2000 Most Common French Words in Context: Get Fluent & Increase Your French Vocabulary with 2000 French Phrases

I suggest this book would appeal most to those in intermediate French, who have a solid understanding of grammar and vocab, but who wish to fill in any gaps with oft-used words. Well presented with a pleasing layout. Whether intended or not, the sentences in this book contain common idioms of "a" and "faire", etc., which also helps to expose oft-used French. Five stars.

This book kicks ass BECAUSE CONTEXTUALIZATION. I relearned verbs before I could forget 'em. I highly recommend this kick-ass text, whereby 'kick-ass ' , as pursuing any and all later legal activity, be ere contextualized as 'what 1979 offered mid-western cities'

Learning vocabulary in your target language is a must if you hope to communicate in it well. And, you can find many frequency lists on the internet for free. However, this book provides that special element that truly enhances your learning -- putting the words in context. Each word comes with its own example sentence. Additionally, as I worked through the list, I noticed that many of the words are used in the example sentences for other words -- a strong reinforcement for learning. I originally got the book via Kindle Unlimited for $0 but liked it so much that I ended up purchasing it for $3.99. I just wish that this book came with the top 5,000 words in context instead of “only” 2,000!

This book is fun to browse and open to random pages, but it's not helpful to really "learn" from. I like to use it as a refresher for my vocabulary. It's strangely organized, and it includes LITERALLY the most commonly used words including "I" "you" "we" "they" "the" "a", etc.

I loved that it was focused in on the most common words, and teaching them in the context of sentences! If you'd prefer to sit down with a book to read and learn vocabulary, this would be a good jump start into learning critical words then going on to read stories afterwards, with the knowledge you've gotten. I appreciated the context sentence examples, that also were full of high frequency words, so reading the whole book was very reinforcing of the information. I've seen websites before with frequency lists of words, and this was a more approachable structured way to go through studying those kinds of words.

This book can be a valuable learning tool. But it could be better. Rather than ordering words by frequency they should be grouped differently, perhaps by parts of speech. This would allow you to better organize the language in your mind. However my main suggestion concerns the Audible version. I am very interested in getting this but the Audible sample is worthless in assessing its value. It’s an introduction that merely talks about what’s to come. It needs to be a sample of the meat of the book - words and their use in sentences.

The book is a nice size. I like that the words are used in an actual sentence. I can also reinforce the grammar I have been learning in my French lessons. A very useful book. I highly recommend it to anyone who is learning French.

First, it uses the Pareto principle -- a minority of the words do the majority of the work. By learning the most common words you get the most immediately useful knowledge.Second, for each word you get a sample sentence, in parallel English and French, that also introduces or reintroduces several other words. To borrow a pattern from the Xzibit Yo Dawg meme, they put vocabulary in your vocabulary so you can learn while you learn.It's such a simple notion that I'm surprised this is the first place I've seen it.

I am enjoying using this book, pretty much on a daily basis. Some have questioned the structure of it, but it is set out in order of the most commonly used words. One could debate the position of some, but the logic is obvious, and there are plenty of systematic alternatives. This book is useful for those with some knowledge of the language to work through. I like the fact that new words I am learning, or being reminded of, are likely to be useful. The sentence examples given with each word are very helpful, and likely to be relevant. They also expose the reader to a lot of other vocabulary.

Need to understand and speak French now that I live here permanently, early days but book is a great help

This is not for the French beginners, if someone who never studied A1 to A2 level (early stage of intermediate), it is not suitable for them. BUT, such a good reference book !

I have to say I was blown away by how much I liked this book. While the format may not suit everyone, for me it is absolutely ideal for improving my french at the pace that suits me. I have found it fantastic for building my vocabulary (while ensuring there are no glaring gaps) and the useful sentences for each word provide all the necessary context for applying these words into newly learnt phrases.I have had one experience of learning a language in this way previously. When studying mandarin, our teacher would provide us with the 600 most important characters, and I also then found it to be of great use to know that the first big steps in fluency lay simply with memorising and applying what was there in front of me.Language learning can be a daunting task and I really love the simplicity of this approach. Even for those who desire a more encompassing and structural approach to learning french could definitely still draw great benefit from using this as a supplementary resource. Especially, as mentioned before, in identifying key weaknesses.Finally, I would also add, I appreciate the nature in which this book teaches you 'common' french as opposed to 'textbook' french. While there may not be a lot of difference, I felt the sentences provided for each new piece of vocabulary did wonders to help refine the colloquial manner of speaking I had with my french, which can be so hard to derive from a more formal and academic learning programme.

The book is ok with many words and examples. I just can’t believe there’s no audio included. I though there would be a website or some QR codes to use but no. Just a regular book. I get it that audio might be selling extra, but this is a language learning book not a regular book you can just read! Audio should be the basic package in this category! Please mark it clearly!