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French – English Parallel Text: Monique, la cuisinière catastrophique

September 13, 2017 by dontspeak

French - English parallel text - Monique, la cuisinière catastrophiquePerhaps you’re thinking of signing up for a French language class this autumn?

But why spend all that time and money when you could be learning French at home with our simplified ebook ‘Monique, la cuisinière catastrophique‘, and for only £1.99?

Monique is a good mother and an excellent grandmother… but an awful cook! When Amélie, Monique’s health-conscious daughter, has a domestic emergency, Monique is left to prepare lunch for her two grandchildren…

‘Monique’ is a French – English parallel text.

Which means that you get the original story in French, along with an English translation.

That way you can compare the two versions, line by line, to better understand the words and grammar that you’re less familiar with!

There are 8 extremely short chapters to read.

The level is A1 (elementary), though it’s suitable for students at more or less any level who would like to start reading in French.

Download the free sample chapter (.pdf) to take a look!

Normally ‘Monique’ would cost £7.99…

…but this week only it’s 75% off, at just £1.99!

  • Buy ‘Monique’, now just £1.99!
  • Browse ebooks for learning French

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Learning French? Download these FREE ebooks!

August 22, 2017 by dontspeak

If you’ve tried our Free French Beginners’ Course, you might also be interested in these two FREE ebooks for learning French:

‘Le restaurant‘ is an ‘easy reader’, a simplified story with exercises and audio. It’s IDEAL for beginners!

‘La surprise‘ is an French/English parallel text, also intended for beginners. You get the original French story, and an accompanying English translation, so you can compare them line by line.

Both titles are available as FREE DOWNLOADS from EasyReaders.Org, no payment details or registration required!

Click this link to browse easy readers and parallel texts for learning French and to order your two FREE ebooks today.

P.S.

There are also free easy readers and parallel texts for students learning Spanish, Italian and German.

Tell your friends!

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French Easy Readers & French/English Parallel Texts: -20%!

April 15, 2017 by dontspeak

Learning French?

Then you’ll be interested to know that easyreaders.org is having an Easter Sale on ebooks for language learners.

Stock up today on French easy readers and parallel texts and you’ll save 20%!

Copy and paste this coupon into the box in your shopping cart (where it says ‘Apply coupon’):

easter offer 2017

Shop now: ebooks for learning French

Summary:

  • Shop for French easy readers and French/English parallel texts at easyreaders.org
  • Use coupon code easter offer 2017 to save 20%
  • The offer is valid through 23/04/17
  • There’s no min. or max. spend
  • The coupon can be used multiple times until the end of the offer on 23rd April 2017
  • It applies to items on sale too (but cannot be used with other coupons you may have)

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Last day to get £10 worth of free ‘Learn French’ ebooks!

February 19, 2017 by dontspeak

It’s the final day to get your FREE French ebook.

The £10 voucher on ‘Learn French’ ebooks expires tonight.

I’ve pasted the code and the details below, but I just wanted to make sure you knew what you were missing!

You could use your £10 voucher to buy a French easy reader, a simplified story complete with exercises, glossaries and audio.

For example ‘Coup de ciseaux‘:

René and Marie have been married for forty years and together run their own hairdressing salon. Naturally, they know everyone’s secrets, and like to help people if they can…

  • Free sample chapter (.pdf)
  • ‘Buy’ the full version for £7.99 with your £10 voucher

Or perhaps you’d prefer a French/English parallel text?

They’re really helpful for learning the language, as they feature the French text on one side of the page and the English text on the other side.

That’ll build your confidence with French texts, while exposing you to new vocabulary and consolidating the grammar structures you’re studying elsewhere.

Choose to read just the French, or compare French and English texts line by line.

There are seven stories available in our online shop. Personally, I liked ‘Monique, la cuisinière catastrophique‘:

Monique is a good mother and an excellent grandmother… but an awful cook! When Amélie, Monique’s health-conscious daughter, has a domestic emergency, Monique is left to prepare lunch for her two grandchildren…

  • Free sample chapter (.pdf)
  • ‘Buy’ the full version for £7.99 with your £10 voucher

Compare all your options in the ‘Learn French‘ section of our online shop.

