EAN: 9780143110736

WHEN IN FRENCH - LAUREN COLLINS KARTONIERT (TB)

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 Olivier a surprising turn of
events for someone who didn t 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 doesn t understand about Olivier 
having never spoken to him in his native tongue? Does I love you even mean the same thing as je
t aime ? When the couple  newly married  relocates to Francophone Geneva  Collins fearful of
one day becoming a Borat of a mother who doesn t understand her own kids decides 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 languages and 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 she s given
birth to a coffee machine. In learning French  Collins must wrestle with the very nature of
French identity and society which  it turns out  is a far cry from life back home in North
Carolina. Plumbing the mysterious depths of humanity s many forms of language  Collins
describes with great style and wicked humor the frustrations  embarrassments  surprises  and 
finally  joys of learning and living in French.

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