Merriam-Webster's English-French Translation Dictionary (French Edition)

Merriam-Webster's English-French Translation Dictionary (French Edition) Review

You can set this dictionary as your default Kindle dictionary and look up words while reading. The default setting is The New Oxford American Dictionary included on your Kindle, but you have the option to change your default setting to this compatible dictionary after purchase.

Access French definitions and explanations for English words with this handy resource from America's language experts.Including more than 40,000 entries, 50,000 translations, and abundant examples of words used in context, this special Kindle edition is designed to help users understand written and spoken English and French.Simply search by word, browse, or highlight words within text.Definitions feature extensive coverage of Canadian French.

These Animals... Don't Want to Sleep! (Bilingual English-French) (The Book of The Animals)

These Animals... Don't Want to Sleep! (Bilingual English-French) (The Book of The Animals) Review

THE BOOK OF THE ANIMALS:
FUN LEARNING FOR CHILDREN AND PARENTS

What are certainly the four most occurring moments in a parent’s life? When their child doesn’t want to wash, doesn’t want to eat, doesn’t want to sleep and doesn’t want to go to school. And what can a parent answer to these refusals?
The successful “Book of The Animals” bilingual children’s books series was created with the aim to help both parents and children to discover the benefits of washing, eating, sleeping and going to school, in a fun as well as educational manner. Since the books are also bilingual, parents will enjoy the teaching and the interactivity they can gain from reading them with their children.

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
“These Animals... Don't Want to Go to School!” is one more example of that reciprocal fun learning. It is the third episode of the series by author J.N. Paquet. It is currently available both as paperback and eBook formats.
In this new episode of the series, children will discover the benefits of sleeping, with the help of their favourite friends, the animals!
As with the other books in the series, children will not only discover the benefits of sleeping, but they will also discover some new animals, new words and new situations.
The book makes fun learning something essential in the child's general learning process.

THE AUDIENCE
The books are geared towards children aged 2-5, before elementary/primary school.
They will likely be bilingual children whose parents want to encourage the learning of their two current languages.
They will also be children whose parents want to teach a language at a young age.

THE STORY
These animals don't want to wash, eat, sleep or go to school! But step by step, each one discovers the benefits of washing, eating, sleeping and going to school... for the animals, as well as for children!
A funny way to learn and a funny way to teach. As everyone knows how difficult it can be to explain to young children how important it is to eat, wash, sleep or go to school...

THE CURRENT BOOKS
Each episode of the series brings on new animals, new words, new situations and new stories.
- Ep.1. “These Animals... Don't Want to Wash!” (2008)
- Ep.2. “These Animals... Don't Want to Eat!” (2009)
- Ep.3. “These Animals... Don't Want to Sleep!” (2010)
- Ep.4. “These Animals... Don't Want to Go to School!” (2011)
- Ep.5. “These Animals... Don't Want to Share!” (2011)

The books are all available in either bilingual or monolingual versions:
- Bilingual versions: English-French, English-Portuguese, English-Italian, English-Spanish, and English-Swedish.
- Monolingual versions: English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish.
More versions are still to come...

REVIEW
"The Book of the Animals is a planned series of illustrated books for young children. [...] These delightful books tell the story of what happens when the animals in the stories, like many young children, don’t want to eat and don’t want to wash...
The books are very suitable both for reading to young children and for older children to use to learn to read in both languages. They might even persuade them to wash and eat their dinner!
The repetitive structure is supportive of children learning new words and the illustrations work well alongside the text to help understanding of unfamiliar words.
I can easily imagine young children demanding repeat readings and enjoying learning the text by heart as many children do with favourite stories. Children learning to make up and write their own stories might well want to write a personalised version, using the structure as a prop.
I think the stories would work well both in the home and in the classroom."
(Review published in The Cass School of Education, by Dr Raymonde Sneddon, Research Fellow for “The Cass School of Education” at the University of East London, and Honorary Research Fellow of Birkbeck College, in the Departmnent of Applied Linguistics)

Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Text (French and English Edition)

Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Text (French and English Edition) Review

This is an all new version of the popular "Parallel Texts" series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original French and in English translation. Including stories by Bolanger, Cotnoir, Le Clezio and Germain, this volume gives a fascinating insight into French culture and literature as well as providing an invaluable educational tool.

