French False Friends & Common Mistakes: Stop Making Them — A Verified Faux-Amis Dictionary Hundreds of Fix-It Exercises

Some French words look exactly like English words - then mean something completely different. Actuellement is not "actually", a librairie is not a library, sensible means "sensitive", and attendre means "to wait", not "to attend". These famous traps are called faux amis - false friends - and this book turns every one of them into an easy win. Part One is a colourful, verified dictionary of false friends. Each trap word gets its own card: the English word it looks like, the meaning it does NOT have (in red), its REAL meaning (in green), an original French example with the English underneath, and a memory hook to make it stick. After each theme, a "choose the true meaning" quiz - built straight from the dictionary - checks that it landed. Part Two is the repair workshop: correct-it drills where a writer trusted a false friend and picked the wrong word, plus the tricky French pairs that split one English idea in two (savoir/connaitre, an/annee, jour/journee, bon/bien, amener/apporter, assister a = to attend). Exercises are grouped into clearly labelled sets, each opening with a worked example, and every answer is explained in full at the back. Written for English-speaking learners of French - just this book and a pencil. Every "true meaning" is checked against reliable dictionaries, and every corrected sentence is built from a correct one by a checked transformation, so what you learn is exactly right.