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Véronique Mazet (Author)
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0071468862 978-0071468862 November 28, 2006 1

Speak and write French as if it were your native tongue!

Tired of making the same old mistakes of switching your genders, confusing your tenses, and mixing up your idioms? Break the bad habits that leave everybody you talk to scratching their head. Correct Your French Blunders warns you of hundreds of typical errors learners make and explains the reasons behind the mistakes, so you can correct yourself in the future.

Improve your French skills with this fun and comprehensive guide and avoid all the common pitfalls, such as:

  • Mispronunciation and misspelling
  • Applying English grammar patterns to French
  • Putting verbs in the wrong tense
  • Using incorrect prepositions in expressions
  • Forgetting agreements in gender and number
  • Hanging out with faux amis (false cognates)

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Speak and write French as if it were your native tongue!

Tired of making the same old mistakes of switching your genders, confusing your tenses, and mixing up your idioms? Break the bad habits that leave everybody you talk to scratching their head. Correct Your French Blunders warns you of hundreds of typical errors learners make and explains the reasons behind the mistakes, so you can correct yourself in the future.

Improve your French skills with this fun and comprehensive guide and avoid all the common pitfalls, such as:

  • Mispronunciation and misspelling
  • Applying English grammar patterns to French
  • Putting verbs in the wrong tense
  • Using incorrect prepositions in expressions
  • Forgetting agreements in gender and number
  • Hanging out with faux amis (false cognates)

Correct Your French Blunders offers exercises covering all parts of grammar and wraps it all up with review passages to check that you are blunder-free. Soon, biting your nails will be your only bad habit!

About the Author

Véronique Mazet, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor of French at Austin Community College.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (November 28, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0071468862
  • ISBN-13: 978-0071468862
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A super book for improving your French!, January 28, 2007
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This is a great book for any level of French student. I've found it invaluable as a bridge between grammar studies and French as it should be spoken. You can open this book anywhere and read an interesting discussion on conversational usage you will not find in typical grammar books. A must have, in my opinion.
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Thorough, easy to read, well-organized guide to French grammar., January 19, 2008
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This is a great refresher to help anyone who studied French in school but wants to improve the accuracy of their grammar. The examples of "blunders" are a great way to illustrate to those experienced in speaking French of the inadvertent errors they may be making. For a grammar book, kept my attention better than I thought.
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, February 7, 2008
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Extremely, très, très, très thorough! Great for any level. I have it for both french and spanish. I think they should attach a cd for the pronunciation portion though, so you can hear it. Yes, I'm one of those people who must hear a language :-) Other than that...this is a must have book.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
simple tense compound tense, passé composé, composé imparfait, pronominal verb, stress pronoun, vous forms, mes clés, auxiliary être, partitive article, their pronouns, separate consonant, avoir fair, verb avoir, indirect object pronoun, nous form, past subjunctive, trigger expression, second pronoun, tes devoirs, verb être
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Les Martin, Numder Don't, United States, The Martins
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