by Innovative Language
Libby audiobook 3.5 hours
Published: 2012
Genre: non-fiction, language
I got this audiobook because I love the French language. I was so close to being bilingual as a teenager, but I gave up when it got too hard with verb tenses.
Listening to this was fun, especially when they used pauses for the listener to practice. Other parts were just plain interesting. If I were truly a beginner, I may have been discouraged. There is a LOT of content in this audio. It's nicely broken up into short lessons. If I were truly trying to learn the language this way, I would probably just buy the resource to practice over and over.
It's also interesting to primarily listen and speak without seeing the text. They often spelled out what they were saying, but I could mostly picture the words because of my past experience with studying French (in the late 1970s and early 1980s!).
I also checked out a copy of Nelson Mandela in French. It's the one that's part of the Little People, Big Dreams series. That was an eBook and hard to read because I had to keep enlarging the page to be able to see the text, then zooming back out to see the entire page. It was tedious. I like reading children's books in French because they're less demanding than novels for adults. But I think I'll have to check out print books for this so I can take my time, see the text, and look up words I don't know. (I'll have to pull out my old French / English dictionary.)
I highly recommend this audio for anyone trying to become more familiar with French. The co-hosts (Virginie & ??? I forgot the guy's name) were cute and playful but not obnoxious.
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