French C2: Fine Distinctions
Fine shades and phrases
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- Cards
- 192
- Categories
- 8
- Price
- €1.99
- Language
- French
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What is in this deck
With this deck you learn French at level C2: 192 cards with full sentences, plus pronunciation, a note on the form and two words from the same context.
The last level. This is about what even advanced learners still get wrong: distinctions few speakers make, and expressions that resist literal translation.
Roughly 190 cards with literary register and argot side by side, because both occur and you need to know which one is called for. Along with the language of law and administration, of science and abstraction.
Eight topic areas, one of them devoted to fine distinctions alone. Anyone who knows this deck is no longer recognised as a learner when speaking.
The categories decide what comes up: start with “Fine distinctions” alone and add the rest when you are ready.
You learn French. The cards, the categories and the usage notes are in English, so you never have to learn through a third language.
What you learn
- Around 190 fine points and fixed expressions
- Literary register and argot side by side
- Idioms that resist literal translation
- Law, administration and science
- Distinctions that few speakers get right
The categories
8 categories sort the 192 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.
- Fine distinctions
- Literary register
- Idioms and set phrases
- Colloquial language and slang
- Law and administration
- Science and abstraction
- Character and behaviour
- Time, space and movement
What you get
Here are three of the 192 cards you get when you buy the deck.
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Question
Saying not bad when you mean excellent is a litotes.
Answer
Dire que ce n'est pas mauvais pour dire que c'est excellent est une litote.
Note
[li.tɔt] · f · rhetoric and stylistics · Word field: la litote (litotes), atténuer (to understate), l'emphase f (emphasis)
Question
In its ordinary acceptation the word carries nothing pejorative.
Answer
Dans son acception courante, ce mot n'a rien de péjoratif.
Note
[ak.sɛp.sjɔ̃] · f · Not to be confused with l'acceptation (acceptance). · Word field: l'acception (the acceptation), l'acceptation f (acceptance), le sens (the meaning)
Question
The term has taken on a distinctly pejorative connotation.
Answer
Ce terme a pris une connotation nettement péjorative.
Note
[kɔ.nɔ.ta.sjɔ̃] · f · Word field: la connotation (the connotation), la dénotation (the denotation), connoté (loaded)
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192 cards, sorted into 8 categories.
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