Le nouveau taxi!: Livre de l'eleve 1 + audio et video online Paperback – Big Book, 22 Oct. 2008

Excellent

I really like this book. Is simple, messages are clear and they go straight to the point instead of wasting a lot of words in explaining a lot of times the same concepts: this is the grammatical rule, this is how to apply it and those are the exception (when there is one or more). I think is very good for people like me, who stopped studying, to buy books like this in order to start again to study as I perfectly know that is very difficult to begin again to do something like this.... Especially after a long day of work. I think this book is pretty good because you can even read just one chapter a day, do the exercises and tomorrow start a new topic.

The book was in a very good condition.

Studied Canadian french from Year 1-Year 10 plus one year of intro french at university. Bought this book to use for course I took some 10 years after taking French in university. Useful exercises.

I would not recommend this series to learn French! I did not realise until after I bought it that many of the exercises require the audio CD from the teachers guide - a separate purchase! This is not made clear anywhere in the product description or indeed in the book itself and is very annoying as you are working through the book only to find you can't do half the exercises!Then there is the APPALLING numbering system. I don't think you could aim to make it worse, it is so bad. Another reviewer, scarabraewilli, seems to agree. For example, there are 9 units (excluding unit "0"!) and each unit has four, double-page lessons, numbered separately. So, if you are looking for lesson 9, then you will find it in unit 3. If you are looking for unit 6, you will find lessons 21-24 inside... This in itself is not impossible to understand. But then the book uses yet another numbering system for the individual exercises within each lesson and unbelievably yet another numbering system for the audio tracks! My teacher had to make her own numbering system so that we could find the right track for the exercise we were doing!If indeed you can conquer the organisation of the book, you will still be disappointed by the light-handed way in which vocabulary, grammar, etc is covered. I went back to my BBC French Experience book (now almost 20 years old) and found it to be much more user-friendly and in particular I preferred it for the many more listening exercises it has. I will try the Echo méthode de français next (for levels A2-B2) and it looks far more promising than Taxi.We all find it hard to learn a new language and what you want is a learning system that facilitates your learning and makes the new language more accessible. At this, in my view, Taxi has utterly failed.

Thumbs up in any language

The text in the book is exclusively in French. For a first level text book I would have expected it to be in both French and English. I had to buy this for an evening class as this is the textbook they use.

A very beginner-friendly book, nicely structured. The DVD has exercises too!