Le Français par la méthode nature

Le Français par la méthode nature

by Arthur M. Jensen

Genres: France, Language, Nonfiction

1124 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1958

Reviews

[Chris West · Rating 5 out of 5]

Worked through this over the course of 5ish months. Brilliant book for picking up French through a hand-off comprehensible input method. All the audio is on youtube so you can practice listening and shadowing too. I still can’t output much but I feel well prepared for more advanced media. Will do “Initiation to French Literature” next.

[Michael Young · Rating 4 out of 5]

This epic textbook took me around 5 years to get through, and is the best language-learning book I've come across. Every word in the book is in French, and yet it takes you from zero knowledge to a high level of reading in an engaging, fun way. The vast majority of the book is a running story about a couple of families in France and Algeria, with some traditional stories packaged within, and these help set the scene and give an insight into French life and history while learning the language.

I'd recommend this to anyone wishing to learn French, even if it's now 70 years old.

[Abbie]

This is a reader entirely in French. The first chapter starts extremely simply and each subsequent chapter adds more vocabulary and grammar, progressively increasing the difficulty. This work is in the public domain and can be found as a pdf on archive.org.

[xyron · Rating 5 out of 5]

"sinon agréable du moins intéressante"

I love the method, but the textual content of the textbook itself is questionable in about 50% ("fortunately", the english original is questionable in its entirety)

[Yusuf · Rating 5 out of 5]

The audio for the book is available entirely on YouTube. (Channel Name: Ayan Academy)