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(More customer reviews)French for Cruisers, Kathy's newly completed follow-up to Spanish for Cruisers, is at the top of my list of books I wish I'd had when I began my first circumnavigation. Thankfully, I've got them both now. French is bedeviled with complicated rules of grammar, pronunciation, and bizarre spelling that all but silences the average English-speaking sailor. Whether you're sailing for the Caribbean, French Polynesia, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands of the Indian Ocean, the Med, or canals of France, this book will quickly enable you to communicate with the locals and find everything from baguettes to boat parts.
As she did in Spanish for Cruisers, Kathy tackles French in a similar way that's geared specifically to boater's needs. This book is also spiral-bound and compact enough to carry with you ashore and covers everything from basic conversation to shopping to needs specific to boaters such as emergency radio communications, weather, marine hardware, boat repair, and fishing and diving. The similar format has a quick reference guide inside the cover flap and illustrations and detailed diagrams allow you to point to the hardware or boat materials needed when words alone don't quite do it. A complete Index in English and French quickly get you to the word you want.
The numerous silent letters in French words makes their pronunciation exasperatingly difficult for English speakers. Kathy solved this problem better than other phrase books I've used, by arranging columns with the English subject on the left, French spelling in the center with silent letters in light gray color, and a easy to understand phonetic pronunciation column on the right.
With French for Cruisers in hand, never again will you be among the ranks of English-speaking tourists who slowly and loudly repeat over and over what they need in English to a cornered French speaker staring blankly back. Do yourself a favor by adding both these books to your onboard reference library before your next cruise to foreign waters. They will surely pay for themselves by preventing expensive misunderstandings and lost time.
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This practical, easy-to-useguide provides the vocabulary and language skills necessary to cruise in French-speaking waters. Whether your boating plans include the Caribbean, French Polynesia, Mediterranean or the canals of France, French For Cruises gives you the tools you need to communicate.
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