Liberté, by Gretchen Angelo, is a first-year college French textbook with a true communicative approach. It has been adopted by instructors at over twenty-five colleges and high schools (partial list below). The long-awaited major revision is in progress, and should be completed by December. If you are a current user, please contact me if you wish to provide any input, in particular additional points you would like to see covered or links to videos that will be incorporated in the side notes. The textbook may be downloaded for free in accordance with the license, or printed copies can be ordered. Please contact me for information on printed copies or requests for audio. Note that audio is available only to institutions adopting the text; I am sorry, but I do not currently supply them to homeschoolers or individual learners, as I simply get too many requests and cannot answer them all.
The text can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat format, and is freely available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.
To get the student copy of the book, click (or right-click, depending on your computer) on one of the links below to download it and save it to disk. These are large Adobe Acrobat files (11 Mb for the complete book), and may take about 40-60 minutes to download if you have a dial-up connection. If you are a Cal State LA student, you can download just the (smaller) portion you need, but do not print it until the new version is uploaded for Fall 2011. You will need the free Adobe Reader software, which comes preinstalled on most computers.
Fall 2011 editions for CSULA:
- Student Edition, French 100A, Fall 2011
- Student Edition, French 100B, Fall 2011
- Student Edition, French 100C, Fall 2011 (This file is unchanged from previous quarters; it will be revised for January 2012.)
- Instructor's version, French 100A, Fall 2011
- Instructor's version, French 100B, Fall 2011
Previous editions (September 2009 edition, latest complete revision):
- entire book - Sep 1, 2009
- French 100A - chapters 1 - 4
- French 100B - chapters 5 - 8
- French 100C - chapters 9-12
Instructor's edition:
The audio recordings for each chapter are in MP3 format. As noted above, these recordings are presently available only to teachers and students using the text for their classes in a high school or college, not to individual learners or homeschoolers. To obtain the audio recordings, please email me from your school email address.
About the Author
I teach French language and literature at California State University, Los Angeles. If you think you might be interested in using Liberté in your classroom, I would love to hear from you. My e-mail address is gangelo2 at calstatela dot edu.
List of Adopters
Instructors at the following institutions have used Liberté in their classes:- Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK
- Arizona Language Institute, Phoenix, AZ
- Besant Hill School, Ojai, CA
- Burr and Burton Academy, Manchester, VT
- California State University, Los Angeles, CA
- Calvary Christian Academy, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
- Delta Charter High School, Tracy, CA
- Dillard University, New Orleans, LA
- Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI
- Grace Christian School, Alexandria, LA
- Iroquois Ridge High School, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
- Kennebec Valley Community College, Fairfield, ME
- Lausanne Collegiate School, Memphis, TN
- Lethbridge Collegiate Institute, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
- Los Angeles Mission College, Los Angeles, CA
- Lower Canada College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- McCallie School, Chattanooga, TN
- Marlborough School, Los Angeles, CA
- Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA
- Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
- New England College, Henniker, NH
- Northeastern State University of Oklahoma, Talhequah, OK
- Platte Canyon High School, Bailey, CO
- Santiago Canyon College, Orange, CA
- Universidad del Valle de Puebla, Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico
- Universidad Humanistica de Mexico, Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico
- University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland