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Title: TALK TO THE SNAIL
By: Stephen Clarke
Format: Paperback

List price: £7.99


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ISBN 10: 055277409X
ISBN 13: 9780552774093
Publisher: TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD
Pub. date: 2 July, 2007
Pages: 272
Description: Have you ever walked into a half-empty restaurant in France, only to be told that it's complet? Attempted to say "merci beaucoup" and accidentally complimented someone on their cute backside? This book answers these questions.
Synopsis: Have you ever walked into a half-empty restaurant in France, only to be told that it's complet? Attempted to say "merci beaucoup" and accidentally complimented someone on their cute backside? Been taken to what you've been assured is the perfect house deep in the countryside, only to find there's no electricity or running water? If the answer to any of the above is 'oui', Talk to the Snail is the book for you. Find out how to get served in a restaurant; learn to be exquisitely polite - and brutally rude - at the same time; discover the language of love, sex and suppositories (not necessarily in that order). It's all here in this funny, informative, seriously useful guide on how to get what you really want from the French. With advice on essential phrases and bons mots to cover all eventualities, and illustrated with witty real-life anecdotes, Talk to the Snail is a book that no self-respecting Francophile - or Francophobe - can afford to be without .
Publication: UK
Imprint: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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