
The Bonjour Effect
The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
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Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect, Jean-Benoît and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. They offer up all the lessons they learned and explain, in a book as fizzy as a bottle of the finest French champagne, the most important aspect of all: the French don't communicate; they converse.
To understand and speak French well, one must understand that French conversation runs on a set of rules that go to the heart of French culture. Why do the French like talking about "the decline of France"? Why does broaching a subject like money end all discussion? Why do the French become so aroused debating the merits and qualities of their own language?
Through encounters with school principals, city hall civil servants, gas company employees, old friends, and business acquaintances, Julie and Jean-Benoît explain why, culturally and historically, conversation with the French is not about communicating or being nice. It's about being interesting.
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“Learn French While You Sleep 20+ Hours” is the revolutionary audiobook that will transform your language learning experience effortlessly. With this stress-free course, all you have to do is listen to it while you sleep, and you'll become a fluent Italian speaker in no time!
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Empowering and Entertaining!
- By Diana H. on 02-23-24
By: The Language Lab
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101 Conversations in Simple French
- Short Natural Dialogues to Boost Your Confidence & Improve Your Spoken French
- By: Olly Richards
- Narrated by: Sylvie Pardon, David McNeill
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Real French people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning Method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn authentic spoken French in the process.
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Good, but I REALLY need to see the printed text!
- By Amazon Customer on 05-31-20
By: Olly Richards
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How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are
- Love, Style, and Bad Habits
- By: Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline De Maigret, and others
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In short, frisky sections, these Parisian women give you their very original views on style, beauty, culture, attitude and men. The authors—Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, and Sophie Mas—unmarried but attached, with children—have been friends for years. Talented bohemian iconoclasts with careers in the worlds of music, film, fashion and publishing, they are untypically frank and outspoken as they debunk the myths about what it means to be a French woman today.
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LOVE this book, now listening for the second time.
- By Meredith on 11-03-14
By: Anne Berest, and others
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Learning French Through Stories (French Edition)
- Intermediate Short Stories for French Learners
- By: Monique Boudreault
- Narrated by: David Meslet
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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If you are a French language learner looking to advance your reading skills and enhance your vocabulary, then this book will guide you through dialogue and story listening in your second language. We often are instructed with conventional activities in the form of worksheets, overlooking that words are 20 times more likely to be remembered if they are a part of a story (Bruner, 2017). Language learners retain more in the context of a story and become accustomed to the natural syntax of that language.
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Just stories in French with one paragraph translated
- By Chaz on 06-07-23
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Home Sweet Maison
- The French Art of Making a Home
- By: Danielle Postel-Vinay
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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How do the French create the elusive and alluring sanctuaries they call home? This question long intrigued Danielle Postel-Vinay. Thanks to a chance encounter with a French expat in La Crosse, Wisconsin, and years of immersive research, she embarked on a quest to discover the secrets of the French home aesthetic. Experiencing first-hand la belle vie - the beautiful life - Postel-Vinay now shows everyone how to create their own French sanctuary, a home sweet maison, no matter where they live.
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Honestly loved it
- By Monica on 10-08-19
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Fantastical French Short Stories for Beginners
- Master French Verbs, Vocabulary, & Grammar through Enchanting Fairy Tales & Folklore, with 60+ Targeted Exercises for Quick Learning & Fluent Speaking
- By: Global Citizen Language Learning, Camille Conteur
- Narrated by: Jonathan Hilz
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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Dive into the magical world of French fairy tales and folklore as you embark on a language-learning adventure like no other! This unique audio collection combines the enchantment of French fairy tales and folklore with the fundamentals of French grammar and vocabulary, creating an immersive learning experience that will captivate your imagination.
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So much fun!
- By Eli Olsen on 07-04-25
By: Global Citizen Language Learning, and others
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2000 Most Common French Words in Context: Get Fluent & Increase Your French Vocabulary with 2000 French Phrases
- By: Lingo Mastery
- Narrated by: Emilie Cocquerel
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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Have you been trying to learn French and simply can’t find the way to expand your vocabulary? Do your teachers recommend you boring textbooks and complicated stories that you don’t really understand? Are you looking for a way to learn the language quicker without taking shortcuts? If you answered “Yes!” to at least one of those previous questions, then this book is for you! We’ve compiled the 2000 Most Common Words in French, a list of terms that will expand your vocabulary to levels previously unseen.
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It comes with a PDF!
- By Anonymous User on 09-22-18
By: Lingo Mastery
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Learn French with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course
- French Made Easy with Your Personal Language Coach
- By: Paul Noble
- Narrated by: Paul Noble
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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With Paul Noble’s simple, relaxed approach you will learn in a way that suits you – without having to memorise long lists of words you won’t use; scribbling notes as you listen; or feeling frustrated. Instead, Paul will introduce you to the basics of the French language and guide you through over 12 hours of everyday scenarios – from simple situations like asking for directions and eating out to talking about yourself and how to master the different tenses – that are practical, fun, and applicable. Just listen, interact, and learn wherever you are.
