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|title=Flirting With French

|author=William Alexander

|publisher=Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

|date=April 2015

|summary=A funny and enlightening look at language learning in later life, this book is a really fun read.

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I am not a bad linguist. I don’t tend to struggle with languages too much, especially when the goal is communicative fluency rather than precise grammatical accuracy, and I’ve taught English as a foreign language in a handful of countries too, so I have some ideas of what does and doesn’t work with language acquisition in adults. William Alexander is, perhaps, not so lucky. An American with a longing to be a Frenchman, he is devoting himself to learning the lingo and much more, and chronicles his efforts in this book.