Enjoy the sample chapter:
You want to learn yet more French words ?
Franglais deux is the follow on book to Franglais. Franglais boosted your French vocabulary by exploiting the fact that English contains many words which originated from French and if you already know the words in English it is easy to learn new French vocabulary. It's easy to learn when you build on something you already know.
This approach allowed you to learn over 2,000 French words in about 1 hour. It didn't require any special memorisation tricks, it was done through simple rules to allow you to identify French words and transform them into their English equivalents.
For your convenience, the rules which I introduced in Franglais are summarised below:
Words ending in ~able are often the same
Words ending in ~ible are often the same
Words ending in ~ion are often the same
Words ending in ~ence are often the same
Words ending in ~ance are often the same
Words ending in ~que are often the same
Words ending in ~ic can often be the same ending in ~ique
Words ending in ~ly are often be the same ending in ~ment
Words ending in ~ite are often be the same
Words ending in ~ise are often be the same
Words ending in ~ist can often be the same ending in ~iste
Words ending in ~ent can often be the same
Words ending in ~ant can often be the same
Words ending in ~my can often be the same ending in ~mie
Words ending in ~al can often be the same ending in ~ale
Words ending in ~al can often be the same ending in ~el(le)
Words ending in ~ous can often be the same ending in ~eux
Words ending in ~gy can often be the same ending in ~gie
Words ending in ~ary can often be the same ending in ~aire
Some words ending in ~ness can transformed into words ending ~esse
Words ending in ~ity can often be the same ending in ~ité
Words ending in ~ate are often the same
Some words ending in ~ude are the same
Words ending in ~ory can often be the same ending in ~oire
Words ending in ~ian can often be the same ending in ~ien
Some words ending in ~ple are the same
Words ending in ~tre are the same
Many words beginning with con~ are the same.
English words ending in ~our are the same ending in ~eur
Words ending in ~or can often be the same ending in ~eur
These 30 rules allow you to identify words of French origin and guess the French equivalent in many cases.
Sadly Franglais deux won't introduce another 2,000 words in 1 hour but it will introduce several hundred words in about 1 hour. Still a perfectly respectable 4 words per minute and considerably more than you're likely to absorb in a French lesson.
Again these will be words which have originated from French or have English derivatives which which will assist you to learn more French vocabulaire.
There are thought to be around 17,000 French words which have been absorbed into the English language and you probably already know many of them. This book enables you to rapidly learn so many French words because you have already learnt them in English and you simply need to coax them to be associated with your French vocabulary.
I'll show you yet more words which are common to both the English and French languages.
This book does not teach you French grammar so you will not finish this book and be able to speak or write French as a result. There is a bewildering array of books and resources to help you do that. Teaching you French grammar is not the purpose of this book. Its purpose is to give you, very quickly, a large working vocabulary of French words so you feel more confident about going on to learn French. This book is unique in that it teaches you words you already know, allowing you to learn a vast number of French words and as a result giving you the confidence in your ability to learn French.
If you already know something, it's very easy for your brain to apply that knowledge elsewhere.
If you have a basic grounding on French grammar, or indeed are a more experienced French language student, you can quickly use this new vocabulary to build and understand more complex sentences.
French pronunciation is different to English. As a generalisation, the last characters of the word are not pronounced for example juice (jus) is pronounced 'jew'. I would recommend using Google translate to assist you with learning the pronunciation.
Let's commence.
Foods
When you are in France you will need to eat so let's start to build your vocabulaire relating to foods.
If you don't eat you will be hungry or famished. The French word for hungry is faim. If there is no food to eat there would be a famine and everyone would be famished.
hungry = faim
Fortunately there are lots of foods in France which you can order using your English vocabulaire.
apricot = abricot
bacon (rashers) = bacon
beef = bœff
chocolate = chocolat
crab = crabe
juice = jus
mayonnaise = mayonnaise
menu = menu
mustard = moutard
omelette = omelette
onion = oignon
orange = orange
peach = pêche
pepper = poivre
pork = porc
pizza = pizza
quiche = quiche
restaurant = restaurant
salad = salade
salt = sel
sandwich = sandwich
sardine = sardine
sauce = sauce
souffle = soufflé
soup = soupe
spagetti = spagetti
vanilla = vanille
vinegar = vinaigre
vitamin = vitamine
The word for salt is sel which you may think is considerably different.
English words which will assist you to remember it is sel are saline and desalination.
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