--- product_id: 1525344 title: "SmartFrench: Beginner Level - Learn French from Real French People" price: "146.34 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1525344-smartfrench-beginner-level-learn-french-from-real-french-people store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # 3 Audio CDs for immersive listening 6-stage progressive real-conversation training Comprehensive booklet with transcripts & translations SmartFrench: Beginner Level - Learn French from Real French People **Price:** 146.34 DT **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸŽ™οΈ Speak like a local, understand like a native β€” don’t just learn French, live it! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** SmartFrench: Beginner Level - Learn French from Real French People - **How much does it cost?** 146.34 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1525344-smartfrench-beginner-level-learn-french-from-real-french-people) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Bilingual Support:** English instructions and full transcripts with translations to boost comprehension. - β€’ **Phonetics Focused Training:** Learn natural spoken French sounds, including common elisions and liaisons. - β€’ **Portable Learning On-the-Go:** Standard audio CDs compatible with car stereos and any CD player. - β€’ **Progressive Listening Stages:** From slow-motion breakdowns to natural-speed interviews for gradual fluency. - β€’ **Master Real French Conversations:** Train your ear with authentic interviews, not scripted dialogues. ## Overview SmartFrench Beginner Level is a unique audio-based French learning program designed to develop authentic listening and speaking skills through real-life interviews. Featuring 3 audio CDs and a detailed booklet, it guides learners through six progressive stages from slow, clear pronunciation to natural-speed conversations. Ideal for beginners with some foundation, it emphasizes natural spoken French, phonetics, and comprehension, making it perfect for millennials seeking practical fluency and cultural connection. ## Description Attention : The novice in French should start with our SmartFrench - Introduction to French, Vol.1 and Vol.2 first, to study the basic grammar, conjugation and vocabulary that we observed you need in order to get a perfect foundation. The horse - in French, is - Le cheval -. Would you like to be taught to say: - luh shuhvahl -, as taught by most products listed (which is correct only when you read), or: - luhsh fahl -, the way it will sound in a regular conversation and the way SmartFrench teaches? This difference is true for most words. Learning French requests that you learn to speak French and that you learn to understand it. Vol.1 and Vol.2 will teach you to speak and these SmartFrench Audio CDs Beginner will teach you to understand and be understood. If you enter a conversation in French with no training to listen to it, you will not be able to get what is coming back to you. Then your French studies will be worth nothing. On the other hand, even if you feel hesitant to speak French, you can have a conversation saying just β€œyes” or β€œno”, as long as you understand the other person. That’s why to develop listening skills is so important. With SmartFrench you will develop two-way conversation skills. The audio CDs can be played anywhere. The CDROM - also available on desertcart.com, is for the computer. It contains all three levels and some extras, as well as the videos of the interviews on which the lessons are based (to see people when they speak always helps.) Also available: SmartSpanish, SmartItalian, SmartFrench for Travelers. Review: The Best French Language Program I Have Tried - I took three years of French in high school over twenty years ago, and I recently decided to take up the language once again. I have tried various programs, such as Rosetta Stone, Michel Thomas, and Pimsleur. However, when I tried to have a conversation with native French speakers, I was always disappointed because a) When they spoke at a natural pace, other than picking out a word here and there, I could not understand what they were saying and b) While I could make myself understood, I was told that my sentences were too rigid or unnaturally formal. As far as I know, Smart French is the only program available that teaches the student to speak in a natural and fluent manner. The program begins with an excellent review of French sounds. Then, a series of vignettes are presented in which an interviewer discusses a topic with everyday French speakers such as a model, a chef, an art curator, a metal worker, an actor, etc. The converstations are presented in stages. The first stage, breaks down the sentences into bite sized segments in slow motion. The ensuing stages move progressively faster, until the sixth stage, when we hear the actual interview at normal speed. At first the converstions seemed impossibly fast, but after listening to them a few times, I began to understand more and more of what the speakers were saying. The Smart French course has helped me tremendously in developing an ear for French as it is spoken by real people and in improving my accent. In my opinion, it is by far the best program available, and the best value for the money. Review: Excellent for training the ear and improving the accent - As said before, rather than a French course this is just a complement to your French course, designed to improve your listening