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The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed (Audiobook) English | August 29, 2017 | ASIN: B074SXBC9F | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 37m | 243 MB Authors: Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau | Narrator: Teri Schnaubelt Jean-Benot Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect, Jean-Benot and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. They offer up all the lessons they learned and explain, in a book as fizzy as a bottle of the finest French champagne, the most important aspect of all: the French don't communicate they converse. To understand and speak French well, one must understand that French conversation runs on a set of rules that go to the heart of French culture. Why do the French like talking about "the decline of France"? Why does broaching a subject like money end all discussion? Why do the French become so aroused debating the merits and qualities of their own language?