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Unique French Verb Conjugation Audio Drills
Master your French verb conjugation & modern French pronunciation
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French Verb Drills – Volume 1
Master Key French Verbs: Etre, Mettre, Faire and Devoir – 103 drills on the cornerstone verbs in the French language. 6 minutes a drill will build long-lasting reflexes and will dramatically improve your French level and confidence.
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A Unique French Conjugation Drill Approach
- Unique: Drills are in random order so you truly build reflexes
- Drill in the affirmative, negative, interrogative forms
- Easy to use: each drill is 6 minutes long
- Why just 4 verbs?
Verbs Contained in Volume 1:
- Etre (25 forms & tenses)
- Mettre (25 forms & tenses)
- Faire (25 forms & tenses)
- Devoir (25 forms & tenses)
Sample "Etre futur indicatif - forme interrogative"
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French Verb Drills - Bundle
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Avoir, Etre, Mettre, Faire, Devoir, Aller, Vouloir, S’asseoir, Boire, Chanter, Prendre, and Finir. That’s more than 300 drills! Buy all 3 volumes and get my popular 1-hour long masterclass: “French Verbs Fundamentals” for free!
Helen T. – Seattle, WA Verified Owner –
In the morning I walk for an hour and practice my French Verb Drills. Best possible combination for head, heart and health. I would highly recommend this practice.
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Donald Spoto – Denmark Verified Owner –
I have purchased EVERYTHING you sell, and I am delighted with it. I spend about two hours daily to improve my French, and these are the perfect tools. I already read, write and speak French with considerable fluency–but I am not a native francophone. Hence this program suits me perfectly.
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John D’Arcy Sète, France Verified Owner –
C’est un superbe audiobook comme tous les autres disponible de “FrenchToday”…!!
Je suis ravi de tous ces Audiobooks….!
Je peux les recommander pour tous qui ont le desir d’apprendre francais…!
Probablement la plus facile methode d’apprendre francais..
This is a fantastic audiobook like all the others available from FrenchToday…!!
I am delighted with all these Audiobooks…!
I can recommend them to all who wish to learn French
Probably the easiest method to learn French…
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Theresa Pinter – Toronto Verified Owner –
I have gone through french grammar on my own however I was struggling with what each verb sounded like when conjugated. I would always stop and have to think about it when it came to past tenses and future tenses. These drills really help me make conjugating verbs become second nature. I really like the drills with the verbs out of order. It’s a good memory game.
I started with ‘etre’, then moved to ‘avoir’ and soon I will start ‘faire’. I was wondering why the first two are not learned first in your drill verb order because they are congregated with so many other verbs? To me, it makes sense to know these well first before learning the other most common verbs. As well, I know most people think that verb drills are boring but they are the most helpful in improving my communication. Will you be making anymore?
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Kevin Grandy, Wilmot, Nova Scotia Verified Owner –
As a beginner in my french studies, having the French Today lessons are designed to help me to succeed in learning french. Madame Chevelier guides you throughout the lessons in a clear, methodical way that makes learning french fun!
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Diane – Oregon USA Verified Owner –
There’s a saying in education that ‘time on task’ is essential to learning. That’s what these drills do. No extraneous bells, whistles, gimmicks or rewards, just a clear straightforward approach to practicing conjugations. My goal is to spend just 20 minutes a day. It works!
