Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-In-One, Premium Third Edition

Very good book with audio and exercises.

Using this as a companion with a paid duolingo subscription. They compliment each other well and I love exercising a different part of my brain without the use of a screen. The app from McGraw hill is very bare bones but it does help when you want to hear the pronunciation of something in the book. Like a lot of language learning materials you’ll need to branch out by consuming media, conversing, making flash cards, etc, but this is a good tool in the toolkit

It's nice but on my as a complementary to others. The exercises are plenty but not exactly for beginners

Ich habe das Buch als Ergänzung zum Lernen mit Duolingo gekauft. Super zum Wiederholen und Auffrischen der Französisch-Kenntnisse.

This is definitely not a "total language study programme". This is for the intermediate learner at the very minimum. I'm not quite intermediate and I made it through chapters 1-6 but now it's just too much. There are appendices that would have been better suited at the beginning of the book to give some context as to what's coming in the rest of the book. A lot of it is just like reading dictionary entries - a long list of English words and their french counterparts, which no one is realistically going to remember the vast majority of. The book does not reference the app at all.