A friend gave me a going-away present. A book called "A Family in Paris - Stories of food, life and adventure", written by Jane Paech. Her husband was offered work in Paris, and it was there she became a travel writer, "documenting all the wonderful sites, smells and tastes she discovered".
On the first page I opened, the author describes her reading of a French comic book, which she used to improve her "essential French language skills".
She says:
"Guns don't go bang, they go pan."
"If you hurt yourself, you say aie, not ouch".
"The sound of an ambulance siren is pin-pon, pin-pon".
"A crowing rooster does not say cock-a-doodle-do but co-co-rico".
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