Re: Fluency Wish-List

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> That's a fair description :) . Maybe it's due to our French ears! How do
> you English speakers hear French?
My wife, who has no French at all, but hears it such contexts as
(subtitled) foreign films, describes it as "a lyrically flowing
language spoken by people who talk through their noses."
So evidently the nasal vowels are a prominent feature to
naive American ears.

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