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Author: Trudie Maria Booth
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761849726
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 499

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This comprehensive manual thoroughly covers every aspect of French grammar, from the basic to the most advanced level, and illustrates the grammatical structures with useful, practical and interesting examples. It can be used as a classroom text in intermediate and advanced courses, as well as for reference and self-study.

Author: Romain Rannou
Publisher: Romain Rannou
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Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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French in Paris 1, the inaugural book of our educational collection, is specifically designed for beginners to introduce them to the French language. This book focuses on equipping learners with the essentials of French through the context of everyday dialogues and real-life scenarios they are likely to encounter in France. This volume distinguishes itself by balancing comprehensive educational content with an engaging approach. It is meticulously crafted to ensure that beginners are well-prepared to embark on their language learning journey. Emphasis is placed on acquiring practical skills such as understanding and using basic verbs in the present tense, describing simple actions, communicating about locations and ongoing activities, and asking for the time. These foundational elements are vital for learners to effectively navigate basic interactions, from ordering in a café to asking for directions, or engaging in basic conversations with locals. The book aims not only to teach the language but also to immerse learners in French culture, making their learning experience both enriching and authentic. Audio files: www.ecoleromain.com OR soundcloud.com/frenchinparis Table of contents: 1. Introduction - Learn how to introduce yourself and greet others. - Understand basic structural words.Memorize letters, special characters, basic words, and basic adjectives. - Learn to pronounce letters and double vowels correctly. 2. Presenting oneself - Learn how to present something, ask a question, and answer basic questions. - Understand indefinite and definite articles, feminine and plural agreements. - Memorize numbers, words related to learning and school, and colors. - Learn to pronounce the silent "e." 3. Describing oneself - Learn how to talk about oneself and one's occupation, answer with "yes" or "no," and describe something. - Understand the present tense and its conjugation, stressed and subject pronouns, polite "vous," and negation. - Memorize the verbs: "être," "avoir," and "faire" and professions. - Learn to pronounce open and closed vowels "O" and "EU" correctly. 4. Places and directions - Learn how to say where you are going and ask for information about a place. - Understand adverbial phrases of place with prepositions "à," "dans," "en," "chez," and the contracted article "au"; specify your position with "ici," "là," or "là-bas." - Memorize the conjugation of "aller" and "venir" and words related to the city. 5. Hobbies and interests - Learn how to speak about what you like, hobbies, and passions. - Understand the placement of adjectives before or after the noun. - Memorize vocabulary related to leisure. 6. Family and possessions - Learn how to introduce your family and ask for quantity. - Understand possessive adjectives, possessive phrases with "de" and "à," and demonstrative adjectives. - Learn to pronounce liaisons and vowel linking correctly. 7. Time and weather - Learn how to tell time, the date, say your age, and speak about the weather. - Understand the interrogative pronoun "quel," the three meanings of the subject pronoun "on." - Memorize vocabulary related to time and weather and numbers up to 1000. 8. Food and quantity - Learn how to speak about food and quantity. - Understand partitive articles "du," "de la," "de l'," causality with "parce que," and pronominal verbs with "se." - Memorize vocabulary related to food. 9. Describing others - Learn how to describe and recognize somebody. - Understand all interrogative pronouns: "quoi," "qui," "où," "quand," "comment," "pourquoi," "combien," and questions with inversion. - Memorize vocabulary related to fashion, clothing, and sense verbs. - Learn to pronounce mute and aspirated "H." 10. Time management - Learn how to give information about time. - Understand the structure: "quand" + subject, object pronouns, expressions with "il faut" and "j'ai besoin de," article "de" with a plural adjective. - Memorize vocabulary related to travel and connectors "pendant," "avant," and "après."

Author: Lena Baunaz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400706219
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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This book is the first extensive study on French Quantification in the field of Syntax. It provides a typology of four main quantified noun phrases in French (existential, universal, negative and wh-), detailing their syntactic, semantic and prosodic behaviors and showing that they can be reduced to two classes—Split-DP structures or Floating quantification. Relying on syntax and semantics, the book establishes a three-way structural typology of wh in-situ phrases and extends it to existentials. It pays special attention to the prosodic properties associated with their different readings and proposes an analysis of the distribution of subextraction and pied-piping. Similarly based on semantic and syntactic tests, the book reveals N(egative) words to be universal Quantifiers. It proposes a new structure of N-words in terms of constituent negation and includes a detailed analysis of the difference between not an N and not all the N in French.