But don’t forget, today is the final day to use your voucher!

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VOUCHER INFORMATION

Your FREE £10 voucher code is:

Learn_French_£10_Voucher

Copy and paste it into the shopping cart at easyreaders.org.

If you spend less than £10, no payment information will be asked for or taken.

I’ll just send out your order in the usual way, as for any customer.

This can take up to 24 hours, as I do it manually.

If you want ebooks costing more than £10, the cart total will be reduced by £10 and you’ll pay the difference.

Spend your £10 voucher now!

Offer Conditions

  • the voucher is good for anything in our online shop
  • it’s worth £10
  • the offer ends on 19/02/17
  • the voucher is good for ebooks which are already on sale, too
  • but it won’t work together with other coupon codes or vouchers
  • this offer is limited to one voucher per user

Spend your £10 voucher now!

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Free French E-Book Voucher Expires Soon!

February 16, 2017 by dontspeak

Here’s a quick follow up, to make sure you don’t miss out on this week’s £10 voucher offer.

Use £10 voucher code Learn_French_£10_Voucher to get a free ebook from our
online shop.

Choose the ebooks you need to help you learn French, then just copy and paste the voucher code into your shopping cart.

If your ebook selections total less than £10, no payment information will be asked for or taken. We’ll just send out your order in the usual way.

If you have ordered ebooks costing more than £10, the cart total will be reduced by the voucher amount.

Plenty of people have been ordering just the one ebook (normal price £7.99) and so paying nothing at all!

Others have picked out several easy readers and parallel texts to include in their study programs, but using the voucher code the final amount they’ve paid has modest…

Weeks, or months, of study material for just a few pounds!

So, do take a look to see what’s available: Learn French Ebooks

Offer Conditions

  • the voucher is good for anything in our online shop
  • it’s worth £10
  • the offer ends on 19/02/17!
  • the voucher is good for ebooks which are already on sale, too
  • but it won’t work together with other coupon codes or vouchers
  • this offer is limited to one voucher per user

Spend your £10 voucher now!

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Your £10 voucher for ‘Learn French’ ebooks!

February 15, 2017 by dontspeak

Learning French?

As language learners and teachers ourselves, we know that having a variety of materials, at a level that’s right for you, helps!

However good your grammar or course book is, sometimes it’s just nice to work on something different…

So, we’d like you to take a look at the ebooks in our online shop.

And to make it worth your while, here’s a FREE £10 voucher code:

Learn_French_£10_Voucher

Copy and paste the voucher code into the shopping cart at easyreaders.org.

If you spend less than £10, no payment information will be asked for or taken.

We’ll just send out your order in the usual way.

If you want ebooks costing more than £10, the cart total will be reduced by £10 and you’ll pay the difference.

Spend your £10 voucher now!

Offer Conditions

  • the voucher is good for anything in our online shop
  • it’s worth £10
  • the offer ends on 19/02/17
  • the voucher is good for ebooks which are already on sale, too
  • but it won’t work together with other coupon codes or vouchers
  • this offer is limited to one voucher per user

Spend your £10 voucher now!

Filed Under: News

14 French Parallel Texts & Easy Readers You Haven’t Seen Yet

December 6, 2016 by dontspeak

Bonjour from dontspeakfrench.com!

This is to let you know that our sister site, Easyreaders.org, has this morning published 14 new French parallel texts and easy readers for learning French!

They’re at beginner, pre-intermediate and intermediate levels, so ideal for anyone just starting out, while still being useful practice for everyone else!

I particularly enjoyed listening to the easy readers, the complete audio for which is available online.

Each ebook has a FREE sample chapter that you can download right now, with absolutely no obligation.

And as a special launch offer, everything in the ‘Learn French’ section is currently 25% off!

Even if you have no intention of buying anything (fair enough), there’s masses to study for free!

Go browse:

https://easyreaders.org/product-category/french/

(Oh, and by the way, we’ve just upgraded the look of our site for beginners, dontspeakfrench.com…)

P.S.

If you look carefully through the 14 ebooks available at https://easyreaders.org/product-category/french/, you’ll see that one of them is priced at £0.00.

