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The Bonjour Effect - The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed (Paperback)
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The Bonjour Effect - The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed (Paperback)
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List price R362
Loot Price R264
Discovery Miles 2 640
You Save R98 (27%)
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Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoit Nadeau spent a decade traveling back
and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important
lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with
the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour
Effect Julie and Jean-Benoit chronicle the lessons they learned
after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin
daughters. They offer up all the lessons they learned and explain,
in a book as fizzy as a bottle of the finest French champagne, the
most important aspect of all: the French don't communicate, they
converse.To understand and speak French well, one must understand
that French conversation runs on a set of rules that go to the
heart of French culture. 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? Through encounters with school
principals, city hall civil servants, old friends and business
acquaintances, Julie and Jean-Benoit explain why, culturally and
historically, conversation with the French is not about
communicating or being nice. It's about being interesting. After
reading The Bonjour Effect, even readers with a modicum of French
language ability will be able to hold their own the next time they
step into a bistro on the Left Bank.
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