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French ai pronunciation
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caracao Triglot Groupie France Joined 5121 days ago 53 posts - 84 votes Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: German	Message 9 of 10 22 June 2011 at 7:51pm \| IP Logged
	No idea, it depends of the word, give exemples! How the hell do you want us to tell you without examples. Per example "lait" it's an opened sound therefore "è" in parisian. No idea about the "ay" sound in English. 1 person has voted this message useful
Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, German^C1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian	Message 10 of 10 22 June 2011 at 8:15pm \| IP Logged
	French é and è are not diphthongs, i.e. there is no (English: ee/y) sound at the end. There is a continuum of front vowel sounds from closed to open: i - é - è - a. If you start with i and open your mouth progressively and make a continuous vowel sound until you reach a, you will inevitably hit both é and è, in that order. 2 persons have voted this message useful

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