**Question:** Are there any textbooks for learning French that are based on the natural method?

**What's the natural method, you say?** It is a method of learning the language like a child would, that is the textbook would be **all in French** and would be very easy to read at the beginning, even with no previous knowledge of the language, and then progresses to more advanced texts. There are **no translation excercises**, **no explanations of words or grammar in your mother tongue** – the point is to get you to immerse yourself into the language, to start to think in the language. **Words that might be difficult are explained by illustrations**. Hans Ørberg's *Lingua Latina per se illustrata* (something like "Latin illustrated in itself") is a perfect example:

![Lingua Latina: Familia Romana, Chapter 1](https://i.stack.imgur.com/tCKgh.jpg)