Improve your everyday FRENCH VOCABULARY and GRAMMAR by reading these French books! đđ«đ·
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 6. 06. 2024
- French reading skills can be tricky to master and scary if you've only just started. In this video, I explain to you how reading French books can really improve your French vocabulary and French grammar and how easy and fun reading in French can be. đ
Here's some further French book recommendations (liste de livres):
Voyage en France, a short novel in easy French - Sylvie LâainĂ©
French short stories for beginners - Lingo Mastery
Stupeur et tremblements - Amélie Notomb
LâĂ©tranger - Albert Camus
Chanson Douce - LeĂŻla Slimani
Pars vite et reviens tard - Fred Vargas
Le Horla - Maupassant
Les aventures dâArsĂšne Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
Le petit Nicolas - René Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempé
Bonjour tristesse - Françoise Sagan
Les yeux rouges des crocodiles - Katherine Pancol
La valse lente des tortues - Katherine Pancol
Ensemble câest tout - Anna Galvada
No et moi - Delphine de Vigan
Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran - Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Asterix et Obelix - Albert Uderzo, René Goscinny, Jean-Yves Ferri
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1. La Poésie - Poetry; Eg: Jacques Prévert (Paroles 1946) - simple yet powerful. Good for beginners.
2. Laetitia Colombani (La Tresse 2017) - a bit more modern. Vocabulary is a bit more challenging
3. Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Children's books but there are some outdated words. Quite a philosphical book so might be hard to follow.
4. Voltaire (Candid 1759) - Classic; satire; advanced level; syntax is harder; lots of old French used throughout.
++ Popular books like Harry Potter.
"Perseverance and regularity are key to improve."
J'adore Le Petit Prince. Je l'ai lu beaucoup de fois. Ce livre m'a vraiment aidé à apprendre le français.
I think Iâll start off with the poetry book and build my way up. Thanks so very much Alexa. Bisou bisou
Excellent Alexa!
I'm surprised how much I understood .
It's always a pleasure having you as my teacher.
Thank you Alexa for all your efforts to come up with all these books and recommendations. Merci beaucoup!!
Thank you for the recommendations. Love the suggestions and I look forward reading at least one before end of year.
I've been wanting to start reading in French. Just what I needed, thank you!
Coincidentally I just started reading Le Petit Prince this week! Thanks Alexa. I will check out your recos.
Thankyou Alexa... your videos are very helpful.. looking forward for more..merci beaucoup
Thanks for your recommendations!
This is great! I love the idea with kindle, didnt think of it before. Thank you Alexa!
There's a French magazine based out of Paris I read that goes by 'Graffiti Art Magazine', which explores Urban Contemporary Art and showcases Artists under that category from streetartists to muralists. The magazine is in Both French and English.đđœ
Is that an online thing?
Such a great video! I laughed with you at "disillusionment" đ
Great idea to recommend these books! Building your vocab can be fun :) Bonne lecture
Excellent teacher.
What a great idea! Thank you!âĄ
Candide was part of my books this year I really enjoyed it
Thank you Alexa, I am a member of a French book club and have read "La Tresse" which I can recommend, as I found it so interesting.
3 Women, 3 different countries, 3 different cultures. Excellent. Isobel
J'ai acheté le livre Paroles. I LOVE IT! MERCI ALEXA!
Thx for the lovely video! âš
Love your channel. I am in the process of learning French. Have read many books written by Maurice Leblanc (translated version) when I was young, Les Aventures dâArsĂšne Lupin was one of them. French version of Sherlock Holmes, except he is a gentleman burglar.
Merçi mille fois Madame Alexa. Cette video câetait tres utile.
Hello Alexa! When you introduced PAROLES ,1946 by Jaques PrĂ©vert, I was struck cuz today I was learned â Pour faire le protrait dâun oiseauâ of it in my French literature class.
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Bonjour et bienvenue! I love your French lessons.
J'adore !
Thanks ma. I can't wait to see you.
