Flirting with French

William Alexander is un homme d'un certain âge*, and he wants to learn French. More than learn it, as it turns out. He wants to conquer it. Sounding familiar?

"I'm more than a Francophile. I want to be French. There's one small obstacle though: I don't speak la langue française. In Flirting with French, I set out to conquer the language I love. Readers will find out if it loves me back. I eat, breathe, and sleep French (even conjugating — badly — in my dreams). I travel to France, where mistranslations send me bicycling off in all sorts of wrong directions, and I nearly drown in an immersion class in Provence, where, faced with the riddle of masculine breasts, feminine beards, and a turkey cutlet of uncertain gender, I start to wonder if I should've taken up golf instead."

So how does he fare? You'll have to read right to the end when William takes stock of his success (or other) in learning a language as an adult. Though we tried to source a local provider, it seems this book is not widely distributed, so if you're keen to read it, you're best off to find it here.

Bonne lecture!*

*a man of a certain age | *Happy reading!