![]() It wasn’t easy to read all of Arsène Lupin’s adventures, but as I went along, I got better, and my vocabulary got richer, too.Įven if top-hatted jewel thieves who are masters of disguise and seduction don’t appeal to you (hard for me to believe, but okay), there are so many other French short stories out there that are worth discovering – and learning from. The criminal I mentioned wasn’t a real-life one, but a certain Arsène Lupin, gentleman cambrioleur (gentleman burglar), the hero of a series of early 20 th century crime/adventure novels, and still a pop culture figure in France today, not to mention the inspiration for a French TV series, as well as a manga and anime series, Lupin the Third, among other things. Vocabulary sticks with you more if you had to struggle to find its meaning, and grammatical structures that an author knowingly or unknowingly relies on tend to stay in your mind like an echo. But those experiences also ended up teaching me things. Some were fairly easy, while others required me to look up nearly every word (and in the days before dictionary apps, this meant taking a significant pause in my reading). One of the best French teachers I ever had was a charming criminal.Īfter several years of learning French, I started reading French stories and books on my own.
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