French: How to Speak and Write It: An informal conversational method for self study with 400 illustrations (English and French Edition)

This is probably the most delightful, useful and comprehensive elementary book available for learning spoken and written French, either with or without a teacher, Working on the principle that a person learns more quickly by example than by rule, the author has put together a book that abounds in sparkling, colloquial French conversations on a wide variety of subjects, plus superb grammar, vocabulary and idiom studies presented through French sentences that demonstrate the language rather than merely describe it.