Learn French with „The Picture of Dorian Gray“

A free download of the audio book in French is available via a link inside the book. The duration of the audio is approximately 8 hours.

Your advantages:

• The original text and the literary translation are placed in parallel vertical columns side by side.
• Therefore you can check almost instantly whether you understand or not. This is ideal to increase your vocabulary significantly very fast.
• To be able to look them up faster the sentences are alternately colored.
• So you can truly enjoy the story since you need only a split second to check the translation.
• The French translation is very close to the English original. This makes understanding simple and lookup of difficult words fast.
• The book has a vocabulary of about 7300 words. The language level is very high, but even beginners can read the books because of the parallel text alignment.

Why use Oscar Wilde in this translation to learn French?

Oscar Wilde was famous for his brilliant rhetoric. The French translation is very close to the English Original and really captures the spirit of the book. This makes reading a pleasure. World literature filmed several times, biting wit which makes reading French fun and remembering vocabulary easy.

Extensive reading and learning French with parallel texts: Why?

Extensive reading means reading a lot in a foreign language. It is not important to understand every word. You just continue to read in order to find out what happens next. The pleasure of reading is really what increases language abilities. Kato Lomb was a Hungarian interpreter who spoke several languages fluently. She described in her book “How I Learn Languages” how she used extensive reading to increase her vocabulary fast. The American linguist Stephen Krashen has said that free voluntary reading is “the most powerful tool we have in language education”.