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

Archer, Peter; Archer, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440540756 ISBN 13: 9781440540752

Publisher: Adams Media, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Adams Media
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440540756
• ISBN 13: 9781440540752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224