All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women

All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women Review

The allure of the Frenchwoman—sexy, sophisticated, flirtatious, and glamorous—is legendary. More than an eye for fashion or a taste for elegance, the French je ne sais quoi embodies the essential ingredients for looking and feeling beautiful.

With wit, whimsy, and wonder, British expatriate Helena Frith Powell uncovers the secrets of chic living in All You Need to Be Impossibly French, a cheeky guide to releasing your inner Frenchwoman. Delving deep into a mysterious realm of face creams, silk lingerie, and shopping- as-exercise, Powell reveals how French women stay impossibly thin and irresistibly sexy by achieving the maximum effect from the minimum amount of effort. Forget diet and inspiration books and style guides—this is all you need to embrace the wisdom of French living, and learn how to turn every day into la petite aventure.

Bruno, Chief of Police: A Novel of the French Countryside (Vintage)

Bruno, Chief of Police: A Novel of the French Countryside (Vintage) Review

Meet Benoît Courrèges, aka Bruno, a policeman in a small village in the South of France.  He’s a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures and slow rhythms of country life. He has a gun but never wears it; he has the power to arrest but never uses it.  But then the murder of an elderly North African who fought in the French army changes all that.  Now Bruno must balance his beloved routines—living in his restored shepherd’s cottage, shopping at the local market, drinking wine, strolling the countryside—with a politically delicate investigation.  He’s paired with a young policewoman from Paris and the two suspect anti-immigrant militants.  As they learn more about the dead man’s past, Bruno’s suspicions turn toward a more complex motive.

Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (French Edition)

Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (French Edition) Review

Ce livre est une œuvre du domaine public éditée au format numérique par une communauté de bénévoles. L’achat de l’édition Kindle inclut le téléchargement via un réseau sans fil sur votre liseuse et vos applications de lecture Kindle.

Classic French Literature in French: 30 books by Jules Verne (French Edition)

Classic French Literature in French: 30 books by Jules Verne (French Edition) Review

This file includes the complete text of 30 books in the original French: 20,000 Lieues sous les Mers, L'Archipel en Feu, Autour de la Lune, Aventures du Capitaine Hatteras, Un Billet de Loterie, Le Chateau des Carpathes, Cinq Cents Millions de la Begume, Cinq Semaine en Ballon, Le Docteur Ox, Les Enfants du Captaine Grant, Face au Drapeau, L'Ile Mysterieuse, Les Indes Noires, La Jangada, Keraban-le-Tetu, L'Ile a Helice, La Maison a Vapeur, Michel Strogoff, Mistress Branican, Nord Contre Sud, Le Pays des Fourrures, Le Pilote du Danube, Robur le Conquerant, Sans Dessus Dessous, Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours, Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine, Le Village Aerien, Une Ville Flottante, Voyage au Centre de la Terre. According to Wikipedia: "Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth (written in 1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. Consequently he is often referred to as the "Father of science fiction", along with H. G. Wells.[1] Verne is the second most translated author of all time, only behind Agatha Christie with 4162 translations..."

Dialogues in French and English (Classic Reprint)

Dialogues in French and English (Classic Reprint) Review

The work now for the first time reprinted from Caxton's original edition has been preserved in three copies. One of these is in the Library of Ripon Cathedral, another in the Spencer Library, now at Manchester, and the third at Bamborough Castle. A small fragment, consisting of pp. 17-18 and 27-28, is in the Bodleian Library. The text of the present edition is taken from the Ripon copy. I have not had an opportunity of seeing this myself; but a type-written transcript was supplied to me by Mr. John Whitham, Chapter Clerk of Eipon Cathedral, and the proofs were collated with the Ripon book by the Rev. Dr. Fowler, Vice-Principal of Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham, who was kind enough to reexamine every passage in which I suspected a possible inaccuracy. It is therefore reasonable to hope that the present reprint will be found to be a strictly faithful representation of the original edition.
The earlier bibliographers gave to the book the entirely inappropriate title of ' Instructions

