500 Foreign Words & Phrases You Should Know to Sound Smart: Terms to Demonstrate Your Savoir Faire, Chutzpah, and Bravado
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Dazzle with your command of belle-lettres Like a true sophisticate, you'd like to toss out casual bon mots to enliven your conversation. You'd like to float through cocktail parties offering your guests crudit s and hors d'oeuvres , toasting to the prevailing Weltgeist and speculating on who's having an affaire de coeur . But first you need to know what those words mean. Here's a guide to declaiming like an intellectual in a foreign language. More than 500 of the most commonly used foreign words and phrases that enhance our language and make us sound sophisticated have been translated into English, along with a pronunciation guide and a sample sentence showing you how to use them. In addition, you'll find quotations in other languages, which will impress everyone with your erudition and experiencia del mundo . All this together with a plethora of minutae , spicing the entries with an exquisite m lange of information that heightens their je ne sais quoi . So get busy dotting your conversation with these words and phrases. Remember, Experientia docet .
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1440540756
ISBN13:9781440540752
Release Date:June 2012
Publisher:Adams Media Corporation
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"
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