Correct Your French Blunders

Author: Véronique Mazet
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071788255
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
A witty, fast-paced guide to eliminating those annoying and frustrating French bloopers Mixing genders, inverting subjects and objects, and trusting false cognates are just a few of the blunders English-speaking French-language learners commonly make. In Correct Your French Blunders, veteran French teacher Véronique Mazet identifies these and other common trouble spots and clearly explains the reasons behind them. You will discover how grammar patterns of French differ from those of English and why trying to translate word for word, structure for structure, from English, can lead to big trouble. You will learn to break bad habits and correct your mistakes while developing a much more natural feel for French language patterns with the help of: More than 1,000 highlighted examples of common blunders to avoid A free app available on iTunes for interactive practice for obliterating those blunders Numerous examples and practical exercises Quick-reference panels for checking correct tense forms A "Hall of Shame" compendium of bad errors to recognize and correct

French Grammar For Dummies

Author: Veronique Mazet
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118502485
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 389

Book Description
The easy way to master French grammar French Grammar For Dummies is a logical extension and complement to the successful language learning book, French For Dummies. In plain English, it teaches you the grammatical rules of the French language, including parts of speech, sentence construction, pronouns, adjectives, punctuation, stress and verb tenses, and moods. Throughout the book, you get plenty of practice opportunities to help you on your goal of mastering basic French grammar and usage. Grasp the grammatical rules of French including parts of speech, sentence construction, and verb tenses Enhance your descriptive speech with adverbs, adjectives, and prepositions Benefit from plenty of practice opportunities throughout the book Use the French language confidently and correctly Whether you're a student studying French or a professional looking to get ahead of the pack by learning a second language, French Grammar For Dummies is your hands-on guide to quickly and painlessly master the written aspect of this popular language.

Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced French Grammar, Second Edition

Author: Véronique Mazet
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 1260011267
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
Gain control over difficult areas of French grammar with this accessible guide Mastering grammar in a new language can be challenging. Practice Makes Perfect Advanced French Grammar helps you take your grammar skills to the next level. Written for advanced beginner and intermediate language learners, the book focuses on the sophisticated grammar topics that are essential to constructing longer, more complex sentences. Easy-to-absorb explanatory materials and examples are featured throughout the text. Comprehensive review exercises are included to help reinforce the topics covered and gauge your progress. You’ll develop a better understanding of the nuances of the language and quickly zero in on what holds you back from fluency. With this book to guide you, you’ll learn how to create more complex, meaningful sentences and communicate in French more effectively. Practice Makes Perfect Advanced French Grammar features: • Thorough explanations of topics that often prove difficult for English speakers learning French, including compound tenses, the subjunctive, and prepositions • New: Chapter review test to assess your understanding of the material • Practical exercises that give you the opportunity to test what you've learned • Targeted focus to help you improve your language skills in less time • A handy appendix of tables resolves troublesome grammar issues

Scientific Blunders

Author: R. M. Youngson
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN: 9780786705948
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Covers the flat earth theory, the Piltdown Man, the Tay bridge collapse, Chernobyl, cold fusion, and the Hubble space telescope mistake.

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong

Author: Jean-Benoit Nadeau
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402230575
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
"Sixty Million Frenchmen does its job marvelously well. After reading it, you may still think the French are arrogant, aloof, and high-handed, but you will know why." --Wall Street Journal

Correct Your Italian Blunders

Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071472150
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Examines common errors for sentence structure, word formation, and pronunciation. With exercises and answers to help avoid them. For self-study and developing grammar, vocabulary, writing and pronunciation skills.

Olives, Lemons and Za'atar

Author: Rawia Bishara
Publisher: Kyle Books
ISBN: 9780857837578
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Tangy lemony tabbouleh, smoky, rich baba ghanouj, beautifully spiced lamb shank...the recipes in Olives, Lemons & Za'atar provide something irresistible for every occasion. These dishes represent the flavors of Rawia's Middle Eastern childhood with recipes copied faithfully from family cookbooks (her mother's most treasured harissa), and then developed with a creative flourish of her own. Her food is deeply personal and so she includes the classics but also the Mediterranean influences that come from summer holidays in Spain and living in Bay Ridge, the old Italian neighbourhood in Brooklyn. The result is a sensational cross-cultural mix and provides you with everything you need to enjoy the best home cooking and share the most convivial Middle Eastern hospitality.

The Collected Works of Prentice Mulford

Author: Prentice Mulford
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 1208

Book Description
This edition includes: The "New Thought" Works: Thoughts Are Things The God In You Your Forces and How to Use Them Novel: Swamp Angel Autobiographical Writings: Autobiography: Prentice Mulford's Story: Life By Land and Sea Sketches: The Californian's Return: or, Twenty Years From Home French Without a Master Prentice Mulford (1834-1891) was a noted literary humorist, comic lecturer, author of poems and essays, and a columnist. He was also instrumental in the founding of the popular philosophy, New Thought, along with other notable writers including Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mulford's book, Thoughts are Things served as a guide to this new belief system and is still popular today. He also coined the term Law of Attraction.

World's Dumbest Crooks

Author: Allan Zullo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780439643573
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
You won't believe some of the bird-brained things people have done. This book is packed with stories that are ridiculous, outrageous--and true!

Brilliant Blunders

Author: Mario Livio
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439192383
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Drawing on the lives of five great scientists, this “scholarly, insightful, and beautifully written book” (Martin Rees, author of From Here to Infinity) illuminates the path to scientific discovery. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein all made groundbreaking contributions to their fields—but each also stumbled badly. Darwin’s theory of natural selection shouldn’t have worked, according to the prevailing beliefs of his time. Lord Kelvin gravely miscalculated the age of the earth. Linus Pauling, the world’s premier chemist, constructed an erroneous model for DNA in his haste to beat the competition to publication. Astrophysicist Fred Hoyle dismissed the idea of a “Big Bang” origin to the universe (ironically, the caustic name he gave to this event endured long after his erroneous objections were disproven). And Albert Einstein speculated incorrectly about the forces of the universe—and that speculation opened the door to brilliant conceptual leaps. As Mario Livio luminously explains in this “thoughtful meditation on the course of science itself” (The New York Times Book Review), these five scientists expanded our knowledge of life on earth, the evolution of the earth, and the evolution of the universe, despite and because of their errors. “Thoughtful, well-researched, and beautifully written” (The Washington Post), Brilliant Blunders is a wonderfully insightful examination of the psychology of five fascinating scientists—and the mistakes as well as the achievements that made them famous.