French LiP 1.3

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

Sure, you can read a menu in a French restaurant. But how s your parlez-vous? French LiP can give your conversational skills a boost with drills on the French alphabet and common verbs and phrases. Its teaching style is strictly old-school. You listen to French LiP speak, then take a quiz on what you ve heard. And forget grade inflation. You won t advance to the next level until you get an A. For that matter, you can t even skip to the next exercise until you ace the one you re on. Though the exercises became monotonous, we found French LiP s conversational focus a big advantage. However, the ugly gray interface, with its chunky buttons and Comic Sans typeface, would make any stylish Parisian shudder. Also, be prepared for the American-sized 17.4MB download. Nevertheless, if you don t mind the drill-and-kill approach, French LiP is a good way to prepare for a vacation or a business trip.

Publisher's description

From Signus :

French LiP (Language Instructor Program) is a complete French language-learning package. Its mission is to give you the one skill that is required to reach fluency: the ability to speak, hear, and recognize practical phrases, expressions, and conversations in the target language. LiP is for those who wish to begin speaking right away, since its focus is on real-world phrases and expressions. Version 1.3 removed some bugs.

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