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Re: OT: Teaching French

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 22, 2004, 14:41
Chris Bates wrote:

> Philippe Caquant wrote: > >> I think the main thing is vocabulary (not so much the >> written one than the spoken one - pronunciation IS a >> problem in French). >> > They know quite a few words, but they don't pronounce them quite right. > Mind you, neither do I... according to my dictionary, crois as in Je > crois que... is kRwa (I think.. unless I'm confused)... as hard as I > try, I find it difficult to follow a French R with a w. But mum and > dad... they pronounce tu and tout the same (ie, they can't tell the > difference between u and y), 2 and 9 become @ (just looking at the > X-SAMPA chart for the right numbers and symbols), Dad turns e~ into an > and a~ into on usually... well, the vowels are well and truly shuffled > anyway. They're not so bad on the consonants. :) > >
Try simply rounding your lips during the <r> sound. That should give a similar effect. My problem, in French, is that I often pronounce /O~/ as /A~/. Which I really shouldn't do, but I can't, personally, hear the difference, which makes it hard to remember that they are different.

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Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>