Idiomatics and Language Practice: On a Book by Vilmos Bardosi, De fil en aiguille

Vilmos Bardosi's collection of French idioms, De fil en aiguille. Les locutions francaises: recueil thematique et livre d'exercises ([De fil en aiguille. French Idioms: A Thematic Collection and Exercise-Book], Budapest: Tankonyvkiado, 1986) is praised as a significant improvement over other recent idiomatic collections. The book contains some 1,000 phrases arranged into 25 thematic chapters & is supplemented with usage specifications & an extensive inventory of idiomatic drills useful for the second-language learner. Bardosi's book is recommended to students of French as a second language at various levels of linguistic proficiency. Z. Dubiel