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Books : 101 French Idioms (Language - French)

by: Jean-Marie Cassagne, Luc Nisset


Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 448.2421 EAN: 9780844212906 ISBN: 0844212903 Label: McGraw-Hill Contemporary Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Contemporary Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: January 01, 2000 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary Sales Rank: 301 Studio: McGraw-Hill Contemporary	Average Rating: List Price: £3.99 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £2.54 You Save: £1.45 (36%) Prices subject to change.
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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Interesting, useful and funny
I'm not a French speaker or learner myself, but bought this as a gift for a friend who is tackling the language. I'm sure they'll enjoy it as it's quite fun compared to the dry language texts I had to wade through at school. It's interesting to see that some French idioms are quite similar to ours but have an unusual slant. For example, where we have 'Pushing up the daisies', they have 'Eating the daisies from the roots up'; we write 'Rubber cheques', and they write 'wooden' ones (like taking a 'wooden ... Read More

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- 101 French Idioms
I totally agree with the other reviewers (on whose recommendation I bought this book). I am a 'returner' to French, having learned it at school and college, but not having actively used the language for several years. I have also bought another, advanced French course, but wanted something else that would be fun to learn; this is certainly it!

Although it is both funny and witty, it is not only that. As well as a literal and figurative translation, the book gives a typical dialogue of how each ... Read More

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- Fun and useful!
I *love* this book. I bought it because of a recommendation by another reader and it's everything they promised. It had me in fits of laughter and I started using the idioms immediately because the pictures and the explanations show you the circumstances where the idiom is appropriate. I surprised the French speakers I know by my sudden use of apt figurative language. It really is fun to be able to use these sayings. The cartoons are amusing and each one is followed by a dialogue where the saying is used so ... Read More

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- A fun way to improve understanding of the French language
This book is a fun,entertaining book that helps learners of the language grasp colloquialisms that they wouldn't understand otherwise e.g.-(to fall into apples)means to faint!The idiom is given in a conversation to help understand what context it should be used in and these conversations are translated at the back of the book.But the best thing about this book are the comical drawings that illustrate each idiom.This gives the impression that the book has a more lighthearted approach to understanding ... Read More

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