Sacrificing Vegemite for vichyssoise, the feisty journalist does her best to fit in, although her conversation, her laugh, and even her wardrobe advertise her foreigner status. Chance had brought Sarah and Frederic together in Bucharest, and on impulse she decides to take him up on his offer to visit him in the world's most romantic city.

Schools & English Language Center DiscountĪ delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost French takes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor.Sarah Turnbull's stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week.The author tells us, 'The biggest shock during these first months is how different France is from my romantic imaginings.What are the frustrations of speaking in a foreign language? Have you experienced this?.How is the author's visit to Paris to see Frederic different from her previous visits?.How are Frederic's contradictions reflective of France?.Seeing Frederic's apartment for the first time and sharing their first at-home dinner, Sarah Turnbull makes certain assumptions due to her own Australian culture.How does the fact that Frederic and Sarah speak different languages create misunderstandings, sometimes hilarious? Have you ever experienced this?.An entertaining tale of being a fish out of water, Almost Frenchis an enthralling read as Sarah Turnbull leads us on a magical tour of this seductive place-and culture-that has captured her heart. But as she navigates the highs and lows of this strange new world, from life in a bustling quatierand surviving Parisian dinner parties to covering the haute couturefashion shows and discovering the hard way the paradoxes of France today, little by little Sarah falls under its spell: maddening, mysterious, and charged with that French specialty-séduction. Sacrificing Vegemite for vichyssoise, the feisty Sydney journalist does her best to fit in, although her conversation, her laugh, and even her wardrobe advertise her foreigner status. Chance had brought Sarah and Frédéric together in Bucharest, and on impulse she decided to take him up on his offer to visit him in the world's most romantic city.

Sarah Turnbull's stint in Paris was only supposed to last a week. Paris hadn't even been part of my travel plan.' A delightful, fresh twist on the travel memoir, Almost Frenchtakes us on a tour that is fraught with culture clashes but rife with deadpan humor.

I'm not the sort of girl who crosses continents to meet up with a man she hardly knows. Almost French by Sarah Turnbull The charming true story of a spirited young woman who finds adventure-and the love of her life-in Paris.

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