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Dialogues in French and English

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Downloaded it hoping to brush up on my French, assuming these would be modern dialogues. But they seem quite ancient, using obselete forms. Completely useless for my purposes, but may be useful for certain scholars of French language.

This is an intriguing precursor to the traveler "phrase books" of the 20th century. But like those, you look at a few pages, then you quickly lose interest in the details. In addition, the author was clearly mixing French, English and Flemish, occasionally using words from the wrong language. If you read a couple dozen pages, you will get a fascinating glimpse into medieval culture... what words and phrases were important at the time. After that, it becomes repetitive. Still, since this is free, I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in the evolution and comparison of languages.

I'm pretty sure turkeys wrote this book, and you'll be a turkey for thinking you can learn something from it.