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title: "Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart"
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# Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart

**Brand:** william alexander
**Price:** 132 Lei
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- **What is this?** Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart by william alexander
- **How much does it cost?** 132 Lei with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A Fun and Delightful Read
  

*by L***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 2, 2017*

To me, French is the most beautiful language ever. I often laugh that if someone wants to say that they hate you in French, it sounds ever so romantic and sweet, whereas in some other languages (I can think of two), when they want to say that they love you, it sounds quite the opposite !Mr. Alexander describes the challenges of becoming fluent in a foreign language in one’s fifties. I can relate to that. Growing up and through most of college, French was a walk in the park for me. It only got a bit tough for me when we started studying French Literature.I’ve recently started brushing up on it after more than twenty-five years. I’m in my late forties and yes, sadly, I am finding it more and more difficult to retain it the way I used to. It’s really annoying actually, since it was so easy before! Mr. Alexander describes all the things he tries: classes, software, bilingual books, a French pen pal via email, even two weeks at an immersion retreat in Provence.He not only wants to learn French, he wants to be French. One of my favorite descriptions:“Sitting at the counter of an astoundingly good restaurant alongside an elderly Frenchman and his white miniature poodle, for whom he has ordered a bifteck, rare. The server, who speaks no English, is practically begging me to order an off-the-menu special, which, as far as I can make out with my mostly forgotten high school French, is either young milk-fed pig or young pig marinated in milk, or both. The server prevails, and it is, as he knew it would be, the best meal I have ever eaten.”All in all, this was a fun and delightful read. If you’ve studied French or if you’re into French culture, you may like this entertaining memoir. You may also like it if you’re interested in learning languages overall.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Lightweight and lighthearted
  

*by S***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 21, 2019*

Anyone who's tried to learn French will sympathize with the trials and travails of the middle aged (fiftyish) author.He describes the stress of trying to learn French, interspersed with details of a heart problem that occurred at the same time. I’ll quote a few passages to give the flavor:“...my attempts to speak the language resulted in largely unintelligible exchanges with taxi drivers and waiters, during which I would say things like, “It sleeps very cold in the soup.”When asked his age: “I can’t state my age partly because the pressure has made the word for ‘fifty’ fly out of my head and partly because French has a numbering system that is only slightly less complicated than the Babylonian calendar.”Discussing a two-week immersion program in France: “Looking back, I’d say that whatever you come in doing, you leave doing a little better. Students who arrive speaking a little French leave after two weeks speaking a little more French. Those who come in speaking excellent French, leave speaking even more excellent French. As for me, when I came to school, I didn’t speak French. I still don’t speak French, only now I don’t speak it better.”His heart problems: “It’s bizarre,” Dr. Chinitz says of the arrhythmias I get only while lying down, a phenomenon I’d just reproduced in his exam room. “I’ve never seen anything like it.” There are not comforting words, especially coming from a man who’s done, by his count, ten thousand cardiac ablations.”

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Loved it!
  

*by K***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 14, 2022*

I loved it! Just the right combination of travel, language learning, humor, and real life struggles. I, too, studied French in High School and always wanted to pick it up again. I consider myself a life long learner and was encouraged by the authors passion and perseverance to press on. Also, just a very entertaining read!

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