French Books For Beginner 2 To Intermediate 1

chrishuber

United States

French books for Beginner 2 to Intermediate 1

January 04 at 17:27

Looking for advice on first books to try? I have acquired 1200 words in my first month learning french. I have read all the mini-stories, Who is she, and many others in the guided course, as well as many, many alice ayel videos. I started Le Petit Prince but the book is just too stylistic and old fashioned for my purposes at this point. Please point me to some books to get started with. I've tried looking for graded readers online but having very little luck finding any graded readers importable content.

PeterBormann

Germany

January 10 at 07:36

Perhaps also of interest:

Graded readers in French

https://www.lire-en-francais-facile.com/

mentioned here: https://languagelearning.stackexchange.com/questions/3174/where-can-i-find-graded-readers-for-french

Bilingual online texts (FR-E) for various language levels

http://learn-french-free-with-stories.weebly.com/menu-of-free-online-parallel-texts-french-english.html

chrishuber

United States

January 10 at 23:51

It would be nice if those graded readers were online. every easy french graded reader is a book through snail mail with a CD for audio

robertbiggar

Canada

January 09 at 23:45

I just came across this list of books that has different rankings based on difficulty. might also be a good place to start. I was able to "obtain" some of them shortly after

https://frenchyourway.com.au/recommended-french-reading-list

chrishuber

United States

January 09 at 23:55

Thank you! The problem with this list, which i have come across btw, is that all the 1 and 2 level books are for very small children. I just can't stick with material like that. So far the best book I've found for my level is Short Stories in French by Olly Richards and Richard Simcott. I am able to listen and read at the same time and understand 90% of it at a 75% pacing clip. Sometimes i have to stop and check the idioms and sentences i cant figure out but it is definitely the right level for me now and its also intriguing!

robertbiggar

Canada

January 09 at 23:59

Ah sorry that makes sense. Sounds like you are coming along pretty well! depending how you get your materials I look through the most downloaded on ygg torrent for stuff I might like, though the site took some getting used to, I was able to get a lot of materials from there. a lot of books have audio and text.

PeterBormann

Germany

January 07 at 06:51

*** updated post ***

Hi, Chris!

You could use the following resources:

1) "Français Facile" podcast

They offer many mini-dialogs and texts for all language levels (beginner, intermediate and advanced) on their website.

If you import these audio files and the transcripts into LingQ you'll probably have everything you need right now (everyday conversations, audio, transcript, SRS).

And best of all, it's completely free! :-)

2) News in simplified and slow French

a) Radio France Internationale (RFI), "Journal en français facile"

(maybe that's already a bit too difficult at your level)

https://www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/journal-fran%C3%A7ais-facile/

Some episodes are already imported into LingQ:

https://www.lingq.com/pt/learn/fr/web/course/583071

b) News in Slow French

https://www.newsinslowfrench.com/

3) Duolingo Stories in French (usually I don't recommend "Duolingo" for language learning, but their "stories" and "podcasts" in German, French. etc. are quite entertaining!)

https://www.duolingo.com/stories/

4) Oly Richards, "Short Stories in French for Beginners"

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HWS3C8P/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i3

5) LingQ resources:

a) WebFeed (filter:s: "Beginner 2 - Intermediate 1") for French:

https://www.lingq.com/pt/learn/fr/web/feed

b) Guided courses

https://www.lingq.com/pt/learn/fr/web/recommended

c) Library

https://www.lingq.com/pt/learn/fr/web/tag/books

6) Other recommendations by Benny Lewis

https://www.fluentin3months.com/french-reading/

Have fun learning

Peter

chrishuber

United States

January 07 at 23:38

Thank you for taking the time to lay out the alternatives. I've already started to explore News in slow French and Francais Facile. Merci

chrishuber

United States

January 11 at 00:52

Really enjoying #4 Oly Richards, "Short Stories in French for Beginners"

larvitar98

Belgium

January 06 at 17:00

I would recommend " le français par la méthode nature" , you can easily find the pdf online , i have used the italian one and definitly would recommand for learning to read , and understand phrases structures. However it comes with the downside of not having any audio's.

chrishuber

United States

January 07 at 23:40

I am checking this out now. I havent figured out a way to get the content into LingQ

robertbiggar

Canada

January 04 at 21:26

Maybe look at the news feed. the articles there are great for relevant or expanded vocabulary. Le petit Prince was fun for me, but maybe search up "books with # of pages" depending on what you are looking for.

JFC

Canada

January 04 at 17:50

I don't have any book recommendations for you, but when I was at the stage you were at I moved on to innerFrench: https://www.lingq.com/en/learn/fr/web/course/574237.

One thing that worked well for me is that he speaks more slowly and simply in the earlier episodes and gradually ramps up the speed and vocabulary as you go along.

chrishuber

United States

January 04 at 22:35

thanks for this recommendation, I just started the first one and i can understand most of what he is saying and read along at the same time. Really great! Thank you!

JanVanderdam

United States

January 13 at 06:22

I have listened to all the Inner French episodes and have completed over 50 with lingQ. I have subscribed to his progam "build a strong Core" too. Great fun, really enjoy them. Hugo also has videos which I have enjoyed. Now I am listening to talk radio on CBC Radio Canada "Ohdio" app. Great interviews, music and podcasts with very nice Quebecois accents (no transcripts though which can be very challenging sometimes). I love the music and movie reviews and also current events. My favorite is Bien Entendu but unfortunately Stephan Bureau is only on during Holidays. He has some great music shows about traveling. Check it out!!

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