Voyage à Marseille, an easy French story

by Sylvie Lainé

Beginners : A1-B1
Louis and Melba are back in a new story for beginners/intermediate ! They will meet a mysterious lady in Marseille...
Tailored to the needs of English and German speakers, the book is a pleasant way of expanding your vocabulary and building your confidence. The story is written in a simple and basic style, similar to the common spoken language.
There is no need for a key words are listed under each paragraph. At the end of the book, all new words are summed up in a complete vocabulary section.


Simple and easy to read, Voyage à Marseille is also amusing. A good mix of grammar constructs is used, with basic and useful vocabulary. The story is written in tenses used in normal conversation : present tense, and just the right amount of future tense, passé composé and imparfait.
For beginners/intermediate level : A1-B1

Genres: France

100 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 11, 2014

About the author

Sylvie Lainé is a native French language trainer, writer and translator. She is a graduate of the University of Caen (France) in Applied Language Studies and Linguistics and a graduate of the University Erlangen-Nurnberg (Germany) in Romance Philology. Over 15 years experience of providing language training to adults allow her to understand their difficulties and challenges. In february 2013 she created the “Easy French Reader Series for Beginners”.

She wants to create carefully written and exciting stories to help her students escape grammar and exercise books. She wants her students to enjoy reading and learn the language without the feeling of overwhelm and frustration that they get from many French books. As she found nothing especially written for beginners on the Internet, she came up with the idea of writing stories herself.

She was born in Normandy and lives now in the south of France.

Reviews

[Dale Pobega · Rating 4 out of 5]

Une lecture divertissante! Another fun, easy to read tale en français starring Louis with his fumbling French and his long suffering wife, Melba. This is the longest novella in the series by writer and teacher, Sylvie Lainé. Great for reviewing basic vocabulary and structure through narrative. A creative and productive approach to the teaching of language.

[Alvin Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finding stories for learners who are A1/B1 that are not too basic or too complex is difficult. Not to mention finding stories with accompanying audio. Sylvie Lainé story was an enjoyable little adventure with amusing charaters.

[Charlotte Wrigley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great for learners

To read this you’ll need some French knowledge, but the way it’s written makes it perfect for the upper beginner learner. I had fun reading it and my reading ability improved too.

[Yin cheng · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars for beginners

J’adore !I have been learning French for three months now, and this book gave me courage. I actually finished three French story book already! I want to thank the author for her effort :)))

[Indrani Ghose · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very nice book to learn French vocabulary

Very nice book. But I read it under Kindle Unlimited subscription. And there was no way to listen to the audio. Therefore, pronunciation was not a help with this book. I could only read it.

[Fabiana Sforza · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first French book! Very very good for beginners. Would highly recommend if you are starting out learning French - although it may be useful knowing a couple of grammatical structures and phrases.

[MR J · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent for language learners

Good read with effortless acquisition of vocabulary through context and humour. It is joyous to feel like you can actually read french.

[Leah Agirlandaboy]

Perfect for advanced beginner or beginning intermediate readers. Kindle Unlimited has been great for this sort of thing.

[Yuriko]

Enjoyable story and perfect for a beginner in french like me.

[Davis Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice pleasant story with easy French to understand.