Easy French Step-by-Step is a paperback book that focuses on beginner-level International French. It is similar to a traditional textbook but is intended to for independent learners rather than a classroom setting; this means that while there are exercises with short-answer questions or fill-in-the-blank verb conjugations, there are also direct explanations that assume no teacher is guiding you, as well as an answer key in the back of the book. [Note: some internet reviewers have complained that there are occasionally errors in the answer key.]

We're offering this book as an example, but whatever instructional book you prefer could be substituted. We chose this one simply because it's not difficult to get a hold of. There are numerous copies in circulation so you can easily buy one online for around 12 dollars. Alternatively, there is a scanned version currently available for free online, if it is not important to you to have a physical copy.