Rendez-vous with France: A Point and Pronounce Guide to Traveling, Shopping, and Eating [Paperback]

Jill Butler (Author)

Book Description

Series: Rendezvous With France | Publication Date: April 1, 2002

This charmingly illustrated guide gives the non-French speaking visitor permission to point - and the confidence to pronounce! Hundreds of colorful images help you show and say your way through the places and things you'll encounter in daily French life. With this guide you easily tackle each part of your day, from transportation to shopping to dining. This guide includes hundreds of illustrations that replace frustration with fun, more than 1,000 vocabulary words to expand your repertoire and dozens of insiders' tips to help you navigate like a native. (5 1/4 x 6 1/4, 162 pages, color illustrations)

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Language Notes

Text: English, French

From the Back Cover

This charmingly illustrated guide gives the non-French speaking visitor permission to point--and the confidence to pronounce! Hundreds of colorful images help you show and say your way through the places and things you'll encounter in daily French life. With this guide you easily tackle each part of your day, from transportation to shopping to dining. The book includes hundreds of illustrations that replace frustration with fun, more than 1,000 vocabulary words to expand your repertoire, and dozens of insiders' tips to help you navigate like a native.

Product Details

• Paperback: 162 pages
• Publisher: Globe Pequot; 1st edition (April 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762722118
• ISBN-13: 978-0762722112
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #64,406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I write because I can't not write. I've always had a pen in my hand and have journaled my whole life. "Create the Space You Deserve" came out of my journals during the time I was divorcing and moving back to the US from Paris, France. I knew I needed to create a new life and to restart from zero. The what I wanted and how to eventually create it came from this writing...My tools, steps, approach and motivation are the first four chapters..followed by the tour of the cottage I eventually created. This is not about cottage design, it is however, about how we arrive at what we want for our lives, and how we choose to live at home and in the world. It is these spaces we create that supports and nests us.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun with French Whether you Travel to France or Not, June 25, 2003

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Diana F. Von Behren "reneofc" (Kenner, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rendez-vous with France: A Point and Pronounce Guide to Traveling, Shopping, and Eating (Paperback)

Even if you are fairly fluent in the French language yet have never gone to France, you will find this little book/travel diary indispensible and so incredibly easy to use you will wonder why someone else did not think of it sooner. Each of the pages is liberally sprinkled with colorful drawings, a explanation or label in French and the phonetic pronunciation of whatever the picture depicts. Tres facile! The book is setup in 5 units: En Voyage (your arrival, transportation, hotel arrangements, sightseeing and departure), Eating out in Cafes and Restaurants (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner), Shopping (Clothes, Food and Household goods), the Basics ( Counting, Money, Communication, Services, Time, Restrooms and Emergencies) and the Index with a wonderful alphabet pronunciation that most books simply and foolishly do not include. Insightfully, Butler provides pages in the book for you to list such memorable things as your favorite restaurants and cafes, notable villages, favorite meals, etc. She thoughtfully provides a page which depicts the types of French bread, the characteristics of the Fish you may choose on a menu--for example: les anchois are grey,oily,strong in flavor and fillets, country and region codes associated with the French telephone system, and many other interesting and necessary bits of information that you just will not find in the more popular guides. Above all the format is fun and easy to use, Butler was wise enough to include a built in ribbon bookmark. Recommended to anyone who will travel to France--mentally or physically and for anyone who studies the French language--this colorful book makes a great reference guide and vocabulary builder

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rendez-vous with France a la Jill Butler, September 10, 2002

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Happy New Mom (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rendez-vous with France: A Point and Pronounce Guide to Traveling, Shopping, and Eating (Paperback)

I took this charming book along on a recent trip to Paris and the Loire Valley. My husband (who speaks fluent French), our good friend and fellow traveler (who spoke no French), and I (still learning) all enjoyed this little book tremendously! It is a wonderful guide to everyday useful vocabulary, organized by common situations that require conversation. The best part are Jill's entertaining illustrations and the phoenetic pronunciation guide with each word. We all added some new words to our vocabulary during the trip, and had lots of fun using this book together as we went.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Merci Jill!, May 23, 2002

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L. Udell (San Rafael, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rendez-vous with France: A Point and Pronounce Guide to Traveling, Shopping, and Eating (Paperback)

Jill Butler has given us a guidebook extraordinaire. It's as beautiful as it is practical, with her charming illustrations and phonetic spellings of the words and expressions that will help the non French-speaking visitor shop, dine and make their way in France with ease. It's a must for every francophile!