French for reading
by Karl C. Sandberg · first published 1968
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Try reading "French for Reading" by Karl C. Sandberg. It refreshed my French a lot, very quickly, and I was able to read young-adult-level fiction with a little help from a dictionary. Also, I can grok technical stuff pretty well.…
on “Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics” ↗I learned to read French with the book French for Reading. Perhaps the German version would help you. https://smile.amazon.com/German-Reading-Second-John-Wendel/d...
on “The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition” ↗…comprehension as a skill from all the other discrete functions of a language is very straight-forward [1] and, in fact, there are some good analog resources for this. For French: Dandberg and Tatham, French for Reading For German: Jannach, German for Reading Knowledge I've used both and swear they're magic, especially if you're trying to learn to read in a scientific domain that you're already a specialist in (versus…
on “Learning Languages with the Help of Algorithms” ↗