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Upon completion of this Level I program, you will have functional spoken proficiency with the most-frequently-used vocabulary and grammatical structures. You will be able to:<br />
* initiate and maintain face-to-face conversations,<br />
* deal with every day situations -- ask for information, directions, and give basic information about yourself and family,<br />
* communicate basic information on informal topics and participate in casual conversations,<br />
* avoid basic cultural errors and handle minimum courtesy and travel requirements,<br />
* satisfy personal needs and limited social demands,<br />
* establish rapport with strangers in foreign countries,<br />
* begin reading and sounding out items with native-like pronunciation.<br />
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Level II will double your vocabulary and grammatical structures while increasing your spoken proficiency exponentially. Upon completion of a Level II, you will be able to:<br />
* engage in fuller conversations involving yourself, your family, daily activities, interests and personal preferences,<br />
* combine known elements into increasingly longer sentences and strings of sentences,<br />
* create with language and function in informal situations,<br />
* deal with concrete topics in the past, present, and future,<br />
* meet social demands and limited job requirements,<br />
* begin reading for meaning.<br />
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Level III will increase your vocabulary and grammatical structures and triple your spoken proficiency. Upon completion of a level III, you will be able to:<br />
* participate in most informal and some formal discussions on practical, social, and some semi-professional topics,<br />
* form longer sentences while maintaining the target language syntax,<br />
* be understood even by native speakers unused to dealing with foreigners,<br />
* handle increasingly difficult grammatical structures,<br />
* enjoy fluent conversations with a variety of strangers,<br />
* have a near-native accent, and the subtleties of the language will be apparent in your speech,<br />
* read at the same level at which you speak.<br />
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http://www.pimsleurapproach.com/learn-french.asp
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