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    <body><![CDATA[After fourteen years of German, two here and two there of Spanish, and three self-taught years of Russian in college, I came to realize that my heart wanted me to be learning French. (Don't even begin to rationalize with me about the necessity of some of these languages.)<br/><br/>I followed Ms. E...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24938086">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I quite enjoyed this book even though it took me a while to finish it because I started other books at the same time. :) I loved that the chapters, which are really just a story from the authors life that has to do with a French word she picked as the title, were short. This mean that I could pick i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21905041">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to give up on this book. It was too much work to keep flipping between the French words intermingled with the essay and the dictionary at the end of each chapter. Oddly, as I kept going, I seemed to understand more and more of the French words without looking them up. Does Espinasse’s tec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64842702">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been a loyal blog reader of hers since college, when I first subscribed to improve my French vocab.  Now it's a great way to hear about life in the South of France and keep up with my argot (slang) as well as French I should know.  Fun read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fun book to read. Not only do you learn French along the way but you get to read fun stories about how hard it is to adjust to living in a foreign country. It was a lot of fun to read!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful book to expand your french vocabulary. The Author Kristin Espinasse also has a wonderful website and blog, be sure to visit it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was wonderful! it inspired me to take french (instead of stupid, idiotic spanish) and was light and a great read. i reccommend if you take, like or want to take french!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An American woman living in France along with her French husband and her &quot;Franco-American&quot; children, attempts to improve her French by taking a word a day and using it in an antidote about her new life in France. The book might have been better if I had read it with my computer handy so I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11995675">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pleasant. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked that this book allowed me to brush up on my French before bed, and I especially loved all the French idioms she included, which you don't get from your average language course. (My favorite was &quot;faire la soupe de la grimace,&quot; or &quot;make grimace soup,&quot; which is what you say ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/544870">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not kidding, I've been &quot;reading&quot; this book for about two years.  It's really kind of awful.  But I'm one of those &quot;can't not finish&quot; people.  So it sits on my night stand.  For eternity.  And every once in a while, I pick it up, read a few pages, and remember why it's really ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19802417">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wanted to like this more than I did. It bugged me to have to flip the page to see what the French word meant if the key didn't happen to fall on the same page. That's kind of picky, I know, but it was annoying. I wish she had included a pronunciation guide. I liked learning the new French w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5174831">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The stories were &quot;quaint&quot; but I wish she would have put the definition of the French words next to where she used them instead of at the end of the chapter. The up side to how she wrote the chapters was that you had to think about what the word meant by how it was used in the sentence. But...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10469472">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is written by a woman who's blog (French word-a-day)I subscribe to.  She studied in France as a student, married a French man, and now lives there with two kids who apparently often correct her French.  If only Rick were French.....:)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I randomly came across the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.french-word-a-day.com">www.french-word-a-day.com</a> website and became an instant fan.  Happily purchased the book when it came into print.  Continue loving the website - the words and the photos.   ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this during a month-long stay in Montpellier, France, and while the writing is awkward at times,  it was the perfect thing to read while living my own French life for the first time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am loving this book! I also subscribed to her blog and love the thrice weekly words, stories and information about Provence. I feel as if I am there again.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read her french word a day blog too.  really like this book.  you can actually learn about the language at the same time.]]></body>
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