This book isn't anything you have to memorize. As Catherine Ostrower, who teaches French at Wesleyan and was proofreading the book, wrote to the author: "THIS BOOK IS JUST SO MUCH FUN TO READ!"
It gives you the fascinating stories of English words that came from French, often words you would never have dreamt were French (like important, relay, stereotype, surrender, stranger, similar, and delicious). It tells you how these words evolved, how they arrived in English, and how they changed once in English. Think of these fascinating stories as a little treat for when you just feel like...
This book isn't anything you have to memorize. As Catherine Ostrower, who teaches French at Wesleyan and was proofreading the book, wrote to the au...
If you have read the first book in this series, "All the French You Use Without Knowing It," you already know that this is not a book with useful facts to memorize. In fact it's probably not useful at all. It's interesting. It's fun to read. It will stretch your mind and introduce you to things you never imagined. Think of reading these fascinating stories just as a pleasure you grant yourself when you just feel like reading something interesting.
If you have read the first book in this series, "All the French You Use Without Knowing It," you already know that this is not a book with useful fact...
Most English speakers are unaware that probably half their language comes from French, or indeed is French, recently transplanted. This book tells you the fascinating stories of English words that came from French, often words you would never have dreamt were French (like curtsy, mutton, very, surrender, important, grenade, pistol and dozen). It tells you how these words evolved, how they arrived in English, and how they changed once in English.
This is not a book with useful facts to memorize (although you'll learn a lot of French and a lot about French while you read). However, it's...
Most English speakers are unaware that probably half their language comes from French, or indeed is French, recently transplanted. This book tells ...
We are so used to hearing about all the French words that are found in English and about how purist the French are about their language, that we don't realize how many English words have migrated into French.
You'll be astonished by how many English words are used in French. French is inundated with them Swamped with them Most are native English words, but surprisingly, some were originally French words which moved into English long ago, evolved a different meaning, and then moved back to French with the new meaning as anglicismes.
English words aren't always taken into French with...
We are so used to hearing about all the French words that are found in English and about how purist the French are about their language, that we do...
Laissez-moi vous dire ce que ce livre n'est pas. Ce n'est pas un livre sur l'apprentissage du vocabulaire, ni un livre pour apprendre des temps de verbes, ni pour mieux apprendre la grammaire. Alors qu'est-ce que c'est? C'est un livre pour vous aider a comprendre, et surtout a parler l'anglais plus couramment, a parler l'anglais familier, a parler l'anglais qu'utilisent les anglophones, et specialement les Americains. Vous avez ici des mots et expressions-cles de la langue normale, de la langue familiere, et de l'argot, qui sont utilises chaque jour dans la conversation. Ce sont des mots qui...
Laissez-moi vous dire ce que ce livre n'est pas. Ce n'est pas un livre sur l'apprentissage du vocabulaire, ni un livre pour apprendre des temps de ver...
