Talk to the Snail: Ten Commandments for Understanding the French Stephen Clarke
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Clarke's witty book doesn't deal with subjects as weighty as dying languages; instead he tackles (as the book's subtitle says) Ten Commandments for Understanding the French. Prestige Q: Talk to the snail – 'Ten Commandments for understanding the French (actually Stephen has done eleven commandments) is a humorous and essential read for surviving life in France. They are not perfect as a nation no nation is, but still its interesting reading and very funny. €Have you ever walked into a half-empty Parisian restaurant, only to be told that it's 'complet'? Talk to the Snail: Ten commandments for understanding the French by Stephen Clarke. Passing over the wealth of more selective commentaries on the peculiarities of this people just off-shore (for Brits), we reach the pure entertainment (and some enlightening insights) of Talk to the Snail (2006) and others by Stephen Clarke. One of these was: 'Thou shalt not work'. Talk to the Snail: Ten Commandments for Understanding the French. A tongue-in-cheek Ten Commandments for Understanding the French. The book in question is called “Talk to the Snail: Ten Commandments for Understanding the French”, and the author is a British ex-pat resident in France for over 12 years, Stephen Clarke. Report Abuse · KayF on Dec 9, 11 at 05:32 PM. I loved 'Almost French' by Sarah Turnbull. Before – Talk to the Snail by Stephen Clarke. By Stephen Clarke, the author of “Talk to the Snail: The Ten Commandments for Understanding the French” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23/03/07): THE French claim to be a nation of rebels. Before to going to France for the first time, we read a wonderful book by Stephen Clarke - 'Talk to the Snail', in which he gives the 10 commandments for the life in France. Posted by - English Dad In Moscow -.