Fluenz Version F2: French 1+2 (Win/Mac) with software DVDs, audio CDs, podcasts, and Navigator. Learn French with latest upgrade.
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Software Summary

• Fluenz F2, their fastest, most powerful version, yet, is the product of hundreds of thousands of user hours and their feedback. It is everything they ever asked for.
• 60 sessions of up to two and one-half hours each -- the most comprehensive software application covering the first and second levels of French anywhere. Fluenz blends beautiful full-motion video with engaging, interactive workouts, including voice recording so you can compare your accent to native speech.
• Language tutor Sonia Gil guides you on video every step of the way, recreating a one-on-one tutoring experience, utilizing explanations in English, placing you in real-world contexts, and immersing you in the culture.
• Fluenz's unique approach is currently being used by elite units of the US Navy, senior personnel at the UN and UNICEF, executives of Fortune 500 companies, and students at Harvard Business School and other leading universities.
• Includes the Fluenz French 1 and Fluenz French 2 DVD-ROMs, two audio CDs for additional learning, exclusive, downloadable podcasts for further practice, and the handy Fluenz Navigator for on-the-go referencing of important words and phrases.

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Description of Fluenz Version F2: French 1+2 (Win/Mac) with software DVDs, audio CDs, podcasts, and Navigator. Learn French with latest upgrade.

Be Fluent in French
The Harvard, Cornell, and University of Chicago graduates who developed Fluenz were determined to create a program that conveyed the uniqueness of French while providing a step-by-step path through the language. By bringing the magic of a great teacher to the computer screen, Fluenz French makes reaching fluency in this beautiful language possible for every single learner.

How Fluenz gets you there: A real on-screen tutor who guides you every step of the way. Using English to help you learn French. Teaching relevant material from the very beginning.

The Most Comprehensive Program to Learn French

Love French, Actually Learn It
As believers in the uniqueness of French, the program designers wanted to move beyond the cookie-cutter approach typical of computer language education: methods that boast a suspiciously simple way to learn French and treat adults like children by emphasizing the association of words and pictures.

Fluenz brings the magic of an amazing teacher to lead, challenge, and inspire adults and teens with a real love for French. The application is ideal for those who need everyday conversation skills, as well as for those who want to establish a strong foundation for advanced learning.

An Inspirational Tutor Leads and Delights Learners
As with other languages, there is a magical moment in the learning of French. It takes place that day on the streets of Paris when you can form a full sentence and actually understand the response. The Fluenz team has created a path through French specifically designed to lead English speakers to this special moment?and to the greater fluency that lies beyond it.

An effective approach for English Speakers
There is no more effective way to understand French liaisons, verb conjugations, and masculine/feminine endings than from a tutor explaining these important subtleties in English. And there is no way to learn French well without mastering these fundamental elements of the language. Because French and English share roots dating back to the 11th century, they have many similarities that can really help English speakers reach fluency.

Tailor-Made Approach Emphasizing Culture and Context
Just as importantly, the Fluenz tutor spends considerable time going over cultural issues, providing context and anecdotes that make the process meaningful. By making sense of this historic and elegant language, learners actually learn it.

Great One-On-One Teaching
Fluenz French is divided into sessions that are introduced and led by the on-screen tutor. After a realistic conversation between native French speakers, she returns to give a full tutorial on all the new words and structures to be learned in that session.

Engaging Workouts
Next comes a series of challenging workouts that provide an ideal training ground for developing the learner's reading, writing, listening, and speaking abilities. Each session features a set of clear, common sense tools that set the program apart.

Relevant Learning, Real Communication
The Fluenz approach is based on getting learners to understand how to structure relevant sentences ("I need a train ticket"), rather than relying on the association of words and images to learn how to say things like "apple" and "orange," the more typical fare offered by programs that try to get you to learn like a child. Starting with clear explanations in English and following with extensive workouts, Fluenz builds steadily from essential structures like questions and commands ("How much is it?" "Stop here, please") and useful vocabulary (related to restaurants, transportation, directions, etc.) to more and more complex communication.

Great Audio CDs and Exclusive Podcasts

The Magic of Learning: Audio CDs for Your Car or iPod
The Fluenz French Audio CDs are the ideal complement to the interactive program. The CDs were produced at the Fluenz Lab to provide engaging audio workouts that mirror the progress of the actual tutor-led software.

Fluenz Podcasts: Download to Learn on the Go
Continuing a tradition at the Fluenz Lab, Fluenz French now offers exclusive podcasts made by the same team that created the interactive program. These downloadable podcasts supplement the training work offered by the audio CDs, while providing a more informal, relaxed window into the world of French and the actual learning of the language.

The Fluenz Phrase Book Navigator
Fluenz French also comes with the Phrase Book Navigator, a useful quick-reference guide for travelers.

What You Learn, Step By Step

1. First, Fluenz Won't Treat You Like a Child
Because the Fluenz team has too much respect for the subtlety of French, the program does not dwell on the simple pairing of images and words. Instead, Fluenz makes sure learners understand and get to use the most important French constructions in a context that makes sense to English speakers. The Fluenz team believes that treating adults with intelligence, rather than like children, speeds up the learning process and makes fluency a real goal.

2. Building a Useful Foundation
Fluenz French begins by teaching how to form questions and statements that share the same word order in English and French (i.e. "The check, please," "L'addition, s'il vous pla"t", "I want this dish", "Je veux ce plat"). The Fluenz philosophy sees this as more practical than phrases such as "The apple is green," found in other programs, and uses these structures as the ideal elements for laying a strong foundation for advanced learning. After only the first four sessions, learners are already able to have meaningful conversations in a restaurant.

3. Describing Location and Where You're Going
The program then shifts to describing and asking about location. This allows users to learn the basics of how crucial verbs work while advancing their vocabulary related to transportation and travel. Instead of memorizing words and pictures, Fluenz users actually get to understand how questions and phrases such as "Where is the hotel?" and "I'm going to the museum" both work and are used in everyday life.

4. Gain Confidence With Your Verbs and "Liaisons"
In French, verb forms change depending on to whom they refer, resulting in an infamous number of conjugations. Equally important, French verbs are often accompanied by "contractions" or "liaisons" that determine their proper pronunciation (i.e. "vous'etes"). Because this cannot be learned through passive memorization, Fluenz thoroughly covers verbs by explaining in English how they work and by providing plenty of practice to make sure you can use them when you really need to.

5. Diverse, Realistic Interactions
Fluenz believes that most people want to learn French in order to communicate in a city where the language is spoken. That is why the foundations of French are laid out, explained, and practiced in a series of realistic scenarios in restaurants, train stations, stores, and other relevant locations.

6. More Ways to Power Your Communication
Instead of teaching through the pairing of words and images, Fluenz French identifies flexible structures that can be used in different situations, that make sense to English speakers, and that enhance the learner's growing command of the language.

7. Relevant adjectives
Though often ignored, the ability to describe things is critical when learning a language. After all, when traveling through a country, nothing is going to be more helpful than "bigger," "smaller," "less expensive," and those other adjectives that both make sense to English speakers and are easily used in forming sentences.

8. A Deep Foundation for Sophisticated Communication
Since the key to fluency in any language is being able to use the most common parts of speech, Fluenz covers a wide range of critical grammar issues. From pronouns and prepositions to word order and commands, you'll be able to correctly form complex sentences and express yourself with solid, confident French.

9. Getting There, Faster
Giving and receiving directions is both a way to continue building the essential tools of French communication and a way to develop the skills anyone traveling will always need. Fluenz creates a path that gives English speakers complete control over the most important vocabulary and structures for asking questions, indicating directions, and explaining locations.

10. Easily Handle Numbers and Time
After thorough workouts that enable learners to talk about location with ease, Fluenz makes sure you master numbers and, therefore, time. Once time and location are joined, it becomes possible to form complex questions and statements in a variety of situations, such as planning trips or making appointments. Fluenz users ultimately gain control over a wide range of time-specific communication.

11. Confident Shopping and Negotiation
Throughout the program, your ability to interact in shopping situations is steadily improved. Fluenz works on the critical verb "to want" in the very beginning, and soon you learn how to ask about prices, make comparisons between different items, and express exactly what you're looking for. By the end of the program, you'll be able to handle shopping, price negotiations, and purchasing interactions with ease.

Ideal for Communicating Wherever People Speak French
Fluenz gives you the tools to communicate in all of the most important and common situations you're bound to face while in the French-speaking world. Whether you are traveling or need to talk to a client or student, Fluenz French 1+2 provides the strongest possible foundation.

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