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Michael Grant – Pawleys Island, SC USA Verified Owner –
Let’s face it: memorizing verb conjugations is not fun. BUT if you don’t have these in your head, they will never come out of your mouth as you try to speak French. What is language but a bunch of nouns and verbs and other particles of speech thrown together? If you don’t know how to use a verb and when to use it, you just can’t speak the language. Camille gives you every tense of some of the most important verbs (être, avoir, faire, devoir, etc.). These have to be so deeply ingrained in your mind that you can pull them up anytime, anywhere. And if you don’t know all the forms of “être” and “avoir” you cannot form any of the compound tenses for ANY other verb in French. You HAVE TO KNOW these two verbs to construct many of the other tenses. So, drilling on these and the other verbs is key and Camille’s French Verb Drills will help you learn them if you put in the work! She drills you in writing and orally so you can get the pronunciation correct. What more can you ask? Do the work and speak French! Bon courage! Michael
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Dawn Earl, Salt Rock South Africa Verified Owner –
I love listening to this in my car as I drive around quite a bit! I have other audios too and I absolutely love frenchtoday. Your method and clarity is brilliant. Thank you
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C-Marie P. U.S.A. Verified Owner –
Hi Everyone, I am a very old lady, 75 years to be exact, and I am writing because Camille, Olivier, and Leyla have a most excellent site for gaining knowledge of the french language and the ways and customs of France and I highly recommend this family business. I love the verb drills audio!!! Their site, frenchtoday.com, is perfect for me and I expect for you, too, as are their many audio books. Camille’s explanations are very clear and kind to all, and fun, no matter what stage of learning one is at. Their prices are very fair and their acceptance of returns, if necessary, is probably unmatched. Also, any questions sent in are answered quickly with the personal touch that is so very nice. Olivier is the tech, and Leyla, their daughter, is bi-lingual in french and english!! A lovely family, indeed! God bless, C-Marie P.
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Gilman Gunn Verified Owner –
I am at an “Intermediate 1” level, and never have really mastered the verbs, which are a key in French. I’m working my way through “être” now, and the future tense of this verb is pronounced quite differently that I used to pronounce it, so a big revelation to me. In two weeks I will be studying for a month at the Insiitut de Francais in Villefranche sur Mer, and my hope is that these verb drills will help me to be more ready for that instruction. They concentrate on pronunciation. I love your verb drills. Exactly what I need.
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Margaret Pitcairn Marcilly, Liglet 86290 Verified Owner –
A very thorough, intelligent, helpful piece of work which seem to be the hallmarks of this enterprise. The passion to teach French well to us struggling to get it right, is palpable in all that they do. I think Macron needs to be informed of this enterprise for services to the French language.
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Clay Las Vegas USA Verified Owner –
Thank you! Camille and Olivier for your French Verb Drills Audiobooks!
Such a Comprehensive program.
Having Real French Pronunciations and being able to listen to them as many times as I need to advance toward a true fluency is terrific.
While using Camille’s audio as a dictation it allows me to practice my oral comprehension and writing skills!
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John in Albuquerque, NM Verified Owner –
I absolutely LOVE this Verb Drills package. I can work with them whenever I have free time, and bring myself to a point where I can more easily recall them when the heat is on (like in class), so I don’t get embarrassed as often! ALL of the french today materials have been VERY helpful to me in my quest to become more fluent. I highly recommend them !
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Stephanie de Thunder Bay Verified Owner –
Merci Camille et Olivier! Thank you Camille and Oliver for this great drills book. I am an English Canadian who went to school in French in Quebec. We now live in an English speaking province. I remember doing drills in school, but not how to make them effective. They don’t seem to drill in school anymore! I use this book to help my children with their second language French studies. I love the fact that you drill the negative and interrogative form at the same time as the declarative form. I appreciate the encouragement to say, for example, shaypa (glidings), but to see that it is written “je ne sais pas”. I no longer worry about speaking in “French grammar mode”, but “street speak” with my children more comfortably knowing that I have a method to help me teach them to speak and write properly. Merci beaucoup.
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Anne-Marie Marsh, Crazannes, France Verified Owner –
I’ve been living in France since January and have been working my way through Audiobook level 3. The French Verb Drills are an excellent addition to this. Living in France has really made me see how important the correct pronunciation is. So many times I have found that the reason I’ve not been understood has not been because of vocabulary or knowledge of the correct verb, but it has been because I have mispronounced them. The Drills and the Audiobook really help develop my ear in hearing what people say to me, and in replying to them in a way they understand. Frankly I don’t know how people can live in France without at least trying to learn the language. It’s so nice to be able to go for coffee with my french neighbour and be able to communicate with her.
