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Title: Street French 1 : The Best of French Slang by David Burke ISBN: 0-471-13898-3 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 12 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for Slang, Great for Study
Comment: This is a really good book, I must say. It's not the book that I originally wanted to like, thinking that it was just going to teach me basic vocabulary, but it goes much deeper than that. Mr. Burke teaches you many important things such as the contractions that the French commonly use and also the way Fench ask questions, etc. These ideas are what seperate this book from just a basic slang vocabulary book.
Mr. Burke will teach you how to sound like a native French speaker. The contractions section is a great example of how this works. He teaches you that instead of saying something like 'Je ne peux pas' (the English equivalent of "I am not able to") you should say something more along the lines of 'Je'n peux'pa' (sounds more like "I can't.") These are the essentials that will keep you from sounding just like a French student (and speaking Scholarly French) to sounding like a native speaker who has lived in France for years (something much better).
If you are interested in learning French beyond what a typical academic setting can bring to you, this is definitely a book and a series I recommend. For anyone who wishes to go to France and speak a more natural and believable French, this is the book for you. I would recommend this to anyone and would even be willin to buy it as a gift for any one of my friends.
Rating: 5
Summary: Recommendation from a native French teacher from Paris, Fran
Comment: From Paris, France, and a teacher of French at at all levels, (including adult courses),I think I am qualified to grade this book.
This is exactly the pronounciation that I try to have my students understand. Even if they cannot pronounce correctly, at least they are able to understand the French when they speak!
Many of the non-native teachers of French can, more or less, speak academic French (some can't!), but faced with a native French speaking person, they can't understand most of the conversation.
I am definitely going to use this booklet as part of my teaching material,along with some other ones.
Rating: 2
Summary: Overrated
Comment: It is difficult to learn slang from a book, even when the book is well written. Learning it from this book is to do yourself a disservice...ask anyone who speaks French as their first language. And David Burke's recorded voice is always annoying.
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Title: Street French 2 : The Best of French Idioms by David Burke ISBN: 0471138991 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Street French 3 : The Best of Naughty French by David Burke ISBN: 0471139009 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 04 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Street French Slang Dictionary & Thesaurus by David Burke ISBN: 0471168068 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 26 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Merde! : The Real French You Were Never Taught at School by Genevieve, Michael Heath ISBN: 0684854279 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 09 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: 101 French Idioms by Jean-Marie Cassagne ISBN: 0844212903 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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