500 Foreign Words & Phrases You Should Know to Sound Smart: Terms to Demonstrate Your Savoir Faire, Chutzpah,...

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Peter Archer Linda Archer

500 Foreign Words & Phrases You Should Know to Sound Smart

Name: 500 Foreign Words & Phrases You Should Know to Sound Smart
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Terms to Demonstrate Your Savoir Faire, Chutzpah, and Bravado

Peter Archer, Linda Archer

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Adams & Austin Press
18 June 2012

Usage & grammar guides; Reference

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.

By: Peter Archer, Linda Archer
Imprint: Adams & Austin Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 214mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9781440540752
ISBN 10: 1440540756
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 18 June 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Archer is an editor at Adams Media. The author of The Quotable Intellectual and I Watch, Therefore I Am, he has also written half a dozen novels and a handful of short stories. Years ago he taught History, Humanities, Mythology, and Latin at several colleges and still enjoys tossing out the occasional Classical quotation in ordinary conversation. He lives in Wareham, MA.