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How to pronounce the French article "un"? | ||
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 9 of 11 03 October 2011 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you're going for [œ̃] (Standard, still in use in Canada), then take the vowel from je and make it nasal (by allowing air to go through your nasal passage, without changing your mouth position in any way). This assumes you know how to say "je".
If you're going for [ɛ̃] (most common in Europe), then take the vowel from fait and make it nasal. Now this also assumes you know how to make a proper è sound... It's hard to explain it any better in writing. Edited by Arekkusu on 03 October 2011 at 3:49pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Spiderkat Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 175 posts - 248 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Russian | Message 10 of 11 03 October 2011 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | ||
The word UN is a word and a sound itself. If you take the N off the word UN then you simply have a plain U which is not a nasal sound. The letter U doesn't sound like the word UN at all. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5209 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 11 03 October 2011 at 8:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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You can hear a number of entries/pronunciations in Forvo:http://www.forvo.com/search/un/fr/.
A very useful site. One thing I like about it is that you can (depending on the responses) get a range of pronunciations and accents, and thereby get a sense of how different regions might pronounce the same word. (A note tells you where the speaker is from.) Or, if a particular speaker isn't very clear or if he/she has personal idiosyncracies in speech, you might well be able to listen to someone else say the word or phrase. Forvo bills itself as having 279 languages, so it's not just for French. Mind you, some of the "smaller" languages may have very few words and pronunciations. But still... Edited by songlines on 03 October 2011 at 10:22pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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