( 7 reviews )
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Posted: Jul 10 2009
While I bought the book knowing it was used, I anticipated it being clean and with a minimum number of markings. Unfortunately, quite a few of the exercises had actually been worked in pink pen throughout the book. Other than that, the transaction and shipping went smoothly, and I was satisfied with the purchase.
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Posted: Sep 9 2007
This book is a very well considered review of colloquial French as it is spoken. It's broken down into easy to digest lessons with insightful advice for those who want to speak and understand French as it is commonly spoken.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Feb 18 2007
This book and this author's book 3 (Naughty French) are 2 of the funniest books I have ever owned. I studied French at University for 7 years and believe me the French in these books is not what I learned. I cannot tell you how refreshing these two books were to me after having studied French formally at the University. These books teach you how people in the street talk, how the people engage informally with each other in every day interactions. I can remember when I first went to France and could barely survive for the first 2 weeks I was there because I could understand next to nothing---because the natives were all speaking in slang. I wondered if I had really been taught French or Greek---but after 2 weeks I began to figure out that the French I had been taught was proper French and the natives could all understand me---but they had their own lingo of slang just like we have here. Slowly, but surely I began to pick up the slang expressions from them, but having been exposed to these 2 books would have made my transition period infinitely easier and smoother. I strongly recommend this book and his other books to anyone planning on going to France and to those who want to have a good laugh---this book is extremely funny as well as useful. I wish I had known about this book a long time ago. I think a book like this should be used in French classes in conjunction with a formal French language grammar because this book to me is just as important as the formal grammar boook---you need to know how the people actually talk in every day circumstances---not just formal conversations.