Meaning it’s absolutely free to download!

Find it, add it to your card and proceed with your order.

You won’t be asked for credit card details or other payment information.

Filed Under: News, Uncategorized

Before Starting…

June 23, 2016 by dontspeak

By Roberto Gamberini, translated rather freely from Italian by Daniel Stephens

Garage, baguette, brioche, chapeau – I think those are all the French words I know!

Other than the names of rather some good wines, a few famous sauces and the various French teams in the Champions League, my knowledge of the language is embarrassingly limited.

I’ve been to France a few times. I love the literature, especially authors from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But of course, I have to read them in translation.

I’m a fan of French cinema, too. In my home town there’s a French cultural center, and an academy. Both organize frequent events, which I would love to be able to attend – if only I could understand what was being talked about!

So that’s my motivation – I’d like to learn some French so as to be better able to appreciate the rich culture.

But I also hope to be able to order a Kir Royal in Paris without upsetting the waiter by using English.

And ideally, I’d develop a refined, melodic, and terribly sexy, French accent!

But… I don’t have time to attend an actual French course.

And a private tutor would cost too much.

I’ve already studied a foreign language online, and made more progress than I expected too.

So, I think I’ll try the same approach with French.

DontSpeakFrench.com seems just what I’ve been looking for: a website developed by experienced language teachers which offers abundant free materials.

It’s worth a try, at least.

Trois, deux, un: go!

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Follow Roberto’s progress with French over the next month or so in this series of ten articles. Or join him on his journey: DontSpeakFrench.com

Filed Under: Learning French, News

Who is our beginners’ French course for, anyway?

January 4, 2016 by dontspeak

Thanks to Janet, who wrote to me to point out that our beginners’ French course is actually, in places, much harder than typical material served up for beginners.

She’s right, of course.

But whether you’ll find the material on dontspeakfrench.com suitable for you will depend on a variety of factors.

Perhaps the most important of these is your mother tongue. For an Italian or Spanish speaker learning French, the similarities between your first language and the ‘target’ language (the one you hope to learn) are such that a lot of the material should, in any case, be understandable.

That’s obviously not true for a native English speaker who has never learned a foreign language before. English is unlike French in its grammar and much of its vocabulary.

But an English mother-tongue speaker who has already studied another Latin-origin language like Spanish or Italian should have a similar advantage.

Another factor is your previous language-learning experience.

If you’ve never studied a foreign language before, you will likely find the free material available at dontspeakFrench.com difficult, maybe just too hard.

But if you’ve already mastered any other foreign language (suppose you’re Japanese, and have successfully learned English), then the skills you’ve already picked up, in terms of studying, and the confidence already gained in your own abilities, should help a lot.

Conclusion? Our beginners’ French course won’t be ideal for everyone.

How to know if it’ll work for you?

Visit dontspeakfrench.com and give it a try!

Filed Under: Learning French, News

FRENCH BEGINNERS’ COURSE

Grammar
101 Articles
102 Pronouns
103 Nouns and Adjectives
104 Demonstrative Adjectives
105 Possessive Adjectives
106 Verbs
107 Adverbs
108 Prepositions
109 Interrogative Form
110 Negative Form


Exercises
101 Articles
102 Pronouns
103 Nouns and Adjectives
104 Demonstrative Adjectives
105 Possessive Adjectives
106 Verbs
107 Adverbs
108 Prepositions
109 Interrogative Form
110 Negative Form

Vocabulary lists
101 Numbers
102 Family
103 Greetings
104 Food and Drinks
105 Time
106 Rooms
107 City
108 Questions
109 Household Objects
110 Jobs

Listening practice
101 Articles
102 Pronouns
103 Nouns and Adjectives
104 Demonstrative Adjectives
105 Possessive Adjectives
106 Present of Verbs
107 Adverbs
108 Adverbs
109 Interrogative Form
110 Negative Form

Dialogues
101 Telephone
102 Clothes shop
103 Restaurant
104 At the Doctor
105 Taxi
106 The Bistro
107 Hotel
108 Tourism Office
109 Bus Station
110 Looking for a Place

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