JEAN-BENOIT NADEAU and JULIE BARLOW are the award-winning authors of The Story of French, The Story of Spanish, and the bestselling Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong. They live in Canada.
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这一类文化相关的书我很少读,感觉还真不错。学习法语这么多年,虽然许久不用都忘的差不多了,可读到书中很多内容时都颇有感触,尤其是自己光学法语而不去探究法国文化所造成长久以来的谬误,要知道我一直都把“c'est ma faute”和“je ne sais pas”挂嘴边,只知其中文意思,却不知其在社会场景中的真实面貌。另外还有法国人对英语的态度,本来我一直以为法国人就是敌视英语,原来完全不是这样啊。法国教育体制与方法也特色极其鲜明,与我们完全不同。当然了,这本书是魁北克人看法国人,特别是巴黎人的情况,可能不是100%精确,毕竟就算是法国当地人也不一定同意书中全部内容,但有趣就是有趣,我们对同一话题或行为等事物的看法和做法就是那样的不同,是不是礼貌、是不是妥当、是不是理所当然都要好好考虑文化差异。
看了同类型著作发现这本写得真正好。作者观察力敏锐,可以做人类学家。
“Italiana had imagination. She said. English had originality. Germans could write, but not talk —and when Germans did converse, she was stunned to learn they didn’t allow interruptions (though this is mostly because of a grammatical feature of the German language itself: German verbs often come at the end of the sentence)” 😂