Dictionary of French Building Terms: Essential for Renovators, Builders and Home-owners - Couverture souple

Wiles, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1840244941 ISBN 13 : 9781840244946

Editeur : Summersdale Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This essential dictionary and phrase book provides every term you need to know when buying, maintaining, renovating or building a home in France. Accessible and comprehensive, it includes the technical words you won't find in an ordinary dictionary for tools and equipment and every aspect of painting, carpentry, roofing, plumbing and drainage. It also equips you with terminology for planning structural changes such as extensions and determining boundaries. An appendix of emergency phrases will make this a book you'll want to keep by the phone at all times. Whether you own a home or work in France, this book will help you talk to French tradesmen with authority and avoid costly misunderstandings as you pull down the language barrier brick by brick.

Revue de presse

"Includes hundreds of up-to-date words that you won't find in an
ordinary dictionary!"
-- Brit Mag, May - June 2007

... plain alphabeticalised sailing. There are key words for every possible scenario. ...this is what we have all been waiting for. -- Living France Magazine, August 2006

The practical know-how to turn your pie-in-the-sky scheme into
reality.
-- The Mail on Sunday

This is what we have all been waiting for. --Living France magazine

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Summersdale Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1840244941
• ISBN 13: 9781840244946
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 256