For the first time, your First 100 Lessons of French are presented, in order, in an easy-to-follow format. French is the language of culture. Learn the French alphabet and essential French words and phrases. Most importantly, learn the correct pronunciation of these words and phrases. Learn how to greet people, how to sound like a local, and how to ask for directions. Prepare for a trip to Paris - the holiday of a lifetime! Bon Voyage.
A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning about language, love, and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways. Josie, Riley, and Jeremy have come to the City of Light for different reasons: Josie, a young high school teacher, arrives in hopes of healing a broken heart. Riley, a spirited but lonely expat housewife, struggles to feel connected to her husband and her new country. And Jeremy, the reserved husband of a renowned actress, is accompanying his wife on a film shoot, yet he feels distant from her world. As they meet with their tutors—Josie with Nico, a sensitive poet; Riley with Phillippe, a shameless flirt; and Jeremy with the consummately beautiful Chantal—each succumbs to unexpected passion and unpredictable adventures. Yet as they traverse Paris’s grand boulevards and intimate, winding streets, they uncover surprising secrets about one another—and come to understand long-buried truths about themselves.
For the first time, your First 100 Lessons regarding the beautiful city of Paris are in one book. Learn about the "City of Lights" before you arrive. This innovative guide looks at the city's history, geography, politics, orientation, and economics. As Paris is the most cultural city on the planet, there are also chapters on culture, architecture, recreation, and religion. This travel guide helps you look at Paris from a new and interesting perspective. Learn about one of the world's most exciting cities. Then come to Paris to enjoy and learn even more!
“[A] cultural odyssey, a brave attempt to articulate the compulsions that drove [Kaplan] to embrace foreignness in order to become truly herself.” —The Washington Post Book World Brilliantly uniting the personal and the critical, French Lessons is a powerful autobiographical experiment. It tells the story of an American woman escaping into the French language and of a scholar and teacher coming to grips with her history of learning. In spare, midwestern prose, by turns intimate and wry, Kaplan describes how, as a student in a Swiss boarding school and later in a junior year abroad in Bordeaux, she passionately sought the French “r,” attentively honed her accent, and learned the idioms of her French lover. When, as a graduate student, her passion for French culture turned to the elegance and sophistication of its intellectual life, she found herself drawn to the language and style of the novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine. At the same time, she was repulsed by his anti-Semitism. At Yale in the late 70s, during the heyday of deconstruction she chose to transgress its apolitical purity and work on a subject “that made history impossible to ignore”: French fascist intellectuals. Kaplan’s discussion of the “de Man affair” —the discovery that her brilliant and charismatic Yale professor had written compromising articles for the pro-Nazi Belgian press—and her personal account of the paradoxes of deconstruction are among the most compelling available on this subject. French Lessons belongs in the company of Sartre’s Words and the memoirs of Nathalie Sarraute, Annie Ernaux, and Eva Hoffman. No book so engrossingly conveys both the excitement of learning and the moral dilemmas of the intellectual life.
It's 1989, the Berlin Wall is coming down, and Kate has just graduated from Yale, eager to pursue her dreams as a fledgling painter. When she receives a job offer to work as the assistant to Lydia Schell, a famous American photographer in Paris, she immediately accepts. Kate may speak fluent French, but she arrives at the Schell household in the fashionable Sixth Arrondissement both dazzled and wildly impressionable. She finds herself surrounded by a seductive cast of characters, including the bright, pretentious Schells, with whom she boards, and their assortment of famous friends; Kate's own flamboyant cousin; a fellow Yalie who seems to have it all figured out; and a band of independently wealthy young men with royal lineage. As Kate rediscovers Paris and her roots there, while trying to fit into Lydia's glamorous and complicated family, she begins to question the kindness of the people to whom she is so drawn as well as her own motives for wanting them to love her.
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!
Italian is one of the most passionate and expressive languages. For the first time, your first 100 lessons of Italian are presented, in order, in an easy-to-follow format. Learn essential Italian words and phrases. More importantly, learn the correct pronunciation of these words and phrases. Prepare for your trip to Italy - the holiday of a lifetime! Make friends, eat incredible food and experience a new country from the eyes of someone who is no longer a typical tourist.
Hola! Spanish is the main language for people in 21 countries in four continents around the world. For the first time, your First 100 Spanish Lessons are presented here in an easy-to-follow format. Learn essential Spanish words and phrases. Practice the correct pronunciation. Prepare for a memorable trip to Spain. Or visit the Spanish-speaking people of South America! Or have fun with your new Spanish language skills in Central America. Buenos días!
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick. “A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages.”—Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school—who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources—and here he wants to show others what he’s discovered. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You’ll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you’ll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you’ll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.
New York City changes you. It is the coolest city to visit. But it's impossible to experience all that New York has to offer in one visit. This book prepares you for your experience in New York City. You will always remember your first time in New York. After reading this book you should feel less overwhelmed when you arrive in USA's largest city. Learn about New York's history and geography before finding out where to orientate yourself in Manhattan and the neighboring boroughs. Chapters include architecture, economics, culture, cuisine, and recreation. Learn about one of the world's most vibrant cities. Then come to New York to enjoy and to learn even more. For the first time, your First 100 Lessons about New York are in one book.
