andersqf Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 5410 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English, French
| Message 1 of 7 31 January 2010 at 11:43pm | IP Logged |
I want a book recommendation to better my French. There are two things I ask from it: 1) It should be a printed book, a book I can read when sitting on a bus. 2) It should have a CD, a record I can listen to when I am at home.
When I read a daily French paper, I think I get most of it, reading literature is much more difficult. I have next to no practise in reading or writing.
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andersqf Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 5410 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English, French
| Message 2 of 7 31 January 2010 at 11:44pm | IP Logged |
Sorry, it should be "speaking or listening"
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 3 of 7 01 February 2010 at 1:04am | IP Logged |
Any audiobook would do. Gutenberg has seven (human-read) which are free to download. You should be able to track down a copy of for instance "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" ("Around the world in 80 days") at any online bookstore or even your local library (if you don't want to print the pages yourself).
Have a look here for more suggestions:
List of free legal audiobook sites
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translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6918 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 4 of 7 01 February 2010 at 1:04am | IP Logged |
Tune Up Your French
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OlafP Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5434 days ago 261 posts - 667 votes Speaks: German*, French, English
| Message 5 of 7 01 February 2010 at 2:35am | IP Logged |
http://www.litteratureaudio.com/
may hit the mark of 1000 audio books in a couple of days. Not all recordings have professional studio quality, but I still have to find one that I would call bad, and I've listened to quite a few already. I especially like the recordings of Rousseau by Clotilde B. -- very sexy voice! The printed books can be bought easily.
Edited by OlafP on 03 February 2010 at 12:41am
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andersqf Diglot Newbie Sweden Joined 5410 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English, French
| Message 6 of 7 01 February 2010 at 4:14am | IP Logged |
Tune Up Your French looks like what I want.
I have ordered it.
Thanks
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translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6918 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 7 of 7 02 February 2010 at 3:32pm | IP Logged |
Take a look at this site too. You learn French through a mystery novel:
French Polar Fle
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