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Title: 101 French Proverbs by Jean-Marie Cassagne ISBN: 0-8442-1291-1 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 15 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: French Fun
Comment: 101 French Proverbs was recommended to me by my French teacher--a woman born and raised in France. The books trade paperback format devotes a full page to each proverb and provides a clever cartoon and a little story in French, some in the form of a dialogue, to further illustrate the proverb's meaning.
All proverbs are grouped in the following categories: Our Animal Friends---proverbs containing similes likening human behavior to that of domestic animals, Animals in the Wild----human behavior likened to non-domestic animals, Occupations---Behaviors attributed to certain occupations, Eating in Style --- proverbs where food positively and negatively reflects life, Life Day by Day---axioms to make daily life livable, People --- of the "too many cooks spoil the broth" genre, The Blue Planet --- proverbs involving a natural setting, Time Flies --- common sense sayings revolving around duration and time of day and Words to Live By --- A catch-all category for those proverbs that defy categorization. At the end of the volume, each of the 101 illustrative stories and dialogues are translated in English. At the tail end, the proverbs are listed alphabetically in French with corresponding page numbers.
This book is simply great--its a lot of fun, and can be used almost like a calendar where one page is read and savored a day. The use of idioms is extensive and can be used to further anyone's study of everyday French.
Recommended to all students of French who want to interject a little fun into their grammar and vocabulary memorization.
Rating: 3
Summary: Depends what you want...
Comment: I thought that this would be an amusing way to work on my French now that I live and have a job in Paris. I enjoy reading through this book, and learning about the proverbs. However, I brought it with me one day to show my French co-workers and they were amazed. They had heard of less than 10% of the proverbs in the book. So... if you want to find a pleasant way to enrich your knowledge of French trivia and culture, then buy this book. But if you are looking for a way to better communicate in French, this probably isn't for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very interesting, not only for learning language
Comment: I completely agree to the former reviewer, including reasons why he recommend it, so I add only some points.
The word-for-word translation, for example - "there's more than one donkey called Martin in the market place" - is very useful for beginners to increase whose vocabulary. Its cartoon will help it.
And I think maybe you can enjoy this book not only for learning French language.
Indeed, I found an interesting fact - some French proverbs are very close to OUR JAPANESE/ASIAN proverbs in detail, rather than to English ones. For example, what you shouldn't do at once is "to chase two hares" both in France and Japan, and every jar does find a lid in France, so does every pot in Japan.
I don't know if sometime someone introduced them or it's only a coincidence, but there're something make me touched, the fact different peoples have same manner of thinking. So it seems there're more common points than differences, as it's said.
I thank the authors for they made me find it.
Highly recommended!
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Title: The Ultimate French Review and Practice: Mastering French Grammar for Confident Communication by McGraw-Hill ISBN: 0658000748 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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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: Street French 1 : The Best of French Slang by David Burke ISBN: 0471138983 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 12 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: 501 French Verbs by Ph.D. Christopher Kendris, Ph.D. Theodore N. Kendris ISBN: 0764124293 Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Pub. Date: 15 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: French Verb Drills by R. de Roussy de Sales ISBN: 0844210293 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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