessons/Complete Written Listening Guide/Tapescript

By: Mark Frobose

Narrated by: Mark Frobose

Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

Want to learn to speak authentic French quickly and easily and have fun in the process? Designed to teach you to speak French while on the go, Power French Accelerated is a refreshingly intense, upbeat and positive 8 hour audio language program whose 144 study units establish a challenging pace and friendly tone that are designed to keep you constantly motivated and learning to speak and understand real spoken French at optimal speed.

Expert language teacher Mark Frobose talks you through the program in English while a charming trained native French speaker teaches you authentic French the way it is really spoken in France. This highly acclaimed method is so easy and so fast that you'll be speaking French within minutes of receiving your program and enjoying the process.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

©2012 Mark Frobose (P)2013 Mark Frobose

Many words, but little explanation included

Compared to other French-courses available (like the Paul Noble one) this throws a lot of words at the listener but has too few explanations and too little grammar to really be useful on its own - I would perhaps recommend it as a supplement to other courses.

8th listen and still improving

Mark Frobose's method and short-cuts are the best I have found in any audio-only experience!

Fast-paced

Overall, this was good. However, I could have used more information on sentence structure and why things were going in the order they were.

Decent language guide

Good language learning guide. got some basics out if it. Will got through again and hopefully get more. I'm fortunate enough to live in a french speaking country so I get to practice as I go.

love this book!!!!

this is awesome, it's very fast paced but totally works! they start with the basics (ordering at a french restaurant) but surprisingly it swings into some main areas of learning by that, so it's not some tacky travelers audio book (unless you want it to be)

I plan on purchasing the whole series!

Fantastic!

I've learned Spanish through other methods and I had great success with this audio book. I am cramming French in a short timeframe for my first trip to Paris. I listened in the car and while doing chores. Before long I could order food, greet people, get around easily and understand how verbs translate The program infuses the repot ion of words in a way that causes you to easily to remember them. The narrators are awesome.

Quick and thorough review of conversational French

Excellent for someone who studied the language years ago and needs a quick yet thorough review of common words and phrases.

Comprehensive

Good pace and well rounded vocabulary and sentences. Excellent way to improve your French speaking. Now it's time to review again.

Amazingly Effective! Breaks All Conventions

Any additional comments?

I just finished Power French I Accelerated for the first time. I am amazed at what I have learned.
I have tried virtually every French language program available on Audible and Amazon, and I have to say that Power French is by far the most effective program I have used by far.
Here’s why:
1. Frobose breaks all the rules and therefore forces you to hear and learn real French. Most other language programs candy-coat their presentations, dumbing them down to make them appear to be effective when they clearly are not. Power French I is as fun as it is challenging, but it really raises the bar and motivates you to learn to speak more French than you ever dreamed possible.
2. Huge amount of vocabulary that is presented in a memory format so you can actually walk away from each lesson speaking more French than before you started it. It’s all super useful vocabulary. Stuff like “Now that I think about it” or “I would like a glass of red wine, not white wine”. And it seems at times that there is no method to the madness UNTIL you realize that you have not been babied, you have been TAUGHT to speak a huge amount of French, and even learned to put it all together in your own sentences.
3. When I say that Mark Frobose breaks the rules, I really mean that he is not a conventional teacher. For example, he doesn’t just teach the present tense in the 1st program. He actually threw in future and past tenses into a first level program. Heresy for traditional French classes and programs. Unheard of.
Brilliant, because I understood it right away since he explained it in a simple fashion in English and then Chloé the native French teacher simply spoke it and I learned it. In a traditional program, the teachers would make a huge deal of this and say that you could never be ready to learn this level of French so early, even though that’s how we learned English, and how the French learned French. It’s all thrown in together. Frobose manages somehow to teach this natural format in a way that really clicks. He organizes all of this mess into an interesting, fun, and yes, challenging format that really makes you want to continue. You’re never bored when you are really learning, and this program keeps you learning until the end.

I am now ready to start the program all over again, and I am sure that I will learn as much or more from it the 2nd time as I did the first, and never ever be bored. So much quality instruction for so little money. It would be wonderful if all language teachers could teach like this, but Frobose is a one of a kind marvel and I thank him for what I have learned from him.

Excellent refresher or trip prep

Used this to refresh my knowledge and ability to think/speak in French before a 2 week vacation in Normandy. Found to very useful, esp with building patterns to use with multiple verb and other word usage.

I had studied French in high school a couple decades ago but not used it much other than a 1 week ski resort vacation and a long weekend in Paris ... both of those more than a decade ago.

The pattern used in the audible book was easily listened to while commuting. The English speaking male explains the pattern and some new words, heavy emphasis on verbs and related nouns. Then they pause while the listener repeats. This is followed by the female native French speaker repeating the sentence or phrases that build larger sentences author pauses for the listener to repeat.

As a previous learner of French, the first few chapters seemed slow, basic and repetitive , but I was glad I didn’t skip ahead. As the vocabulary grew and the sentences became either more complex, I was glad I’d stayed with the course to develop the necessary rhythm. I would not have considered the sentences complex in English,, my native tongue, but in a foreign language they were more complex than simple noun-verb-subject.

If I thought I’d be going back to France or other place where French is primary language, I’d order the next course. However I plan to try the Spanish version next, since I’ll be heading to Mexico in the fall.