Flirting with french : how a language charmed me, seduced me, and nearly broke my heart

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Flirting with french : how a language charmed me, seduced me, and nearly broke my heart / by William Alexander. - Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books, 2014. - XIV, [2], 266, [2] strony ; 21 cm.

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Alexander William Autor

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Książki Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka

Przynależność kulturowa

Literatura amerykańska

Temat

Amerykanie Francuzi Humor Język francuski (przedmiot szkolny) Obyczaje i zwyczaje Podróże Uczenie się języków obcych Zachwyt Francja

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Pamiętniki i wspomnienia

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William Alexander is more than a Francophile. He wants to be French. There’s one small obstacle he doesn’t speak la langue française. In Flirting with French, Alexander sets out to conquer the language he loves. But will it love him back? Alexander eats, breathes, and sleeps French (even conjugating in his dreams). He travels to France, where mistranslations send him bicycling off in all sorts of wrong directions, and he nearly drowns in an immersion class in Provence, where, faced with the riddle of masculine breasts, feminine beards, and a turkey cutlet of uncertain gender, he starts to wonder whether he should’ve taken up golf instead of French. While playing hooky from grammar lessons and memory techniques, Alexander reports on the riotous workings of the Académie française, the four-hundred-year-old institution charged with keeping the language pure; explores the science of human communication, learning why it’s harder for fifty-year-olds to learn a second language than it is for five-year-olds; and, frustrated with his progress, explores an IBM research lab, where he trades barbs with a futuristic hand-held translator. Does he succeed in becoming fluent? Readers will be as surprised as Alexander is to discover that, in a fascinating twist, studying French may have had a far greater impact on his life than actually learning to speak it ever would. [www.goodreads.com]

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Tekst w języku angielskim.