1. La Poésie - Poetry; Eg: Jacques Prévert (Paroles 1946) - simple yet powerful. Good for beginners. 2. Laetitia Colombani (La Tresse 2017) - a bit more modern. Vocabulary is a bit more challenging 3. Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Children's books but there are some outdated words. Quite a philosphical book so might be hard to follow. 4. Voltaire (Candid 1759) - Classic; satire; advanced level; syntax is harder; lots of old French used throughout. ++ Popular books like Harry Potter. "Perseverance and regularity are key to improve."
There's a French magazine based out of Paris I read that goes by 'Graffiti Art Magazine', which explores Urban Contemporary Art and showcases Artists under that category from streetartists to muralists. The magazine is in Both French and English.👍🏽
Thank you Alexa, I am a member of a French book club and have read "La Tresse" which I can recommend, as I found it so interesting. 3 Women, 3 different countries, 3 different cultures. Excellent. Isobel
I began with the Little Prince and a dictionary. It's got all the useful words you need to learn and its philosophy. That's interesting in any language. At the end you have your most useful vocabulary learned. It can be used to learn any of the 457 languages.
Love your channel. I am in the process of learning French. Have read many books written by Maurice Leblanc (translated version) when I was young, Les Aventures d’Arsène Lupin was one of them. French version of Sherlock Holmes, except he is a gentleman burglar.
Ahh, this is such a good idea and amazing for immersion. I've been playing a video game (pokemon Violet) in French, which is interesting because you have to glean enough context to make the right decisions when playing. I've played it before in English so I know what do do for the most part, but my mind is still forced to recall what I've learned of French to progress optimally.
Hello Alexa! When you introduced PAROLES ,1946 by Jaques Prévert, I was struck cuz today I was learned ‘ Pour faire le protrait d’un oiseau’ of it in my French literature class. Thank you very much 🤍
Huis Clos by Sartre and D'Artagnan by Dumas weren’t so terribly hard, if I recall from 50 years ago. I’ve tried to read children's books, but these aren’t always so straight-forward and easy to understand as were the first two examples in this video. But your advice, Alexa, of one or two pages a day is realistic, encouraging and liberating.
I'm really enjoying La Tresse, and considering using it as a teacher. I'm curious what level students or teachers are reading it at. What they read before coming to it? On the one hand the verb tenses are "easy": Little to no passé simple or fancy subjunctives, most verbs in the present. The sentence structure is also rather simple and predictable - not many subordinate clauses, mostly subject-verb-object. And the chapter length is very manageable. That being said, the vocabulary is often quite rich, and the author makes wide use of locutions and idiomatic expressions. I'd be curious to know further about students' and teachers' experiences!
Dear Alexa merci I love your teaching method and have subscribed to your channel. I always wanted to learn French and now hopefully I will be able to speak French like la Parisian (is this the right way to say ) merci boku (?). Please excuse my French spelling and/or grammar
Hi Alexa. Thanks for the wonderful videos. I just thought that I would mention that, in English, the pronunciation of genre is the same as the French but the ending is also pronounced ie ZON-ra. (Probably because we stole it from the French language.) Ann, en Australie.
Bonjour! Merci! Très intéressant et et utile. Dans l'extrait du Voltaire comment "ç" devient "marchant longtemps" ( je crois que c'est ça ce que vous avez lu 😊)quand vous lisez en voix haute ? Merci
If you are a beginner then start with short stories in French by Olly Richard . This book provides a summary after every chapter and english translation of important words
1. (La poésie) Jacques prevert _paroles, déjeuner du matin 2. la tresse _ laetitia colombani 3. Le petit prince _ Antoine... 4.candide _ voltaire (advanced) AND the list în description of vidéo.
Apologies Alexa, but I’m having problems in finding the poetry book on Play or on iPhone? I presumed I would be able to buy it on one or the other as you said about getting an E-book reader. Would it be possible to help please me? I love the bloopers at the end of the video, brilliant 😂🤣
En tant que prof de français, je peux vous dire que Jules Verne emploie un français littéraire. Plutôt moderne, mais avec beaucoup de vocabulaire spécialisé appartenant au domaine des sciences et à son époque. Ceci dit, ce n'est pas du tout un français "ancien".
Hello ..I'm Judy from Philippines and I'm moving to Quebec Canada and I'm excited to learn French. .how does French in France differ from Quebec French ?
Where can I buy books (printed ones) but at the same time have access to the audio of that book? Nowadays is very easy to find audiobooks, but you just can download the book on your tablet or cellphone (+ the audio). What I want, is to find a place where I cab buy the printed book, and then download the audio. Do you know where can find something like that? Thank you. Merci!
I just dont get the backwards sentence structure sometimes. As in, i can read enough to understand but cannot write anything because id write words the way you would with an English sentence structure every time, dont know if its right though. Like why is it Afrique du Sud and not just Sud Afrique like in English, i dunno if im wrong or right anyway. And words changing in meaning when their accompanied by something else in front or behind them. Thats frustrating after learning their stand alone meaning only to have it change to 10 different things again.
French subs on RU-vid are rarely accurate.... Salute translates to ça luit instead... I want to give up on learning french so bad. I mean I'm already hostage to America via social security administration, and now it's blatantly for language too
ah-hemm, uh, Madame.. did you JUST [at 3:27] really say Jen-reh??? Shouldn't the word be pronounced dzhawn-ruh [genre] -- I mean, like, since YOU'RE speaking French and all???? huh.. Madame?
