{"id":1972,"date":"2025-01-27T17:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T01:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2025-01-27T18:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T02:33:53","slug":"petit-poulet-henry-huhnchen-pollito-tito-also-known-as-chicken-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2025\/01\/27\/petit-poulet-henry-huhnchen-pollito-tito-also-known-as-chicken-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Petit Poulet, Henry H\u00fchnchen, Pollito Tito\u2026 also known as Chicken Little"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXecSRZyqZPR31ircYd-kP_rGr-fbBOCGQtNecD1MZIEiP3sP8N8eP7S4rBlKYZVg6R0b9T-6MQPy4fKwbRXQnCod_F8U_cA4Dr963SkxfC93D7Uhpx61wVgfKtqW1fuTY-RRPDd9A?key=u21UCyDpfp8YtFTeUgpFq0d7\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Petit Poulet, aka Chicken Little, looking at his computer. &#8220;Le ciel est en train de tomber!&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>THE SKY IS FALLING, and you can read that in three other languages on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefablecottage.com\/\">TheFableCottage.com<\/a><\/strong>. I discovered this website with a friend as we attempted to read bedtime stories in each other\u2019s languages. TheFableCottage is a multilingual library of bedtime stories written in French, German, Spanish, and also Italian! Each story has a few features that make it really helpful for beginning students: audio recordings, captioned video animations, illustrations, and English translations if you get stuck. All of their free short stories can be found on each language\u2019s respective website: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefrenchexperiment.com\/stories\">TheFrenchExperiment.com<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegermanproject.com\/stories\">TheGermanProject.com<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespanishexperiment.com\/stories\">TheSpanishExperiment.com<\/a><\/strong>. (Stories can also be accessed on TheFableCottage, but not all of them are free.) This is a great resource for beginner-level students, as the grammar and vocabulary are written using everyday and simple language. These stories expand upon the beginner-level language you\u2019ve learned so far using a story you\u2019re likely already familiar with. Having an additional resource like this can supplement what you learn in class and in your textbook by creating a new context where you use your target language. For example, you may have introduced a photo of your family to your 100-level class, but you can practice that same family vocabulary in the context of <em>Goldilocks and the Three Bears<\/em>. I found the short stories on TheFableCottage to be the perfect resource for anyone in their first year of a language class, and I recommend that you check it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE SKY IS FALLING, and you can read that in three other languages on TheFableCottage.com. I discovered this website with a friend as we attempted to read bedtime stories in each other\u2019s languages. TheFableCottage is a multilingual library of bedtime stories written in French, German, Spanish, and also Italian! Each story has a few features &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2025\/01\/27\/petit-poulet-henry-huhnchen-pollito-tito-also-known-as-chicken-little\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Petit Poulet, Henry H\u00fchnchen, Pollito Tito\u2026 also known as Chicken Little&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2883,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,69,70,85,146,72],"tags":[208,105,104],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginner","category-french","category-german","category-literature","category-online-resources","category-spanish","tag-italian","tag-learning-resource","tag-recommendation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1977,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}