French Short Stories for Beginners Book 1: Over 100 Dialogues and Daily Used Phrases to Learn French in Your Car. Have Fun & Grow Your Vocabulary, with ... Lessons (French for Adults)

by Learn Like a Native

Learning a second language is a great mental exercise if you want to create new neural pathways in your brain, so you can stay quick and sharp. Plus, learning a widely spoken language – French in particular – can open up a myriad of new opportunities for you in both life and work. One great obstacle that English speakers face when learning French is that they are in an environment where they can’t fully immerse themselves in the language learning process. And that’s why “French Short Stories for Beginners” by Learn Like a Native is perfect for beginners like you!
“French Short Stories for Beginners” harnesses the power of a great tale in fast-tracking your learning process. It has several uniquely structured French-to-English short stories that are saturated with over 100 simple, easy-to-digest dialogues and daily used phrases, so you can seamlessly learn the language, even as you drive towards work! In the stories within , you will see people speaking to each other, going through daily life situations, and using the most common, helpful words and phrases in French. Learn Like a Native crafted this book with beginners in mind . Here is where you will find simple yet stimulating French language usage that is mostly in the present tense, so you will be able to effectively focus on dialogues and root verbs, as well as effortlessly understand and find patterns in subject-verb agreement.
Forget about boring lectures on grammar and endless vocabulary lists. With the help of this book, English speakers like you can easily learn French and immerse themselves in it without having to leave the country!

Genres: France, Short Stories

91 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2020

Reviews

[Sal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent Book But Short

This is an overall decent book. I took a star away because it only has three stories and some of the answers provided are wrong. Overall, it is great for reading practice.

[Cidney · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you are a bit more than a beginner it's not too bad a book to have a go at reading. There are just three short stories for you to practise the french you know already. The first one is about a boy called Andrew who's living in a small block of apartments and the postman hands him a parcel which just has the address of the building on it but not the individual number of the flat. So he goes to each floor to ask each person if it is their parcel, the parcel contains a lot of glasses with different coloured frames (he had opened it, hmm). He learns a little about each person living in his building, what puzzled me was that the parcel belonged to the last person who lived on the top floor, he was blind (new word for me), his eyes are closed. He had a guide dog. The parcel was full of glasses with different brightly coloured frames??

Anyway moving swiftly on, the next short story was about aanother youngish person called Frank who had just moved into the area and he discovered it was Mardi Gras, and there were a lot of names of colours to be learnt here plus the traditions of mardi gras itself. Well at least he made a lot of friends and got to see the procession and eat a lot of food.

The third short story is about yet another young boy called Ivan (are no other genders available? is this written by a man?) who goes off to visit his grandparents in his t-shirt in february. It's snowing. Now if he were my grandchild I would be questioning why he was visiting in a t-shirt. Presumably the french are made of hardier stuff. Anyway we learn a lot about different weather formations as his grandfather appears to be an amateur meteorologist and the lad clearly went to a very good primary school as he talks to his grandparents about climate change and all that brings. At the end the sun came out I think, and I guess that exonerated the boy arriving in his t-shirt.

[Nathalya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Minha primeira vez lendo um livro em francês e eu amei a experiência! Esta é uma obra de histórias curtas que, logo após terminadas, possuem atividades de interpretação de texto em francês para praticar e checar sua compreensão. Achei esses exercícios completamente úteis e me senti muito feliz entendendo as histórias, mesmo sendo curtas e de iniciantes, o sentimento de ler seu primeiro livro em uma língua nova é sempre de encher o coração de alegria. 🩷

[Pablo Silva · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fáciles y Amenas

Las tres historias del libro son de fácil compresión y tratan temas que enseñan modismos en las situaciones descritas, afianzando las bases de francés del lector

[Amanda Alexandre · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good for adults. I loved it.

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good free book to read if you are learning French. Just what I wanted in a collection in short stories while trying to familiar myself with French.

[Adolfo · Rating 5 out of 5]

More useful than I expected tbh.

[Acacia Mitchell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful! I will be coming back to this resource as I grow my french.

[Tracey Sessions · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good learning tool

I was pleasantly surprised by how much of this I understood. I have been learning French for just over a year.

[Stephanie Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short but easy to understand, I used the book with the audio. Could use more stories as three seems not enough to purchase. Decent refresher.

[Rudraneil Saha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book to start reading French for an English speaker.

[Amanda Morrison · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'd say an early beginner book.

[Joseph · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very beginner and very short, but free on Kindle. I wouldn't pay for it. At least one of the comprehension questions seemed to me like it had the wrong multiple choice answer marked as correct (What is the weather usually like in February? Marked hot when it should be cold). Also, I have a suspicion that these stories were written in English and translated to French because there are a couple of jokes that work in English but not in French. For learning, it seems like it should be the other way around.

[Ned · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gives exactly what it states on the cover with easy to understand stories for beginners. Books like this will only be good as long as you’re a beginner since they becoming quite boring with decent comprehension. Expectations met but not blown away by a book like this.