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Moacyr Santizo – USA Verified Owner –
They’re good as a reference. When the doubt pops concerning conjugation, it’s the best resource to go to. Just drilling per say, didn’t work for me as I was forgetting all rather quickly. I needed to have a context hence my buying the audiobook and lessons. An excellent combo
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Robert Thomas Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom Verified Owner –
Best french language course I ‘ve used and am progressing well.
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Kim in San Diego, California Verified Owner –
Exactly what I needed. After more than 5 years of French language I still found myself having difficulty conjugating verbs quickly. These drills solved my problem.
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Dr. John Crossen, El Paso, Texas, USA Verified Owner –
I have the “French Verb Drills”, the “Une semaine à Paris”, the “ À mois Pari series”, “French Verbs Fundamentals” and ”Secrets of French Conversation. These series are a superb method to stay current in a language I studied at the University of Illinois in 1950 and 1951. I wish they had been available sooner, but Camille and Olivier first had to be born. I recommend francophile learners and practitioners take advantage of them.
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Taylar Lee, WA US Verified Owner –
The verb drills is a good tool to use to really have it stick in your mind. It focuses on “today’s french” which i really like rather than the old school text book styles. And the customer service was exceptional. I ran into abit of a problem and it was resolved efficiently and to my satisfaction! I like everything about “French today”.
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Janelle Verified Owner –
These drills were exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for putting together exactly what I needed to practice and become second nature with conjugations. Merçi!!
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Chi Keung, Hong Kong Verified Owner –
Unique product in the market, great for listening training!
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MJ Melbourne Australia Verified Owner –
Wow what a pleasure. If only I had got these first before all the other French books and courses. This is making me feel like a champion. These verb drills must be a tightly held secret – more people should get these too. Highly recommended and I never recommend. I’m just thrilled- thank you.
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Lorraine, Canada Verified Owner –
Love these drills!!!!! As Camille always says, “repetion is the key”. I find these audio drills so helpful in teaching correct pronunciation. The drills can be used for a minutes here and there during my day. Plus, the way they are organized, first, in conguation order, and then randomly, really helps to remember them in a way that will aid actual communication with having to translate from English to French in my head!
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Mortdale, Sydney, Australia Verified Owner –
I know it is hard for you to translate the verb drills and so, you just read out the various conjugated forms. However, I think it would so much better to put all / or some of the conjugations into sentences and say what the the verb forms are you are using.
I.e. “Use of Imparfait” – When I was young, I often used to stay in the country with my cousins. – French translation.
Continuing with other tenses & translations of the verb – in this case, “stay”
I think this would be much more valuable.
I also purchased A Moi Paris audio book series 4 & Mastering Adjectives. Along with the transcrips, these are very good. Excellent.
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Olivier Karfis French Today –
I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy these drills. Not only translating is quite difficult (several English translations for one French tense ex: “je mangeais” = ‘I ate, I was eating, I did eat’) but it will lure students into thinking they can bypass studying the tense – when and how to use it – which would be a huge mistake.
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Karen Verified Owner –
Learning conjugations is a daunting task for me. I could not seem to find any patience, motivation to do it by myself. Every teacher, every french person whom I had asked for tips on how to learn conjugations and use them in different tenses had told me that I just have to learn them by heart. So when I came across the FrenchToday Verb Drills, listened to the sample, read the reviews and realized how it can facilitate my french language learning journey, I decided to buy the bundle.
I am not familiar with all the french tenses yet as I have only started learning french a few months ago, therefore, I drill only on the tenses that I know or just learned from school. Obviously, as I move along with my french studies and get familiar with other tenses, I can make full use of these verb drills. Thank you, Olivier and Camille! I am enjoying my other purchases as well!!!
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Brendan Lynch, Frome, Somerset UK Verified Owner –
Practising verbs may seem boring but on the contrary. Knowing their structures gives confidence in verbal exchanges so highly recommended for all levels. They lead from the hesitant stage to the confident so well worth the investment of time.
