Short Stories in French for Beginners

Great for someone trying to relearn French. I love that it had English translations and I love that the stories connect. It makes it easier to follow a long.

I found this book both incredibly helpful for learning to read and quite enjoyable as the stories were engaging and interesting but still able to be understood from the very basic knowledge of French I had

The stories are ok, I was not expecting Dostoevsky so no problem there. I am little disappointed with the "unknown" words they provide a translation for, what could possibly be the meaning of: Les weekends La région L'excursion La légende La créature Explorer? Those are just examples from three pages in one chapter. Waist of time.

I started learning French 119 days ago according to my progress report on duolingo. Great app by the way. I have bought a number of children's books to practice French with as well, but they are for kids so the stories were a bit corny. I saw this book and figured I would check it out. I've completed 47 sections on duolingo and have started Rosetta stone so my vocabulary is growing, but not huge. This book is awesome. I can understand 80-90% of the stories. I keep google translate opened for when I get stuck, but there are also bolded phrases that are defined at the end of the chapter you can go look at. there is a chapter review en francais at the end and a few multiple choice questions as well. Would I recommend it for learning? That's tough. That is a difficult way to learn. plus you have to have some French vocabulary as a foundation to even begin, but as a tool to practice reading and understanding as well as learning new words and phrases, its awesome. I have finished two of the stories so far. they are engaging enough to keep you interested beyond your desire to study French. If you are doing an app or rosetta stone and want to have something other than repetitive drills and single words or phrases, I highly recommend this book. its boosted my confidence with the language and I have learned a lot about sentence structure from it, like how things are said in the French language beyond a single sentence or phrase. I have a long way to go to be fluent, but they should write more of these and have them for multiple levels.

I have been wanting to take my French to the next level and this book was perfect. It introduced new vocabulary in story one and then builds on those vocabulary words with each new story. Each story has three chapters and I gain confidence with each story as more and more words become familiar. It’s helpful to read the beginning on how to use the book as he reminds readers they are not going to understand each word and to read through each story before looking up any words to see if you get the gist of the story from the context. I will admit I usually pull out google translate after I have read the story twice to make sure I am getting it right but I definitely understand way more than I did when I started this book last week.

I've been slowly going through these stories for the past two months -- along with additional exposure to the language -- and I find the storytelling method the best way for me to acquire French vocabulary and have a sense of grammar. The stories themselves are interesting, if sometimes a little weird. There are fairy tales, science fiction, mysteries, etc. The level of reading is probably advanced beginner, so you should have a smattering of basic French vocabulary before you undertake reading this. My method for reading is as the book suggests: read a paragraph or two and usually I miss several words, which I'll either pick up through repeated reading and therefore context, or if I can't figure it out I'll write it down to look up later. Because I'm also concentrating on being able to understand spoken French (which as I've recently learned, is different than written French), I also downloaded the Audible version and I listen to that and read along. Sometimes I just listen to those stories in the car, after I've read and become familiar with the text -- and my mind just goes along following the story that I'm listening to because I've already read it a few times. I'm taking my time to go through the stories in this book and re-read each one until I have the vocab and listening down, and it has been one of the best exercises in acquiring French.

Wow! This book surprised me nicely. To be honest, I was quite sceptical at the beginning since French phonetics isn't the easiest one, and I was wondering how reading can help me to speak the language properly. I mean, all the nasal sounds, silent letters, and knowing where to stress! I had already passed the beginer's stage in French, but sill wasn't confident in speaking. When I started to read this book in Kindle, I quickly become fascinated with how this format enable me to use this book. Not only are the stories interesting and enjoyable, but reading them in Kindle, you can check the pronunciation using the translation function FRENCH - FRENCH (pictures attached). You can also check the definition of words or translate expressions into other languages. I had quite a fun ocassionaly translating some sentences into Chinese and other languages that I've been learning. After each chapter, you have the excersices with questions, where you can highlight your answers and check them on the next page! As for the writing style of this book, it uses a variety of useful expressions, which will help you to become more conversational in the language. I'm not sure how much a total beginner would benefit from the book, but I suppose that as long as you already know some other Romance language, you will intuitively make sense of the grammatical structure and figure out a lot of lexical meanings by yourself. These 8 stories can keep you entertained for quite a long time if you really work with the text and reread them again to get a better grasp. For the price offered for Kindle, it's a bargain! You should give it a try

レベル的には小学校高学年ぐらいですかね。話はそれなりに面白いんですけど結末がちょっといいかげんかな。文法は全く困らなかったけど単語は知らないのが結構ありました。本書にも書いてありますがボキャブラ増やすには簡単な話をたくさん読むのが良さそうです。

If you are learning french, this book is for you.

I am at the stage of needing to improve past beginner and this is the book to do it with. It's well done, not too complicated but still challenging. I love how he's put it together with a summary of the story, the new phrases/new words, and the short question and answer section for each story. I tried a more complicated short stories in french book but got lost. C'est parfait!

Eu estou simplesmente amando! As histórias são bem legais e estão me ajudando muito a melhorar o meu vocabulário em francês!! O único defeito é que se eu quiser o áudio, eu tenho que pagar a mais, e mesmo com o desconto fica um pouco caro pra mim... (mas eu comprei o áudio mesmo assim kkkk e valeu a pena!)

I love learning with Paul nobble. It's so easy to understand and learn. Everything is explained so well. I would highly recommend this to any beginner.