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<p>Introduction 1</p> <p><b>Book I: Speaking in Everyday Settings 7</b></p> <p>Chapter 1: Warming Up with Some French Fundamentals 9</p> <p>Chapter 2: Un, Deux, Trois: Numbers, Dates, and Times 27</p> <p>Chapter 3: Greetings, Goodbyes, and Small Talk 45</p> <p>Chapter 4: Getting Personal: Discussing Your Home, Family, and Daily Routine 63</p> <p>Chapter 5: Talking Business and Politics 85</p> <p>Chapter 6: Shopping at a Store and Online 101</p> <p>Chapter 7: Buying, Preparing, and Tasting Foods 121</p> <p><b>Book II: Exploring and Wandering About 143</b></p> <p>Chapter 1: Making Plans and Discovering New Places 145</p> <p>Chapter 2: Enjoying a Night on the Town 179</p> <p>Chapter 3: Money Matters 201</p> <p>Chapter 4: Home Is Where Your Suitcase Is: Looking for Accommodations 213</p> <p>Chapter 5: Getting Around 229</p> <p>Chapter 6: Dealing with Emergencies 249</p> <p><b>Book III: Building the Grammatical Foundation for Communication 265</b></p> <p>Chapter 1: Building Strong Sentences with the Parts of Speech 267</p> <p>Chapter 2: All Agreed? Matching Gender and Number of Nouns and Articles 289</p> <p>Chapter 3: Dealing with the Here and Now: The Present Tense 305</p> <p>Chapter 4: Commanding and Instructing with the Imperative Mood 331</p> <p>Chapter 5: Asking and Answering Questions 349</p> <p>Chapter 6: Communicating Clearly with Infinitives and Present Participles 369</p> <p><b>Book IV: Getting Down to Detail and Precision in Your Communication 379</b></p> <p>Chapter 1: Specifying Relationships with Prepositions 381</p> <p>Chapter 2: Describing with Flair: Adjectives and Adverbs 401</p> <p>Chapter 3: Taking Shortcuts with Object Pronouns 419</p> <p>Chapter 4: Tying Ideas Together with Conjunctions and Relative Pronouns 439</p> <p>Chapter 5: Getting That Subjunctive Feeling 453</p> <p>Chapter 6: What Lies Ahead and What Could Happen: Simple Future and Present Conditional 471</p> <p><b>Book V: Going Back in Time 485</b></p> <p>Chapter 1: Been There, Done That: Passé Proche and Passé Composé 487</p> <p>Chapter 2: How Was It? What Was Going On? The Imparfait 503</p> <p>Chapter 3: To the Past and Beyond: Other Past Tenses 515</p> <p><b>Book VI: Appendixes 529</b></p> <p>Appendix A: Verb Tables 531</p> <p>Appendix B: French-English Mini-Dictionary 587</p> <p>Appendix C: English-French Mini Dictionary 607</p> <p>Appendix D: Fun & Games 627</p> <p>Appendix E: About the CD 665</p> <p>Index 669</p>

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