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Lloyd Stewart – Sydney, Australia Verified Owner –
I love doing the verb drills in the car. Would suggest a new volume solely covering reflexive verbs. I asked and was pointed to a cool feature in the App to rewind the audio by 15 seconds, great for practice ! Keep up the good work, love from Sydney, Australia.
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Lori (St. George, Utah, USA) Verified Owner –
Excellent product! This is probably the most helpful resource I have ever used to improve my French. It’s like taking a daily audio “vitamin” for healthy French speaking. Merci, Camille!
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Warren, British Columbia, Canada Verified Owner –
Ce sont des exercises qui valent le coup.
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Lori (St. George, Utah, USA) Verified Owner –
Excellent product! This is probably the most helpful resource I have ever used to improve my French. It’s like taking a daily audio “vitamin” for healthy French speaking. Merci, Camille!
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Richard, Winchester, United Kingdom Verified Owner –
Quite good, but far too much repetitive English
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Cheryl Donegan NY Verified Owner –
I am new to the program, French Today, but already I am a big fan. I’ve been taking weekly French classes for a year now, and this audio program is EXACTLY what I need to keep by on my toes with learning, memorization, developing reflexes, etc. all during the week! I have noticed improvement in myself already! I also bought the audio books on adjectives, essential dialogues, and more as my goal is to be fluent in French in my lifetime! Never too late!
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Kythe Mackenzie – Cardesse France Verified Owner –
excellent. i’m enjoying practicing with this when i’m driving. merci
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Bob Stutts Verified Owner –
This is a truly easy system to use and to learn by. Great for use while driving, cooking, gardening…
One addition for those of us interested in rapidly gaining the “use” of the language – without translating – would be to give us an “ending” to the verb drill – in stead of “i go, you go, etc” give me a common usage after the verb – thus i can learn the verbs in context. How much more powerful would that be, (and more interesting if you “play” with interesting objets direct ou indirect) BTW – i relinquish any and all rights to this idea…
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Sam – Los Angeles Verified Owner –
Just what you need to better recall verb tenses and forms.
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Lorraine Johns UK Verified Owner –
I am using these whilst driving in the car and it is helping me immensely to grasp the different tenses without having to “work it through ” in my head before speaking. Thank you, I will definitely be looking to purchase other volumes.
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Tim – Riverside, Calif. USA Verified Owner –
The French drills are outstanding, and provide excellent practice in developing proper pronunciation accent and speed. Also, gives student the opportunity to develop ‘memory’ for verb tenses in critical verb groups. As a long time student of French, I have found this series an invaluable tool for renewing my knowledge of verb conjugations, and proper diction. I have several other audio products in the past but have found those offered by Frenchtoday to be by far the best value – well worth the purchase and then some. The audio stories are also ideal for gaining back the ‘ear’ of normal street level French. Excellent will continue to buy here.
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Catherine , Canada Verified Owner –
I have been studying French sporatically for the last 10 years and have purchased many books and programs over these years.
Two months ago I discovered French Today. What a find! One of the items purchased was the Verb Drills. The French Today App is loaded on my iPhone and iPad so I can take it with me anywhere and practice the oral verb drills. Even when I am not ‘plugged in’ I am repeating the verbs and their tenses aloud or in my head. In the words of Camille…”repetition is the key”.
Best Verb Practice Tool ever..
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Kaylyn, Washington DC Verified Owner –
I started studying French a year ago for pleasure, and I am starting my intermediate studies. I use a variety of study methods to keep things interesting so that I stay motivated. I started using the French Today verb drills and the first audiobook very early in my studies. They have been so helpful both in learning French vocabulary and in learning to pronounce things correctly. Recently I received a compliment from my French teacher about how clearly I speak French – she says I am very understandable. I attribute this to the time that I have spent with the French Today verb drills and audiobooks.
There are a lot of people on the internet trying to sell things to French learners, and some of them are a waste of money and don’t actually work. French Today is different. The verb drills and audiobooks are very useful and can be used in a variety of ways to help you study – as Camille explains in the introductions to everything. Using the instructions provided by French Today, I have not had any problems using the materials on my computers (both Apple and Windows) and on my iPhone and iPad. It has been easy to use them on all of my devices. Now that French Today has its own app, I suspect it will be even easier.
