Les mots français


Book Description

Les mots français: Vocabulaire, lectures et sujets de conversation presents a clear, thorough and systematic overview of modern French vocabulary on a variety of subjects. Written in the target language, each of the 32 chapters is divided into the following sections, with translations into English to facilitate the learning process: • basic vocabulary (vocabulaire de base) • additional vocabulary (vocabulaire supplémentaire) • related vocabulary (vocabulaire apparenté) • idiomatic expressions, sayings and proverbs (proverbes et expressions) • cultural readings (lectures). The book includes a range of communicative exercises and sample sentences, while an answer key and flashcards are available online. This is essential reading for learners at level A2–C2 of the Common European Framework for Languages, and Intermediate Mid–Advanced on the ACTFL proficiency scales.




Vocabulaire Français-Esquimau


Book Description

The first dictionary and analysis of an extremely complex Inuit dialect, published in 1876 by a French missionary.




Dictionnaire français-anglais des mots tronqués


Book Description

Ce dictionnaire se donne pour objet les petits mots que nous utilisons tous les jours sans même y prêter attention et qui sont à même de dérouter le locuteur d'une autre langue qui nous écoute : les mots tronqués, forgés par apocope, par aphérèse, par combinaison des deux procédés, éventuellement remaniés, particulièrement en argot, par l'ajout d'une syllabe finale.




Mieux Écrire en Français


Book Description

This expanded edition serves as a comprehensive reference guide as well as a systematic, learner-centered approach for native English-speaking students. The author addresses the most common problems of writing in French, and progresses from words to sentences to paragraphs to the elaboration of accurate and authentic expository prose.







Festschrift Rufus H. Gouws


Book Description

The range of languages covered by the lexicographicÿinvestigations reported on, e.g. Afrikaans, English,ÿNorthern Sotho, Yilumbu, Fang, French and Dutchÿis a clear indication of the wide-ranging influence ofÿRufus Gouws, to whom the work is dedicated.




Cambridge Word Routes Anglais-Français


Book Description

The bilingual reference book that helps learners use the right word in the right place.




Readings in Linguistics I & II


Book Description

This volume, consisting of nineteen articles from Readings in Linguistics I and twenty articles from Readings in Linguistics II, constitutes an invaluable collection of papers in English, German, and French on subjects of continuing interest to linguists of all schools. Complete with a new preface explaining the editors' principles of selection and bibliographical citations, Readings in Linguistics I & II includes the influential work of Bloomfield, Trubetzkoy, Firth, Harris, and Kurylowicz, as well as important but less accessible articles by Vachek, Bazell, Chao, Fischer-Jorgensen, and Tesniere.







Dictionnaire Anglais-français


Book Description

A French-English dictionary with French-Canadian terms and essential French vocabulary.