<p>Is the book you used a good one? We're desperately looking for a beginner's French textbook. Please recommend one! merci!</p>
<p>Discovering French, Nouveau! (Bleu 1).</p>
<p>^^Pretty decent. Presents grammar, vocab, etc really well, in easy to handle chunks. It also does a good job with chapter reviews. It’s not too much of a challenge though.</p>
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<p>^^ I used that book too!</p>
<p>meee tooo! 
I have French 2 next semester. wish me luck! :)</p>
<p>NOT Allez-viens!</p>
<p>^ =P
All three years of junior high we used Allez, Viens! Level 1 (moving at an excruciatingly slow pace with most of the fall being review). We used level 2 for my freshman year of high school (French II). For French III we use “Le Chemin du Retour” which has a corresponding film. It’s going over pretty well, I’d say.</p>
<p>Glencoe Bon Voyage was horrible. Bleh! Anything but Bon Voyage and it’s theme song…</p>
<p>I love the theme song lol, me n’ my friends danced to it. Bon Voyage! Bon Voyage!</p>
<p>We used Discovering French, Nouveau! at my middle school for French I, and at my high school for French II and French III. I liked them, but they do move slowly for French I and II. I remember getting to high school and being in French II and feeling like I literally was just reviewing French I the whole time. And then French III moved too fast. But that could have been the teaching. Overall, I did like the books.</p>
<p>Allez, viens is horrible. And I mean horrible. Or at least according to my pompous French prof. who begrudgingly allows us to at least check it out from the textbook center; plus, he’s bounded by law lol. AP French uses Tresors de temps which is good for grammar, I guess, but mostly good for French history. </p>
<p>I have a really really old, pretentious, raised-in-France teacher.</p>
<p>Do the people who used Bon Voyage! ever use the chapter videos?</p>
<p>They were freaking hilarious!</p>
<p>Ah, I didn’t know so many people used Bon Voyage! </p>
<p>They’re okay. They helped me get the basics of French down.</p>
<p>I watched Rattatouli. It taught me a lot about French language and culture.</p>
<p>Also, if you eat French food like pastrami, you start to love the culture.</p>
<p>I’ve never eaten in a french place. but i like french shows and books. les mis, carmen, count Cristo… all that good stuff.</p>
<p>Hey this BonVoyage book, does it have a CD? or any one you used and liked, does it have a cd?</p>
<p>I’m considering Rosetta Stone now. Does that really work?</p>
<p>Has anybody used vis a vis?</p>