and pronunciation skills (don't expect to find any help on grammar, for example). And it does an excellent job at that. To avoid repeating previous reviews, I will focus on describing this product, so you can judge it for yourself. Starting with the content, this DVD-sized box comes with three audio CDs and a booklet attached inside. The CDs are recorded in standard audio format (not mp3), so you're sure to be able to listen to it in your car. The CDs contain an introduction to the alphabet, the numbers and the French sounds, followed by the recordings of seven one-on-one real-life short interviews, hand-picked to fit the beginner level (not for an absolute beginner, though). The booklet contains the transcriptions of all that, including also the transcriptions of the nine interviews of the intermediate and advanced levels - whose CDs are sold with the intermediate/advanced box. It's just that they probably ship the same booklet with both products. Sound omissions are marked in red in the text, while "liaisons" are underlined. The booklet also contains the translations of all interviews into English. After you listen to and repeat the alphabet, the numbers and the French vowel sounds, the first interview begins. Each interview is repeated six times. The first five times are spoken entirely by a male French speaker with clear pronunciation, and the sixth time is the real interview played back for you to listen. The speaker gives his instructions and comments in English. The first time, the speaker just reads the interview for you to listen, very slowly, in the way French people read. The second time you repeat after him, also very slowly without reading the transcript, but this time with the usual sound omissions and simplifications common in spoken French. The third time you also repeat after him, but this time a little faster and reading along. The fourth time is when the speaker pauses to explain and work on a few pronunciation tricks. The fifth time is when the narrator repeats only one or two common expressions spoken in the interview. Although I think this product is really effective and helpful, I didn't give it the full five stars because of the following flaws: (1) The sound chart and recordings don't cover two important vowel sounds that are particularly difficult for foreigners: the sound of OEU in "boeuf" and "soeur", and the sound of UM in "parfum" or UN in "brun"; (2) The recording quality of the real interviews is clearly inferior to that of the studio-recorded French narrator. In the real interviews, not only are there the environment noise and the hissing typical of analog recordings, but also you're forced to increase the volume of your stereo to hear it at the same sound level as the rest of the CD; (3) The French speaker gives much attention to phonetics and sounds, pronouncing words very slowly and clearly, but gives little attention to intonation, which is an essential part of a language's native accent; (4) To better train our ear and pronunciation, it would be helpful to also listen to (and repeat after) different native speakers, with varying accents, not just one narrator. That said, I still strongly recommend this product for improving both your pronunciation and your oral comprehension of French. ## Features - Speak French with confidence ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Customer Reviews | 3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars (113) | ## Images ![SmartFrench: Beginner Level - Learn French from Real French People - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71kLW3MH9YL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Best French Language Program I Have Tried *by C***R on November 5, 2009* I took three years of French in high school over twenty years ago, and I recently decided to take up the language once again. I have tried various programs, such as Rosetta Stone, Michel Thomas, and Pimsleur. However, when I tried to have a conversation with native French speakers, I was always disappointed because a) When they spoke at a natural pace, other than picking out a word here and there, I could not understand what they were saying and b) While I could make myself understood, I was told that my sentences were too rigid or unnaturally formal. As far as I know, Smart French is the only program available that teaches the student to speak in a natural and fluent manner. The program begins with an excellent review of French sounds. Then, a series of vignettes are presented in which an interviewer discusses a topic with everyday French speakers such as a model, a chef, an art curator, a metal worker, an actor, etc. The converstations are presented in stages. The first stage, breaks down the sentences into bite sized segments in slow motion. The ensuing stages move progressively faster, until the sixth stage, when we hear the actual interview at normal speed. At first the converstions seemed impossibly fast, but after listening to them a few times, I began to understand more and more of what the speakers were saying. The Smart French course has helped me tremendously in developing an ear for French as it is spoken by real people and in improving my accent. In my opinion, it is by far the best program available, and the best value for the money. