A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: The Ideal Guide to Sounding, Acting and Shrugging Like the French

ISBN-13: 9780141041674 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str.

Charles Timoney

Opis

If you want to fit in with the French you'll have to know how to deal with louche waiters, what you're really eating when you're dining on escargots and, of course, how to convey absolute, shattering indifference with a single syllable. This book shows you all this and more.

O autorze

When Charles Timoney and his French wife were both made redundant in the same week they decided to try living in France for a year or so. It proved much harder than expected. Charles' O level in French was little help when everyone around him consistently used a wide variety of impenetrable slang and persisted in the annoying habit of talking about things he had never heard of. But they stayed. Two decades and two thoroughly French children later, he decided to write the two books that would have saved him from so many blunders and misunderstandings along the way: Pardon My French and A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi.