The popular Pimsleur course does not use a book but uses a completely aural approach to language learning, perfect for learning quickly. It features a proficiency-based system that helps the student learn through listening and speaking practice. If you're a beginner or have a few words of the language, but know you want to speak it to a very high standard, take advantage of the excellent value offered by the Linguaphone Combination Course. Designed to get you to a level of high proficiency in your chosen language, the Combination Course is two courses in one - the Dialogue and the Second Stage Course. In short, you'll have two superb courses in one - and with all that extra practice, you will soon be able to read, write, speak and understand your new language to a really high standard.
Courses are available for English speakers to learn French and German.
Assimil courses are available for Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and Spanish. Assimil courses include three or four cassettes or CDs and a course book. These best-selling European language courses offer the native French, German, Italian, or Spanish speaker the ease and convenience of a course in their native language. Courses are available for over 20 target languages, including French. Assimil courses include three or four cassettes or CDs and a course book.