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INTRODUCTIONWell, congratulations ! You've chosen one of the oldest and most respected ways of learning a foreign language in all of Europe. ASS I Ml L has been, in fact, for the past fifty years synonymous with painless language study. You'll find that about 99 % of the French population, for...

Vorwort "Als Gott das Französische schuf, da gab er uns die Regel, dann erfand er die Ausnahme, um uns in Versuchung zu führen" - so kommentiert ein französischer Linguist seine Sprache. Schwierigkeiten mit den tausend Ausnahmen von der Regel haben selbst die Franzosen; bei den regelmäßigen...