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Description:You may think your French is pretty good, that you can keep up your end of a conversation in Paris or Nice. Très bien. But do you know what a Frenchman means when he tugs at his eye and says "Mon oeil!"? Or when he appears to pull a hair out of the palm of his hand? Or when he rounds his hands over his chest and exclaims, Il y a du monde au balcon!"?These gestures are all part of French communication, and it is Laurence Wylie's conviction that you do not really know a foreign language until you can understand its body language. A noted authority on French life, Wylie provides in Beaux Gestes a delightful photographic dictionary, demonstrating and defining a wide variety of colloquial expressions frequently used in everyday conversation.The examples range from J'ai du nez (I have a nose for it) and Splendide! Quel bijou! (Wonderful!) to Marrant! (You may think you're funny, but you're not!) and Petit coquin! (You little rascal you!). The gestures cover all sorts of human expressions- fear, praise, insult, threat, joy, anger, sex, boredom, and mockery. Professor Wylie models the repertoire, acting out each gesture as expressively as a Fernandel or a Mercel Marceau. Anyone peeking into Beaux Gestes will be amused and intrigued. For students and for lovers of the French language. Beaux Gestes is nothing less than indispensable.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Beaux Gestes: A Guide to French Body Talk. To get started finding Beaux Gestes: A Guide to French Body Talk, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 79

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Undergraduate Press

Release: 1977

ISBN: 0525061800

Description: You may think your French is pretty good, that you can keep up your end of a conversation in Paris or Nice. Très bien. But do you know what a Frenchman means when he tugs at his eye and says "Mon oeil!"? Or when he appears to pull a hair out of the palm of his hand? Or when he rounds his hands over his chest and exclaims, Il y a du monde au balcon!"?These gestures are all part of French communication, and it is Laurence Wylie's conviction that you do not really know a foreign language until you can understand its body language. A noted authority on French life, Wylie provides in Beaux Gestes a delightful photographic dictionary, demonstrating and defining a wide variety of colloquial expressions frequently used in everyday conversation.The examples range from J'ai du nez (I have a nose for it) and Splendide! Quel bijou! (Wonderful!) to Marrant! (You may think you're funny, but you're not!) and Petit coquin! (You little rascal you!). The gestures cover all sorts of human expressions- fear, praise, insult, threat, joy, anger, sex, boredom, and mockery. Professor Wylie models the repertoire, acting out each gesture as expressively as a Fernandel or a Mercel Marceau. Anyone peeking into Beaux Gestes will be amused and intrigued. For students and for lovers of the French language. Beaux Gestes is nothing less than indispensable.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Beaux Gestes: A Guide to French Body Talk. To get started finding Beaux Gestes: A Guide to French Body Talk, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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