Skill | topic | unit |
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Basics 1 | French sounds | 1 |
Basics 2 | Gender | 1 |
Basics 2 | Use your nose! | 1 |
Greetings | Accents | 1 |
People | French sounds | 1 |
People | Spelling | 1 |
Travel | Tu as un passeport ? | 1 |
Family | Whose kid is this? | 1 |
People 2 | TAKE THAT! | 1 |
People 2 | Pronunciation | 1 |
Restaurant | Je voudrais un verre d'eau ! | 1 |
City | French sounds | 2 |
At Home | French sounds | 2 |
People 3 | Tu n'es pas français ! | 2 |
Friends | Mon amie ! | 2 |
Activities 2 | No more silence! | 2 |
Activities 2 | French sounds | 2 |
Breakfast | French sounds | 2 |
Routine | Whatcha doin'? | 2 |
Sensations | Why? Parce que... | 3 |
Housing | What have you done?! | 3 |
Family 4 | Duo revient de France ! | 3 |
Money | Est‑ce que tu as assez d'argent ? | 4 |
Dream Trip | Pourquoi pas tous les deux ? | 5 |
Encounters | C'est un vieil ami | 5 |
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The sounds of French
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Re: [ref-verb] avoir : to have
Duolingo Tips for Sounds
1 st Unit
Basics 1
- French sounds
Basics 2
- Use your nose!
People
- French sounds
- Spelling
Travel
- Tu as un passeport ?
Family
- Whose kid is this?
Take that!
- Pronunciation
Restaurant
- Je voudrais un verre d'eau !
2 nd Unit
City
- French sounds
At Home
- French sounds
People 3
- Tu n'es pas français !
Friends
- Mon amie !
Activities 2
- No more silence!
- French sounds
Breakfast
- French sounds
Routine
- Whatcha doin'?
3 rd Unit
###Sensations
- Why? Parce que...
Housing
- What have you done?!
Family 4
- Duo revient de France !
4 th Unit
Money
5 th Unit
Dream Trip
- Pourquoi pas tous les deux ?
Encounters
- C'est un vieil ami
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Re: [ref-verb] avoir : to have
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Learning the sounds of a foreign language can lead to some very interesting and controversial discussions at times, I have always found. This of course is confused further, from a native English speakers perspective - due to the huge number of different accents English speakers have. And this is not a unique issue to English speakers.
The French alphabet consists of 26 characters, and are the same 26 characters as used for English. However, note :
- https://blog.duolingo.com/how-is-the-in ... abet-used/
- Pronunciation of the letters are different - between English and French.
- There are several additional accents and letter combinations that are different between English and French.
- Also note - just as with English, letters have "names" , and separate "pronunciations" when used in words. Many other languages also have this.
Pronouncing the NAMES of the letters of the Alphabet:
Here are a few internet resources you might find useful to assist in pronouncing the names of the letters in the French Alphabet ( again remember the names of the letters can be different to how they are said/pronounced in words ) :
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French
- wikibooks
- wikiHow
- wikipedia
- French Learner
- https://frenchcrazy.com/2011/12/french-phonetics.html/
YouTube:
- Alain de Lait's L'alphabet en Français - a 'catchy' alphabet song. (as per recommendation from hivemindx.)
- French Alphabet song , to the same tune as the alphabet is commonly learnt in English - but instead in French, and for the names of the French Alphabet.
In this voyage of discussions of sounds, you will come across the concept of :
IPA in English, which stands for the "International Phonetic Alphabet",
or ( perhaps more correctly ) :
AIP : "L'Association Phonétique Internationale" in French.
This is one and the same organization, and was founded in Paris in In January 1889 (under a slightly different name). Its aim is basically the establishment of a set of phonetic symbols to describe the sounds of language. To read more about the organization wikipedia: International Phonetic Association
IPA : https://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/
You may also like to read about romaji using the Latin script to write Japanese - rōmaji (ローマ字?, literally, "roman letters". I came across this script when I studied Japanese.
And even in this there are several different romanization systems.
( I will continue to expand and modify this list of references over time - I welcome recommendations from others as well. )
( I will also talk about "the other letter symbols used" and move on to the phonetics of French.
This will include a resource on the sounds and common letter combinations in French ).
- Orthography : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_orthography
- https://www.omniglot.com/language/tongu ... htm#french
- French Nasal Sounds https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/3419734
- Casual R Sounds https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/24546907
- sounds is a little youtube video by Kylie Hicken, which is great for sounds in French.
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Re: [ref-verb] avoir : to have
Originally posted by hivemindx
With regards to the names of the letters of the alphabet in French I found this video very useful. Alain de Lait's L'alphabet en Français:-
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Re: The sounds of French
I have always been looking for a song to help me learn the French alphabet.
Fortunately, it is less different from the German alphabet than from the English alphabet I learned already in school (with a song)
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