101 French Idioms

by Luc Nisset-Raidon, Jean-Marie Cassagne, Luc Nisset

Features a collection of colloquialisms that entertains students while providing insight into French-language idioms, customs, and humor. Grouped according to theme, the idioms in this work are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844212903
• ISBN13: 9780844212906
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

entertaining and helpful

This is a great book for those who already have a good grasp on the French language and/or intermediate knowledge. It is an entertaining and easy read for those wanting to improve basic conversational French (each idiom has a short conversation as a definition of the French phrase). I have lots of other French language books and this one should be in everyone's collection. It's fun and easy to read - a book you can pick up time and time again.

Thank heavens!

This was very useful for people learning French, who may even be fluent but don't know or understand the cultural idioms. I understand French movies and conversations better now. This book fills a need not addressed in many French language texts or books. Hooray!

great addition to typical textbooks

I found this book very useful for understanding everyday language.Idioms are not given at all or found very rarely in standard learning books or dictionaries but used widely in spoken language.The translation of french idioms into similar english ones is also wery helpful .

Maintenant, je suis branchée!

This book really fulfills its purpose. I've already come across some of the expressions in 'real life' movies/books/conversation. It's not aimed at beginners looking for language basics. That said, all of the context examples are translated at the end of the book. (My friend found the context examples to be useful in and of themselves.) There are also two indexes: image (i.e. flowers) and alphabetical. The only change I would have made would have been possibly adding quizzes, to make it more result-driven. Though in the translations at the end, the expression is in bold so you could test yourself. (For example, "Laurent is well-read" is in bold and you'd come up with "il a des lettres") And in a perfect world there would have been a CD to go along. This is one of the least expensive french books on the market and it's both fun and informative.

Can't Help But Learn Even a Little

I liked this one and the 101 Proverbs books. They have cute cartoons that help you remember the sayings effortlessly. I was amazed that when writing a french penpal that the words just came right out! Can't help but like a book that helps you learn a language without trying and in an entertaining manner. The short explanations under each saying are written in french so you get to practice reading short (10-15 lines) paragraphs and flexing your vocabulary muscle. Very good for beginners!