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  • What's up guys today

  • I'm going to talk about a certain type of book that you can read that I think is really gonna

  • Help you with your language learning, and it's gonna be kind of a short video today, because I'm on vacation in

  • Montreal, Canada

  • where I came to practice my French and

  • As you can see I was really dedicated to practicing my French because there's a ton of snow

  • It's really cold and only a crazy person comes to Canada while they're on winter vacation

  • But I wanted to come here because I'm really dedicated to learning French and

  • one of the things that I did while on vacation here in Montreal is I went to a small book shop and

  • It's kind of an old book shop. There's a very old lady

  • behind the front desk and

  • You know they have all these books that look like they were probably

  • published in

  • 1936 or something so a lot of them were very old

  • But it was nice

  • It was a it was a cool little bookshop, and I asked the lady behind the scan this was all in French

  • You know obviously I asked her. What kind of book would you recommend for someone?

  • Who's just learning French and?

  • Her answer actually kind of surprised me, and it was something that I had never actually thought of before

  • But it's a great idea

  • And she said you need to be reading plays if you want to read if you want to learn French read plays

  • written in the French language

  • and if you recall reading

  • Romeo and Juliet, or I don't know any of the inning Shakespeare especially Shakespeare from high school um

  • there

  • While Shakespeare is a little more difficult because of the ancient language?

  • But um the nice thing about plays that I hadn't really thought about before

  • That this lady was telling me was that you know what they they're very short phrases

  • You don't have this huge page. Just full of words, and it's not that intimidating

  • It's just it's mostly dialogue plays are almost entirely dialogue. You know and you just have you have the name of someone

  • So you know exactly who's speaking at all times?

  • And then you know they just give them very short phrase and then moves the next person and it's easy to follow

  • And I thought this was a great idea

  • North thought about this before

  • So I bought two I bought kid bear Express, and I'm a man

  • and so I'm gonna be reading these and

  • Actually, I've been reading a little bit here on vacation, and I like it. I are very easy for me to follow

  • And the other nice thing is a lot Platinum's

  • They have like they have little pictures that are actually from the play, so it gives you a little bit of context to understand

  • What's going on?

  • It's not difficult reading

  • very short phrases

  • Which is important? If you're beginner um and it's interesting. This is not like

  • You're not reading children's books. Just because the comprehension level is easier

  • And in this plays that adults actually go to for entertainment, so it's interesting and it's able to hold my interest

  • so the

  • using plays or any kind of book from the theatre I

  • Had no, thought about this before but I think that's gonna be a great way of getting some comprehensible input

  • That's still interesting and it's not gonna overwhelm you so that's my short advice for this week well

  • I'm still on vacation enjoying my time here in Canada practicing my French

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  • That are gonna make language learning fast fun and easy because I really believe that

  • Learning a new language is a single thing you can do that's going to enrich your life

  • More than anything else that you can learn so thanks for watching my video, and we'll see you guys next week

What's up guys today

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