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Congratz on finishing the book! You seem to have quite the pace on reading, I really admire that.
I can imagine a romance book like that gives quite a lot of vocabulary related to emotions. Do you pick your books (additionally to the graded attribute, I recall) based on possible vocabulary to learn?
That book was only 62 pages so it was fast and I was already half way through before I started it back up again last week. Her books are all romance and will give vocab in that regard. But I am just reading them for the reading practice. I am not even sure if I can remember all the vocab I've been lazy to export out the highlighted words to Anki. Graded books are usually easy to read, can go through them quickly and give me an idea of my reading level.
For graded book I pick based on the level, but every books are also picked based on recommendation on forums, reviews on amazon . I would read the samples provided on amazon, If the sample is readable I may buy it. I also see if audio is available.
In term of vocab to learn I do think that it might be good to avoid fantasy/sci-fiction type book because the vocab used there might not useful in day to day life, but end of the day do what motivates you to practice everyday.
Le Grand Cahier (190 pages) feels easier to read than L'étranger. It is also a trilogy so should keep me busy for a while. I think I bought it awhile back when someone recommended it on some forum, mentioning that the author use of french language is simple, because she is not native french. I avoided starting it earlier because of lack of audio, stuck with graded readers but now decided to read this after trying a few other native books.
So basically I am trying to move out of graded reader and into native content so that is why I tried Le petit prince (readable but difficult, philosophical), HarryPotter(difficult), L'étranger (readable but a little challenging) and now Le Grand Cahier seems to be a good fit. Hopefully I will stick with it and complete it.
Adding a list of native books that I plan to read eventually, in roughly the order below.. for now.
Below are games I am playing usually mostly on weekends if I have time.
I agree that sci-fi/fantasy is not the best for learning - even in my native language they use words in fantasy literature that you will most likely never need and it might be just confusing a learner.
Super interesting, thanks for sharing! If you feel comfortable, could you share a forum where you see these tips? The original creator of this community put a couple of forums into our sidebar but I have never heard of them and was wondering if one of these is the one you use?
I remember long time ago I tried to play games like Kingdom Come: Deliverance it was difficult but eventually realized it might not be a good idea, some of the vocab there I will probably never use. And they might be speaking in a more medieval manner. So I switch to more current day type of game like that broken sword series with as little fantasy as possible.
For forum, no particular site to recommend, I mostly just search on google. Which leads to sites like Quora, reddit or Language learner forum listed on the right or blogposts, Youtube and etc. Example on Quora https://www.quora.com/What-French-book-is-a-good-and-simple-read-if-French-is-your-second-language Forgot to mention another criteria I look for is that the book must be available digitally.
I also tried with Diablo to do this, but I had the same problem.
Ah thanks! Okay so the language learner's forum seems useful. I have to take a look at the unilang forum to see if it is active enough to advertise here.