French for Absolute Beginners: 234 Essential Words & Phrases · IPA + Easy Respelling · Zero Experience Needed (The Start Speaking Series Book 3)

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You can already say bonjour. Then the other person answers, and nothing you hear matches anything you have ever seen written down.That gap is not grammar. It is sound: French drops final consonants, runs words together and sends vowels through the nose. Printing symbols you were never taught to read does not fix it.This book prints both. All 234 words and phrases come with the IPA and a plain-letter respelling with the stressed syllable in CAPITALS (koh-MAHN-sah-VAH), so you can say each one out loud, correctly, before you learn a single symbol.INSIDE THE 18 CHAPTERS- 234 words and phrases, each with its meaning, short examples, a usage tip and both pronunciations- A pronunciation guide for the four things English speakers actually stumble on: nasal vowels, the French u, the throat r, and silent final consonants (plus the CaReFuL rule for when they are not silent)- Elision and contractions (j'aime, l'école, au café, des enfants) explained before you need them, because they are mandatory, not casual- The grammar that carries a conversation: gender and articles, être vs avoir, and -ER, -IR and -RE verbs- Everyday ground: family, food, shopping, directions, describing people, weather, plans and survival situations- In every chapter, a Common Mistakes box, a Dialogue in Action, a Quick Practice and its Answer Key- An At a Glance table per chapter, and a 30-Day Plan with a weekly focus and one daily missionPERFECT FOR: the absolute beginner who has never studied the language and wants to say something out loud, correctly, today, instead of reading about it for a month first.Thirty days will not make you fluent. They will get your first real French sentence out of your mouth without translating it in your head first, which is the part most beginner books leave for later.