Re: Fluency Wish-List

At 17:21 25/04/00 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
>
It doesn't surprise me. A funny thing is that French people feel nearly the
same way towards Portuguese. In my ear, Portuguese sounds like speaking
with the nose and adding a few /S/ at the end of words :)) .

                                                Christophe Grandsire
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