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Excerpt from Causeries En France: Conversation Book With Grammatical Notes It is still a comparatively rare thing for a Frenchman to be able to converse in any language save his own. Accordingly, the historic question, "Parlez-vous francais?" is heard to-day in France quite as frequently as it was a quarter of a century ago. What is more curious, how-ever, is that from ninety-nine out of every one hundred English or Americans thus interrogated, one hears the equally historic reply, "I read French, but I speak it very little." Many persons who have studied French for some years, and even those who are thoroughly familiar with the gram-mar and who translate readily, have had the experience of finding themselves, on arrivai in France, totally incapable of carrying on a conversation in the language. This embar--assment arises in the majority of cases from a lack of an adequate working vocabulary, notwithstanding the many excellent textbooks now in use. In preparing the present volume, in which a total of more than 4000 words is introduced, I have aimed to equip stu-dents with the vocabulary of the moden educated French-man, thus preparing them for profitable and pleasurable so-joumings in France and for a better appreciation of their readings in modem French. The phraseology of everyday life in its various relations is illustrated in typical conversations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."