Comme on dit with website a comprehensive firstyear French textbook program engages students in the learning process from day one using an inductive methodology centered on guided observation and rule discovery. Together with students communicative needs and an analysis of their most pervasive transfer errors from English the everyday speech patterns of 100 native speakersculled from 150 hours of unscripted recordingsform the linguistic backbone of the method. The accompanying companion websiteincluded with the bookoffers audio and fully integrated exercises to use alongside the text.Students examine compare and contrast this wide variety of authentic discourse to discover both individual and shared language use and cultural perspectives.