500 Foreign Words and Phrases You Should Know to Sound Smart - Terms to
Demonstrate Your Savoir Faire, Chutzpah, and Bravado
Book description
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 crudités 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
mélange of information that heightens their je ne sais quoi.
So get busy dotting your conversation with these words and phrases.
Remember, Experientia docet.
Peter Archer is an editor with Adams Media and the author of
The Quotable Intellectual and I Watch, Therefore I Am,
as well as half a dozen novels and a handful of short stories. He
lives in Wareham, MA.
Dr. Linda Archer is a professor of English at Kean University
in Union, New Jersey, where she alternately terrifies and inspires her
students to reach new heights in their understanding of literature.
She holds an MA from Bowling Green State University and a PhD in
English literature from the University of Toledo. She lives in
Wareham, MA.
