Product Description

Le Robert Micro, dictionnaire d'apprentissage du français, permet de se familiariser avec les mots et le bon usage de la langue. Véritable guide, il décrit les sens et précise les usages et les règles d'emploi. Apprentissage de la langue : des définitions simples et précises pour chaque mot, chaque sens, chaque locution, une description complète des mots : la prononciation en alphabet phonétique, les niveaux de langue, des remarques sur la grammaire, l'orthographe, les difficultés... et de nombreux exemples d'emploi ; des tableaux pratiques : les verbes et les règles de conjugaison. Enrichissement du vocabulaire : la présentation par familles de mots, les synonymes et les contraires, les renvois pour passer d'un mot à l'autre

Dimensions (en cm): 11 x 6 x 18

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #185895 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-15
• Original language: French
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1506 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9782850365294
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
• Notes: French Language Edition
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Customer Reviews

If you're intermediate or higher in French in the U.S.,
you need this delightful guide and friend!

The definitions are right at the intermediate learner's level.

The vocabulary is huge, yet every word is explained clearly and simply.

After each and every definition, an example phrase or sentence clears up remaining questions about the meaning and usage of the word for that definition.

French-English dictionaries are for beginners. Le Robert Micro is for French learners who desire the adult pleasure of leaving language beginnerhood permanently behind.

Superlatif
My French didn't really take off until I started using a French-French dictionary for my reading, and this is the one I used.

I cannot recommend it highly enough, but my enthusiam stems only in part from the high quality of this book in particular. Rather, in learning a language, having to decipher the definitions instead of having them handed to you makes a puzzle out of every word you don't know. So, after staring at the definition, when you finally realize what the word means, you're unlikely to forget its definition, since you figured it out yourself. I guess what I'm saying is that I found that when you yourself solve a riddle, there's a greater chance that you'll remember it. This is certainly not the case even with the best French-English dictionaries.

This is a compact dictionary, yet impressively complete. Also, it's designed for learners of French (though not necessarily English-speakers), so the definitions, while completely in French, are crafted to be clear and user-friendly.

The binding is excellent and the whole thing has a sturdy feel to it.

Perhaps the thing I found the most useful was that for every definition, the word is used in an easy, readily-apprehended French sentence, making it supremely easy to guess the meaning in the event that the definition proper was nebulous.

I have two gripes:

1. Bizarre particles found in your reading (like "eu," for example) aren't listed in this book, the way most French-English dictionaries refer you back to the root verb. So if you find something that you know is some odd conjugation of an irregular verb, this dictionary won't help you.

2. There is, alas, a printer's error with the '99 edition: Starting on page 359, the entire Introduction is reprinted upside down. Unlikely this would ruin your fun, though.

Unbelievably excellent !!!
I spent a year in France, studying at the university level. My grammar and writing professors both agreed on one thing : Le Robert (even the Micro version, which I have) is the best it gets. It's written entirely in French (which is good...learners of the language should wean themselves off the English-translation method as early as possible) and is so clear-cut and simply written that you'll forget you're reading in a different language. A definite must-have for anyone serious about learning French !