Thank you Camille and Olivier for the work you do through French Today!
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Robert, Bala Cynwyd Verified Owner –
For me, drills are a great way to remember verb conjugation and I do a lot of that in my college French studies
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Z. King – Raleigh Verified Owner –
As a new student I find the lessons comprehensive as well as easy to use and understand.
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Joakim Verified Owner –
This is exactly what I needed!
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Irene, Philippines Verified Owner –
It’s one thing to analyze the verb conjugations in writing & another to LISTEN then be QUIZZED for them ORALLY. This method definitely reinforces what I’ve learned abt the different ways of conjugating verbs & at the same time helps boost my confidence in applying them on (future) live conversations. Great product!
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Rebecca from Melbourne Australia Verified Owner –
Thank you Camille for frenchtoday. I’m so glad to find your website and ever since I always look forward to your daily posts on facebook. Not only I’m learning the beautiful french language but also everything that is French. My very first audio book, French Verb Drills Vol 1, is an excellent tool. It’s helping me a lot with pronunciation and listening skills. I can’t thank you enough.
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Neale – Australia Verified Owner –
Seems an excellent way to manage French verbs.
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Charlene (Camarillo, CA, USA) Verified Owner –
I recently ordered both Une Semaine à Paris and the Verb Drills and am so happy to have found this resource. I’ve been looking for a way to improve my understanding of spoken French and my pronunciation, and I’m finding Une Semaine à Paris to fit right in with my level of comprehension. I’m challenged without being discouraged and can say “hooray for me” when I understand the gist of the story without the written words in front of me. The verb drills are wonderful for helping conjugations to become automatic and the audio is giving me a structure for daily practice which I couldn’t seem to accomplish on my own. Thank you so much for all the work you have put into helping so many people learn and improve their French. I feel as if I have a friend in France!
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Connie Altman, Citrus Heights, CA USA Verified Owner –
I am enjoying the French Verb Drills vol 1. It is an eye opener. It is a great companion to my Rosetta Stone lessons.
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Sharon Courage – Rochechouart France Verified Owner –
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Bernadette Covo, London Verified Owner –
I bought these for my son (age 11) who is learning French with me at home. It seemed very important to learn the correct pronunciation and also to begin the discipline of learning something well. We have both found the instructions clear and helpful and the pronunciation guide is excellent. We are getting great value from the material.
Thank you very much for providing this in a straightforward manner, with a clear, easy to follow structure.
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Antonia Wills – Australia Verified Owner –
I am loving the French Verb Bundle – fantastic way of drilling the verbs and listening
to the correct pronunciations.
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Ed, Yorkshire, UK. Verified Owner –
Great material; it covers everything. And it is true that “repetition is the key!”.
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Sina, USA Verified Owner –
I use the drills when working out at the YMCA. Most everyone is connected so I can speak softly and not disturb anyone! Love the pronunciation practice and since I am a beginner, it is helping me to speak correctly from the start. I have loaded the drills on my Kindle, along with the beginner narrative so my study is portable. Thank you, Camille, for your dedication to your teaching vocation.
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Lana Taran (San Francisco, USA) Verified Owner –
I found the “French Verb Drills” audio book thoroughly enjoyable and easy to follow. A very pleasant voice emphasizing liaisons and glidings (so important, yet not always intuitive) invites you to practice and memorize verb conjugations. I have always felt intimidated by using forms like Future Simple, Conditional Present. or Subjunctive. After a couple of rounds of listening and repeating, I started feeling more comfortable. I find the audiobooks very useful and plan to buy more. Thank you French Today!
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Terry Verified Owner –
Excellent for verb practice and pronunciation
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Mary Madden – Ireland Verified Owner –
Very good learning system. If you like to be organised in your learning you’ll like this.
