Re: OT: Teaching French
| From: | Chris Bates <chris.maths_student@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 22, 2004, 14:24 |
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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).
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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. :)
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