Your daily dose of French expressions Add flair to your French conversations by learning one French expression every day for 365 days. Covering a wide range of figurative expressions and colloquial phrases, learn to understand the meanings as well as their literal translations. A perfect tool to enhance your study, no matter what level you are currently at. Fun and insightful This short book gives you a clear grasp of the French culture and mind-set in a thoroughly entertaining way. Learn phrases and expressions you'll never find in language courses and traditional books. French Expression: Mettre du beurre dans les épinards Meaning: To improve your financial situation Literal translation: Put butter in the spinach Example: Il pense que je travaille pour mettre du beurre dans les épinards. - He thinks I took this job to help out our finances. Build a learning habit that sticks This Ebook is designed for you to learn one new expression every day of the year. You can finish this e-book in one sitting if you like, but following the one expression per day suggestion could help you create an enduring daily habit which can prove more beneficial. Pronounce each expression perfectly: You can download the MP3 for the French expression. 52 MP3 tracks (+30 minutes of Audio) Weekly recap and quiz included At the end of each chapter, you will find a recap and quiz to help you remember what you have learned in the past week. Memorizing French idioms and expressions has never been so easy and fun! Technical details: 365 French expressions, idioms translated in English and literal meanings Examples Weekly quizzes and vocabulary recap MP3 for the French expression Download this book and start improving your French today!

If a native Spanish speaker were to tell you that the pez gordo (fat fish) met a merengue (meringue) with lots of pasta (noodles) who is going to become his media naranja (half an orange), you may not know whether to offer your condolences or your congratulations — that is, unless you’ve read this first book in David Burke’s Street Spanish series. Street Spanish 1 lets you quickly become an insider by presenting some of the most popular slang terms used throughout the many Spanish-speaking countries. With the help of entertaining dialogues, word games and drills, crossword puzzles, and word searches, you’ll finally be able to understand the everyday language used on the street, in homes, offices, stores, and among family and friends.

The next best thing to a year abroad . . . Streetwise French with Audio CD offers you a unique opportunity to learn first-hand how French is actually spoken. With the help of more than 25 everyday dialogues performed by native speakers, you pick up on the idioms, colloquialisms, slang, and vulgarisms currently used by people from all walks of life. Fascinating features help explain the cultural attitudes behind many expressions. And exercises enable you to flex your comprehension and conversational skills.

This story takes place in Vietnam, in 1971, as American warplanes were still raining bombs down on the NVA military sanctuaries inside Cambodia. The war was in full swing and America was giving helicopter assistance in support of South Vietnamese operations near Snoul Cambodia. The military operations, launched to cut off enemy infiltrations and supply lines on the Long Mountain Trail, sixty miles west of Saigon was tragic as it turned to disaster. This is the chain of events leading up to that disaster on Vietnam‘s Western Military Border. Written and recounted by Dan Sutherland. Rockford, Ill

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Thousands of concise definitions for words used in ancient or modern law.

Collins Easy Learning French Conversation is a unique guide to communicating in French. It will help you to find out more about French culture and to practise your spoken French with a free downloadable audio file.