Completed Le Grand Cahier (took between 2-3 weeks this is the first native book I completed, :D. Recommend this book but it is NSFW type book not for kids. Everything in the book is written from kids point of view and in a matter-of-factly direct manner. The approach of the next book in the series seems to be different and didn’t grab my interest so skipping it for now.)
Completed a few graded books this week from hachette. They have free audio files on their site so I just loaded them into lingQ to generate the text for reading together with listening.
My next native book to read was supposed to be Petit Nicolas, started reading it early this week found it a little challenging. Later I came across this book La petite fille de monsieur Linh by Philippe Caludel which felt much easier to read so am going through that now.
One thing I started to notice is that books with longer sentences can be more of a challenge for me to read even though they are supposed to be easy books recommended by others for beginners. The long sentences makes me spend too much time deciphering the meaning that it takes the joy out of reading it. It is not always about the grammar or vocab that makes it difficult.
Other than that, I am also having similar problems like other posters here, don’t feel like making progress in the language as a whole. Mainly due to not practicing speaking, writing and not enough native listening. May need a teacher for that some day.
Completed Le Grand Cahier (took between 2-3 weeks this is the first native book I completed, :D. Recommend this book but it is NSFW type book not for kids. Everything in the book is written from kids point of view and in a matter-of-factly direct manner. The approach of the next book in the series seems to be different and didn’t grab my interest so skipping it for now.)
Completed a few graded books this week from hachette. They have free audio files on their site so I just loaded them into lingQ to generate the text for reading together with listening.
My next native book to read was supposed to be Petit Nicolas, started reading it early this week found it a little challenging. Later I came across this book La petite fille de monsieur Linh by Philippe Caludel which felt much easier to read so am going through that now.
One thing I started to notice is that books with longer sentences can be more of a challenge for me to read even though they are supposed to be easy books recommended by others for beginners. The long sentences makes me spend too much time deciphering the meaning that it takes the joy out of reading it. It is not always about the grammar or vocab that makes it difficult.
Other than that, I am also having similar problems like other posters here, don’t feel like making progress in the language as a whole. Mainly due to not practicing speaking, writing and not enough native listening. May need a teacher for that some day.