Author: Francoise Blanchard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416546413
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
SAY CHIC...C'est magnifique! Ever wonder why some French words have become so common in English as to be clichés? Or why your witty repartee wouldn't be quite so witty without them? In Say Chic, Françoise Blanchard and Jeremy Leven collect more than seventy familiar French words and phrases that have become a permanent part of the American vocabulary. In their clever, often amusing style, the authors explain the origin of each word, its meaning, and how it came to be adopted into English. Uniting the sensibilities of an American author and a French author, these surprisingly entertaining stories combine world history, pop culture, etymology, and pithy observations about Americans and the French, with no small amount of panache. Featuring delightful illustrations, Say Chic will find its raison d'être on the bookshelf of anyone who has ever longed to be an American in Paris and hankers for a bit more of that irresistible je ne sais quoi in America.
Solibo Magnificent
Author: Patrick Chamoiseau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781862073135
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
It's carnival time in Fort-de-France, Martinique. Before an enthralled crowd, Solibo Magnificent, the great teller of tales, is seemingly choked by his own words. Is it astrostrangulation or murder? The two investigating officers discover a transitory universe at the threshold of oblivion.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781862073135
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
It's carnival time in Fort-de-France, Martinique. Before an enthralled crowd, Solibo Magnificent, the great teller of tales, is seemingly choked by his own words. Is it astrostrangulation or murder? The two investigating officers discover a transitory universe at the threshold of oblivion.
Say Chic
Author: Francoise Blanchard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416546413
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
SAY CHIC...C'est magnifique! Ever wonder why some French words have become so common in English as to be clichés? Or why your witty repartee wouldn't be quite so witty without them? In Say Chic, Françoise Blanchard and Jeremy Leven collect more than seventy familiar French words and phrases that have become a permanent part of the American vocabulary. In their clever, often amusing style, the authors explain the origin of each word, its meaning, and how it came to be adopted into English. Uniting the sensibilities of an American author and a French author, these surprisingly entertaining stories combine world history, pop culture, etymology, and pithy observations about Americans and the French, with no small amount of panache. Featuring delightful illustrations, Say Chic will find its raison d'être on the bookshelf of anyone who has ever longed to be an American in Paris and hankers for a bit more of that irresistible je ne sais quoi in America.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416546413
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
SAY CHIC...C'est magnifique! Ever wonder why some French words have become so common in English as to be clichés? Or why your witty repartee wouldn't be quite so witty without them? In Say Chic, Françoise Blanchard and Jeremy Leven collect more than seventy familiar French words and phrases that have become a permanent part of the American vocabulary. In their clever, often amusing style, the authors explain the origin of each word, its meaning, and how it came to be adopted into English. Uniting the sensibilities of an American author and a French author, these surprisingly entertaining stories combine world history, pop culture, etymology, and pithy observations about Americans and the French, with no small amount of panache. Featuring delightful illustrations, Say Chic will find its raison d'être on the bookshelf of anyone who has ever longed to be an American in Paris and hankers for a bit more of that irresistible je ne sais quoi in America.
Anna and the French Kiss
Author: Stephanie Perkins
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1409579956
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Anna had everything figured out – she was about to start senior year with her best friend, she had a great weekend job and her huge work crush looked as if it might finally be going somewhere... Until her dad decides to send her 4383 miles away to Paris. On her own. But despite not speaking a word of French, Anna finds herself making new friends, including Étienne St. Clair, the smart, beautiful boy from the floor above. But he's taken – and Anna might be too. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with the French kiss she's been waiting for?
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1409579956
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Anna had everything figured out – she was about to start senior year with her best friend, she had a great weekend job and her huge work crush looked as if it might finally be going somewhere... Until her dad decides to send her 4383 miles away to Paris. On her own. But despite not speaking a word of French, Anna finds herself making new friends, including Étienne St. Clair, the smart, beautiful boy from the floor above. But he's taken – and Anna might be too. Will a year of romantic near-misses end with the French kiss she's been waiting for?
Modern French CE
Author: Samuel N. Rosenberg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110821621
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110821621
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Author:
Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2954273267
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher: TheBookEdition
ISBN: 2954273267
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Speaking French Grammar, Forming a Collection of Colloquial Essays, Particularly Adapted to Render the Speaking of French Easy to English Persons: in Sixty Lessons
Author: I. V. DONVILLE
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The speaking French grammar. [With] Key
Author: J V. Douville
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations, Comprising Idioms, Proverbs, Maxims, Mottoes, Technical Words and Terms, Press Allusions... from the Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese... with English Translations & Equivalents, Ed. with Notes
Author: Hugh Percy Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Time and Emergence in Grammar
Author: Simona Pekarek Doehler
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027267987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This monograph examines how language contributes to the social coordination of actions in talk-in-interaction. Focusing on a set of frequently used constructions in French (left-dislocation, right-dislocation, topicalization, and hanging topic), the study provides an empirically rich contribution to the understanding of grammar as thoroughly temporal, emergent, and contingent upon its use in social interaction. Based on data from a range of everyday interactions, the authors investigate speakers’ use of these constructions as resources for organizing social interaction, showing how speakers continuously adapt, revise, and extend grammatical trajectories in real time in response to local contingencies. The book is designed to be both informative for the specialized scholar and accessible to the graduate student familiar with conversation analysis and/or interactional linguistics.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027267987
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This monograph examines how language contributes to the social coordination of actions in talk-in-interaction. Focusing on a set of frequently used constructions in French (left-dislocation, right-dislocation, topicalization, and hanging topic), the study provides an empirically rich contribution to the understanding of grammar as thoroughly temporal, emergent, and contingent upon its use in social interaction. Based on data from a range of everyday interactions, the authors investigate speakers’ use of these constructions as resources for organizing social interaction, showing how speakers continuously adapt, revise, and extend grammatical trajectories in real time in response to local contingencies. The book is designed to be both informative for the specialized scholar and accessible to the graduate student familiar with conversation analysis and/or interactional linguistics.
A Vos Marques!
Author: Alison Andrews
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134728662
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This Teachers' book is designed to accompany the A Vos Marques student's book, an introductory French course designed specifically for false beginners.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134728662
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This Teachers' book is designed to accompany the A Vos Marques student's book, an introductory French course designed specifically for false beginners.