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Books : Merde!: The Real French You Were Never Taught at Schoolby: Genevi eve
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 Rating:  - SynopsisNot an exhaustive or scholarly dictionary of 'argot', but a saucy guide to survival in everyday French as it is really spoken. Includes chapters on love, sex, food and drink, expressing anger and insults Rating: - Good Fun! Useful?-ProbablyAny author of this type of book is on a hiding to nothing - the readership is likely to stretch from the purient schoolboy to the scholarly student! This book treads a good middle ground, with plently of gutter language, but with a hefty nod towards the correct grammar and pronunciation. It's not all gutter language - that would make a very dull book - but it includes plenty of colloquialisms too. The reader or student of this type of book is very much in the hands of the writer ... Read More Rating: - Entertaining.This book is entertaining to leaf through every so often, paritcularly if you might be visiting France any time soon! You do, however, require previous knowledge of French grammar if you want to be able to use your newly learned words effectively. It's great if you want to yell at someone, baffling them so much they're unable to retalliate. Even if you don't want to use the vocabulary (which includes phrases such as "to tear one another's guts out" and "to have it off"), ... Read More Rating:  - The French you really wanted to know... and spanish tooI've had the UK version of this book for years, as well as the sequel "Merde Encore" and the Spanish version "mierda". I couldn't believe my luck. Instant credibility in a few hours reading. I've shown it to many friends and it has been a universal hit. If it was used as a text book in schools, the interest and uptake of foreign languages would be much higher! Rating: - Going to France to enjoy yourself? You need this book!When I first moved to Paris, I could barely speak a word of French (and had no job, and nowhere to stay, but that's another story), apart from a heavily-accented "une baguette de pain s'il vous plait Madame". And I can honestly say that this book was THE most useful thing I read -- indeed, it's the only book I pored over and learnt sections of by heart. Yes, speaking proper sentences and being polite and all that is all very useful, but if you really want to enjoy yourself, and get on with the ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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