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French: Short Stories for Intermediate Level

Written by: Frederic Bibard
Narrated by: Frederic Bibard, Mariem Nouni
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Publisher's Summary

Improve your listening comprehension and make learning new vocabulary so much easier with seven French short stories.

By learning this way you will be able to:

  • Understand grammar concepts without the monotonous chore of memorizing rules
  • Grasp new vocabulary that you can immediately put to use in everyday conversations
  • Practice your listening skills with the stories narrated by a native French speaker

Familiarize yourself with spoken French.

Each story is recorded in three different ways:

  • A slow version to help beginners improve their pronunciation
  • A normal and natural speed for intermediate and advanced learners
  • A normal version with the English glossaries

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

©2016 Frederic Bibard (P)2017 Frederic Bibard

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Entertaining and Super Useful!

I had recently taken an intermediate French class with plans to live and work in a French speaking region, but my plans fell through (for now!). Nonetheless, I had invested a lot of time and effort into upgrading my French, and like any new skill, the abilities quickly subside unless you use them constantly.

I found this audiobook and I’ve been listening to the stories at regular intervals. The stories are comprehensible with a basic to intermediate French vocabulary, so they’re a great addition to your existing French language toolkit. I find listening comprehension one of the most critical aspects of being fluent in a language: its so easy to be overwhelmed because most French speakers talk fairly rapidly and using phrases and colloquialisms that you may not find in your grammar book. Active listening to hours and hours of spoken French is an entertaining and extremely useful way to slowly build this capability. You don’t necessarily have to know every word, but you need to have a decent gist of what’s going on, and these stories are great for that.

Like any story, there are characters, setting, relational context and lots of keywords and phrases that are essential to understand colloquial, spoken french (particularly when the literal interpretation doesn’t really translate well). I find the additional written French script for the stories very helpful as I had a summary I wrote out and could compare that to the actual spoken text and sample summaries to make sure I wasn’t totally off base. There are also explanations for specific terminology that is likely to be new to you….very handy!

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