500 Foreign Words and Phrases You Should Know to Sound Smart

By: Peter Archer and Linda Archer

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Synopsis: Dazzle with your command ofbelle-lettres! Like a true sophisticate, you'd like to toss out casualbon motsto enliven your conversation. You'd like to float through cocktail parties offering your guestscruditésandhors d'oeuvres, toasting to the prevailingWeltgeistand speculating on who's having anaffaire de coeur. But first you need to know what those words mean. Here's a guide to declaiming like an intellectual in a foreign language. More than 500 of the most commonly used foreign words and phrases that enhance our language and make us sound sophisticated have been translated into English, along with a pronunciation guide and a sample sentence showing you how to use them. In addition, you'll find quotations in other languages, which will impress everyone with your erudition andexperiencia del mundo. All this together with a plethora ofminutae, spicing the entries with an exquisitemélangeof information that heightens theirje ne sais quoi. So get busy dotting your conversation with these words and phrases. Remember,Experientia docet.