My ramblings as I move forward in my life Journey.

Learning French

Posted: June 22nd, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: School | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

While I also am working on learning Spanish finally (I’ve attempted to do so for years now, on and off) I have started to work on learning French as well. The main reason is I just spent two weeks on reading the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning French, 3E (The Complete Idiot’s Guide) (although I had the 4th Edition coming out soon, and I will update the link when it is available). This book is fairly well written, although I would make a few changes if I set up the format. That said, I highly recommend this book to anyone that is wanting to get started on learning French (although I’d wait until the 4th Edition hits the streets as it has the AV Books formated version of the book at the back of the book that you can put on your computer and on your MP3. The computer version will read the book to you as the English and French words are spoken so you can see the word being spoke to know the spelling and learn how to pronounce the written word.).

Enjoy!


The Complete Idiot’s Guide books.

Posted: June 12th, 2006 | Author: | Filed under: Misc, School | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

I’m finding that I like the “Complete Idiot’s Guide to” books. At AV Books, we are aggressively working on our Marketing Plan. At the same time we are producing Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning French, 3E (The Complete Idiot’s Guide) (fourth edition though!) and Complete Idiot\’s Guide to Learning Spanish, 4th Edition (Complete Idiot\’s Guide to) as Multimedia AV Books. This has given me time to get very intimate with the series, and I’m liking it. I liked it so much I’ve picked up Complete Idiot’s Guide to Marketing, 2E (Complete Idiot’s Guide to) to work on my marketing skills.

I may have to find some time to look at the complete series and see what else is there to read. :)