{"id":2019,"date":"2019-05-04T21:10:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T19:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forum-sprachen-lernen.com\/?page_id=2019"},"modified":"2019-08-30T15:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T13:07:22","slug":"improve-your-french-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forum-sprachen-lernen.com\/en\/improve-your-french-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve your French Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-400\" src=\"https:\/\/forum-sprachen-lernen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dorian-gray-parallel-text-english-french.jpg\" alt=\"Improve your French Vocabulary with: The Picture of Dorian Gray\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"size_h2\">Improve your French Vocabulary with: The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"size_h4\">Le Portrait de Dorian Gray &#8211; Parallel Text English French<\/h2>\n<p>A man mysteriously stays young. In the attic, he hides a portrait of himself. No one is allowed to see it because it is the mirror of his soul and reveals all his atrocities. The once expressed desire that the picture should age instead of himself, has come true &#8230; From the master of the English wordplay Oscar Wilde.<br \/>\nWilde is quoted as saying, \u201cBasil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry is what the world thinks of me: Dorian is what I would like to be\u2014in other ages, perhaps.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"size_h4\">An example for the layout inside the book \u2013 with parallel text<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-400\" src=\"https:\/\/forum-sprachen-lernen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Text-alignemt-example-dorian-gray-english-french.jpg\" alt=\"Example for the text layout - Improve your French vocabulary\" width=\"50%\" \/>The original text and the literary translation are placed in parallel vertical columns side by side. This way the translation can be found fast and without using a dictionary. For even better orientation during reading, every second sentence has a slightly different colour inside the Kindle \u2013 Edition. An example for the layout inside a printbook can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/forum-sprachen-lernen.com\/en\/learn-french-with-short-stories\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<h4 class=\"size_h4_inline_block\">Bonus material for Improve your French Vocabulary: The Picture of Drian Gray<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>A download link for the audiobook (approximately 8 hours duration) of: Le Portrait de Dorian Gray<\/li>\n<li>An Anki Deck to learn the most frequently used French vocabulary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"kaufen clearfix\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-694\" src=\"https:\/\/forum-sprachen-lernen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/shopping-150458_640.png\" alt=\"shop\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.de\/dp\/B00RPLQZ38\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazon.de<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00RPLQZ38\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazon.co.uk<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00RPLQZ38\" rel=\"nofollow\">Amazon.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most famous quotations of &#8216;Improve your French Vocabulary with The Picture of Dorian Gray&#8217; are: <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color:#000000;\"><p>\n\u201cPeople are afraid of themselves, nowadays.\u201d <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014 Les hommes sont effray\u00e9s d&#8217;eux-m\u00eames aujourd&#8217;hui.<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n\u201cThe only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for things it has forbidden itself&#8230;\u201d <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014 Le seul moyen de se d\u00e9barrasser d&#8217;une tentation est d&#8217;y c\u00e9der. Essayez de lui r\u00e9sister, et votre \u00e2me aspire maladivement aux choses qu&#8217;elle s&#8217;est d\u00e9fendues&#8230;<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n\u201cTo define is to limit.\u201d <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b>\u2014 D\u00e9finir est limiter.<\/b><\/span>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improve your French Vocabulary with: The Picture of Dorian Gray Le Portrait de Dorian Gray &#8211; Parallel Text English French A man mysteriously stays young. In the attic, he hides a portrait of himself. No one is allowed to see it because it is the mirror of his soul and reveals all his atrocities. 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