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent for training the ear and improving the accent *by G***O on August 1, 2008* As said before, rather than a French course this is just a complement to your French course, designed to improve your listening and pronunciation skills (don't expect to find any help on grammar, for example). And it does an excellent job at that. To avoid repeating previous reviews, I will focus on describing this product, so you can judge it for yourself. Starting with the content, this DVD-sized box comes with three audio CDs and a booklet attached inside. The CDs are recorded in standard audio format (not mp3), so you're sure to be able to listen to it in your car. The CDs contain an introduction to the alphabet, the numbers and the French sounds, followed by the recordings of seven one-on-one real-life short interviews, hand-picked to fit the beginner level (not for an absolute beginner, though). The booklet contains the transcriptions of all that, including also the transcriptions of the nine interviews of the intermediate and advanced levels - whose CDs are sold with the intermediate/advanced box. It's just that they probably ship the same booklet with both products. Sound omissions are marked in red in the text, while "liaisons" are underlined. The booklet also contains the translations of all interviews into English. After you listen to and repeat the alphabet, the numbers and the French vowel sounds, the first interview begins. Each interview is repeated six times. The first five times are spoken entirely by a male French speaker with clear pronunciation, and the sixth time is the real interview played back for you to listen. The speaker gives his instructions and comments in English. The first time, the speaker just reads the interview for you to listen, very slowly, in the way French people read. The second time you repeat after him, also very slowly without reading the transcript, but this time with the usual sound omissions and simplifications common in spoken French. The third time you also repeat after him, but this time a little faster and reading along. The fourth time is when the speaker pauses to explain and work on a few pronunciation tricks. The fifth time is when the narrator repeats only one or two common expressions spoken in the interview. Although I think this product is really effective and helpful, I didn't give it the full five stars because of the following flaws: (1) The sound chart and recordings don't cover two important vowel sounds that are particularly difficult for foreigners: the sound of OEU in "boeuf" and "soeur", and the sound of UM in "parfum" or UN in "brun"; (2) The recording quality of the real interviews is clearly inferior to that of the studio-recorded French narrator. In the real interviews, not only are there the environment noise and the hissing typical of analog recordings, but also you're forced to increase the volume of your stereo to hear it at the same sound level as the rest of the CD; (3) The French speaker gives much attention to phonetics and sounds, pronouncing words very slowly and clearly, but gives little attention to intonation, which is an essential part of a language's native accent; (4) To better train our ear and pronunciation, it would be helpful to also listen to (and repeat after) different native speakers, with varying accents, not just one narrator. That said, I still strongly recommend this product for improving both your pronunciation and your oral comprehension of French. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is how we were meant to learn a language. *by B***M on July 23, 2012* I have been using these products for several months AS DIRECTED by their creator, Christian Aubert, and have found them extremely helpful. I've used both "SmartFrench - Introduction to French, Volumes 1 and 2" and also the 4-CD-Set "Beginner Level." What is so amazing about this material is that you truly can learn the language by just listening! If you are planning on a trip to France I would say this is the way to learn. You may not learn to read the language, but you will learn to understand what is said to you and to speak it to some extent, and that is the point. I plan on purchasing "SmartFrench for Travellers" before my trip to get more help in recognizing the written word. Mr. Aubert teaches something that I imagine few other language courses go into--he teaches the contractions that the French use in their conversations. Unless you learn to hear the words contracted (the way French natives actually say them), how can you hope to understand what is being spoken? Mr. Aubert also highlights IN RED the letters that are NOT pronounced in a sentence. (There is a PDF format of "SmartFrench - Introduction to French, Volumes 1 and 2" which can be printed out for your convenience, as well as a booklet included with the 4-CD-Set "Beginner Level"). 'Just listening is the key to your future progress' says Mr. Aubert, and he is right! I find myself (I'm a gardener) out in the yard telling my plants IN FRENCH, "Well, you've got to have everything!" (See "Beginner Level CD 1 - Soundis" and you'll know where I'm coming from;-) It is so much fun to have French words or phrases pop into my head from out of the blue, and I feel like a child learning her first language with ease. If you don't try this material and do it consistently, you'll never experience the joy I'm talking about. Five days a week I spend an hour on my treadmill with my earphones on, and I'm learning a language without the chore of memorizing. Imagine that! 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