Free eBooks 500 Foreign Words & Phrases You Should Know To Sound Smart: Terms To Demonstrate Your Savoir Faire, Chutzpah, And Bravado Available To Downloads
Dazzle with your command of belle-lettres!Like a true sophisticate, you'd like to toss out casual bon mots to enliven your conversation. You'd like to float through cocktail parties offering your guests crudités and hors d'oeuvres, toasting to the prevailing Weltgeist and speculating on who's having an affaire de coeur.But first you need to know what those words mean.Here's a guide to declaiming like an intellectual in a foreign language. More than 500 of the most commonly used foreign words and phrases that enhance our language and make us sound sophisticated have been translated into English, along with a pronunciation guide and a sample sentence showing you how to use them. In addition, you'll find quotations in other languages, which will impress everyone with your erudition and experiencia del mundo. All this together with a plethora of minutae, spicing the entries with an exquisite mélange of information that heightens their je ne sais quoi.So get busy dotting your conversation with these words and phrases. Remember, Experientia docet.
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Adams Media (June 18, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1440540756
ISBN-13: 978-1440540752
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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What a great book! It's well organized, it's easy to find your way around in it. Gave it to my grandson who's a senior in highschool and he dropped everything in order to immerse himself in the book. What a treasure for a student and, indeed, for anyone else. I really recommend it.
Great fun to read.
This book is well organized and has unique as well as those phrases you have always wanted to use but have forgotten.
Fun as well as informational.
Very handy guide, found most of the words I was looking for.
I purchased for my grandson who was traveling through Europe. Was very helpful to him.
Pretty good reference for those non-English phrases that have become integrated into English.
Too much of the authors opinions about things are written between the lines.Would Webster have done that?
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