Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles Timoney
Publisher: Gotham
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 305891
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.2
ISBN: 1592403735
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.0944
EAN: 9781592403738
ASIN: 1592403735
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
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Product Description
The French you learned in school wont get you far! Pardon My French is an entertaining and useful guide to the words and phrases every Francophile, traveler, student, and word maven should know, with fascinating lore and tidbits that make sense of the Gallic mind-set.
Englishman Charles Timoney was thrown into French life headfirst twenty-five years ago when he and his wife moved to native France. He had studied French in school, but his memory of vocabulary lists and verb-conjugation drills proved no match for day-to-day living and communicating with French coworkers. As he blundered towards fluency, he collected the idioms and phrases that no one ever taught him in a classroom and that wonderfully (sometimes wickedly) epitomized lesprit francais. Pardon My French includes insiders language tips for dining, shopping, understanding French slang, and more. Selections include:
Faire un canard, which literally means to do a duck,but also refers to dunking sugar lumps in coffee and is the preferred way to get a kick of sugar caffeine in France.
Tablette de chocloat, which literally means chocolate bar, but is also the term for a finely muscled male stomach in France. Since the English equivalent is a six pack, its a splendid example of how differently we see things!
Packed throughout with whimsical cartoons and trivia (including the words to La Marseillaise), Pardon My French is a marvelous armchair trip abroad.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Tres magnifique August 30, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Funny, informative and a book you can read again and again. Highly recommended for anyone studying French.
Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul July 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very lucidly written, insightful & very readable. I would highly recommend it for those interested in more than just the mechanics of the French language.
 Pardon my French June 24, 2008
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a fun and interesting read if you are curious about the uniqueness of the French and their culture. The entries are organized by subjects such a food, getting about, education, and many others. It is not meant to be a deep analysis of the origins of these behaviors but it does at times appear to be a bit superficial. I have spent a lot of time in France and, overall, I found the vignettes and topics to be pretty accurate. The writer's style is straight forward, humorous, and presented in good context. Anyone planning to be in France for some extended time should find the book enjoyable and helpful.
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