Words in a French Life

Words in a French Life
Author: Kristin Espinasse
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2007-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0743287290

Based on the popular blog (French-word-a-day.com) and newsletter comes a heart-winning collection from an American woman raising two "very" French children with her French husband in Provence, and carrying on a lifelong love affair with the language.

Learn French: Must-Know French Slang Words & Phrases

Learn French: Must-Know French Slang Words & Phrases
Author: Innovative Language Learning
Publisher: Innovative Language Learning
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2019-04-29
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

Do you want to learn French the fast, fun and easy way? And do you want to master daily conversations and speak like a native? Then this is the book for you. Learn French: Must-Know French Slang Words & Phrases by FrenchPod101 is designed for Beginner-level learners. You learn the top 100 must-know slang words and phrases that are used in everyday speech. All were hand-picked by our team of French teachers and experts. Here’s how the lessons work: • Every Lesson is Based on a Theme • You Learn Slang Words or Phrases Related to That Theme • Check the Translation & Explanation on How to Use Each One And by the end, you will have mastered 100+ French Slang Words & phrases!

Words of Life

Words of Life
Author: Bruce Ellis Benson
Publisher: Perspectives in Continental Ph
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2010
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780823230723

Words of Life is the sequel and companion to Phenomenology and the "Theological Turn," edited by Dominique Janicaud, Jean-Francois Courtine, Jean-Louis Chrétien, Michel Henry, Jean-Luc Marion, and Paul Ricoeur. In that volume, Janicaud accuses Levinas, Henry, Marion, and Chrétien of "veering" from phenomenological neutrality to a theologically inflected phenomenology. By contrast, the contributors to this collection interrogate whether phenomenology's proper starting point is agnostic or atheistic. Many hold the view that phenomenology after the theological turn may very well be true both to itself and to the phenomenological "things themselves." In one way or another, all of these essays contend with the limits and expectations of phenomenology. As such, they are all concerned with what counts as "proper" phenomenology and even the very structure of phenomenology. None of them, however, is limited to such questions. Indeed, the rich tapestry that they weave tells us much about human experience. Themes such as faith, hope, love, grace, the gift, the sacraments, the words of Christ, suffering, joy, life, the call, touch, listening, wounding, and humility are woven throughout the various meditations in this volume. The contributors use striking examples to illuminate the structure and limits of phenomenology and, in turn, phenomenology serves to clarify those very examples. Thus practice clarifies theory and theory clarifies practice, resulting in new theological turns and new life for phenomenology. The volume showcases the work of both senior and junior scholars, including Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Yves Lacoste, Kevin Hart, Anthony J. Steinbock, Jeffrey Bloechl, Jeffrey L. Kosky, Clayton Crockett, Brian Treanor, and Christina Gschwandtner-as well as the editors themselves.

French for Everyone Junior: 5 Words a Day

French for Everyone Junior: 5 Words a Day
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0744052858

Learn 1,000 French words over the course of a year — five words at a time! Packed with fun and useful everyday vocabulary, this French workbook for beginners will capture the imagination of young learners and encourage a love for learning their first French words. Discover the perfect introduction to French for children ages 6-9. It’s the ultimate French lesson for kids! It includes: • Beautifully illustrated scenes that teach and test five words at a time. New vocabulary is practiced again at the end of each week in two pages of exercises. • Clever flaps on the jacket that cover the scene so your child can practice what they have just learned. • Uses the effective rote-learning method to teach new vocabulary. • Teaches a range of nouns and verbs that are useful in everyday life. Audio is available online and via a handy app to help with pronunciation. Help your child learn French From colors, numbers and fruits to animals, sports and weather, just about every subject in the French language is covered in eye-catching, illustrative detail. French for Everyone Junior presents your child with five new words to learn and practice each day for four days, then tests these words through a variety of interactive exercises at the end of the week. Over the course of one year, your child will build up a vocabulary of more than 1000 French words. This unique French teaching guide encourages parents, teachers and children to work together as a team to grasp all aspects of the French language. Incredibly easy to use, it includes daily “test yourself” activities with cleverly designed flaps that hide the words your child has just learned, and helps ingrain those words in their memory. Accompanying audio means that kids are also able to practice their French pronunciation as many times as they want. More titles in the series! The colorful, clear and comprehensive 5 Words a Day series from DK lays the foundations for your child's journey in learning a foreign language, at school or at home. Look out for more workbooks! Help your child learn, practice, and understand 1,000 Spanish words in Spanish for Everyone Junior: 5 Words a Day.

