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Title: 501 French Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-To-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged by Christopher Kendris ISBN: 0-8120-9281-3 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: February, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (36 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: A good survival tool :)
Comment: Are you trying to learn french?. If so, this is one of the books you must have. Why? Simply because it makes your life easier.

This book doesn't explain why verbs are conjugated in a certain way, but it helps you to learn merely by showing how 501 french verbs are conjugated. Is that enough? Well, by itself no, because we are not parrots who must repeat whatever they are told without understanding what they say (that, despite the opinion of some, not all, french teachers). However, if you have a good textbook, a terrific dictionary, some listening tapes and "501 French Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-To-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged" (long title :)!!), you'll probably end up speaking french more or less well.

This edition is bilingual (french-english), so if you don't know the meaning of some verbs in french you'll still have the translation in english. Another thing worth pointing out is that each verb has lots of examples (with different tenses). I found out that to be particularly useful...

So, what to do?. If you can, buy this book, or ask a friend to lend it to you. It is not overly entertaining (as a matter of fact it is quite boring), but it helps you to deal with some of those awful verbs that sometimes make you wish for the nonexistence of the french language. On the whole, a good survival tool :)

Rating: 5
Summary: Passé composé? Conditionnel? Subjonctif?
Comment: "501 French Verbs," fourth edition, is an essential companion to the Larousse french-english/english-french pocket dictionary. The format is arranged alphabetically and is very easy to use. I recommend this reference book for everyone, from the beginning student to the native speaker of French. Since the French language has many irregular verbs, as well as verbs which are conjugated with être and avoir, it is very easy to forget some of the conjugations. I use this verb book when I am writing in a formal style, and when I need to do precise translations. Useful Appendixes follow the 501 verb conjugations: an index; some idiomatic expressions; a pronunciation guide; a section on the use of the subjunctive, and much more, including verb drills.

Rating: 3
Summary: Useful yes, but necessary?
Comment: I have used this book since high school, as well as the Spanish version by the same author. It is very handy. However, I think that a learner of a romance language would be much better off mastering the rules of verb conjugation instead of looking up the answers in this book.

Because there are 501 entries, the majority of the verbs in this book are regular. As a result, this book has a lot of redundant, unnecessary information. The equivalent content of this entire book (the verb section) can be summarized in two pages, and is included in the very beginning of every Harper Collins dictionary.

I also do not see the significance of there being 501 verbs, it seems to be a gimmick. The author just ends up putting in more redundant entries until that number is reached.

That all being said, it is very handy at times, however it is most definitely not concise nor indispensible. I think the author has realized this, and has beefed up the recent editions with additional grammar references.

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