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Let's Learn French Coloring Book (Let's Learn Coloring Books)

Let's Learn French Coloring Book (Let's Learn Coloring Books) Review

The books in this delightful series make learning a new vocabulary fun and easy by combining it with coloring pictures--something that virtually every young child loves to do. While they color, kids learn eighty everyday words, such as the names of the seasons, various animals, parts of the body, articles of clothing, and more. The coloring books contain:

• 59 full-page illustrations, alphabetically organized
• Culturally appropriate subjects, such as labandera, showing the flags of Spain and Mexico or l'immeuble, showing a typical Parisian apartment building.
• A glossary featuring translations and a pronunciation guide
• A review puzzle to test how much has been learned

The books in the Let's Learn Coloring Book series are a great resource for parents, teachers, and care-givers who want to foster a love of language in children, and a valuable tool for reinforcing at home the language study kids get in school.

Le Rouge et le noir (French Edition)

Le Rouge et le noir (French Edition) Review

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Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours

Around My French Table: More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours Review

When Julia Child told Dorie Greenspan, “You write recipes just the way I do,” she paid her the ultimate compliment. Julia’s praise was echoed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, which referred to Dorie’s “wonderfully encouraging voice” and “the sense of a real person who is there to help should you stumble.”

 

Now in a big, personal, and personable book, Dorie captures all the excitement of French home cooking, sharing disarmingly simple dishes she has gathered over years of living in France.

Around My French Table includes many superb renditions of the great classics: a glorious cheese-domed onion soup, a spoon-tender beef daube, and the “top-secret” chocolate mousse recipe that every good Parisian cook knows—but won’t reveal.

 

Hundreds of other recipes are remarkably easy: a cheese and olive quick bread, a three-star chef’s Basque potato tortilla made with a surprise ingredient (potato chips), and an utterly satisfying roast chicken for “lazy people.”

 

Packed with lively stories, memories, and insider tips on French culinary customs, Around My French Table will make cooks fall in love with France all over again, or for the first time.

SmartFrench Audio CDs Intermediate/Advanced

SmartFrench Audio CDs Intermediate/Advanced Review

'Our son is using the product (as complement for GCSE prep.) and making leaps of progress already after years of frustration and struggling. Probably the best seller we have ever dealt with. Recommend unreservedly. 20 February 2010.' D. CRASS 'J Linn' Gt Britain
Check the demo on the smartfrench site.
Most people learn to speak french but not how to speak it. At the intermediate level, they still have difficulties to understand the language and they cannot be understood. These Audio CDs will develop your listening skills at the same time as you progress in your learning. If these CDs are too difficult for you, you need the Beginner level. Maybe you are an intermediate at speaking french but still a beginner at listening to it. If you still need basic tips, you might want to try our SmartFrench, Introduction to French course. And if you just want to say travel sentences, you can use our SmartFrench for Travelers book and downloads.

With this program you will understand French and you will be understood. It's the best choice you can make to achieve fluency fast.
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Merriam-Webster's French-English Translation Dictionary, Kindle Edition

Merriam-Webster's French-English Translation Dictionary, Kindle Edition Review

You can set this dictionary as your default Kindle dictionary and look up words while reading. The default setting is The New Oxford American Dictionary included on your Kindle, but you have the option to change your default setting to this compatible dictionary after purchase.

Listen & Learn French (Manual Only)

Listen & Learn French (Manual Only) Review

Designed for use with the Dover CD (99617-4) or cassette (99914-9), this 64-page manual is complete in itself and can be used independently to learn the basic words, phrases, and sentences. In addition to greetings and other common expressions, it features a wealth of travel-related terms for buying tickets, asking directions, ordering meals, shopping, and sightseeing.