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French classes specifically designed for parents at the French Academy
To know more about it, click here
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Minnesota Public Radio program on Language and
Learning -
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/09/07/midmorning1
French vs. American Culture, & bilingualism -
books
You will find below a selection of books about
bilingualism and multi-culturism - this list by no
means claims to be limitative, but it should prove a
decent start.
Foreign books can be ordered online from
www.multilingualbooks.com,
www.wor.com,
www.amazon.fr,
www.amazon.ca and
www.fnac.fr
French vs. American Culture
- Cultural Misunderstandings: The
French-American Experience Raymonde Carroll,
Carol Volk (Translator)
University of Chicago Press; ISBN: 0226094987
(Translation in English of Évidences invisible,
below)
"Raymond Carroll presents an intriguing and
thoughtful analysis of the many ways in which
French and Americans -- and indeed, any members
of different cultures -- can misinterpret each
other, even when ostensibly speaking the same
language. [...]"
- Evidences invisibles : Américains et
Français au quotidien
Raymonde Carroll
Edition Seuil ISBN : 2020133008
"Le malentendu interculturel est difficile à
reconnaître et à cerner, parce qu'il remet en
question nos sentiments les plus "naturels",
peut faire échec à nos mouvements les plus
généreux, surgir dans nos relations personnelles
les plus intimes, là où il est le moins attendu
et peut donc faire le plus mal. [...] Ce livre
montre, par des essais centrés sur les
malentendus fréquents entre Français et
Américains, comment l'analyse culturelle peut
nous faire prendre conscience de nos "évidences",
et transformer en exploration de l'autre cette
blessure du malentendu. "
- French or Foe? : Getting the Most Out of
Visiting, Living and Working in France
Polly Platt
Distribooks Intl; ISBN: 0964668408
"The French are generous, exhilarating friends,"
but they are different--wonderfully so. The
trick to getting along in France is
understanding the culture and learning to accept
it on French terms instead of your own. Though
the book is designed primarily for people who
will be living or working in France for extended
periods, the lessons Platt teaches about
manners, attitudes, and culture are invaluable
for even those visitors just passing through."
- French Toast : An American in Paris
Celebrates the Maddening Mysteries of the French
Harriet Welty-Rochefort
St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312199783
"[Rochefort] has been able to zero in on the
joys, annoyances, frustrations, and the
wonderful things about living in France and the
French mentality that I've never been able to
verbalize or put into perspective." (M. August,
AP correspondant, Paris bureau)
- On Rue Tatin : Living and Cooking in a
French Town
Susan Herrmann Loomis
Broadway Books; ISBN: 0767904559
"Where many American writers merely love France,
Susan Loomis knows it; its smells and people and
manners. Her cookbooks have always been
especially well-written, and, in ON RUE TATIN,
her first book where there is more writing than
cooking, she shows that she is as natural a
writer as she is a chef." A. Gopnik, author of
Paris to the Moon.
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