101 French Proverbs

by Jean-Marie Cassagne

Book Overview

This is a delightful introduction to the col ourful world of French proverbs that French speakers use eve ry day. The 101 proverbs are grouped according to themes, su ch as good animals, dining,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844212911
• ISBN13: 9780844212913
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

101 French Proverbs

101 French Proverbs A fun little book with excellent cartoons organized by subject. This is sure to lighten up you classroom. I'd like to see this author compile a larger book with a grammatical/verb index in back for easier use.

Fills in the Blanks

For people learning French or advanced French speakers, this book gives cultural insight so we can better understand French culture and not be left in the dark when proverbs are used. Very useful.

Very helpful and interesting as well

I ordered this book to further my reading skills of French material.It did.Perfectly. I am an intermediate self-taught French language student,and this little book helped out quite a bit,plus it was fun to read.Can't get any better than that. I recommend it to anyone who loves the French language.You will learn a lot here.And,while reading the proverbs in French,you will discover that you know a lot more words than you thought you did,which was a nice discovery for me.I liked this book a lot,and I think you might,as well!

Very interesting, not only for learning language

I completely agree to the former reviewer, including reasons why he recommend it, so I add only some points.The word-for-word translation, for example - "there's more than one donkey called Martin in the market place" - is very useful for beginners to increase whose vocabulary. Its cartoon will help it. And I think maybe you can enjoy this book not only for learning French language.Indeed, I found an interesting fact - some French proverbs are very close to OUR JAPANESE/ASIAN proverbs in detail, rather than to English ones. For example, what you shouldn't do at once is "to chase two hares" both in France and Japan, and every jar does find a lid in France, so does every pot in Japan. I don't know if sometime someone introduced them or it's only a coincidence, but there're something make me touched, the fact different peoples have same manner of thinking. So it seems there're more common points than differences, as it's said. I thank the authors for they made me find it.Highly recommended!

A Feast of Intellect, Understanding, and Humor

This is a great book! I'm currently a level two French student and this book is incredible. Each proverb has the French at the top, then the translation, followed by the English equal. The pictures are fantastic and very funny! Short conversations are included to help with context and their translations are in the back. I highly recommend 101 FRENCH PROVERBS. It is a great source of information.