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Gerry Verified Owner –
I’ve purchased both Secrets of French Pronunciation and French Verb Drills. They’re an excellent resource and easy to follow. Camille has a great understanding of the pitfalls and difficulties of learning French and there are always little helpful tips in pronunciation and usage.
These products have been a great help to my French skills and I will be buying more eventually. I’ve also recommended the FrenchToday website to my friends.
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Alan Verified Owner –
A great series. The verb drills are like taking a difficult medicine from a wonderful nurse. She gets you through it all and makes you better for it. I expect to purchase more lessons from her in the future.
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Carolyn, US Verified Owner –
Volumes 1, 2, and 3 of the French verb drills are a must for improving your speaking fluency. I am much more comfortable speaking now that my verbs come to me more quickly and naturally. Hearing the pronunciation of all possible tenses and persons (also inyertogative & negative) is so much better than just looking at the standard written conjugation. The drills give you practice in random order and that has been enormously helpful. Great product.
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Lauren Ransford, Redondo Beach, USA Verified Owner –
I love the verb drills! I use them in the car a lot. I know the conjugations, but when faced with the on-the-spot recall required in conversations, I can freeze and not be able to produce the right conjugations. The verb drills let me practice reinforcing the sounds, so they come more automatically. It’s a great idea! My only (small) criticism is that each drill repeats the same instructions and I have to fast forward through the instructions on each track. I would like it much better if the instructions weren’t repeated each time. Thank you again for a great product!
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Llewelyn from Australia Verified Owner –
These verb drills are perfect and can be used anywhere. I even listen to them while cooking !! Its simple, repetitive (which is what you need) and really increases your confidence. I particularly like the way the drill covers the interrogative and negative as well as the affirmative, to help you memorise the correct way to speak and form a sentence or a question.
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Debbie england Verified Owner –
This is exactly what I needed a no frills drill of verbs in their different tenses. Repetition really does the job, it’s not the most interesting or fun process but it works and is the perfect accompaniment to use with other texts and audiobooks. It was also great to hear the proper pronounciation of all the variations of each verb.
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Kevin Fife Scotland Verified Owner –
I have bought and used a few of Camille and Oliviers products and found them to be excellent, helping to improve my French spoken and listening ability with more ease than I thought possible, the use of stories in context is brilliant, my confidence is growing daily.
I decided to buy French Verb drills and have found it to be extremely valuable in improving my pronunciation and understanding of each verb tense, past, future, conditional subjunctive and interrogative etc, each proving to be quite daunting in the past.
I have copied them onto an Mp3 player so I can practice while out and about, as Camille is fond of saying, “repetition is the key”
and she is right
I would highly recommend any of Camilles products
Again thank you very much Camille and Olivier
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Stephanie San Francisco, USA Verified Owner –
Excellent resource for learning French verbs. Merci, Camille!
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JH, Small Business Owner, Chicago, Illinois Verified Owner –
Actually, this review is for French Verb Drills Volumes 1, 2 and 3. I listened to all three regularly, and it made a big difference in my ability to speak. Excellent products. Worth every penny.
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Scott Schram – Birmingham, AL USA Verified Owner –
Between learning the rules of conjugation, and seeing them in context, these three volumes of French Verb Drills are perfect addition to increase your confidence and speed in recognizing and using various tenses.
It’s not just for intermediate learners… beginners can benefit from these by making a playlist of the tenses and verbs that they are studying. (For example, reviewing verbs in just the present affirmative).
Camille and Olivier have put a huge amount of work into this product, and it’s well worth adding it to your studies.
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Mike. England Verified Owner –
When I searched on-line for language learning I discovered http://www.frenchtoday.com.
I had learned some French about thirty years ago from 2 cassette tapes and accompanying book , and after looking
around on the website, I ordered Verb Drills volumes 1 & 2 plus Mastering French Adjectives to refresh my memory.
The way ‘frenchtoday’ is presented is a thousand times better!!!
Camille has a very pleasant voice which is a joy to listen to. Together with Olivier, they have produced a wonderful system.
If you want to learn ‘le francais’ I urge you to try “frenchtoday”
You will make no better choice.
