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| B612 Newbie Canada Joined 5058 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes | Message 1 of 7 10 January 2011 at 6:48am | IP Logged |
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I'm looking for suggestions for French novels that are readable with intermediate French. I got through
L'Étranger by Camus pretty easily, but his La Chute was way too complicated. I think the trick is finding books with mostly dialogue. Also, no passé simple tense. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Gatsby Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6153 days ago 57 posts - 129 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Dutch | Message 3 of 7 16 January 2011 at 9:44pm | IP Logged |
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I agree with Legoland. You're going to have to deal with the passé simple or you really won't have anything to read. I promise - it's not difficult once you accustom yourself to it.
Also agree about Simenon's Maigret series. He uses very correct French but at what I would call an intermediate level. There is also a lot of dialogue. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| aloysius Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6231 days ago 226 posts - 291 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: French, Greek, Italian, Russian | Message 4 of 7 25 January 2011 at 6:35pm | IP Logged |
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Have a look here (remove space):
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=15840&PN=34&TPN=1 //aloysius 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| bajacero Diglot Newbie Austria Joined 5580 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 5 of 7 25 January 2011 at 9:16pm | IP Logged |
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Two French novels I really liked:
"Oscar et la dame rose" by Eric Emmanuel Schmidt and "35 kilos d'espoir" by Anna Gavalda. Both nice and easy to read. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JasonUK Triglot Newbie United Kingdom learnalanguagein1yea Joined 5247 days ago 29 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, French Studies: Thai, Spanish | Message 6 of 7 07 February 2011 at 5:59pm | IP Logged |
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Regards to the passé simple. You don't really need to learn them, but just learn how to recognise them. then it's
easy to match them up with what they mean. that's what i did. So just spend 45 minutes on them and that's it. lower to intermediate book is 'le petit prince' 1 person has voted this message useful |
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