The student and traveller's guide to French conversation, by de Fivas and Roux |
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Common terms and phrases
Abbeville Aimez-vous appears Avez-vous beautiful begin believe best better bring coat coffee cold colour company dear Dieppe dine dîner dinner dish Donnez-moi Édimbourg English evening fashion favour first fish five Flesh colour French Language friend Gentlemen give glass going good Grammar great Have you help heures honour hope horses hour house hundred It is very J'ai J'en kind know last leave Let us go letters little long time since look Madame make Measures mieur Monsieur month morning much obliged o'clock obliged orgeat Place du Carrousel Place Vendôme play pleasure Pray present pretty price read ready road room send shew soon soup speak T-not take thank thing think thousand three time to-morrow town understand vais VOCABULARY Voici Voulez-vous wait walk want want two watch weather week Weight wind wine wish word work you wish
Popular passages
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Page 191 - This work is replete with that enticing variety so desirable in publications of this kind. French teachers, and those who wish to attain a knowledge of that polite language, will find it a valuable acquisition. It is edited with care ; the accents and grammatical construction are such as are warranted by that celebrated literary parliament — the French Academy.
Page vi - Besides its suitableness for the learner, we do not know a book better adapted than this for brushing up the neglected French of those whose school-days, like ours, have been over for some little time past.
Page 173 - Will you go a-shooting with me one of these days ? I will, with pleasure. Do you love fishing ? Extremely. How do you fish ? Sometimes we fish with a net, sometimes with a line. Is the river well stocked with fish ? Yes, indeed ; there is plenty of carp and tench in it, a few pike Es necesario confesar gut es una fruta delicada. ЛЬ le gustan á vmd. las fieras, las înanzanas, y las ciruela» ? Si, señor, (¡liando están maduras.
Page 190 - At once the simplest and most complete Grammar of the French language. To the pupil the effect is almost as if he looked into a map, so welldefined is the course of study as explained by M. de Fivas.'— LITERARY GAZETTE.
Page 134 - What have we for our dinner? What shall we have for dinner? Did you send for any fish? Shall we have any fish? I could not get any fish. There was not a fish in the market.
Page 67 - Je ne me soucie pas de la chambre, pourvu que le lit soit bon. Vous ne pouvez trouver nulle part de meilleurs lits. Surtout, faites-nous bon feu, car nous sommes transis de froid. Garçon, conduisez ces messieurs dans le grand salon, et faites*y du feu tout de suite.
Page 48 - Le français par la marche naturelle de toutes fes conff mêlions , & auffi par fa profodie , eft plus propre qu'aucune autre à la converfation. Les étrangers , par cette raifon même , entendent plus aifément les livres français que ceux des autres peuples.
Page 94 - Have you breakfasted ? Not yet. You come just in time. You will breakfast with us. Breakfast is ready. Come to breakfast. Do you drink tea, or coffee T Would you prefer chocolate f I prefer coffee.