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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5317 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 33 of 60 11 May 2012 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | ||
You might like Pottermore, which is the official source for Harry Potter ebooks in many, many languages. You can read these ebooks on the Kindle, or any other ebook reader of your choice. They also have audiobooks for several languages, but sadly not French. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4674 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 34 of 60 11 May 2012 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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emk - I downloaded a sample, but it appears to be the 'abridged' versions that I see on
on other sites. --- and for anyone else who tries, the site is a bit disingenuous to claim that their books can be read on the kindle. It's technically true, but only after you use additional software to convert the file from 'epub' to 'mobi' format. It's not hard, but it's a bit of a pain. At $10 per book I might hold out and see what Amazon produces. Edited by kanewai on 12 May 2012 at 12:03am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4694 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 35 of 60 12 May 2012 at 2:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've opted for a half challenge in French, and said that I'm A1, but really I'm not quite there. I've discovered a series of story books with audio from Hachette, designed for young readers. I've read one, Remi et le mystere de Saint-Peray. It is clearly aimed at native speakers, because there are footnotes for what they consider some of the harder words. But the footnotes include words like "Les bagages : les sacs, les valises." and "Une torche : une lampe pour s'eclairer la nuit." It was pretty easy for me to follow the story in general, but there is a lot of vocabulary I just didn't know.
I bought two books, both labelled as A1. However, the one which just has an audio CD, is a shorter book, about 30 pages of text and about 30 minutes of audio. I'll be reading it 4x to count as a book. The one with mp3 CD has 1hr53min of audio, and much denser text over 50 pages. I will be reading this one twice to count as a book. Although all the books are listed together in the catalog, you can tell the spot the longer ones as they all have mp3 CD's. On Amazon, the longer and shorter books all cost the same price (currently £6.95). I don't think the A1, A2, etc, correspond to any official levels. What it says on the back cover is that: A1= Mois de 500 mots, A2= de 500 a 1000 mots, B1= de 1000 a 1500 mots, B2= 1500 et plu mots. I would guess that my French vocabulary is around 500 words, but I still didn't know a lot of words in the A1 book I read... it all depends which 500 words they're using! I hope that's helpful for anyone else doing the challenge who's bumping along the bottom of A1! EDIT: the longer book I bought is called Enquete capitale, and is a mystery set in Paris. It looks like it gives a lot of interesting information about the city, so it will be good to read before visiting. I forgot to mention that both books have substantial exercises at the back (which I didn't include in the page counts). Edited by Jeffers on 12 May 2012 at 2:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tamise Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom jllrr.wordpress.com/ Joined 5028 days ago 115 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English*, German, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese, Spanish | Message 36 of 60 12 May 2012 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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For French, another great series is the Lectures CLE en français facile - there are four levels and wide variety of topics. Some come with CDs, but these cost more. Amazon UK seems to have the levels muddled in some of their titles, but from what I remember (the ones I have are at home, and I'm at work) the yellow covers are the easiest, followed by blue, green and then pink. Each book has a word count on the cover in the bottom left, so that's a good hint to the level.
A lot of these are adaptations of novels, so most of the reviews are for the full versions, and not these adapted ones. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6382 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 37 of 60 21 May 2012 at 1:38am | IP Logged | ||
More ideas for selective rereading: -all encounters with dementors and how they become something routine -for LOTR, reading it over the course of a year on the days when the described events happen. some days will be very busy though. I have the feeling some techniques used by literature students might also be useful, but I have no clue what to google... I've always hated formal literature classes but now with HP I love finding all those parallels and foreshadowing etc etc etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| a3 Triglot Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5041 days ago 273 posts - 370 votes Speaks: Bulgarian*, English, Russian Studies: Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish | Message 38 of 60 21 May 2012 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I feel like I can watch all the movies only by rewatching Brødrene Dal.
I highly recommend it to everyone, you neednt to know the language in order to understand the movie. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6382 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 39 of 60 07 August 2012 at 12:13pm | IP Logged | ||
For example, on Harry & JKR birthday I reread all the birthdays, which counted as 150 pages for the Super Challenge :) It's also good for just reading the summaries of chapters before reading them in your L2. thought i'd make a list for myself and anyone who's considering selective rereading:) -King's Cross/Hogwarts Express - 200p -exams - 100 pages -birthdays - 150 pages (future rereading) -quidditch - quite likely 400p or more -encounters with dementors; dragons - probably 150 pages each -Halloween - probably 150-200 pages, as a lot happens on the first four Halloweens but later nothing -all lessons of DADA/Potions/Divination(definitely too little info for other subjects), the first two should be 200p -polyjuice potion: the decision, the brewing, the use in the 2nd book and later ones. at least 250 pages, a lot more if every single scene with the fake Moody in book 4 is included :D -the "labyrinths" etc that HP goes through in order to face voldemort or his horcruxes (most clear in books 1, 2, 4 but also the many doors at the ministry and even the swimming with Dumbledore) -the conversations with Dumbledore at the end of each book - at least 150 pages I think -all scenes in the hospital wing? really hard to estimate but it should be more than one book for sure. -to be continued... that's over 20 books, without rereading any of the proper 7 books entirely. I'd like to point out that I'm NOT a crazy HP fan and that's the thing here:) I'd hate the books if I just reread all seven a few times, but this way that's about the amount of random rereading I do every now and then anyway, embarrassingly often in Russian. Edited by Serpent on 08 August 2012 at 2:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5004 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 40 of 60 07 August 2012 at 3:09pm | IP Logged | ||
Are you sure you're not. Awfully well informed for a passerby! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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