Speaking Better French: The Key Words and Expressions that You'll Need Every Day | 
 enlarge | Author: Saul, H. Rosenthal
Publisher: Wheatmark
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Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1587368374
Dewey Decimal Number: 440
EAN: 9781587368370
ASIN: 1587368374
Publication Date: August 15, 2007
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This book will help you use the little key words and expressions that you'll need every day in French conversation. They are the French equivalents of English expressions like: "just in case", "as soon as", "in spite of", "provided that", and many others. You might use an idiom like "sowing his wild oats" once in ten years, but you hear and use expressions like "just in case" and "as soon as" all the time. You need to know them! They make the language flow. In addition you'll learn how to use the most common everyday expressions from colloquial spoken French, like "Pas de probleme", "Quelle horreur", "J'en ai marre", and "Ne te casse pas la tete." The key words and expressions are individually discussed and illustrated in phrases and sentences, each with a discussion of context so that you will become more comfortable with them. Not only will you recognize these expressions and key words if you hear or read them, but you will be able to use them yourself. This book will be a pleasure for you. It's one of those rare finds, a book that is both very useful and also fun to read!
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Really helps you speak "real" French! September 23, 2008
Excellent book for advanced beginner and beyond. Helps you transition to speaking French as it is really spoken---rather than just literally translating English word-for-word. Teaches you all those expressions that are used all the time in real life conversation, but which get barely a mention in textbooks. Highly recommended!
Fills a huge void, but... February 12, 2008
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
Perhaps the most amazing thing about this book is that it took until 2007 for anyone to think of writing it! The author's insight is right on target. This book does indeed fill a huge and inexplicable gap in the otherwise very crowded market for books on learning French. (Come to think of it, I haven't found such books in any of the three foreign languages I've studied besides French.) Just for this reason, I give the book 5 stars, by way of encouragement. But, that said, it's still too little! The author has only scratched the surface. I've been studying French for less than a year, and even I can spot some significant omissions. Where is "en tout cas", for example? Or "tout a fait"? Or "d'un/de l'autre cote"? Or "alors" (not "et alors?", but "alors", tout court-or "tout court" for that matter). Or "tu te rends compte"? Or "pas n'importe comment"? Or "histoire de". Etc., etc., etc. From this sampling off the top of my head, I figure that there's easily enough similar material to fill a few more similarly-sized books! I hope the author hasn't run out of steam!
Learning French is hard! This makes it easier. January 21, 2008
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
Pumping oneself up to dig into, gasp!, another French language learning text is hard. They are so organized, present so much of so many concepts. This takes a different tack. The organization is in the index - the main text is, well, how one learns these vital connecting phrases in real life, at random. Some of the most vital vocabulary are these ways of connecting the words and clauses we know, so that make our conversation or writing FLOW!
This contains up to a page or two on some expressions. And this gem is on the short list of my essential books for improving my knowledge of French.
Also see: 1001 MOST USEFUL FRENCH WORDS by Marcela Ottolenghi Buxbaum published by Dover in 2001. All four reviewers gave it a FIVE! Thin, unbelievable low price (try $4.00!), essential.
1001 Most Useful French Words (Beginners' Guides)
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