Canadian French : a Québécois phrasebook
Auteurs : Corbeil, Pierre (Auteur)
Lieu de publication : Montréal
Éditeur : Ulysses Travel Guides
Date de publication : 2016
ISBN : 9782894649497
Langue : Anglais;Français
Description : 191 pages : illustrations en couleur ; 14 cm
Notes : Comprend un index
Sujets :
Français (Langue) - Glossaires, vocabulaires, etc.
Français (Langue) - Auto-enseignement
Français (Langue) - Manuels pour anglophones
Français (Langue) - Québec (Province) - Mots et locutions
Résumé :
Travel with a phrasebook in your pocket and enrich your journey; know the essential words and understand the people of the countries you visit to facilitate communication and foster personal encounters; this will make for a much more pleasurable travel experience. Canadian French - A Québécois Phrasebook, a fun and pocket-sized companion, will be sure to improve your appreciation of French as it is spoken in Quebec and other parts of Canada. Discover Canadian French with its pre-French Revolution slang, its regional dialects, its colloquial expressions and its distinct accent and slang words; Quebec's famous "joual" French or quebecois French as spoken by French Canadians. This phrasebook includes thousands of usual expressions in Canadian French with their equivalent in standard French and English, as well as translations of hundreds of practical sentences that can be used in all travel situations in Quebec, with phonetic indications to get the appropriate pronunciation. Hundreds of words or expressions, grouped by topics, are proposed - transportation, health, outdoor activities, lodging, restaurants, social relationships. Issues specific to French Canadian reality are also covered - local cuisine, words and expressions borrowed from the English language, swearwords and profanities.
Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque
Localisation : Bibliothèque
Cote : 448.242 1 C7892c 2016