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Marie Delacroix Audiobooks

Learn French Like a MF: a beginner to intermediate course, twenty lessons deep

1 audiobook reviewed

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Education & Learning

Who is Marie Delacroix?

The cheek is in the title. Learn French Like a MF (Master of Fluency) sets out its register in the first few words and then explains the joke in brackets, which tells you plainly what sort of language course this intends to be: irreverent on the surface, methodical underneath.

Marie Delacroix has built it as a graded course running from beginner to intermediate across twenty lessons, and the structure is where the seriousness shows. Seventeen and a half hours of instruction is not a novelty item, it is a full term’s worth of teaching arranged for the ear.

Our record covers the course rather than the person behind it, and that is where we will leave matters.

Marie Delacroix in audiobooks

Amanda Pelletier narrates, which for language material is less a performance credit than a teaching one. Pronunciation modelled aloud is most of what a listener actually takes away from an audio course, and consistency across the lessons is worth more than expressiveness.

The lessons are numbered and sequential, so there is no question about where to begin. Rhythm matters more. Courses of this length reward a lesson at a time with repetition built in, and punish the marathon approach that works perfectly well for narrative non-fiction.

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