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Deji
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26 August 2010 at 2:26am | IP Logged 
What are some easy stories in French? Entertaining, lively--in between Les Trois Ours and de Maupassant.

What would be some easy stories in English?

For adults.

I (and others) need some interesting stories to learn vocabulary. I just can't hack it with the pure vocabulary-list
approach.


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michaelmichael
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26 August 2010 at 6:28am | IP Logged 
Deji wrote:
What are some easy stories in French? Entertaining, lively--in between Les Trois Ours and de Maupassant.

What would be some easy stories in English?

For adults.

I (and others) need some interesting stories to learn vocabulary. I just can't hack it with the pure vocabulary-list
approach.



http://french.about.com/od/reading/tp/begreaders.htm

I only bought #2 from the list (easy french reader). Easy French Reader, by R. de Roussy de Sales, seems to be well known and popular. Since I am using assimil, which I feel is graded reading, I haven't been reading other french books. I have been reading celebrity gossip in french (yahoo quebec). Did you know Paris Hilton is having a fight with kim kardashian ? I usually take 5 words from those articles and add them to anki.

From another thread, I think the same question actually, someone recommended this
http://www.archive.org/stream/frenchreaderonc00dreygoog#page /n15/mode/1up
It is progressive graded reading meant specifically for vocabulary, or so the intro says. Glancing over it though, I think I am sticking to my assimil.



Edited by michaelmichael on 26 August 2010 at 6:29am

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