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Excellent. Use this first before Rosetta Stone
- By Koda on 11-21-19
By: Paul Noble
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Easy French Phrase Book
- Over 1500 Common Phrases for Everyday Use and Travel
- By: Lingo Mastery
- Narrated by: Suzanne Martin, Daphne Pons, Thierry Saboulard
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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What is the hardest challenge you’ve faced as a student of the French language? You can work hard on your grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation, but being able to communicate naturally isn’t easy. In fact, the toughest part of learning French is knowing how to speak like a native. Most textbooks are made to teach you the traditional rules and structures of a language and are great for getting around the grammar and spelling questions you may have.
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Good
- By Anonymous User on 05-03-22
By: Lingo Mastery
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Next Steps in French with Paul Noble for Intermediate Learners – Complete Course
- French Made Easy with Your Personal Language Coach
- By: Paul Noble
- Narrated by: Paul Noble
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take your French to the next level with Paul Noble's simple, relaxed approach to learning that has been proven to succeed every time. Unlike more traditional language learning courses, Paul Noble’s unique method has no grammar tests, no memory drills and no chance of failure. Just listen, interact and learn wherever you are.
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This is an excellent learning tool.
- By Joshua M Roden on 02-14-20
By: Paul Noble
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I'll Never Be French (No Matter What I Do)
- Living in a Small Village in Brittany
- By: Mark Greenside
- Narrated by: Jonathan Beville
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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When Mark Greenside - a native New Yorker living in California, political lefty, writer, and lifelong skeptic - is dragged by his girlfriend to a tiny Celtic village in Brittany at the westernmost edge of France in Finistere, or what he describes as "the end of the world," his life begins to change. In a playful, headlong style, and with enormous affection for the Bretons, Greenside shares how he makes a life for himself in a country where he doesn't speak the language or understand the culture.
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Narration and story are transportive.
- By Sandi Campbell on 01-25-22
By: Mark Greenside
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The French Art of Living Well
- Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World
- By: Cathy Yandell
- Narrated by: Kim Niemi
- Length: 7 hrs
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What is joie de vivre, and why is it a fundamentally French concept? In search of those ineffable qualities that make up the joy of living, this lively book takes listeners on a voyage to France through forays into literature, history, and culture. How does art contribute to daily life? Why is cuisine such a central part of French existence? Peppered with anecdotes and humor, this book uncovers some of the secrets of the celebrated French art of living well.
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Not what I expected
- By Kevin on 12-21-23
By: Cathy Yandell
Great and informative
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Good book, performance could be better
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The second half of the book is filled with sophomoric insights into French culture that are biased and ill-informed.
First half good, second half sophomoric
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Great book, and hello from Paris
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good content, annoying performance
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Very interesting and informative book
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While I understand that Teri Schnaubelt seems to be a big audio-book star, it is beyond comprehension that an author with no command of the French language would have been used for a title like this. Someone else deserved to have performed this. As an example of just how clueless the narrator is, "Le Pen" is pronounced with the nasalized vowel, which indicates a complete and total disconnection between Schnaubelt and anything about French society. She is clearly using a pronunciation guide to help her, but her ineptitude and the lack of editing slip out again with "jacobinisme" pronounced "jay-cohb-in-izmuh"; at times she is using her pronunciation guide, and at times she is winging it.
With a title with such a heavy emphasis on foreign language, it really detracts from the experience and enjoyability wincing and cringing every thirty seconds.
Regarding the content of the book, in spite of its many poignant observations about the French and its utility to any traveler and foreigner, it also grows redundant in the second half and contains a lot of the standard left-wing blather. As an example, in a section on the French Revolution, the leftists are described as supporting individual rights whereas the rightists were all counter-revolutionaries and royalists which is eminently untrue. There were many moderate revolutionaries on the right, and the leftists were the biggest mass murders and lovers of the guillotine under Robespierre, so this portrayal makes perfect since if one considers not life an individual right. Furthermore, the "extreme right" in France is portrayed as this terrible, malodorous societal disease while nothing bad is said of the extreme left.
Enfin, although the first half earns a solid five-out-of-five for content, the second half starts to grow dull. The performance of the narrator is pure cringe and a non-French-speaking person should have never been considered for this position. Also, the book does not get political often but when it does, it is the same pseudo-intellectual babble one would hear in a coffee shop from any struggling liberal arts/psychology major with an Apple laptop. This book is easy to recommend for someone with an interest in French culture but it will not change anyone's life.
Worth a Listen for Francophiles
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Extremely useful
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Great explanation of the French
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I wish I’d gotten the print version
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