Author: Laura Brugé
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199746737
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 427

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The cartographic project considers evidence for a functional head in one language as evidence for it in universal grammar. In this volume, some of the most influential linguists who have participated in this long-lasting debate offer their recent work in short, self contained case studies.

Author: Caroline Bouron
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 103580171X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 525

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Laugh, cry, and feel wonder alongside 26 real-life wanderers in Portraits of Travel. In 2015, Caroline Bouron embarked on a journey across the Pacific to discover what drives people to forsake comfort for life on the move. She ended up interviewing 26 globetrotting voyagers from 12 countries and all walks of life - cyclists, sailors, nomads traveling for weeks or years at a time. Though their reasons for roaming varied widely, the travellers shared one thing: encounters that profoundly shaped their trips and their selves. With raw candour recalling both breathtaking vistas and bumpy roads, the voyagers recount outstanding memories from chance romantic trysts to brushes with death that forever altered their worldviews. And interspersed with travel tips and hidden gems worth visiting across the protagonists’ homelands, their stories may just provide the inspiration for your next adventure. From lifelong nomad to novice wanderer, anyone with a flicker of wanderlust will see themselves reflected in these pages. So, grab your backpack and traverse the world through the eyes of these intrepid souls.

Author: Ingo Feldhausen
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027262373
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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In 2016, the Going Romance conference series celebrated its 30th edition and the Goethe University of Frankfurt (Germany) had the honor of organizing this.The edited volume at hand presents a selection of 17 peer-reviewed articles, based on papers that were presented at this occasion. The volume covers a wide variety of phenomena, ranging from morphosyntax to prosody. Some are discussed from a synchronic perspective, others from a diachronic perspective, or in the context of language acquisition. In addition to frequently-studied languages such as French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish, this volume features lesser-studied varieties including Aromanian, Gallo, and Sardinian.

Author: Carine Dartiguepeyrou
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1786308665
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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In the same way as there are many futures, not just one, there are many ways to conceive and practice foresight. The challenge of the great turning point of our civilization is to free ourselves from our prejudices in order to imagine and build desirable futures. The process is, by nature, ethical and prospective. In a complex, uncertain and geopolitically transforming world, we must be open to the diversity of cultures and the different perceptions of the future. This requires us to reflect on the purpose and means of our societies. Futures proposes different cultural and ethical views on civilizational transformation by offering a rare, transnational panorama of the visions of the future in a European, American and Chinese context. Through numerous examples, this book illustrates how foresight is practiced and what this can achieve in strategic terms.

Author: Françoise Rochais
Publisher: Max Milo
ISBN: 2315010179
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Violée à 5, puis 8, puis 26 ans, Françoise s’accroche de toutes ses forces au jonglage pour survivre à ses démons. Enfermée dans un mal-être insupportable, elle jongle avec un, puis deux, puis sept bâtons, et devient championne du monde de Jonglage à Las Vegas à l’âge à 21 ans. Devenue femme, elle accorde aujourd’hui son pardon pour pouvoir vivre en paix avec elle-même, estimant avoir atteint son objectif le plus important, trouver l’Amour d’un homme. Dans ce récit autobiographique, persévérance, dépassement de soi, libération de la parole et reconstruction sont autant d’outils développés pour formuler un message d’espoir, pour s’affranchir du passé et pour, enfin, vivre heureux et en paix – en l’espèce avec son compagnon, avec qui elle forme, sur scène et dans la vie, un duo de choc. Championne du monde de jonglage et inscrite au Livre Guinness des records, Françoise est une jongleuse jusqu’au bout de l’âme depuis près de 40 ans. Elle a été récompensée dans de nombreux Festivals, comme celui du Festival International du Cirque de Monte-Carlo en 2020, à Monaco ou au Festival mondial du cirque de demain à Paris .

Author: Yaqian Huang
Publisher: Language Science Press
ISBN: 3961104727
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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This volume contains a selection of papers that were presented at the 53rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, which was held virtually at the University of California San Diego. There are 21 papers covering phonology, morphology, syntax, lexical semantics, sociolinguistics, typology and historical linguistics. The volume features a keynote paper that proposes a novel community-based approach to language documentation. African languages investigated in detail include Wolof, Mende, Dangme, Kusaal, Nzema, Anii, Nigerian Pidgin, Tunen, Nyokon, Vale, Lokoya, Lopit, Otuho, Kalenjin, Tiriki, Oromo, Tigrinya, Asá, Qwadza, and Ikalanga.