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Conversational French Dialogues: Over 100 French Conversations and Short Stories
- Conversational French Dual Language Books
- Narrated by: Noelia Gouty, Craig Levin, Dominic Lorange
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Education & Learning, Language Learning
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Summary
Is conversational French turning a little too tricky for you? Do you have no idea on how to order a meal or book a room at a hotel?
If your answer to any of the previous questions was "Yes", then this audiobook is for you!
If there’s even been something tougher than learning the grammar rules of a new language, it’s finding the way to speak with other people in that tongue. Any student knows this - we can try our best at practicing, but you always want to avoid making embarrassing mistakes or not getting your message through correctly.
"How do I get out of this situation?", many students ask themselves, to no avail, as no answer is forthcoming.
Until now.
We have compiled more than 100 French stories for beginners along with their translations, allowing new French speakers to have the necessary tools to begin studying how to set a meeting, rent a car, or tell a doctor they don’t feel well! We’re not wasting time here with conversations that don’t go anywhere: If you want to know how to solve problems (while learning a ton of French along the way, obviously), this audiobook is for you!
How Conversational French Dialogues works:
- Each new chapter will have a fresh new story between two people who wish to solve a common day-to-day issue you will surely encounter in real life.
- A French version of the conversation will take place first, followed by an English translation. This ensures that you fully understood just what it was they were saying!
- Before and after the main section of the audiobook, we shall provide you with an introduction and conclusion that will offer you important strategies, tips, and tricks to allow you to get the absolute most out of this learning material.
- That’s about it! Simple, useful, and incredibly helpful; you will not need another conversational French guide once you have begun listening to and studying this one!
We want you to feel comfortable while learning the tongue; after all, no language should be a barrier for you to travel around the world and expand your social circles!
So look no further! Pick up your copy of Conversational French Dialogues and start learning French right now!
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- MC
- 28-04-19
For learning French vocabulary and pronunciation
Conversational French Dialogues has 105 short stories /conversations covering a wide range of situations, from ordering a Pizza, being at a supermarket checkout, visiting a house.
My purchase was via Audible so I received the audio tracks and a pdf copy of the book. The stories are read in French first and then in English – with the French/English translations in the pdf if you wish to read the dialogue at the same time.
With Audible you can slow down the speed of the conversation if you are struggling to initially understand what is being said. As you become more proficient, you’ll be able to listen at normal speed. I am a complete beginner and am slowly beginning to build up my French vocabulary using resources like this book. 2000 Most Common French Words in Context, also by Lingo-mastery is very useful as well.
To get the most out of this book, I believe it is important to read along out loud as I believe this is the best way to learn any language. Try and make sure you are relaxed and don’t put yourself under pressure trying to remember the words. I forget what words mean all the time but by going back over the stories days or weeks later, it eventually starts to stick.
You won’t learn French just by reading this book alone and it’s a good idea to use other useful resources such as Duolingo, Tiny Cards, and audio courses by Michel Thomas and Paul Noble (the later are both available on Amazon/Audible).
5 people found this helpful
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- Kayleigh
- 12-05-19
A great help for French learners!
This book is really useful for improving comprehension of the French language, especially in a conversational context. Various common daily dialogues are illustrated e.g. ordering a pizza, and the illustrations are well paced to allow for understanding. The French dialogues are given, and then the English translation is done. This helps the listener to follow the dialogues with proper translations in context. The short stories are also relatable and interesting. It is however more effective for people with some competence with speaking French and English, and not necessarily for absolute beginners.
Good book!
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- Marie Butler
- 27-07-22
Boreing
Just French people talking really fast. No teaching involved. Not educational. There are more pleasant ways of learning.
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- Santiago Carbon
- 16-11-21
If you already speak French works, otherwise not
You have dialogues of a few minutes in French, then English, but on a two minutes conversation in French, the after English you kind of get lost, could even have start in English at least to get some context
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- Anonymous User
- 23-04-21
Poor quality
Unrealistic dialogues based in improbable situations. Minimal effort applied . Not worth the exorbitant price paid
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- Andira
- 08-02-21
Addicted to learn French!
I started learning French to be able to communicate while travelling, but now I know way more than I was aiming for. This book has helped me to focus on a day to day phrasing and conversing in French, it's really easy to follow through the chapters and repeat after the dialogues. It's awesome! Super recommend it!
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- Paul Hely
- 03-05-20
Brilliant
I am moving to France in the summer so I need to learn French. I am intermediate level. These conversations are excellent. They are clearly spoken and not too long. They can also be quite funny. I try to listen to about 3 a day and I listen to them over and over again to get the sense of it. The pdf is also great, and the translation is so useful. It would be nice though if the pdf could be downloaded. Thank you for a great learning tool. Paul.
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- lsll2
- 28-02-20
Simple dialogues normal speed
Good book/audiobook - easy listening and good structure, short conversations in common situations. Listening a second time and following book to improve vocabulary.
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- Lilly
- 31-05-19
Learn French the easy way!
This book is great for quickly improving conversational skills in French. It works best for those with some basic idea of French words and their meaning. I initially started learning French from books, understanding conjugations and the likes. However, this book has helped me to put it all in perspective. Listening to conversations and stories in French make the lessons more relatable and interesting. The French conversations are first introduced, which helps the listener to follow how certain words are pronounced and used. Then, the interpretation in English is given to improve comprehension.
Excellent work by the author, and the narration was well done too.
