Learn French with Paul Noble for Beginners – Part 1

French Made Easy with Your Personal Language Coach

By: Paul Noble

Narrated by: Paul Noble

Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

Collins French with Paul Noble combines an exciting new non-traditional approach to language learning with the easy, relaxed appeal of an audio-only product. No books. No rote memorisation. No chance of failure.

Paul Noble is a genius with a higher IQ than Einstein. Despite this, he still struggled with language learning at school. He found himself feeling ‘confused, incapable and unable to really say anything’. As a result of his negative early experiences, Paul has come up with a ground-breaking new method of language teaching that removes the need for months of study. With Paul Noble, everyone really can speak a language.

Part 1 of the course covers:

• Language ground rules
• The use of the past tense
• Finding French words used in English
• Asking questions
• Essential vocabulary to use when booking into a hotel, taking a taxi, and eating out.

A native-speaking French expert helps Paul to deliver the course and to perfect your pronunciation. No complicated grammatical explanations, no rote memorisation, no writing - no stress.

Learn over 6,000 words in no time at all and - most importantly - learn how to make your new vocabulary work for you. (Use the accompanying booklet as a reference and revision tool.)

Download the accompanying reference guide.

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Critic reviews

Review of Paul Noble Method by The City Magazine:

“Relaxing and listening to the CDs, I found that I seemed to absorb the phrases taught, without even consciously trying, and quickly felt confident enough to play around with the different components and make my own sentences.”

Reviews of Collins French with Paul Noble by Amazon customers:

"We both have a basic grasp of the relevant languages but this course is helping to improve our speaking ability better than all the previous attempts we have made. Try it."

"The language is explained in a simple way and the teacher doesn't use complex grammar terms… Instead the teacher more or less just leads you into French so that you find you can more or less start speaking it just a couple of hours in. For me though the absolute best thing about it is that it has allowed me to speak in full, proper sentences in French… A fantastic course and a well deserved 5 stars!"

"At last an easy way to learn a language!

Easy to understand plus an easy one to pop into the car cd player and use on the move, so no more 'I haven't the time… A lot more entertaining than text books and the old fashioned way of learning a different language other than the mother tongue. '"

"Overall, the method being used is superb and I feel it more or less guarantees that someone will be speaking French by the end. This is what has happened to me – and for the first time!"

Words cut off? It might be Bluetooth

Paul takes long pauses so the listener can repeat. When I paired with a Bluetooth speaker I found the beginnings of new phrases were cut off. Perhaps Bluetooth goes into a standby mode after a few seconds. It is fine played directly from a device or with sonos speakers over WiFi.

Incredible

This book makes learning a language super easy and simple. The examples are really useful to comunicate when travelling, so even if you have just started you'll get the basics for being, at least, understood. I look forward to keep learning languages with this author!

Amazing even for an intermediate

Listen to everything that the guy sais and you will be on the right track haha :D

great review

I struggled to learn French as a kid growing up in Canada, but I always wanted to learn it! I have taken a bunch of courses, all of which improves my French much more than in class teaching. recently I signed up for a French immersion course. I used this as a way to prep for it, and it was exceptional! I have some knowledge of French but my problem has always been in how to phrase the sentences and WHY you phrase it that way. this course is excellent for that reason! Paul explains why it's different and gives you cues to remember that it is different. I feel much more confident saying things now. I am excited do the next two audible segments!

Very very good

I have learnt a lot of French from this. I am sure if I repeat just Chapters 2 & 3 a couple times i will learn every thing in this part 1. Seems very possible.

Amazing tutorial!

It's just like sitting at a table having a conversation with friendly French speakers and learning a lot about the language!

Excellent

I have learned more with this course than I have any other course. moving on to part two.

BUY THIS! Hands down, The BEST, language book.

Would you consider the audio edition of Collins French with Paul Noble - Learn French the Natural Way, Part 1 to be better than the print version?

I speak 4 languages fluently. I am adding French to that list. I have studied other French courses within the last 2 years. This is the BEST of them. The big difference between this and other courses I have taken is that it aims to GET YOU SPEAKING FRENCH right away, and NOT learn how to pass a French class exam. Of course, this is not a complete course. But it has all the information you will need to get you to CONFIDENTLY travel and maneuver in French. BUY IT.

What other book might you compare Collins French with Paul Noble - Learn French the Natural Way, Part 1 to and why?

Coffee Break French.

Which character – as performed by Paul Noble – was your favorite?

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Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

It was a delight from beginning to end.

Any additional comments?

Very Effective Instructions to get you SPEAKING French with confidence.

WOW! Totally impressed

Paul Noble's approach to learning French is the BEST out there - I have tried quite a few and I am simply floored by his soft-spoken, quietly genius way of getting you up and running in a new language within an hour or two. It's crazy!

My confidence has soared listening to this tape and I am happily babbling away in passable French. No other course has come close to this.

Liked the approach

I had not taken.a course in French where speaking was required since I was in high school. I had not taken a course reading French for comprehension since I was in graduate school.That was a long time ago But I loved the approach of this author In bringing the sentences together slowly bit by bit.In my mind I was trying to go back and remember the spelling of the words but I quickly gave that up as useless to try when this is really Comprehension and Speaking. In a few months I am going to spend a month in France and I hope that my French will be good enough to at least Make myself understood and let them know that I am truly trying to pronounce the words correctly and that I have a feel for this language And then appreciation of things French.