Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul - Couverture souple

Timoney, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846140528 ISBN 13 : 9781846140525

Editeur : Allen Lane, 2007

Synopsis

256 pages, Illustrations

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

From getting the best value from the boulangerie to ordering a steak without getting sneered at, an A-to-Z guide to fitting in en Français

Englishman Charles Timoney was thrown into French life headfirst twenty-five years ago when he and his wife moved to her native France. He had studied French in school, but his memory of vocabulary lists and conjugation drills proved no match for day-to-day living. As he blundered his way toward fluency, he kept a list of words and phrases that wonderfully (sometimes wickedly) epitomized aspects of the French culture-and were used only by native speakers.

Pardon My French tackles the delightful absurdities of French life and language and steers readers past the potential embarrassments of speaking French in France. It is a book no student, traveler, or language maven should be without.

Biographie de l'auteur :

When Charles Timoney and his French wife were both made redundant in the same week they decided to try living in France for a year or so. It proved much harder than expected. Charles' O level in French was little help when everyone around him consistently used a wide variety of impenetrable slang and persisted in the annoying habit of talking about things he had never heard of. But they stayed. Two decades and two thoroughly French children later, he decided to write the guide to French that would have saved him from so many blunders and misunderstandings along the way. This is it.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Allen Lane
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1846140528
• ISBN 13: 9781846140525
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256