Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary with Audio

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Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful French phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask about tucked-away vineyards, bargain with local farmers at the market or order wine like a professional -all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now!Get More From Your Trip with Easy-to-Find Phrases for Every Travel Situation! Feel at ease with essential tips on culture, manners, idioms and multiple meanings Order with confidence, explain food allergies, and try new foods with the menu decoder Save time and hassles with vital phrases at your fingertips Never get stuck for words with the 3500-word two-way, quick-reference dictionary Be prepared for both common and emergency travel situations with practical phrases and terminology Meet friends with conversation starter phrases Get your message across with easy-to-use pronunciation guides Inside Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary: Full-colour throughout User-friendly layout organised by travel scenario categories Survival phrases inside front cover for at-a-glance on-the-fly cuesCovers Basics - time, dates, numbers, amounts, pronunciation, reading tips, grammar rules Practical - travel with kids, disabled travellers, sightseeing, business, banking, post office, internet, phones, repairs, bargaining, accommodation, directions, border crossing, transport Social - meeting people, interests, feelings, opinions, going out, romance, culture, activities, weather Safe Travel - emergencies, police, doctor, chemist, dentist, symptoms, conditions Food - ordering, at the market, at the bar, dishes, ingredients The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet French Phrasebook & Dictionary , a pocket-sized comprehensive language guide, provides on-the-go language assistance. Great for language students and travellers looking to interact with locals and immerse themselves in local culture.About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet is the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, and has been connecting travellers and locals for over 25 years with phrasebooks for 120 languages, more than any other publisher! With an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community, Lonely Planet enables curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves.eBook Features: (Best viewed on tablet devices and smartphones) Downloadable PDF and offline maps prevent roaming and data charges Effortlessly navigate and jump between maps and reviews Add notes to personalise your guidebook experience Seamlessly flip between pages Bookmarks and speedy search capabilities get you to key pages in a flash Embedded links to recommendations' websites Zoom-in maps and images Inbuilt dictionary for quick referencing Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

Sujets

• Lettres et linguistique
• French

Informations

• Publié par: Lonely Planet Global Limited
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 5
• EAN13: 9781788686303
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 9 Mo

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French audio phrasebook
September 2018
Published by
Lonely Planet Global Limited CRN 554153
Cover Image
Cafe on le St-Louis, Paris. Danita Delimont/AWL
ISBN 9781788686303
Text Lonely Planet 2018
cover illustration Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd 2009
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acknowledgments
This edition of Lonely Planet s French phrasebook is based on the previous editions by the Lonely Planet Language Products team, Michael Janes for the French translations and pronunciation guides, and Jean-Pierre Masclef who translated the Sustainable Travel section.
Lonely Planet s Language Products team consists of: Tali Budlender (Associate Publisher), Annelies Mertens (Managing Editor), Branislava Vladisavljevic and Laura Crawford (Editors), Celia Wood (Managing Layout Desiger), Wibowo Rusli (Layout Desiger), Wayne Murphy (Cartographer), Yvonne Kirk and Glenn van der Knijff (Production Support).
Thanks also to the others who contributed to the previous editions on which this one is based: Jane Atkin, Julie Burbidge, Karina Coates, Francesca Coles, Adrienne Costanzo, Ben Handicott, Jim Jenkin, Piers Kelly, Yukiyoshi Kamimura, Emma Koch, Paul Piaia, Fabrice Rocher, Karin Vidstrup Monk, Meg Worby, and last but not least, Daniel New who created the inside illustrations.
make the most of this phrasebook
Anyone can speak another language! It s all about confidence. Don t worry if you can t remember your school language lessons or if you ve never learnt a language before. Even if you learn the very basics, your travel experience will be the better for it. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain when the locals hear you making an effort.
finding things in this book
For easy navigation, this book is in sections. The Tools chapters are the ones you ll thumb through time and again. The Practical section covers basic travel situations like catching transport and finding a bed. The Social section gives you conversational phrases, pick-up lines, the ability to express opinions - so you can get to know people. Food has a section all of its own: gourmets and vegetarians are covered and local dishes feature. Safe Travel equips you with health and police phrases, just in case. Remember the colours of each section and you ll find everything easily; or use the hyperlinks provided in the Table of Contents. Otherwise, check the two-way traveller s Dictionary for the word you need.
being understood
Throughout this book you ll see coloured phrases beneath each translation. They re phonetic guides to help you pronounce the language. You don t even need to look at the language itself, but you ll get used to the way we ve represented particular sounds. The pronunciation chapter in Tools will explain more, but you can feel confident that if you read the coloured phrase slowly, you ll be understood.
using the audio
You ll notice the audio icons beneath a selection of phrases in this book. Use the audio to help master your own pronunciation, or use it on the road by letting it do some of the talking for you.
For more details, see the introduction .
INTRODUCTION
introduction
French is one of the most widely taught languages in the world - chances are you already know a few phrases. Thanks to an invasion of England in the 11th century, it s also been a major contributor to the vocabulary of English (so if you missed out on the French lessons, you re still sure to know many French words).
After centuries of contact with English and a shared prehistoric ancestor, French offers English-speakers a relatively smooth path to communicating in another language. The structure of a French sentence won t come as a surprise and the sounds of the language are generally common to English as well. The few sounds that do differ will be familiar to most through television and film examples of French speakers; the silent h and the throaty r for example. That s not to say that what you hear on television is completely accurate, but adopting a faux-French accent as you make your way with this book will probably help you more than you d expect.
Though distantly related to English, French is more commonly associated with its Romance language siblings, Italian and Spanish. These languages developed from the Latin spoken by the Romans during their conquests of the 1st century BC. French evolved in a different way to Spanish and Italian though (which even today are relatively similar) - comparing the modern forms of these languages gives an idea of just how distinct French is.
at a glance ...

