
French Short Stories for Beginners: 20 Captivating Short Stories to Learn French & Grow Your Vocabulary the Fun Way! (Easy French Stories)
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Narrated by:
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Noelia Gouty
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Lingo Mastery
About this listen
Do you know what the hardest thing for a French learner is?
Finding PROPER reading material that they can handle...which is precisely the reason we’ve written this book!
Teachers love giving out tough, expert-level literature to their students, books that present many new problems to the reader and force them to search for words in a dictionary every five minutes - it's not entertaining, useful, or motivating for the student at all, and many soon give up on learning at all!
In this book we have compiled 20 easy-to-read, compelling, and fun stories that will allow you to expand your vocabulary and give you the tools to improve your grasp of the wonderful French tongue.
How French Short Stories for Beginners works:
- Each story will involve an important lesson of the tools in the French language (verbs, adjectives, past tense, giving directions, and more), involving an interesting and entertaining story with realistic dialogues and day-to-day situations.
- The summaries follow a synopsis in French and in English of what you just read, both to review the lesson and for you to see if you understood what the tale was about.
- At the end of those summaries, you'll be provided with a list of the most relevant vocabulary involved in the lesson as well as slang and sayings that you may not have understood at first glance!
- Finally, you'll be provided with a set of tricky questions in French, providing you with the chance to prove that you learned something in the story. Don't worry if you don't know the answer to any - we will provide them immediately after, but no cheating!
So look no further! Pick up your copy of French Short Stories for Beginners and start learning French right now!
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
Fantastic for starters
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More of these please
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Really useful resource for anyone learning French
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I am however, improving slowly after listening and going through the synopsis, the stories are short and enjoyable and I will continue to use and learn from this book ... one day I will master the questions!
Many thanks to TBC Audible Listeners for the opportunity to listen to this educational book
A really handy learning tool
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This was a good book for beginners, and I quite enjoyed it. I really like the vocabulary sections, especially with a gendered language like French. The stories were nice and varied.
Good
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Brilliant audiobook learned a lot of new stuff.
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I wouldn't say they are for beginners though. The language is getting on for intermediate. Right from the start you have not just the present tense but also the perfect, imperfect and future. No really complicated sentence structures but it's read fast enough to make it hard for a beginner. The reading is clear but could do with pauses between sentences to help.
I would question the worth of adding the vocab lists. It is bizarre that the lists contain the very simplest words (even le, la, aller etc) when if you don't already know those words then you truly don't have a hope in hell of following the story. Yet there are more unusual words which are missed from the list.
For instance, from this sentence: 'il cherche un foyer d’accueil, la pension affiche complet', the word they choose to put in the list is 'complet', which is just about the only word a beginner would NOT need to look up in a dictionary!
Furthermore, the nouns in the lists are not given with any clue to their gender, which is a very frustrating omission. Rather than record the word list, it would have been more helpful to record the story again, more slowly, so the beginner can hear the story that way if they are struggling.
Useful but only if you're an advanced beginner
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This book contains 20 short stories (Chapters 1 - 20). The stories are in French followed by a short summary in both French and English. Following this are 1-2 pages of vocabulary related to the story and then a short multiple-choice Q&A (4-5 questions in French) to ensure you have understood what you have read.
Each story covers a different aspect of the French language. e.g. Chapter 1 - On the Road to Summer Vacation (Basic vocabulary), Chapter 2 - The Wedding Plans (Time & Units), Chapter 3 - The Speed Dating Evening (Basic Introductions and Simple Conversations), Chapter 4 - The Scapegoat (Pronouns), Chapter 5 The Inheritance (Numbers), Chapter 6 - The Domestic Dispute (Adjectives), Chapter 7 - First Trip to London (Verbs – Infinitive) etc.
In all the stories, certain words are highlighted in bold, and these words can be found in the vocabulary section along with their English translation.
You will need some basic comprehension of French to understand these stories but you shouldn’t be put off purchasing it. I’m a complete beginner and although I am struggling with some parts of these stories, the more I read them and learn French from other sources the more it starts to come together.
Purchasing via Audible makes a huge difference as you get to hear what you are reading. You get to hear the correct pronunciation of the words and with Audible, you can slow down the speed of the audio so you can hear the pronunciation very clearly. You also get the read along at the same time to practice your spoken French (I think this is the best way to learn).
My only disappointment with this book is that the contents pages only list Chapter numbers without the title of the story. I don’t know if this is a restriction caused by Audible as all my books purchased have the same issue. It would be nice to have the titles next to the Chapter numbers.
I’d highly recommend this book and the other Lingomastery books on French, especially Conversational French as you get a full English translation of the French text rather than a summary.
Excellent way to develop your French
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I'd certainly recommend giving this a go if you're wanting to improve listening comprehension, but you'll probably get the most out of it if you're around the top of "beginner" level - i.e. CEFR/DELF A2 level.
Handy for improving listening skills
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good stories but disappointing as a learning tool
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