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| bondok525 Newbie Egypt Joined 5762 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English | Message 9 of 19 13 February 2009 at 2:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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I really excited to tell you easy way to find books of learning french only enter WWW.scribd.COM you really will find more than you expected.
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| .automne Diglot Groupie Norway Joined 5826 days ago 56 posts - 57 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: French | Message 10 of 19 19 February 2009 at 11:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks all. I just ordered some books from amazon.fr based on your suggestions.
I've found reading to be the best way for me to learn both vocabulary and grammar. After reading the same conjugation again and again it tends to stick better than when trying to memorize some out of context verb table or word list. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 19 09 November 2009 at 9:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've read the first chapter of several books in French, including book 4 of Harry Potter. However, this weekend I picked up Le Grande Aventure de la langue française, a translation of The Story of French. The English version was written by two journalists from Montreal.
Anyway, I read 100 pages in the last two days, which is a first for me—it's the first time that I feel like I'm really reading French. The book is a really interesting history of French, and the vocabulary is slightly easier than Harry Potter, because the topic is slightly more abstract. I'm currently missing 0–6 words per page, and picking up quite a few more from context, cognates and root forms. (The words that I miss outright get underlined and looked up in the dictionary later. If they seem useful, they go into my SRS system.) And if you want a parallel text, you can always buy la version anglaise originale. So if you're really interested in the history of French, it's worth looking for. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5791 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi | Message 12 of 19 10 November 2009 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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My first French book was "Bonjour Tristesse" by Françoise Sagan...I've also found Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt easy to read
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| Elwing Tetraglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5506 days ago 43 posts - 51 votes Speaks: Swedish, Finnish*, English, French Studies: Norwegian | Message 13 of 19 21 November 2009 at 12:23am | IP Logged | ||
I would recommend 'Le Petit Nicolas' as well. We read/studied it in class and had lots of fun doing it. It's a good read if you're looking for something easy. Our teacher told us that the reason she had chosen it was that it would encourage us by making us realise that we can read in French and that books in French don't necessarily have to be difficult. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6676 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 14 of 19 03 March 2012 at 12:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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I decided to revive this thread since I need some more suggestions. I want to buy one or two French books for my father who is picking up his long neglected French. He's 63, and even though I do imagine he would enjoy Harry Potter, I don't want to get him that, and I'm pretty sure he's read The Stranger (although I may get him that one anyway). He is a great fan of classic Disney and adventure stories (Narnia never gets old), as well as works on history, but his learning pace is very slow (he's also studying Tigrinya and Polish and spends hours every day playing the guitar and the piano....) so I'm looking for rather short books that he can actually have a chance of finishing. He's been "picking it up" for a year now, and he's not too bad.
I know I should be able to find easy French reads myself, but all the easy books I can remember reading are quite... feminine. Not sure that would be all too popular with an old hunter (another one of his passions). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Majka Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic kofoholici.wordpress Joined 4655 days ago 307 posts - 755 votes Speaks: Czech*, German, English Studies: French Studies: Russian | Message 15 of 19 03 March 2012 at 2:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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I found Jules Verne quite readable - the language has some tricky points (simple passé, some specialized vocabulary) but all in all it is pretty straightforward and engaging reading.
The difficult parts (some naval terms etc.) often aren't necessary for the understanding. And I wouldn't be so sure he won't enjoy Harry Potter. I picked the book as adult for myself, looking for easy reading in English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6676 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 16 of 19 03 March 2012 at 2:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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You are absolutely right about Verne, I forgot about him! And as I said, he probably would like Harry Potter, but it's so cliché and... I don't like Harry Potter, so I'd rather give him something else ;)
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