language name: French
name in language: fran ais fron say
language family: Romance
key country: France
approximate number of speakers:
1st language: 80 million
2nd language: 50 million
close relatives: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
donations to English: numerous - some estimate three fifths of everyday English vocabulary arrived via French
After enjoying the practical advantages of speaking French (being told of a cosy vineyard way off the tourist track, discovering that there s little merit in the cliched reference to the French being rude), you ll find the reasons to speak French just keep growing. Regardez the significant body of literature (the Nobel Prize for Literature has gone to French authors a dozen times), film, music ... but perhaps the biggest incentive is that it s spoken all around the world.
Almost 30 countries cite French as an official language. This doesn t always mean it s the only language spoken in a country: in Canada, the use of French is most common in Quebec; in Belgium, its use is more prevalent in the south. Although some of the language s spread is due to France s colonisation of various countries in Africa, the Pacific and the Caribbean, French remained the language of international diplomacy until the early 20th century (when English began to take over). It s still an official language of a number of international organisations, including the Red Cross, the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee, and if you don t know what par avion means, you haven t sent a letter overseas (French is also a language of choice for the international postal system).
Need more encouragement? Remember, the contact you make through using French will make your experiences unique. Local knowledge, new relationships and a sense of satisfaction are on the tip of your tongue, so don t just stand there ...
abbreviations used in this book f feminine inf informal m masculine sg singular pl plural pol polite
TOOLS pronunciation
prononciation

vowel sounds
nasal vowel sounds
consonant sounds
word stress rhythm
intonation
writing
The sounds used in spoken French can almost all be found in English. There are a couple of exceptions: nasal vowels, the funny u sound and that deep-in-the-throat r , but throwing caution to the wind and mimicking every French accent you ve heard can be surprisingly effective.

vowel sounds
Generally, French vowel sounds are short and don t glide into other vowels. As you order another coffee, listen to fellow patrons and note some of the differences in their pronunciation, like the ay in caf . It s close to the English sound, but it s shorter and sharper. symbol english equivalent french example a r u n t a sse ai ai sle trav ail air l air f air e ay s ay mus e e r e d f e sses ee b ee l i t o p o t p o mme ew ( ee with rounded lips) t u oo m oo n ch ou er h er d eux
nasal vowel sounds
Nasal vowels are pronounced as if you re trying to force the sound out of your nose rather than your mouth. It s easier than it sounds. English also has nasal vowels to some extent - when you say sing in English, the i is nasalised by the ng . In French though, nasal vowels cause the following nasal consonant sound to be omitted, but a hint of what the implied consonant is can sometimes be heard. We ve used nasal consonant sounds ( m , n , ng ) with the nasal vowel to help you produce the sound with more confidence.
Though there are four nasal vowels in French, our pronunciation guide uses only two: o and u . These approximate the actual sounds. The four nasal sounds can be quite close so, to get you out there speaking, we ve simplified it this way: symbol english french example om like the o in p o t, plus nasal consonant sound mout on on ong um similar to the a in b a t, plus nasal consonant sound magas in un ung

consonant sounds
Swallow deeply and prepare for just one sticking point when it comes to pronouncing French consonants: the r sound. It s made in the back of the throat, a little like a growl. Using an English r sound will get you by, but it s one of the sounds that will really help you sound natural - it s well worth working on. The other consonant sounds can all be found in English. symbol english french example b b ig b illet d d in d ate f f un f emme g g o g rand k k ick c arte l l oud l ivre m m an m erci n n o n on ny ca ny on si gn e ng sa ng ci n quante p p ig p arc r r un r ue s s o s i sh sh ow change t t in t out v v an v erre w w in ou i y y es pa y er, bi ll et z i s vou s avez zh plea s ure j e
word stress rhythm
Syllables in French words