Je veux bien!
"JVB gets my students speaking French from the very first day. They speak constantly during the class period, in large groups, in small groups, in pairs--and they seem to retain what they have learned. (Amen!)""Our students have superior speaking and listening skills after one-year compared to using other books.""Introducing new vocabulary and structures inductively through the exercises and texts teaches students real-life strategies for how to cope when confronted with lexical information beyond their knowledge. I have seen a difference in how my students react to new vocabulary after using this program, compared to other programs, where all of the new vocabulary is presented at the beginning of the chapter.""I am pleased to see more "content-area" exercises included, such as practicing color vocabulary through the examination of famous French paintings (Chapter 2 p. 64  and the practice of larger numbers using important dates in world history (MP Chapter 2 p. 32). Not only will the students practice the highlighted structures through these exercises, but will also learn information about other subject areas, which is appealing to instructors and interesting for students.""The most obvious changes to me are the addition of cultural content in le monde francophone sections and the incorporation of the Branchez-vous activities. Both of these changes are very positive, in my view, because they are substantive, and enrich the textbook considerably in terms of content and richness of language use."