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