P.S: I received a free copy of this book for a honest review.
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- JulieM
- 10-02-19
Great tool to improve your French
I am an avid language learner and audiobook listener. I have used audiobooks to improve many of the different languages I study. I know they work, and I wanted to get my ears on this since I've recently visited France and want to improve my language skills.
This audio moves at a fast pace. There are explanations and suggestions for use at the beginning and end. Each chapter has the dialogue spoken by native French speakers and then spoken in (American) English translation.
The positives: The native accents are accurate and clear. The topics and associated vocabulary are on a very nice variety of topics that aren't often covered in other language audios. They are timely and sometimes very funny. If you learned these conversations to mastery level, you would be well prepared with French.
The negatives: The English translations aren't always in natural spoken language. You can guess what they actually mean from context, but a little more care could have been done with that. The performances can sound very stilted. The female performer sometimes mispronounces her English (usually a problem with which syllables are stressed).
I don't think any of the negatives are deal breakers, but they are there. I recommend this to any French learner without reservation, and I'm happy to have gotten a review copy. I would offer a few further pieces of advice to interested listeners.
You have to do the work. This means studying the accompanying PDF and practicing speaking out loud. New learners would benefit by changing the playback speeds to slow down to really hear everything.
Disclaimer: I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
19 people found this helpful
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- Kay
- 05-03-19
Great way to improve your French
This book works particularly well if you have already learned some basic French (alphabet, sounds, basic words) and need to expand your vocabulary or improve your conversational French language skills. There's a wide variety of topics covered and are a practical way to learn French. Personally, I have had difficulty with understanding conversational French (misunderstanding words etc) and this audiobook has really helped me to make progress.
I received this audiobook for free at my request and voluntarily provided this review.
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- Mark Twain "Eddie"
- 19-03-19
Fantastic way to learn French
Lingo Mastery has been writing great books on learning languages. Audiobooks are an ideal form to learn to speak other languages fluently, and I've very much enjoyed picking up French on my commute.
This book focuses on fluid conversation rather than rote vocabulary memorization, which I think is more intuitive for picking up speech. It's very well done, with great production quality and lesson plans. Highly recommended.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
9 people found this helpful
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- Leslie Francis
- 24-01-20
This is not a beginner level language study
This is definitely for the more advanced student. I studied French in high school and college and this was beyond most of my comprehension
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- Shannon G
- 12-03-19
A Great Next Step
This is an excellent book to help beginners to continue their learning of the French language. I am not fluent yet but found this book really helpful in helping to put what I learned in 2000 Most Common French Words in Context to use. Where I didn't catch every word said I was able to follow fairly well. If you are wanting to improve your French then this is an excellent book to have. The narration was well done: clean, clear and easy to follow.
I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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- VermontGuy
- 04-01-21
Excellent listening practice; sometimes a bit odd
I found this book while looking for some entry-level listening practice to supplement my other adventures in learning French. I'm a late A0 (absolute beginner) on the verge of becoming an A1 (beginner), and the conversations in this audio book definitely were a stretch for me. That said, I would still highly recommend the title as I found myself regularly coming back to it for my listening practice.
The stories are entertaining if occasionally a bit weird--such as two people bickering over appliance shopping and a couple that involve fear of wild animals--but it's a hundred conversations, so they can't all be winners. The voice acting by the French speakers is excellent, and they put a bit of humor and emotion into their efforts. They also generally speak slowly enough for even someone at my level to pick out the individual words, For the English portions, Mr. Levin has a soothing, clear voice, but he uses a flat, TV announcer delivery that makes his conversations with the more expressive Ms. Goutey sound a bit like someone reading lines to an actor who's practicing a role.
The only other caveat is that a few of the English translations are slightly awkward or not exactly colloquially correct. For example, "...it pains you that I can access to everything that has always been forbidden to me." I realize that there are always tradeoffs in translation, and the issues are certainly small and don't detract from understanding the intent of a given phrase.
All in all, a small price to pay for several hours of good-quality listening practice.
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- AScott
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PDF transcript does not match the audio
So far not so good. Some of the conversations are forced; and some of the topics are useless, for example Pest Control, Picking Mushrooms. The English translation appeared to be done using Reverso or Google translate.
The PDF transcript for the Audible book does not match audio. The purpose of a transcript is to help you associate sounds with the word to improve comprehension. The first discrepancies are seen in the very first story "Commander une pizza". In Lue's third line he says "Pour ce qui est des anchois..." but the accompanying text says "S'agissant des anchois...". Sometimes the small noises the French speaker makes ( uh, oh ) are excluded from the transcript.
It appears neither the Kindle nor the Audible version of this book was reviewed for mistakes. Language learners should not have to research and edit material they've purchased in order for it to be useful.
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Great Tool For Improving Casual French
I found this book to be extremely helpful in improving my conversational skills with other francophones. It has helped me to learn idioms and other expressions found in more casual, laid back dialogue. Highly recommend for anyone looking to improve their skills or who will be entering a French speaking area soon!
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- Rebecca J.
- 25-03-19
Excellent book!
I am planning a trip to France in a few months, and wanted to improve my basic comprehension of the French language. I love how the book presents the dialogues, the pace of learning and the approach to teaching. This has been very useful for me, and I already feel more confident about my social interactions in French.
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- Walter
- 03-03-19
Great book.
This book has helped me improve my French significantly. Following the conversations and pronunciation; I feel more confident speaking French now.
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