Les Bons Mots: How to Amaze Tout Le Monde with Everyday French

by Eugene Ehrlich

Les Bons Mots will help you add the piece de resistance to any conversation.

Les Bons Mots is an eminently browsable reference that is designed to help English speakers use those witty and wise sayings for which the French are so justly famous. Eugene Ehrlich has created a reference work that defines French phrases and aphorisms both literally and colloquially; employs a unique and foolproof guide to their pronunciation; adds a brief and often amusing explanation that fixes each phrase in the reader's mind; and indexes everything so extensively that each idea is easy to find. An entertaining read as well as an impeccable reference guide by one of America's most cherished wordsmiths.

Genres: Reference, France, Language

312 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 1997

Reviews

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

I will have to buy this book. It is very helpful to remind you of phrases that are essential to conversation...other than the usual, "excuse me please, where is the restroom?"

[Loryn Lodrigue · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like this book, it gives you a lot of cool tranlations from french to english, this book not only helped me educationally,m but i also enjoyed it.