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Mike Verified Owner –
I thought this might be a helpful practice aid while driving in my car, and I purchased all three sets. That said I wasn’t quite expecting how challenging these would be, I mean that in a positive way. Take for example être I thought of course I know this verb inside and out. Yet the truth is, in most of my written and spoken French with my pen pals and the other students in my class, I most frequently use the first person and second person familiar forms. As I started the first drills, I suddenly realized I wasn’t quite as sharp as I thought I was with the other conjugations. These are really helping me to be able speak French and not think about what to say and then speak French. I have even noticed that after two weeks, my listening comprehension has improved significantly. That was unexpected. This is a great learning/practice tool and I highly recommend it!
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Angie Verified Owner –
I have purchased all of the French verb drills series and have found them all valuable. Using these verb drills as practice, it allows me to think on my feet much quicker when in a conversation. I used to have to run through the conjugation of a verb in my head whilst in conversation. Very time consuming. I think you will find these very useful in your quest to master French!
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Char, USA Verified Owner –
I purchased all 3 volumes of the verb drills after using the sample online and I am very pleased. My French is already at the C-1 level, but my speech is still hesitant and filled with errors. I have gone through all of Volume 1 carefully and am now in the midst of Volume 2 and I can see the results, particularly in my pronunciation, but also in the speed of my response. I also bought and used the French Pronunciation volume. I have been able to correct several of my persistent mistakes in pronunciation. I recommend them highly for the motivated learner. I haven’t found this type of drill/practice anywhere else.
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Carol B Verified Owner –
I purchased this download a few years back and recommend it highly. After attending a French immersion school this past summer, I was glad to have such a tool. Camille is absolutely correct in that repetition is imperative so that you can switch between tenses automatically; and the only way to do that is with practice. The audio recordings are high quality and the pronunciation is clear and concise. This is an excellent tool for anyone trying to learn French or maintain their French proficiency!
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Caroline Don Verified Owner –
These verb drills are fun and effective. I play them in my car as I drive. The more one hears the drill, the more their pattern sticks in the mind and it helps with pronunciation! I highly recommend this product, thanks Camille.
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Betsie Strydom – South Africa Verified Owner –
Excellent and helpful!
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Rachel Yang Verified Owner –
These are terrific exercises! Even though I knew most of the tenses, I feel like these solidified my knowledge and the foundation of the french language and find this to be an invaluable resource! It helps to get the nuances of the french pronunciation down and this is a resource that I have already recommended to those around me.
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katja Verified Owner –
I found this very helpful because it helped me to learn the structure of the verbs in the different tenses and it also helped me enormously with prononciation and with my glidings and liasons. I have now lived in France several months and this course has really helped me.
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Robert Verified Owner –
This kind of repetition is essential to developing conversational reflexes and is sadly lacking in most French programs.
Thanks Camille
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elainemtaylor@me.com Verified Owner –
I have a native French tutor but working alone between sessions was proving to be quite hard. Memorising French verbs is not so easy when you are older and I wanted an aid to assist me. Well I certainly found it here. These drills are extremely helpful and make the effort less of a chore. I have bought all three volumes and can’t recommend them highly enough.
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Lana Stephens Verified Owner –
I like the drills a lot. This is exactly what I needed and have looked everywhere to find. I only have two concerns. One – I wish I could see the speaker pronounce the words because I don’t think I am hearing them correctly sometimes – especially the forms of “Faire” in the imparitive. A You Tube video or at least a description of how the word is formed in the mouth would help. Also, I really don’t like that at the beginning and end of each and every drill for each and every tense I have to listen to a commercial for FrenchToday.com. I bought the thing, I don’t need to be persuaded 1000 times to by it again. That is the only reason I didn’t rate it 5 stars.
[Note from Camille: as of April 2015, we have updated all the audio files and removed all the ‘commercials’ from the beginning and end of the files]
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Mlle Teresa Verified Owner –
Camille ensures that your verbs will sound “parfaits” if you repeat after her. I found the exercises to be very useful and they have given me confidence.
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