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A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: The Ideal Guide to Sounding, Acting and Shrugging Like the French |  | Author: Charles Timoney
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 3807
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0141041676
EAN: 9780141041674
ASIN: 0141041676
Publication Date: August 6, 2009
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 HILARIOUS GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING FRANCE August 10, 2009
pale rider (Truro, Cornwall United Kingdom)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I recommend this book to anyone who loves to visit France - or indeed who lives there - and wants to get to grips with French day-to-day living. It covers just about every aspect of things French - from whom to kiss and how (and the right word to use!) via how to decipher a menu and various uses for a bidet! The author is English but has lived in France for more than twenty years and has a French wife, so he has learnt all this from experience and is a very, very funny writer. I bought his first book called PARDON MY FRENCH - about the French words you don't learn at school - and this is a companion volume - but even funnier and more useful. There have been a lot of books around on France and the French but for my money this is the best. It's a really appealing shape as well; definitely five stars.
very very enjoyable, don't miss it August 14, 2009
emma who reads a lot (London)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have just read the Lucy Wadham book which is quite a serious introduction by an Englishwoman to French life, but somehow I felt I learned much more from this little, funny, light-hearted book which for me just gets right to the heart of the weird differences about living in France. That they hang their duvets out the window in the morning. That they only recycle the tops of plastic water bottles. And finally, why they say "Chapeau!" if you've done something good.
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br /I've been to French classes for many years but lots of little phrases in this book I've learned for the very first time. It's just great, short, sweet, to the point, and totally full of the authentic stuff. He is so entertaining, I will now definitely order the other book by him.
Hilarious! August 10, 2009
Mr. Henry C. H. Lestrange (Lincolnshire, UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm sure you have enjoyed "Pardon my French" by the same author, which is great, but this is even better! Full of lovely anecdotes and useful words for every situation - a must have.
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Very enlightening November 9, 2009
Mme Spencer Sara (Pamiers, France)
Having lived in France for over 8 years, there are still things about the French I don't really know about. This book helped me to understand a lot of things which didn't really occur to me. It is well researched and very interesting and the author obviously has first hand experience, being married to a French citizen and having worked in France.
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br /There were times that I felt daft in the company of French people for saying or using the incorrect word or phrase, but I now know that I am not alone. Thank you Charles.
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br /Well worth the read.
Charles Timoney does it again! August 31, 2009
Andrew Kay (Périgord, France)
An ideal companion to Mr Timoney's first opus. Whereas before in his first book he took us on a guided tour around the French language, in this one it's more about French behaviour, which can be far more difficult to comprehend! Yet again, it's all written in his inimitable style, encompassing a gentle and delicate wit, but occasionally including the sort of 'laugh-out-loud' passages which might make this difficult reading matter on a crowded commuter train...
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br /To anyone visiting France, or indeed thinking about setting up home in this country, I'd recommend both Charles Timoney's books as essential reading. Not only instructional, but also great fun as well.
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