French Fun: The Real Spoken Language of Quebec

By Steve Timmins

Book Overview

If you grapple daily with spoken Qu?bec French, are thinking of visiting or doing business in la belle province or would like to communicate more effectively with your Qu?b?cois friends and colleagues, French Fun is the book for you. With lively illustrations and hilarious literal translations, it introduces you to the French language of Qu?bec through a collection of some of the most common and colourful idioms heard in Qu?bec today. These are words from the real spoken French of Qu?bec ? some standard, some informal, others with a fascinating linguistic or cultural story behind them. The perfect complement to all French programs, French Fun is a must for anyone wishing to have a more intimate acquaintance with the French language of Qu?bec and the people who speak it. Ce livre constitue un recueil des mots et expressions les plus courants et color?s de la langue qu?b?coise de tous les jours. En le publiant, l?auteur veut partager cette richesse linguistique avec les anglophones de partout. Bien que s?adressant principalement aux anglophones, cette oeuvre peut aussi ?tre int?ressante et utile pour les francophones.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471641383
• ISBN13: 9780471641384
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 0.4" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent... enough said.

This book is excellent because it delivers exactly what it says it will. It's by no means an exhaustive dictionnary of all the slang and idioms in the french language. Instead, as it promises, it is a fun, easy to use dictionnary of many key quebecois idioms to add some colour to your speaking. A quick read-through of this book will have you sounding instantly more Québecois, and each time you pick it up afterwards you'll find something new.

Funny funny funny

I'm learning French, actually Quebec French, to move to Quebec City with my girlfriend. You must realize that Canadian French (and slang) is different in Montreal than in Quebec City than in Gaspe than in ... Anyways, she found this book hilarious because it does capture the slang that she uses. And she finds it even more hilarious when I try to speak this way too ...

Joyful Joual!

This book is great, especially for learners of French. I bought it as a guide to the dialect of Quebec for a project I was doing in my French class and found it fascinating. I am going to study French in Quebec this summer and found that a lot of the phrases this book contains are used there. This book is also wonderful for anyone who is interested in dialectology!

Tres Bon!

This book is fantastic. I am a writer of fiction and one of my works is about the magnificant sport of ice hockey. Before and even during my quest to get help with the language from on line people, this book came to the rescue with its simplicity and abundance of phrases with common, everyday sayings that a textbook could not offer. My hat is off to, Mr. Timmons. Would like to see more of the same!

Ce livre est HOT!

I bought this book and it goes through a bunch of phrases common to Quebec. There's also a short pronunciation guide and minor pronunciation tips throughout. I gave it a 4, because it would have been better with a cassette tape to teach you how to pronounce these words :)