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By Natalie Schorr

Flip your rusty French languageskills into polished dialog self assurance track Up Your French will give you an wonderful and functional technique to hone your French-language dialog talents. This booklet is based round quite a few key areasfor development, protecting every thing from tough grammatical constructions to gestures, slang, and humor. In each one quarter, keyword phrases are awarded in "Top Ten" lists, together with daily expressions for filling pauses, icebreakers, and extra. This publication is superb for brushing up at the Frenchyou studied in highschool or university. The accompanying MP3 disk includes an enticing 70-minute software for studying key expressions from the ebook. It comprises mp3 recordings of sixty best 10 lists, geared up for every entry and reference in your iPod or mp3 participant. This disk won't play on older, stand-alone CD avid gamers

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Hein? (incomprehension) 5. Youpi! (excitement) 6. Chut! (impatience; desire for silence) 7. Ouf! (relief ) 8. Ah! (surprise) 9. Euh... (hesitation) 10. Bis! (enjoyment of a performance) Hop-là If you watch a French parent holding a child’s hand to help her jump over a puddle the parent will invariably say, Hop-là. If you can say hop-là when crossing a puddle, motus when telling a secret, pharamineux when you have all the aces, turlututu when someone stretches the truth, and tope-là when slapping someone’s hand as you make a deal—then you will deserve to hear Pchch.

Pschitt! or Pscht! (sound of effervescence; a soft drink opening; it’s said very quickly and pronounced “psheet”) 9. Tic-tac. Tick tock. 10. Pin-pon! (sound of the horn of the French fire truck) Interjections Interjections are sudden short utterances, often not really words. Sounds that aren’t words are part of communication, just as sound itself provides another dimension of communication. The way something is said—how it sounds—often means more than what is said. Interjections can help you get a feeling for French sounds.

3. A bientôt! See you soon! 4. A cet après-midi. See you this afternoon. 5. A demain! See you tomorrow. 6. A samedi! See you Saturday. 7. A la semaine prochaine! See you next week! 8. A lundi en huit! See you a week from Monday! 9. A la prochaine! Till next time! (familiar and discouraged by some who insist on A la prochaine fois) 10. A un de ces jours! See you one of these days. Rehearsal Time Give the expression with bon or bonne, such as bon voyage or bonne journée, suggested by the following cues: 1.

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