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Short Stories in French for Beginners

Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn French the fun way!
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Short Stories in French for Beginners by Olly Richards and Richard Simcott offers a collection of engaging tales designed to help French learners improve their language skills. Each story is crafted to be both entertaining and educational, with a mix of vocabulary and grammar challenges appropriate for beginners. The narratives are short and varied, making the learning process enjoyable and accessible.
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This book may appeal to you if you're eager to improve your French language skills through engaging and bite-sized narratives. Each story is crafted to enhance your vocabulary and comprehension while immersing you in French culture, making it both educational and entertaining.

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Short Stories in French for Beginners

Short Stories in French for Beginners is an unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for adult and young adult learners.

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"I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers

Short Stories in French for Beginners has been written especially for beginner to intermediate level language learners, designed to give a sense of achievement, and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight stories will both entertain you and give you a feeling of progress when reading.

What does this book give you?

Eight stories in a variety of exciting genres, from science fiction and crime to history and thriller - making reading fun, while you learn a wide range of new vocabulary.

Controlled language at your level, including the 1000 most frequent words, to help you progress confidently.

Authentic spoken dialogues, to help you learn conversational expressions and improve your speaking ability.

Pleasure! It's much easier to learn a new language when you're having fun, and research shows that if you're enjoying reading in a foreign language, you won't experience the usual feelings of frustration - 'It's too hard!' 'I don't understand!'

Accessible grammar so you learn new structures naturally, in a stress-free way.

Carefully curated to make learning a new language easy, these stories include key features that will support and consolidate your progress, including:

A glossary for bolded words in each text

Full plot summary

A bilingual word list

Comprehension questions after each chapter.

As a result, you will be able to focus on enjoying reading, delighting in your improved range of vocabulary and grasp of the language, without ever feeling overwhelmed or frustrated. From science fiction to fantasy, to crime and thrillers, Short Stories in French for Beginners will make learning French easy and enjoyable.

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Short Stories in French for Beginners by Olly Richards and Richard Simcott is praised for making language learning engaging and practical. Experts in language acquisition commend Olly's approach, highlighting its basis in scientific principles and its potential to create real results. The book is recommended by language professionals for effectively bridging theory and practice, making it a valuable resource for those looking to improve their language skills.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781473683433

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 October 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: John Murray Learning

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 220g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Olly Richards speaks eight languages and is the man behind the popular blog: I Will Teach You A Language. He started learning his first foreign language at age 19, when he bought a one-way ticket to Paris...

With no exposure to languages growing up, and no special talent to speak of, he had to figure out how to learn a foreign language from scratch. Fifteen years later, Olly has studied ten languages and has decided to reveal how he accomplished his goal of learning foreign languages quickly.

Although he started the I Will Teach You A Language blog in order to document his latest language learning experiments, his useful and actionable writing quickly transformed the blog into one of the most popular sources of language learning advice on the web. He now produces language books and courses across a variety of mediums with the goal of helping other people to successfully learn a new language.

Richard Simcott is a polyglot and lifelong language learner; he speaks sixteen languages and has been described as 'one of the most multilingual people in the UK'.

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