500 foreign words and phrases you should know to sound smart : terms to demonstrate your savoir faire, chutzpah, and bravado

著者

• Archer, Peter (Peter Andrew)
• Archer, Linda

書誌事項

500 foreign words and phrases you should know to sound smart : terms to demonstrate your savoir faire, chutzpah, and bravado

Peter Archer & Linda Archer

Adams Media, c2012

タイトル別名

Five hundred foreign words and phrases you should know to sound smart

注記

Includes index

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内容説明

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 crudites 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 melange of information that heightens their je ne sais quoi. So get busy dotting your conversation with these words and phrases. Remember, Experientia docet.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB20687316
• ISBN:
  • 9781440540752
• LCCN: 2011279490
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Avon, Mass.
• ページ数/冊数: 223 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PE1670
  • DC23 : 422.4/03
• 件名:
  • LCSH : English language -- Foreign words and phrases -- Dictionaries