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translator2
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19 July 2010 at 6:24pm | IP Logged 
Does anyone know of any books (print or on-line) like these for foreign languages? There are quite a few of them here in the USA. They are designed to teach advanced vocabulary words (for the purpose of a university entrance exam) by using/teaching the words in the form of a story. I was wondering if there was a similar product for modern French, German, Spanish, etc. vocabulary?

Examples:
Vocabulary Book 1

Vocabulary Book 2
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29 July 2010 at 12:54pm | IP Logged 
There's a book in Esperanto called Gerda Malaperis by Claude Piron which builds up from
simple Esperanto gradually towards more complicated stuff towards the end. It's not
written specifically to teach but it's a useful aid. It's available for free with audio
as a course on Lernu.net
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BartoG
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Kaplan has an edition of Lazarillo de Tormes with the Spanish text on one side and explanations of difficult or archaic vocabulary on the other. It's the only one I've seen; not sure if they've published others.
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20 August 2010 at 4:20pm | IP Logged 
There are french and German cumulative readers online:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=reader%20on%20the%20 cumulative%20method

Is that the same thing?
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20 August 2010 at 5:07pm | IP Logged 
BartoG wrote:
Kaplan has an edition of Lazarillo de Tormes with the Spanish text on one side and explanations of difficult or archaic vocabulary on the other. It's the only one I've seen; not sure if they've published others.


The Lazarillo de Tormes book has been mentioned a couple of times, but the book Candide for French does not seem to be noticed at all. (Also from Kaplan)

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20 August 2010 at 5:31pm | IP Logged 
If you search for graded readers in your target language you should find some books on
Amazon. I tried French and Japanese and multiple books come up.
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21 August 2010 at 12:17am | IP Logged 
Thanks for the links.

However, graded readers tend to be written for non-native speakers learning the language. I was looking for something more along the lines of what a native speaker would purchase in a bookshop in order to improve their own vocabulary.
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21 August 2010 at 12:51am | IP Logged 
I would read college level books in the native language then. Here is a list of 101 books
to choose from. Then try and find it in your target language

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/boost-your-skills/2 3628.html


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