The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of t...

The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of t...

Informative and entertaining essays on the accents, dialects, and speech patterns particular to AlabamaThomas E. Nunnally’s fascinating volume presents essays by linguists who examine with affection and curiosity the speech varieties occurring both past and present across Alabama. Taken together, the accounts in this volume offer an engaging view of the major features that characterize Alabama’s unique brand of southern English.Written in an accessible mann...

As opposed to memorizing French phrases or forcing yourself to get through another dry French grammar or verb manual, this Dual Language Reader ("DLR") will keep you excited to get to the next page! This compilation features Charles Dickens' classic masterpiece: "A Christmas Carol" coupled with the superb French translation by P.Lorain. Experience the magical story of Ebeneezer Scrooge & the Ghostly Encounters that change his life before Christmas Day, formatted in French & English!Stories c...

The companion to our Languages Fast and Easy ~ French ebook, this Phrasebook provides you with a collection of 500 of the most common phrases as well as specialist phrases for when you are at the hotel/ restaurant, travelling and out and about.This is a phrasebook which includes basic and essential phrases in daily life.

Your best first reference to the French languageAs you begin studying the French language, you must have a reliable bilingual dictionary with the basic words you need, not the advanced terms you don't. With McGraw-Hill's French Student Dictionary you'll find what you need quickly and easily--without being overwhelmed with text.This book features:3,500 essential words, each with grammatical information, easy-to-use pronunciation guide,...

Arthur Rimbaud wrote a few pieces that set French poetry aghast around 1873. He'd taken to wandering Europe in lieu of university. His teachers hated him. There was a sort of subtle but perverse defiance to his work. He would create new words to describe the world around him, and produced pages of rhyming Latin verse in his mathematics class while taking notes. For a time he produced Latin homework for his fellow students and appeared, for a time, to raise the general standard. He criticiz...

“This is a fine, bilingual edition of the works of one of the great French Surrealists. . . . The translations, by several hands, serve Char well—full of insinuating rhythms and unusual verbal couplings, they come close to the piercing beauty of the originals.” —Pat Monaghan, BooklistThe Selected Poems of René Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet’s wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism to dramatic lyricis...

The lively, chatty little plants think they know some stuff, but when it comes to animals, they know nothing. One wild assumption leads to another and gets them into big trouble.This illustrated book is for bilingual children and others wishing to read a simple dual language text in English and French. For ease of understanding, the languages are displayed together mostly one or two sentences at a time and use everyday language of native speakers. Reading this fun bilingual story wi...

Sous le coup de lmotion on narrive pas analyser immdiatement ce que peut causer le mouvement brutal ou non du sujet. Dirait un connaisseur que lhomme nest pas autant analytique quil prtend ltre. Cest le fait de ntre pas maitre de soi ; de se possder que dans des moments et le contraire sinscrit dans dautres. Il est a croire que personne ne peut prtendre tre le chef de soi, de ses gestes dans les bons et mauvais moments.

  Comme tout homme en fin de carrière, il en a vu et entendu !     Cette activité, la chine, est bien singulière, car elle fait appel au jardin secret de chacun. Ce recueil d’anecdotes est le fruit de la collaboration d' hommes et de femmes de terrain, de tous ages, de toutes conditions ! Avrilopiscicophile...campanophile…du bibliophile au " ce-que-vous-voulez-phile ", tout se ...