So many of those other workbooks just look like busy work. Everything makes sense. It is like all the parts of the puzzle coming together. They are learning grammar the way language is learned, not the way grammar is memorized. That I think is definitely a plus.
Nothing is stilted, nothing is contrived.
There is always a lot of humor in the situation, and truth. The truth that is presented is never stereotypical. We are not given a caricature of French people. I swear I know these people. They were the parents of my best friend, and there are people really like that.