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Everything's Magic
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 |  Subject: Lesson 3: Pronounciation Guide and Silent Letters  Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:35 am | |
| Lesson #3 : Pronounciation Guide and Silent Letters*** This lesson has been requested by Elena Cullen! *** Alright, for the pronounciation guide, -La Nuit- gave me the link for an amazing website where you will be able to find any pronounciation (vowels sound, nasal vowels, accents, consonants, final consonants and liasons). It will be useless for me to copy everything here to make a lessons since everything on the website is clear and since you can actually HEAR the sounds there. So just click on the link below. Click HERE-- Alright so I'm gonna try to explain a few things concerning the silent letters in french. The letters B, C, F, K, L, Q, and R are usually pronounced at the end of a word. Of course there are exeptions but there are rare  The other French consonants are usually silent at the end of a word, with some exceptions as well. Note: many exceptions are proper names or words borrowed from other languages. Final E is always silent. Like père (father), mère (mother), douze (twelve, ... Final S is almost always silent. Like Paris (our capital) almost everybody make the mistake and actually pronounce the S... Nicolas (Nicholas), anglais (English) ...and of course every words in plural .. chaises (chairs) ... The letter H is almost always silent too. Like Helene (Helen), (Thomas), Hotel (hotel) Final ER is usually pronounced almost like the /ay/ in the English words wAY and mAY. Here are a few examples: Roger (Roger), Olivier (Oliver), Parler (to Speak), Aller (to Go) *** I hope that it helped Note: Don't forget to rate this lesson thanks to the poll. Your French TeacherAlice Cullen _________________ Member of the Anti-Liars club! Betrayers don't need memorials!  I want to be alive! |
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Elena Cullen
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Registration date: 2008-02-12
| | Subject: Re: Lesson 3: Pronounciation Guide and Silent Letters Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:39 am | |
| yay! French is a very complex language... that's really cool! _________________  "Fall down again, Bella?" "No. I punched a werewolf in the face, Emmett" Proud memeber of the Jasper House How are you feeling? |
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Everything's Magic
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Registration date: 2007-10-26
| | Subject: Re: Lesson 3: Pronounciation Guide and Silent Letters Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:16 am | |
| Well let's just say that I'm VERY glad that I don't have to learn it  I know that it's really hard and complicated to learn it when you're a foreigner .. it's already hard when it's your first language X_X _________________ Member of the Anti-Liars club! Betrayers don't need memorials!I want to be alive! |
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secret meadow
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Registration date: 2008-03-22
| | Subject: Re: Lesson 3: Pronounciation Guide and Silent Letters Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:51 am | |
| i used to take french..... notice the past tense.... lol it was difficult for me since i had never learned any other second language :[ so this year i am taking spanish, but in college i want to continue with my spanish and pick up with my French again. believe it or not, i miss it a little! |
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Everything's Magic
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secret meadow
Number of posts: 19
Registration date: 2008-03-22
| | Subject: Re: Lesson 3: Pronounciation Guide and Silent Letters Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:01 am | |
| yeah i'm a USA-er, but i wanna go to Europe, and i know French is the most commonly spoken language amongst Europeans [right?] and i love speaking other languages when i understand them haha |
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Everything's Magic
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Catatonic.
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Location: a house. :]
House: Listening to music, dancing, being weird, reading, writing, smilie faces...boards, posting bulletins
Registration date: 2007-02-19
| | Subject: Re: Lesson 3: Pronounciation Guide and Silent Letters Mon Mar 24, 2008 3:04 pm | |
| thankyou thankyou thankyou. 
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Everything's Magic
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MuseAddict101
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Registration date: 2008-03-21
| | Subject: Re: Lesson 3: Pronounciation Guide and Silent Letters Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:52 pm | |
| | Elena Cullen wrote: | | yay! French is a very complex language... that's really cool! |
Actually, I think it's really easy, but it was hard at first. I mean, once you know how to pronounce certain things, it's like you can look at nearly everything and pronounce it. In English, you can pronounce "a" so many different ways! |
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Everything's Magic
Number of posts: 3859
Age: 20
Location: Somewere only we know...
House: Head of Alice House!
Registration date: 2007-10-26
| | Subject: Re: Lesson 3: Pronounciation Guide and Silent Letters Mon Mar 24, 2008 4:55 pm | |
| That is true! Pronounciation isn't the hard part in french... _________________ Member of the Anti-Liars club! Betrayers don't need memorials!I want to be alive! |
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Lightbulb621
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Registration date: 2008-02-27
| | Subject: Re: Lesson 3: Pronounciation Guide and Silent Letters Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:35 pm | |
| That was a great lesson! =) |
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Everything's Magic
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Sonia Cullen
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Registration date: 2008-02-10
| | Subject: Re: Lesson 3: Pronounciation Guide and Silent Letters Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:10 pm | |
| yay! good lesson! _________________ Peeta is my homeboy, thank you very much
Proud to be one of TA's MVPs!!!Maddie is my witch with a B! Yes, thank you for asking Anti-Liars Club Forever! JOIN THE GRAMMAR REVOLUTION! I SUPPORT CORRECT USE OF PUNCTUATION! |
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secret meadow
Number of posts: 19
Registration date: 2008-03-22
| | Subject: Re: Lesson 3: Pronounciation Guide and Silent Letters Mon Mar 24, 2008 10:45 pm | |
| yeah i love french pronunciation i could speak it all day :]<3 |
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