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French Stories (Dual-Language Books)

Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN: 0486264432
ISBN-13: 9780486264431
Released: 24 May 1991
RRP: £11.50
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Excellent practice for those wanting reading skills - By: Cazzandra, 17 Feb 2006
I bought this book on the basis of the review by another Amazon reader. He sounded like he was doing what I wanted to do - acquire reading skills. And he is right - this is an excellent reader. There's a wide range of stories & the translations on the opposite page are excellent. There is also an extensive vocabulary at the back & questions so you don't need a dictionary with you. There are brief introductions to each author, in English. It is excellent value for money & the language is sufficiently difficult to challlenge anyone with reasonable skills in French but not so difficult as to make the task impossible. My level was just post O level (I didn't do A level but I had done an extra year of conversation). But I haven't touched French for more years than I care to admit. Along with some grammar books, this has reallly helped to build my confidence & my vocabulary & it hasn't been painful. Many of the books are geared towards children or people wanting conversations skills so I found this a good way to get the skills I wanted. The stories are short & the styles are varied so even if one particular story doesn't appeal to you, you see a different style of expression & the effort is worth it. I wish there were more like it!
Excellent stories in French with English on opposite page - By: , 25 Jul 1998
First read this book in 1960 in college, cost 75 cents. Now relearning French & enjoying the stories, reading first the French & using the opposite page English to check my understanding & translate words & phases I don't know. This is an excellent way to enjoy interesting stories & enlarge one's French painlessly. Ordering a new copy as mine is disintegrating with age (as is the reviewer).