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eBook details
- Title: When in French
- Author : Lauren Collins
- Release Date : January 13, 2016
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,Humor,Travel & Adventure,Europe,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1578 KB
Description
A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivierāa surprising turn of events for someone who didnāt have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean to love someone in a second language? Collins wonders, as her relationship with Olivier continues to grow entirely in English. Are there things she doesnāt understand about Olivier, having never spoken to him in his native tongue? Does āI love youā even mean the same thing as āje tāaimeā? When the couple, newly married, relocates to Francophone Geneva, Collinsāfearful of one day becoming "a Borat of a mother" who doesnāt understand her own kidsādecides to answer her questions for herself by learning French.
When in French is a laugh-out-loud funny and surprising memoir about the lengths we go to for love, as well as an exploration across culture and history into how we learn languagesāand what they say about who we are. Collins grapples with the complexities of the French language, enduring excruciating role-playing games with her classmates at a Swiss language school and accidently telling her mother-in-law that sheās given birth to a coffee machine. In learning French, Collins must wrestle with the very nature of French identity and societyāwhich, it turns out, is a far cry from life back home in North Carolina. Plumbing the mysterious depths of humanityās many forms of language, Collins describes with great style and wicked humor the frustrations, embarrassments, surprises, and, finally, joys of learningāand living ināFrench.