Before you there is a manual for self-tuition of French, that will help to capture the base lexico-grammatical structures of French those, who proceeds to the study of language from a zero level. A book will be useful and those, who is necessary to fill in the blanks of the initial stage of educating. She can be also used on the short-term courses of French. By the aim of manual is forming for the readers of elementary communicative abilities. It, on to the European system of levels of foreign language proficiency, corresponds to the level of А2, that supposes that studying understands signboards, announcements, and also inscriptions on foods and simple texts, able to share information in the most typical situations of commonunication, can answer simple questions and report data of the personal character. Train aid consists of introductory-phonetic course and basic. By tasks introductory-phonetic course there are forming of elementary слухо-произносительных skills and educating to reading. The tasks of gradual introduction of lexico-grammatical difficulties and forming of lexical skills decide together with it. The aim of basic course is the further forming of speech abilities in the most widespread situations of commonunication and expansion of vocabulary of students. A division is the "Additional tasks" contains tasks for a reiteration and control of the studied material. All tasks of book are provided with the audio recording and keys (by answers), that facilitates independent work considerably. To "Appendixes" a reference source is driven: short maintenance introductory-phonetic and basic courses, French alphabet, rules of reading, conjugation of the most widespread verbs and impersonal turns in a present future and passing times, basic place-names.