Teach Yourself Quick Fix French Grammar

My husband and I ordered two of these books so we could study together, and although we've only got through the first couple of chapters, the content seems good so far, and was clearly meant to be well-organized, but there was an oops in both books that takes more extra effort than many language learners may want to invest. The pages were assembled backwards, so that you need to skip ahead two pages, then go back one, then ahead and back and so on. It's manageable, but not ideal, and I'm sure there are plenty of other books out there that were assembled in order.

I have had years of French, lived in France, and been inflicted with many many French textbooks (mostly memorization)....and, by accident, discovered this wonderful book in my public library. It simplifies French grammar...it gives you the rules (did you know there are rules for gender in French?) and makes it very very easy to, with a little work, pick up all the important parts of French grammar. There are exercises, with the English translations...words like "conditional" and "future perfect" are really explained (i.e. given the English equivalents) unlike many dictionaries, which just tell you "the pluperfect" is thus and so, etc. (Which means you need Latin) This is short, enjoyable, and clear....all the rules are here. It will not help with pronunciation...but with good CDs or tapes, this will fill in the grammatical foundation. Highly recommended!