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Besides (because of?) the fact that there's a Henry Miller quote on the first page, I love how beautiful these textsbooks are. What I'm wondering about is pacing. Obviously we are not using it as intended, and further my own french is miserable (have the teacher book)but is it one little section at a time? There's "only" 10 chapters, but multiple subsections. Would love to hear how you use it. Thanks so much.

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We use it mostly as reading component.

10 chapters suggest a 4 weeks per chapter pace, according a 40 week school year.

Dd reads x time per day and retells the story in Dutch.

 

We use terre de lettres just for reading and we own from jardin des lettres also the workbook.

I use that mostly for their writing prompts.

 

Dd loves the stories in both books.

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We use it mostly as reading component.

10 chapters suggest a 4 weeks per chapter pace, according a 40 week school year.

Dd reads x time per day and retells the story in Dutch.

 

We use terre de lettres just for reading and we own from jardin des lettres also the workbook.

I use that mostly for their writing prompts.

 

Dd loves the stories in both books.

Thanks--the first chapter was poetry and that threw me.

Do you speak french? I wonder how i correct the writing--i'm going to pay his tutor an extra session to do so I think. I'm doing this one in addition to what he does with the tutor, which is one chapter of the kiddie version of Count of Monte Cristo (and homework) per week. He also listens to audiobooks and reads indipendently 30 min per day

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Dh has the honour here to check french writings :)

I don't know French wel enough.

 

Dd loves the poetry in it.

That's why I love the serie: I would have no clue how to find poetry by level :)

 

I coach dd through C'est bien ca.

A textbook used in adult education, but also used for selfstudy.

Dh is once a week available to cover all the conversation exercises, So yes we work also 30 min. A day on french.

 

If you have a kindle you can buy french books through www.amazon.com. Then you also get the french dictionary option, so that made reading french easier to dd.

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I do have kindle and I did get a few french books but not sure how to turn the french dictionary on...

I love having him read a book and listening to the same audiobook. Unfortunately with audible owned by Amazon, it seems most french books are either kindle or audible, but not both. It's ok, he listens to enough other french.

Any favorite kindle books there?

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I don't know if it is appropriate for you, but as an FYI, the Harry Potter series is available in French on kindle right now. It is, in fact, on kindle unlimited so I have been reading through them on my free month trial.

Thanks! We have the paper version (and the corresponding CD, which was so $$) for the first HP, but not the rest.
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