Rond-Point with MyLab French (multi semester access) with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (Myfrenchlab) 2nd Edition

Arrived quickly. I just dont like the textbook itself. I feel like it is very jumbled and too many weird pictures/drawings cluttered around. For an ADD person this is not good

The structure of this book just makes no sense. It starts off nicely, and you learn with numbers and so on, but there is a sudden turn after the first chapter. You don't learn how to tell time or say the days of the week until Chapter 5 (80% of the way into the semester), which are things you actually need to know. You don't learn the months until Chapter 4, yet you learn about interviewing people in Chapter 2. There is not much help this book can do, and the activities do not make sense either. The real way to learn is to attend your class every day and let the teacher do their jobs. This simply isn't a book you can learn from or even supplement on days you might miss class. I found that our French instructor used many of her own readings as opposed to the book simply because it was so bad (not to mention CRAZY expensive).The only thing good about this book was the 1-2 pages of review (vocabulary, etc) at the end of each chapter that let helped me prepare for tests.One of my biggest complaints about this book is that, as a native English speaker (and decent Spanish), the pronunciation is VERY difficult if you don't start young. By chapter 2, the audio that accompanies the book is speaking full-fledge French that is nearly impossible to follow along with. The only way to get by is to listen very carefully and hope that out of a full sentence, you recognized one or two words and can try and piece it together based on context and cues. A horrible book for an interesting language.

Too expensive. It's just a paperback! Terrible content. The listening labs are impossible to understand (speakers are too fast and unclear). You have to listen to them multiple times to even understand what they are saying.

This textbook is excellent, and is actually using a real communicative approach. But it is NOT for students to work on their own, as they are not trained on how to be guided. Most of the textbooks in the USA claim themselves to be communicative but are actually still very traditional. Students like them because they have all the vocab and grammar in front of them, but they actually end up not being able to really speak or use the language correctly and with fluidity. For teachers using this textbook, read the pedagogy guide if you do not know how to approach it. It can of course be supplemented with other activities, especially authentic documents, as all textbooks can be. There is a newer version, from the French editor CLE international, called Tendances. This approached is called "actionnelle", meaning the students actually need to do tasks with the language. The way the vocab is presented is also different, use spiralling (re-using and developping the same content over several chapters), which is why can appear that some vocab or grammar components are presented at later times (you need to know the numbers before being able to tell time).