I'm learning again now
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Yeah yeah she will teach you 'France' not frencj
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I began with the Little Prince and a dictionary. It's got all the useful words you need to learn and its philosophy. That's interesting in any language. At the end you have your most useful vocabulary learned. It can be used to learn any of the 457 languages.
Ahh, this is such a good idea and amazing for immersion.
I've been playing a video game (pokemon Violet) in French, which is interesting because you have to glean enough context to make the right decisions when playing. I've played it before in English so I know what do do for the most part, but my mind is still forced to recall what I've learned of French to progress optimally.
Bonjour Alexa! Merci Beaucoup !
I'm currently reading L'Ă©tranger as Camus is my favorite author
That's a great one! Very very good book, enjoy!
Merci beaucoup
Merci Beaucoup Alexa pour votre video
Kirikou et la sorciere is also an awesome book for beginners. Funny and very simple text.
Merci beaucoup
Tysm Alexa!
Great examples of all levels! I'm only familiar with Le Petit Prince et Candide but the others look good too!
They are! You should definitely try out some French poetry next, extremely beautiful and very fulfilling to understand đ
I'm really enjoying La Tresse, and considering using it as a teacher. I'm curious what level students or teachers are reading it at. What they read before coming to it? On the one hand the verb tenses are "easy": Little to no passé simple or fancy subjunctives, most verbs in the present. The sentence structure is also rather simple and predictable - not many subordinate clauses, mostly subject-verb-object. And the chapter length is very manageable. That being said, the vocabulary is often quite rich, and the author makes wide use of locutions and idiomatic expressions. I'd be curious to know further about students' and teachers' experiences!
Nous t'aimons beaucoup Alexa!
Bonjour! Merci! TrĂšs intĂ©ressant et et utile. Dans l'extrait du Voltaire comment "ç" devient "marchant longtemps" ( je crois que c'est ça ce que vous avez lu đ)quand vous lisez en voix haute ? Merci
And very nice your voice đ
merci
Huis Clos by Sartre and D'Artagnan by Dumas werenât so terribly hard, if I recall from 50 years ago.
Iâve tried to read children's books, but these arenât always so straight-forward and easy to understand as were the first two examples in this video. But your advice, Alexa, of one or two pages a day is realistic, encouraging and liberating.
I'd forgotten to mention the âLe Petit Nicholasâ series by Jean-Jacques SempĂ© et RenĂ© Goscinny (of AstĂ©rix fame).
wow..thanks..
Mam you are the best đ
Thanks!
Certainment.
reading Voltaire although in english has definitely changed my life
j'adore les sorties
Vous etes bien ma profesourâ
Finally! Homework! I know french is typically hand written in cursive, but can Gregg shorthand apply to french easily enough to take notes with?
Nice video
Thanks for sharing. Do you have a video to improve listening and speaking:)
Hello ma'am...have watched your earlier videos they are worth watchinâ€ïžâ€ïžâ€ïžđ”đ°
Mashaallah bot sohne tusi
Dear Alexa merci I love your teaching method and have subscribed to your channel. I always wanted to learn French and now hopefully I will be able to speak French like la Parisian (is this the right way to say ) merci boku (?). Please excuse my French spelling and/or grammar
Alexa Ă© maravilhosa. Parece que adivinhou sobre o que eu estava procurando.
D'accord Alexa. Bon apres midi. J'aime les livres par Simone de Beauvoir.
Hi Alexa. Thanks for the wonderful videos. I just thought that I would mention that, in English, the pronunciation of genre is the same as the French but the ending is also pronounced ie ZON-ra. (Probably because we stole it from the French language.)
Ann, en Australie.
Apologies Alexa, but Iâm having problems in finding the poetry book on Play or on iPhone? I presumed I would be able to buy it on one or the other as you said about getting an E-book reader. Would it be possible to help please me? I love the bloopers at the end of the video, brilliant đđ€Ł
favourite french books
1. pere goriot by honore de balzac
2. les miserables by victor Hugo
Bonjour Alexa j'ai acheté les livres j'espÚre améliorer mon français merci
J'ai achetĂ© des livres cette annĂ©e, comme Fahrenheit 451 (Ray. Bradbury), Vers Les Ătoiles (Mary R Kowel) et La Servante Ăcarlate (Margaret Atwood).
