Harry Learns French

Harry Learns French

Book Summary:

Join Harry on an exciting summer holiday trip to stay with his French cousin, Léa. Essential everyday French phrases and vocabulary are interspersed with a simple, fun-packed story. Join the cousins as they go shopping, to the beach, to a farm and a fancy dress party.

A great introductions to learning a foreign language teaching basic and useful vocabulary in a fun and entertaining way. Each book is your ticket to a whistle-stop tour of the country. Great books for children learning a language for the first time.

Amazon Reviews:

Most Helpful Customer Reviews(5 Stars)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

A French Teacher’s Dream! October 5, 2005

By S. Nunes-ranchy

Format:Hardcover

I purchased this book for my (now 6 year old) daughter a few months ago and it’s among her most favorite books. She already has some basic skills in French but even for those who do not have any French, this is an excellent pick. The presentation is good allowing any non-French speaking child to understand the meaning of the French words and phrases.Firstly, the amount of French vocabulary is decent and covers a wide variety of subjects (numbers, colors, animals, family members, activities, etc.) Secondly, as a French teacher what I love most is its inclusion of culture related items (descriptions of “boules”, brief explanation of July 14th, different kinds of specialty shops, etc.).

My daughter loves the presentation although my youngest thinks the characters look “mad” (it’s that harder edge graphic style- not my favorite but still eye-catching). There’s a “pop-up” dictionary with each section of vocabulary but the true bonus is the accompanying CD-rom- perfect for children to hear how the vocabulary is properly pronounced (although the interactivity of the cd-rom is quite limited it’s still a great extra).

As someone who is always collecting French language books, it’s nice to see a story that’s more contemporary- evidenced by the explanation of Euros as opposed to French Francs.

This is a great addition to any library whether you’re looking to teach your child French or just widen her knowledge of other cultures.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful( 3 Stars)

Cute, But Nothing Special December 25, 2005

By LightofBeauty

Format:Hardcover

This book is cute and fun at a first glance. But I couldn’t help but feel as if I felt cheated with the vocabulary. The front cover of this book says that there are over 200 French words or phrases, while for the most part there are only 20! And for some reason there seems to be more pictures than vocab words. For instance, on one page alone (the 2nd page for example), they could have added the vocab word for lamp, floor, teapot, sand, water, rock, etc., but instead they just leave it blank. And the CD-rom is nothing really that special, it doesn’t make the book more or less helpful (esp. since they have some words in there that aren’t in the book, which doesn’t make sense, and you can barely mimic what they’re saying). Overall, there’s no harm in buying this for a child—he or she will learn SOME French, which is better than none— but I wouldn’t recommend this or call it essential for the beginning stages of learning the French language. There are plenty of other books like these that have a better and more consistent vocabulary (some that have 200+ when they say they do!) that is more useful.

Flipkart Review:

nice for the beginners( 4 Stars)

this book is a nice one for the ones who want to learn the basic concept of learning french.it has pictures and it ‘s a story based book.over all it’s a good book with more than 200 meanings.it was shipped within the given time (4-5 days

Please leave your comments about this site(any improvements) and (if you wish) about this product.