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- For building up vocabulary, I've found parallel text very helpful. For French, I've used:
Penguin Parallel Text French Short Stories 1 and 2. New Penguin Parallel Text Short Stories in French. Dover Dual Language Great French Short Stories of the 20th Century. Candide, ou L'optimisme.
These give you enough vocabulary to transition to French-only text or speech without constantly having to refer to a dictionary.
The Penguin series also covers other European languages: Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian. (It also covers Chinese and Japanese, but for them you'd still need to refer to a dictionary for the pronunciation of Hanzi/Kanji, except where furigana are used.)
For spoken French, I've found the Inner French, Hugo Lisoir, and Mamytwink Youtube channels not too difficult to follow.
- Voltaire wrote a whole book to poke fun at the view that this is the best of all possible worlds: Candide, ou l'Optimisme.
