Thor1987 Groupie Canada Joined 4737 days ago 65 posts - 84 votes Studies: German
| Message 1 of 26 09 August 2012 at 11:43pm | IP Logged |
Alright real simple I'm looking for french written phonetically or atleast in a way where
I'm not reading silent ts, all this hogwash ch versus sh, and the list goes on.
Why might you ask, because if it looks the way it does now I gonna keep using English
pronounciations for french words.
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Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4847 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 2 of 26 10 August 2012 at 12:15am | IP Logged |
Ever heard of the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)?
Every good French dictionary or textbook should have it.
Otherwise, it might be difficult to find what you're looking for.
Edited by Josquin on 10 August 2012 at 12:21am
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Thor1987 Groupie Canada Joined 4737 days ago 65 posts - 84 votes Studies: German
| Message 3 of 26 10 August 2012 at 1:37am | IP Logged |
Josquin wrote:
Ever heard of the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)?
Every good French dictionary or textbook should have it.
Otherwise, it might be difficult to find what you're looking for. |
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Yeah ipa is preferred, but you have to do it one word at a time, I've found English
alphabetic to ipa translators but obviously that won't work for french.
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emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5535 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map
| Message 4 of 26 10 August 2012 at 2:25am | IP Logged |
Le voilà :
Conversion du texte en sa transcription phonétique
I tried a couple of different phrases, and it seems to give reasonably accurate answers.
If French pronunciation is giving you headaches, try some listening-reading or some
Assimil. This really helped me connect the spelling and the pronunciation, simply by the
sheer repetition of seeing them together.
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outcast Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member China Joined 4952 days ago 869 posts - 1364 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Mandarin Studies: Korean
| Message 5 of 26 10 August 2012 at 2:57am | IP Logged |
Hold on people, take a look at this:
http://www.petit-prince.at/pp-franzoes-alt.htm
There is even this sample taken from within the book:
"...A ! peti prins, j'é qonpri, peu a peu, insi ta petite vi mélanqoliq. Tu n'avè u lontan pour distraqsion qe la douser dè qouché de solèy. J'é apri se détay nouvo, le qatrièm jour o matin, qan tu m'a di: J'èm byin lè qouché de solèy..."
Would seem what the OP is looking for!!
Do native French people know what that "alternative French" is all about?? Is it some sort of fringe movement that once existed or what? It really left me wondering.
I saw this a while ago, I just didn't feel like making a thread on it, but since this one is up, seems appropriate.
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LaughingChimp Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4702 days ago 346 posts - 594 votes Speaks: Czech*
| Message 6 of 26 10 August 2012 at 2:59am | IP Logged |
It doesn't seem to handle some words correctly, for example: les yeux - lez- œj
For the OP: learn the pronunciation first, that will prevent you from remembering the word incorrectly.
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Michel1020 Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5020 days ago 365 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 7 of 26 10 August 2012 at 9:59am | IP Logged |
Since it looks like a German speaking site - I would expect the french ou to be u or oo if it is an English speaking one under the AT Austrian Flag.
Trying to read this I am sounding very foreign.
Listen and reading is the first choice classical solution - I think.
You could try to listen to some french materials and write down what you hear in a way that fit you.
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LaughingChimp Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4702 days ago 346 posts - 594 votes Speaks: Czech*
| Message 8 of 26 10 August 2012 at 10:17am | IP Logged |
It's obviously based on French, so ou remains ou.
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