Many secondary school students - and for that matter, adults - often have difficulty learning and understanding the hard-to-pronounce sounds of French. This book was written especially for students of French who have been finding pronunciation as well as all other aspects of the learning process painful. They'll discover many interesting features and facts about French culture as this book's authors gently immerse them into the details of French vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, idioms, and conversational speech. Short exercises in those language details will help them measure their learning progress as they advance from one chapter to the next.