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Dear French language student, Mastering French Conversation by Dr. Brians Languages is based on the highly acclaimed language learning program developed by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) for US Government personnel in the 1940s. The training enabled professionals to live and work in a foreign country.

This German course trains with the Guided Imitation Method, a Foreign Service Institute (FSI) technique for learning languages. The approach guides you to imitate native speakers using oral drills. You hear, understand, and respond in the foreign language.

With the second installment of Mastering French Conversation, we expand our ability to converse in French. As before, the drills allow you to practice hearing, understanding and formulating sentences in French. In this way you learn to think in French. You are preparing for live conversations on the streets of Paris. This program is likely the most intensive and demanding audio self-help French program available. If you really want to master French conversation, this course is for you.

Our Mastering German Conversation series gives students the opportunity to train their conversation skills with our oral drills. Each module focuses on a specific aspect of grammar. This module focuses on the perfect tense. The perfect tense places action in the past.

The Mastering German Conversation series is designed for students who - at a minimum - wish to be able to hold basic conversations in German. Our programs allow students to practice conversing in German to a much greater extent than what is possible in a classroom setting. The progression of the course starts with simply repeating set phrases, which anyone can do. Then, we steadily bring the student to a place where he can formulate complete and accurate sentences in real-time conversation.

This module continues your focus on learning to use the perfect tense in spoken German. After working through the drills, you will have a better grasp of formulating concepts in the past tense. Also, you will be able to interact at a basic level around the office, when talking about travel and weather, and when visiting a restaurant.

Dear German language student: Mastering German Conversation by Dr. Brians Languages is based on the highly acclaimed language learning program developed by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) for US government personnel in the 1940s. The training enabled the students to live and work in foreign countries.

Mastering German Conversation by Dr. Brians Languages is based on the highly acclaimed language learning program developed by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) for US government personnel in the 1940s. The training enabled the students to live and work in foreign countries. The FSI approach is straightforward: You learn how to converse in German by speaking in German.

Continue to develop your verbal French skills with unit 5 of the Mastering French Conversation series. This course will cover indefinite adjectives, noun-markers in negative constructions, large numbers, impersonal verbs, the verb "faire", and more!