couragepiece93 Groupie United States Joined 5776 days ago 77 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, Latin
| Message 1 of 2 19 June 2009 at 4:14am | IP Logged |
Why is there sometimes a schwa-like sound at the end of words in some cases, but not in others? For example, in my Assimil, I have heard "cher" pronounced as "sheR" but also with a light schwa sound at the end.
My french teacher last year in high school didn't speak like this, so I'm a bit confused.
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dmg Diglot Senior Member Canada dgryski.blogspot.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7019 days ago 555 posts - 605 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Dutch, Esperanto
| Message 2 of 2 19 June 2009 at 5:57am | IP Logged |
It's more a question of wether or not the 'R' is pronounced vocalized or not, and I think that's just a stylistic/accent/personal choice. However, I'm not a native francophone so somebody please correct me if I'm wrong... (my phonetics textbook is in the other room and I'm lazy...)
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