Assimil Reviews

The worst learnig experience I ve ever had

I m currently at more than 70 of French with ease and sincerely I m hating every second of it My middle school book was for me incomparably better At the beginning is okay few new words and grammar such one can manage to stay on track Further along the way most of the explanations are squeezed in the footnotes and thus spread across the book The final experience is a wall of disorderly and confused information with very little exercise and practice At the point where I am I read at least 5 times each dialogue but it s pointless since if you are lucky the exercises are on expressions mentioned once in the lesson s footnotes If you are unlucky they were mentioned once who-knows-where before There is a comprehensive summary at the end of the book with all the grammar and vocabulary but honestly you will forget it exist while doing the daily 2 lesson exercises It seems all based on the assumption that you will absorb everything you did and saw once before which obviously is not the case This is my experience at max effort maybe it will work amazing for you My advice is if you can try it for some time before buying it