It also has a good menu section which helps when you're out and about trying to decide what "foie gras" is etc.

Here's the perfect companion for tourists and business travelers in France and other French-speaking locales. I expected it to be a bit more difficult for me since I have not studied French in over 10 years and got very rusty with it. Having access to a great French dictionary is really important when learning, but most books are much too big to take along with you on your travels. an ver duh van rooj / blan / ro-ZAY / PET-ee-YAUN, seel voo PLEH) A quarter litre of beer, please Un demi, s'il-vous-plaît.A snappy guide to all of the essential words and phrases necessary for life in the trenches, this book is reproduced in facsimile format, including all of the original line drawings of different guns and equipment from wartime. The perfect language survival guide for everyday situations, Eyewitness Phrase Book: French provides all the key words and phrases you need.

This means that there are many more possible conjugations for French verbs than English verbs, and learning how to conjugate each verb in different scenarios can be a challenge for English speakers. I love to travel, but I’m always so nervous about doing something rude or embarrassing in a foreign country. At the end of a word, it's usually not pronounced at all é, ai, -er, -es, -ez, -et similar to d ay but shorter ( IPA: e) è, ê more open, like s et ( IPA: ɛ). Grammar [ edit ] Like Spanish and German, but unlike English, the French language is governed by an official regulator - L'Académie française. It will teach them the cool words and phrases that they really want to know to converse with French children of a similar age and is perfect to take on holiday to France or on a French exchange visit.zhuh swee uhn see-twa-YAHN a-may-ree-CAN/os-trah-lee-AHN/ahn-GLEH/ka-na-DYAN) I am an American/Australian/British/Canadian citizen. Rick Steves’ French Phrase Book and Dictionary” is one such title, and will really give you a great foundation for your French. Similarly, the third person pronouns also depend on the grammatical gender of the subject: il (m – he or it) or elle (f – she or it), with ils and elles respectively being the masculine and feminine plurals (they). It is an important administrative, educational, and cultural language in the former French Southeast Asian possessions of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

The plural ending "-ent" for verbs is silent (except for the t, in cases of liaison), even though it is pronounced when it appears in other words. I agree there are many good phrase books, but I didn't use my phrase book much, anyway, because most Parisians spoke enough English that verbal communication (where phrase books would have helped with idioms) wasn't a problem. He takes food seriously (he is French after all), but he complements it with a love of running which allows him to nurture his passion for good food while staying in shape. com-bee-AN duh ton res-TAY voo on VAH-kons); I am in France for ten days Je reste en France pendant dix jours.French ( français) is a Romance language originating in France but spoken in many other parts of Europe including Southern Belgium ( Wallonia and Brussels), Western Switzerland, Monaco and Luxembourg. The respective plurals are messieurs and mesdames, so the French equivalent of "ladies and gentlemen" is " mesdames et messieurs", though often in speech this is rendered as " messieurs-dames".

I especially appreciated the portion of the book that lets you know cultural differences for French speaking people. For example, the rule that a final r is pronounced is not true in the combination "-er", normally found in verb infinitives; this letter combination is pronounced ay.ZHUH vood-RAY par-lehr ah uhn AH-vo-caht) ("avocat" also means "avocado" but people don't normally talk to avocados! French-based creoles today enjoy wide use and often official status in the Seychelles, Mauritius, New Caledonia, Haiti (see Haitian creole), Réunion, and the French overseas territories in the Antilles. A phonetics pronunciation guide of each and every word in the phrases, included after every translation. For example, allez-y (≈ go ahead / off you go), is pronounced al-ay-ZEE, while mes amis (my friends) is pronounced MEZ-ah-MEE . Even though grammar Nazis might deduct points for addressing a singular subject in the plural, any phonicist will tell you she got the sound of the French nasal vowel pretty much down pat.