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Learn French with Stories for Beginners

By: Frederic Bibard
Narrated by: Frederic Bibard, Adam McVay
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Summary

Brush up on your French, improve your reading and listening skills, and make learning new vocabulary so much easier with 15 fun and engaging French stories.

Reading and listening to short stories is an effective and enjoyable method to learning French.

For those of you who can't just slip away from life, travel to France and immerse yourself in the language in order to learn it, this is your solution! Reading and listening to native-spoken French stories is the next best thing.

You have at your fingertips the written word AND an its accompanying PDF that allows you to:

  • Gain a greater vocabulary that you can use immediately, every day. You will add 1,500+ French words and expressions to your repertoire through the encounter of descriptive sentences and casual conversations woven throughout the stories.
  • Sharpen your comprehension of the spoken word by listening to a native French speaker.
  • Learn how to pronounce French words properly by comparing the written word to the audio recording.
  • Familiarize yourself with a wide range of grammar structures and put them to use today.
  • Avoid the monotonous task of memorizing grammar rules. How awesome is that?!

How will this book improve your French language skills:

Each story is recorded in two different ways:

A slow version helps beginners improve their pronunciation and a normal, natural speed for intermediate and advanced learners that trains your ears to understand what is being said.

A vocabulary recap at the end of each chapter allows you to review what you have read and listened to so you don't forget the essential words and expressions taught throughout the lesson.

All stories are written using vocabulary that you could easily use in your day-to-day conversations.

With this audiobook and accompanying PDF you can start improving your French today!

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

©2015 Frederic Bibard (P)2016 Frederic Bibard

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The Narrator is speaking beautiful French


There is a great method to learn usual words in French. The idea of 15 stories is wonderful because even if I am an advanced speaker or a beginner, I need to learn a couple of words that I don't use all the time, so many subject means more to learn.
I was already interested in speaking this language, because I am an advanced speaker, but even like that, I could listen to 2.5xspeed - it's very interesting like that.
There is also a great material for a course eventually. A teacher could easily listen the stories and provoke the students to listen, write, and translate. At the end they could listen the vocabulary in order to verify if they understood correctly. I love the pronouncing of Mr Frederic Bibard, it's very clear and correct, a beautiful French.

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Innovative way of learning French

Would you consider the audio edition of Learn French with Stories for Beginners to be better than the print version?

Yes, I would highly recommend this audibook for anyone seeking to learn French. I found it a really innovative approach to learning French as I have never used an audiobook before but found the content really helpful in developing sentences and improving my pronunciation of words.

What did you like best about this story?

The short stories were fun and kept me engaged and the audibook was really easy to follow.

Any additional comments?

Really helpful for developing my conversational skills and easy to access via the mobile app which meant I could learn on the go.

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Very helpful

I was really surprised with this book. As someone who studied French in school and gained only a basic knowledge of the language, I found through the use of stories that I understood them more than I first expected. The repetition of words allowed me to pick up on new words and build on my French. The best thing about this book is that it puts phrases into real dialogue and hearing it as an audio book is an added bonus and allowed me to hear correct pronunciations. I am so pleased with how much this is helping me to learn the French language.

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Disappointing

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

No. The idea is great, but the voices are all wrong. The French is read with muttering, very quiet monotonous French and the English part with a sharp and loud American English speaker who overpowers everything,
The story should be read like stories, not by reading a sentence after another without any change in voice. The emphasis in the vocabulary should be the frases and words in French, not in English.

Who was your favorite character and why?

None

How did the narrator detract from the book?

See above

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The worst reading performance I've heard on any of the two dozen or so audiobooks I own.

The French speaker reads everything in a dull, halting monotone that makes it much harder to understand what's going on.

It's a bit like trying to read a giant wall of text without paragraphs or punctuation - after a while the brain just gives up.

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Not as useful as I'd hoped.

What would have made Learn French with Stories for Beginners better?

The translations are poor and there are a lot of recording mistakes - The french narrator will say a word followed by the English translation followed by the original french word again - however sometimes (too frequently) the incorrect English word is given, or the same English word is repeated 3 times for 3 different french words. This is just sloppy recording and not what you would expect from a book on Audible.

Has Learn French with Stories for Beginners put you off other books in this genre?

Yes, I bought 3 but I have returned 2 due to narration mistakes and poor translations.

The English translations are provided in a loud and highly irritating north american accent which fails to go into any detail.

For example je sais and je connais both mean "I know" in English but they are used differently depending on whether you're talking about something you know or a person you know, this book will fail to explain anything like that and you will just hear "I KNOW" at 150 decibels regardless of which word was used, how hard is it to say "To know (something)" or "To know (someone)"?

Would you be willing to try another one of Frederic Bibard and Adam McVay ’s performances?

No

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Learn French with Stories for Beginners?

I would cut Adam McVay completely, He'd be better off trying his hand at Cillit bang adverts in North America

Any additional comments?

I could understand the main gist of the stories, but to be honest when you're used to listening to the likes of Ken Follet, the stories are just too simple and get boring quickly even when you're straining to understand all of the French.

I've kept one book just to supplement my French learning but I think i'll stick with podcasts on Itunes as I think they're more useful.

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turn the volume and treble down please

What would have made Learn French with Stories for Beginners better?

a better balance of volume between the two narrators and a better sound balance/recording very tinny with the shouty american accent

Has Learn French with Stories for Beginners put you off other books in this genre?

no but certainly off these narrators

What didn’t you like about Frederic Bibard and Adam McVay ’s performance?

the french speaker was monotonic and very boring, the american was shouty loud and very tinny, for my res it was virtually unlistenable after a few minutes,

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

disappointment

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Waste of time.

Very poor learning resource. Mostly long silences, with loud English words followed by very quiet French translation. Poorly structured lessons, you're better off listening to the radio. Not recommended.

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Different sound levels

The problem with this is that the two people are speaking at different sound levels. If I turn it up to hear the French speaker I'm deafened by the English speaker. I'm glad I didn't pay £25 for this. I would be very unhappy

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Harsh loud American, soft timid French

Did not finish, hard to get volume levels at right level . American overpowers French

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