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How to continue learning French using L-R | ||
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| bonaojnfr525 Diglot Newbie United States jyf.tumblr.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5646 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French | Message 1 of 11 13 April 2009 at 7:10pm | IP Logged |
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I have read a few posts on the forum, about the L-R method, and I am interested in trying it. My native language is Spanish, but I now live in U.S and excellent English, I go to College here. I took french two years in High school but do not need to take a language in college. I want to become fluent in french. I listen to french artists, and I know a few things since there is a degree of similarity between french and Spanish.
To do the L-R method, i believe one needs to read a book one loves in one's native language, correct? I was thinking One hundred years of Solitude, by Marquez, or The Bad Girl by Vargas Llosa, or Eleven Minutes by Coelho. These are all translated into french, but I am having trouble finding an audiobook in french. So i was wondering if anyone knew any books that do have a french audiobook version. The translation can be Spanish to french, or English to french. Sorry if I am causing confusion. In a nutshell, I want to implement the L-R Method to learn french but am having trouble choosing a book. Thanks, Jen 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5707 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes  Speaks: English*, French | Message 2 of 11 13 April 2009 at 7:35pm | IP Logged |
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There are lots of French audio books, but you might need to get them from Amazon.fr if you don't live near a good foreign language bookshop.
L'étranger by Albert Camus is often recommended on this forum as a good starting point as it's fairly simple in terms of the writing style. I own copies of the French Audio, the French book and an English translation, so it's definitely available. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| bonaojnfr525 Diglot Newbie United States jyf.tumblr.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5646 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French | Message 3 of 11 13 April 2009 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
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yes, I was thinking starting with that one and then moving on with One hundred years of Solitude, if I can find an Audio-book for that?
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6381 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 5 of 11 13 April 2009 at 11:59pm | IP Logged |
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It's almost certainly too short. You'll want at least 20 hours of audio; 40 to be safe.
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| bonaojnfr525 Diglot Newbie United States jyf.tumblr.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5646 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French | Message 6 of 11 14 April 2009 at 12:14am | IP Logged |
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yeah I am just having trouble finding the the audiobooks for at least any Latin American literature. So i guess i will have to depend on the Classics
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| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5707 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 7 of 11 14 April 2009 at 1:28am | IP Logged |
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I think (I'm not an expert) that it's better to use books that were originally written in French, and translated into Spanish/English, rather than the other way round. Partly because it's easier to find the corresponding audio.
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| bonaojnfr525 Diglot Newbie United States jyf.tumblr.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5646 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French | Message 8 of 11 11 May 2009 at 4:48pm | IP Logged |
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yeah that is true
what are other good french books 1 person has voted this message useful |
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