Product Description
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Here is our 6 courses series on to learn French from A to Z and
be able to speak with the French, understand them and be
understood. SmartFrench Course #1 (Beginner Level):
http://tinyurl.com/kmkm5brb
SmartFrench Course #2 (Training on Contractions):
http://tinyurl.com/2erhzpjp
SmartFrench Course #3 (Beginner Conversation Level):
http://tinyurl.com/mr49xdz3
SmartFrench Course #4 (Intermediate/Advanced Conversation
Level):
http://tinyurl.com/mrxmxxuf
SmartFrench Course #5 (Training on Conjugation):
http://tinyurl.com/589ze83w
SmartFrench Course #6 (Training on French Films):
http://tinyurl.com/a729nc58
'Our son is using the product (as complement for GCSE prep.) and
making leaps of progress already after years of frustration and
struggling. Probably the best seller we have ever dealt with.
Recommend unreservedly. 20 February 2010.' D. CRASS 'J Linn' Gt
Britain
Visit frenchwhisperer.com for info on our new online series
Most people learn to speak french but not how to speak it. At
the intermediate level, they still have difficulties to
understand the language and they cannot be understood. These
Audio CDs will develop your listening skills at the same time as
you progress in your learning.
Review
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We recently received an email questioning our 5 star reviews. We
felt compelled to respond to our customer. This is our response:
Dear X, To try to be seen by customers me and my team have to
work extremely hard. We don't have the budget to appear on top of
pages like others do. I am not a teacher at university either who
could have his students write comments. It has another advantage
though. We are necessarily closer to our customers and we like to
help them as much as we can. What happens with the reviews is the
result of a close contact with them. When customers write a
favorable comment for delivery adding that the product is good,
we ask them for a review. We offer free advice. They can call us
to chat in French. We replace lost booklets for free. We give
lists of vocabulary for free to all our buyers if they need.
Naturally if they like our products, we ask them for a review and
we ask them to paste it on all our products (as they are
related). I am happy when our customers write good reviews and
even so if it's written with spirit. If they copy from other
reviewers, it's their choice. We love our customers and they love
us. Everything can happen. We have once received an unfavorable
review, which, we could prove, had been written by a
competitor... and he pasted it to several of our products, just
like 'another opinion' below! At Smart Language we would never
think of writing a bad review, for any reason except if we'd
returned a product and would be denied a refund. By the way, we
have always refunded when asked and if you want to return yours,
it's absolutely fine. Our method is unconventional and certain
people will not like it. It's their right. We have been very
fortunate over the years to communicate by email or on the phone
with so many wonderful people. We received the generous free help
of writers, lawyers, journalists, and professors, who had bought
our products and wanted to help us (for the description,
corrections or else).
Our technique was born from the difficulties we experienced
ourselves in communicating in English. It was absolutely
necessary for us to help people avoid the same difficulties. That
method really came from the heart and I am convinced that there
is no better product on the market that develops the faculty of
listening to the language and speak it like ours does. When a
mother emailed us and told us that she wanted to make sure the
product was suited for her son as the money was limited, I
honestly told her that it was not designed for young people. She
decided to try it anyway and afterwards, she emailed me again and
told me: '... our son is using the product and making leaps of
progress already after years of frustration and struggling'. Of
course, once again I asked her to paste her comment everywhere
possible. I am very and personally sorry if that offends some.
With the budget we have, I don't know what else to do for our
products to be discovered. The words of mouth have been good so
far. On the descriptions we always mention to either start with
the SmartFrench volumes of introduction or work with them
simultaneously. When I was the lessons, our French
sound engineer told me the method was right because he never took
any English class. I asked him how long it took him to feel
comfortable speaking English, he told me one year. For me, after
5 years of English classes, I could not have a regular
comfortable conversation in English when I arrived in the US. It
took me three years to feel comfortable. It seems that fixing the
problem was harder than listening first to something you can't
understand and mimicking when someone speaks... --Repeating
dialogs seemed more efficient Read our discoveries about learning
French on frenchwhisperer.com --Christian Aubert,
frenchwhisperer.com
When I heard my first lesson I honestly felt betrayed by my other
programs--why didn't they simply tell the truth about French
pronunciation like Smart French does? --Patricia Jones, attorney
This method works. Period. I have a bookshelf full of French
language learning tools (books, CD's, flashcards), and they seem
useless now that I am using SmartFrench... It's unbelievable that
this simple, easy approach has never been done before. I'm glad
someone finally did it! Some of the most successful, useful
inventions become obvious to the rest of us after someone comes
up with the idea, and we smack our foreheads with the palm of our
hands thinking: Why didn't I think of that? It's so obvious!
SmartFrench is like that. --Music critic, Belmont, MA USA
