Sentence examples for grasp of French from inspiring English sources

Other historians questioned Valls' grasp of French republican history.

The Internet is awash in vertiginous shoes with slightly too orangey soles and a dubious grasp of French spelling.

No, he frowns, somehow managing to sound mortally offended despite his halting grasp of French, megaphones are small.

His grasp of French, German and Italian helped get him a job as an announcer in the British Empire Department on November 27, 1934 - his 21st birthday.

The government is highly protective of the language, so anyone without a solid grasp of French will find it hard to get a formal position.

In a funny, if unlikely, episode the narrator gets him a job as an assistant French instructor at Harvard, even though Kalaj's own grasp of French grammar is a little shaky.

Due to his European heritage, Carpentier had a firm grasp of the French language and was also well versed in the French surrealist tradition.

Iggy, who invented stage-diving and once rolled around on broken glass during incendiary live shows with the Stooges, demonstrated a smooth grasp of the French language, which he practices on staff at the Le Bristol hotel.

At the other end of the scale, UK citizens who have moved there will fall fairly and squarely into the grasp of the French tax authorities.

In my case, I think that my not-great grasp of the French language served as a blessing in disguise, as my guy seemed only to want me to get the fuck out of his office.

At the age of 48, balding, stooping, disappointingly paunchy, with no dress sense, with one suit that I last wore five years ago to my dad's funeral, with minimal grasp of – as the French would put it – savoir vivre, I have decided it is time to up my game as a man.