French Fast Track Learning with Root Words for English Speakers

French Fast Track Learning with Root Words for English Speakers
Author: Sarah Retter
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2018-05-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781719569224

You will find in this book the English and French words that share the same root. Therefore, if you are an English speaking student, you will find it is very easy to relate the English words you know to the new words in French. Example: port is a Latin root and it means "to move" or "to carry." The English words that include this root are: transport, portable, teleportation, deport, export, rapport, support, portfolio, import, important, porter, report. All these words include the meaning of carry or move. The French words that share the same root are: transport, portable, téléportation, déport, exportation, support, portefeuille, porteur, rapport. In this book you will find the French and English words side by side for better comprehension and memorization. You can add thousands of words both in English and French by learning just the 100 most used Greek and Latin roots. Learning word roots from Latin and Greek helps you understand the origins of English and French grammar and spelling. So, by learning these, the forms and patterns of English and French will become clearer to you. By studying roots, you're opening your brain up to understand many other languages, not just English or French. In this book you ́ll find a great guide to English and French root words and how to use them. Purchase this book and start understanding more English and French than ever!

When in French

When in French
Author: Lauren Collins
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-11-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 014311073X

A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier—a surprising turn of events for someone who didn’t have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean to love someone in a second language? Collins wonders, as her relationship with Olivier continues to grow entirely in English. Are there things she doesn’t understand about Olivier, having never spoken to him in his native tongue? Does “I love you” even mean the same thing as “je t’aime”? When the couple, newly married, relocates to Francophone Geneva, Collins—fearful of one day becoming "a Borat of a mother" who doesn’t understand her own kids—decides to answer her questions for herself by learning French. When in French is a laugh-out-loud funny and surprising memoir about the lengths we go to for love, as well as an exploration across culture and history into how we learn languages—and what they say about who we are. Collins grapples with the complexities of the French language, enduring excruciating role-playing games with her classmates at a Swiss language school and accidently telling her mother-in-law that she’s given birth to a coffee machine. In learning French, Collins must wrestle with the very nature of French identity and society—which, it turns out, is a far cry from life back home in North Carolina. Plumbing the mysterious depths of humanity’s many forms of language, Collins describes with great style and wicked humor the frustrations, embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of learning—and living in—French.

Canon Eos 1dx Mark II

Canon Eos 1dx Mark II
Author: Lingo Mastery
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2018-08-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781724979230

Have you been trying to learn French and simply can't find the way to expand your vocabulary? Do your teachers recommend you boring textbooks and complicated stories that you don't really understand? Are you looking for a way to learn the language quicker without taking shortcuts? If you answered "Yes!" to at least one of those previous questions, then this book is for you! We've compiled the 2000 Most Common Words in French, a list of terms that will expand your vocabulary to levels previously unseen. Did you know that - according to an important study - learning the top two thousand (2000) most frequently used words will enable you to understand up to 84% of all non-fiction and 86.1% of fiction literature and 92.7% of oral speech? Those are amazing stats, and this book will take you even further than those numbers! In this book: A detailed introduction with tips and tricks on how to improve your learning A list of 2000 of the most common words in French and their translations An example sentence for each word - in both French and English Finally, a conclusion to make sure you've learned and supply you with a final list of tips Don't look any further, we've got what you need right here! In fact, we're ready to turn you into a French speaker... are you ready to get involved in becoming one?

1000 Most Common French Words

1000 Most Common French Words
Author: Dylane Moreau
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2020-06-21
Genre:
ISBN:

You have recently decided to learn French, or maybe learned it before and need to brush up on it. Any reason that leads you to this book is a good reason. Learning a new language can seem intimidating at first, no matter what age or when you start. There are all these rules of pronunciation and grammar that don't exist in your native language, it can be discouraging for anyone. So where should you start ? The 20/80 rule What you should start working on at the beginning of your French journey is vocabulary, and more specifically, the 1000 most common French words. I have calculated that they represent around 20% of our language, but we use them 80% of the time. Which also means that you only need to learn 20% of the language to understand 80% of it. Isn't it wonderful news ?

Bullets and Opium

Bullets and Opium
Author: Liao Yiwu
Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1982126655

A “memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square” (The New York Review of Books) during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and “one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time” (Philip Gourevitch). Much has been written about the Tiananmen Square protests, but very little exists in the words of those who were actually there. For over seven years, Liao Yiwu—a master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a counter-revolutionary until he fled the country in 2011—secretly interviewed survivors of the devastating 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Tortured, imprisoned, and forced into silence and the margins of Chinese society for thirty years, their harrowing and unforgettable stories are now finally revealed in this “indispensable historical document” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).