Merde!: The Real French You Were Never Taught at School

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Good but not great (1/1 people found this helpful)

This is a fairly good book. It essentially gives you idiomatic phrases that as a native English-speaker you would say, but in idiomatic French e.g. you idiot-espece d'idiot, to lash rain-flotter, and more unsavoury words as well. As the name suggests you wouldn't really learn most of this stuff in school, or even in college. It gives examples where they are needed. However, it's really just page after page of text, with only a few black and white pictures here and there, so it becomes a bit monotonous very quickly. But if you don't mind that, then it's quite good.

fun but ... (3/3 people found this helpful)

I found this less helpful than the [ASIN:0764103458] Dictionary of French Slang and Colloquial Expressions as it has something of the tedium of schoolboy humour about it. However the words and phrases are given Michelin-like stars according to the degree of rudeness which saves one from social gaffes. But it is less useful than the slang dictionary for watching films or reading modern French novels and I would never dare to use the swearwords in my all-too-obvious English accent anyway.

Merde (0/0 people found this helpful)

A very useful and amusing book. At least it let's one know when one is being insulted, and possible have a response ready. A very good addition to the more usual grammar books and readers.

Good to flick through (0/0 people found this helpful)

Bit of a cheap print job on the inside, but I guess that doesn't really matter. Great to flick through, and not very expensive. And definitely will make you cringe! But a bit thin.

not what i hoped for (0/0 people found this helpful)

I bought the book for a Dutch friend who used to live in the UK, but now lives in France. She told me that the book was more sexually orientated than expected, with not exactly a lot of useful phrases for an every day conversation.

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