This progressively structured ASSiMiL self-study course offers you an easy introduction to the French language and allows you to comprehensively learn the basics of French and a vocabulary of about 2,000 words in 113 lessons. The language course is aimed at beginners who have just discovered the French language, as well as at advanced learners who wish to refresh and deepen their knowledge. The CDs contain lesson and comprehension exercise texts spoken by native speakers from the textbook. The total duration of the audio recordings is 190 minutes. Short lessons in a clear format promote your learning success: foreign language dialogues with meaningful and mostly literal German translations are supplemented by brief, precise notes on grammar, vocabulary, and specific linguistic phenomena.