Bonjour Alexa..Je lis Tour du monde en quatre- vingt jour. Quelle est votre avis sur ce livre ?
Merci Alexa
You are my favourite oneâ€ïžđ”đ°
If you are a beginner then start with short stories in French by Olly Richard . This book provides a summary after every chapter and english translation of important words
Where can I buy books (printed ones) but at the same time have access to the audio of that book? Nowadays is very easy to find audiobooks, but you just can download the book on your tablet or cellphone (+ the audio). What I want, is to find a place where I cab buy the printed book, and then download the audio. Do you know where can find something like that? Thank you. Merci!
God help us !
Try Virginie Despentes for some action .
Try Baudelaire for poetry .
Try Zola for style .
what does that poem about the coffee mean?
can you recommomend more books?
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Are there any books written in slang french?
You omitted 'marche longtemp' from your graphic on Candide.
GĂ©nial, merci!! Est-ce que tu pense que le livres de Jules Verne utilizent le français moderne ou trĂšs ancienne? đ«đ·
En tant que prof de français, je peux vous dire que Jules Verne emploie un français littéraire. PlutÎt moderne, mais avec beaucoup de vocabulaire spécialisé appartenant au domaine des sciences et à son époque. Ceci dit, ce n'est pas du tout un français "ancien".
@@jkorta826 Merci! :)
@@inglesbiblico De rien :)
Hello ..I'm Judy from Philippines and I'm moving to Quebec Canada and I'm excited to learn French.
.how does French in France differ from Quebec French ?
The written french is the same, but orally the accents are very different. There's also different common expressions.
Madame,j'ai lis les troi tombs de Les Miserables.
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Hello there. Please make a playlist for new people. Put all the beginner videos in a playlist for new people
"walked a long time" is missing in the French version
chĂąteau cassandra et les contemplations (victor hugo)
I can't buy the book in my country
But if you help pdf I can learn a lot
please anyone tell me where can i get french books freely?
I just dont get the backwards sentence structure sometimes. As in, i can read enough to understand but cannot write anything because id write words the way you would with an English sentence structure every time, dont know if its right though. Like why is it Afrique du Sud and not just Sud Afrique like in English, i dunno if im wrong or right anyway. And words changing in meaning when their accompanied by something else in front or behind them. Thats frustrating after learning their stand alone meaning only to have it change to 10 different things again.
The specific words you referenced: "marcha longtemps", were missing from the passage on the screen. Very confusing.
I signed in so that I can subscribe to your channel Je t'aime
J'ai besoin de visiter la librarian.
Iâm actually comfortable reading in French. My brain just gets really confused when I hear French and I have to figure out what is being said đ«
1. (La poésie) Jacques prevert _paroles, déjeuner du matin
2. la tresse _ laetitia colombani
3. Le petit prince _ Antoine...
4.candide _ voltaire (advanced)
AND the list ßn description of vidéo.
don't forget Tin tin!
Itâs not French autour
Reading Le Petit Prince đ€Ž feels like Shakespeare to me right now đđ
bisou bisou
En fait, j`ai trouve Candide un peu plus facile que le petite prince...
I am requesting an app of yours if you have it Alexa
I have a website which is viewable on mobile, learnfrench.com đ
Who can give me a good free application to reed pdf and show difinition with one click
Only certain verbs use reflexive pronoun in french??
French subs on CZcams are rarely accurate.... Salute translates to ça luit instead... I want to give up on learning french so bad. I mean I'm already hostage to America via social security administration, and now it's blatantly for language too
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ah-hemm, uh, Madame.. did you JUST [at 3:27] really say Jen-reh??? Shouldn't the word be pronounced dzhawn-ruh [genre] -- I mean, like, since YOU'RE speaking French and all???? huh.. Madame?
I don't like the pit Prince
I'm wondering why the hell anyone wants to learn a dead language.
Bonjour merci bien s'il vous plaßt votre numéro