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3 french language sites with lots of e-books
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For people who can read in french (personally I read french though far slower than english or my native romanian) these are 3 sites with (legal) e-books in french. Ebooks Libres & Gratuits - like Guttenberg but has many books that are not available there (at least the last time I checked) http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ebooks.php Gallica - the french national library - has some books that I could not find anywhere else http://gallica.bnf.fr/ La Bibliothèque électronique du Québec http://jydupuis.apinc.org/index.htm Liviu |
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Merci beaucoup Liviu. Ce sont des sites, tout près, que je ne connaissais même pas!
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I'd love to see e-books with side by side translations. I took enough French in school to recognize a few words here and there, and it would be neat to have the French and English sentences right next to each other. In fact, if that had been available to me when I still actually remembered some French, I probably would have kept reading in French. (I did it for a while in the past, but it was just too slow to keep looking up so many words.)
Surely that's a way to kill three birds with one stone... learn a language, encourage reading at the same time and provide a new application for e-books. |
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Translating to french is difficult.
Because of a federal law in Canada, every official text has to be issued in both official languages. So has every commercial wrapping, owners manual and whatnot sold in Canada. My brother has made it his life for the last 20y. He's still learning it. The main difficulties arise from the fact that some words have no precise equivalent in the other language. Worse, grammar concepts don't apply either. The worst for anglos, and funniest for us is the memorisation of gender for every noun. BTW there is a very funny movie showing right now, "Bon cop, bad cop" It was made in the two languages, pretty unusual because after 200y. there is still quite a bit of animosity between the two cultures. As we say " Que veux-tu? Rome n'a pas été faite en un jour!" But the movie is a sellout in Québec and lukewarm in the rest of Canada. |
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Ultimately to read in a language, as long as you know a little bit, you gotta bite the bullet and read something you really want to read and have no other choice of languages. It's not that easy as I can tell since I still have not gotten around to reading some books by M. Dantec that I really want to read but cannot find myself to summon the energy for. Only for the amazing Les Bienveillantes (prix Goncourt and prix du Academie Francais 2006, written by an american!! in french), I recently found the energy to slog through. Liviu |
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c'est sympa de repondre en francais ca me fais au moins une reponse que je peux lire
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cheers for the links
I am new to the Ebook world but I have been looking for a site with French novels on it. Ta...
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merci beaucoup pour cette links!
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French editors are way far behind for ebooks... So you'll have every difficulty to find books like these. I'll try classical ones (public domain then), like Jules Verne and La Comtesse de Ségur. |
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IMO a format with notes indicating the translation of words, or explanation of grammatical structures, is much more useful. |
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[QUOTE=Liviu_5;46493]Hi,
For people who can read in french (personally I read french though far slower than english or my native romanian) these are 3 sites with (legal) e-books in french. Ebooks Libres & Gratuits - like Guttenberg but has many books that are not available there (at least the last time I checked) http://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ebooks.php Gallica - the french national library - has some books that I could not find anywhere else http://gallica.bnf.fr/ La Bibliothèque électronique du Québec http://jydupuis.apinc.org/index.htm Liviu[/QUOTE Do you know where i could get an ebook - Le Petite Nicolas sil vous plais Maureen |
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