Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots)

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• Riquet A La Houppe - Original Version
• Riquet A La Houppe - My Version & translation
• Peau d'Âne - Original tale
• Peau d'Âne - My Version

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Camille's version + Original version = 28+ minutes of audio for $7.99

A cat with boots, a king, a fake Marquess, an ogre, and of course, a beautiful princess...

The first recording is my own rendition of this famous French tale, like I tell it to my giggling 5 year old daughter. It's light and fun, and easy to understand, yet a great way to work on verb tenses and vocabulary.

The second recording is the original 17th century version of the tale by Charles Perrault. The increase in difficulty...

... in the text is great to build up vocabulary and more formal ways of speaking. I think this would be great for intermediate and advanced students.

This Classic French Tale includes:

• An MP3 of my version of the tale (13:55 minutes)
• An MP3 of the original tale (14:26 minutes)
• A PDF file with the transcript of my version of the tale, English translation, and gorgeous pictures

For a sample, make sure you check out the free "Cendrillon (Cinderella)"

You can follow the French text (the French text is in the public domain since it was written in the 17th century) and the English translation in the Dual-Language Book presented here. I will be reading many tales from this book, and if you buy it through this link (just click on the button "buy it on Amazon.com", it will take you on the Amazon site), a small portion of the sale will get to me thanks to the Amazon