Re: Jovian's Verbs From Hell

 --- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@...> wrote: > En réponse à
Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>:
>
> For the written form yes. I was talking about spoken
> language, where usually
> half the syllables are swallowed in English.
the things i found most difficult learning french, dly
enough, suppressing the urge to swallow the first
syllable of each sentence. was only when i had proper
phonétique lessons, 't i started pronouncing the whole
word. still forget sometimes !

>
> Of course it might help to have some experience in
> it, and I can understand
> that English students will have difficulties with
> synthetic conjugations. But
> that's mostly because they get scared as soon as
> they see verbal forms which
> are more than two syllables long.
lol

bn

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