The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed - Softcover

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Julie Barlow; Jean-Benoit Nadeau

 
9780715652190: The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0715652192 ISBN 13: 9780715652190
Verlag: Duckworth Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

'The writing is as light as it is substantive, and if that sounds like a contradiction, I would refer you to a soufflé.' The New York Times

Why do the French like talking about the decline of France ? Why does broaching a subject like money end all discussion? Why do the French become so aroused debating the merits and qualities of their own language? Julie Barlow and Jean- Benoît Nadeau spent a decade travelling to and living in Paris. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to converse comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language.

Through encounters with school principals, city-hall civil servants, old friends and business acquaintances during their time living in France with their twin daughters, Julie and Jean-Benoît explain why, culturally and historically, talking to the French is not about communicating or being nice. It's about being interesting.

After reading The Bonjour Effect, even readers with only a smattering of French will be able to hold their own the next time they are in a bistro on the Left Bank, on a wine tour in Bourdeaux or on a beach on the Côte d'Azur.

'Fascinating and insightful.' TLS

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow are the award-winning authors of The Story of French, The Story of Spanish, and the bestselling Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong. They live in Canada.

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Verlag
Duckworth Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0715652192
ISBN 13 
9780715652190
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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