• Lit
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    9 hours ago

    It is going to take me a while to complete that book since I am reading it intensively looking up everything I don’t understand. L’Étranger doesn’t use the passé simple tense so I went with it after trying several other books. Passé simple only seems to be used in books but not used in spoken French.

    I also read graded readers like those from CLE to have something easier to read with hardly any lookups. InnerFrench podcast transcript are also good for easy read.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      19 hours ago

      Ohh, interesting reason for going with that book, seems like you’ve read into the topic!

      I gave up on reading once I realized I’m going to look up every third word even with the most simple books - so taking a break from that (except little prince) until I manage better. Even graded books for my level seemed too hard. But I’ll try again after taking my next course!