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| outcast Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member China Joined 4744 days ago 869 posts - 1364 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English*, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Mandarin Studies: Korean | Message 1 of 4 05 June 2011 at 10:23pm | IP Logged |
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Hi, I'm looking for some kind of material that helps one with French pronouncation. I am good with picking up pronounciation in general, so I just want to perfect it as much as I can.
I took French in high school so am not at all a beginner. I know how the language sounds like and still remember for the most part how to ''read it right''. I also am a Spanish native speaker and have been learning Portuguese. So, I don't need to start from scratch, nor do I want something that tries to drill simple phrases in my head over and over, I already know many French words and phrases. I am simply looking for some material that has a large number of words to practice to pronounce. I don't need to be taught the grammar either, I already know 80% of French grammar from my High School (I still remember even the areas that are different from SP and PT, like Passé Composé with être and past participle agreement, etc), and the rest from the other romance languages I already know. Any tips? Thanks! Edited by outcast on 05 June 2011 at 10:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| etracher Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 5129 days ago 92 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Modern Hebrew, Russian, Latvian | Message 2 of 4 06 June 2011 at 12:35am | IP Logged |
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I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but it might help.
Introduction to French Phonology 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5002 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 4 06 June 2011 at 12:14pm | IP Logged |
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The best, and in fact only, comprehensive resource on French pronunciation I've found
so far is a book called The Sounds Of French. Being a textbook it's a bit expensive, look for it second-hand. It explains everything in a lot of detail, and helped me greatly. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sounds-French-Introduction-Bernard- Tranel/dp/0521315107 (usual case of remove any spaces from link; I couldn't get the BBcode link to work properly). The FSI phonology course was also useful to me, however it's a bit long and boring and doesn't cover anywhere near as much ground as The Sounds Of French. It's good for a beginner who wants to make himself understood but, especially considering what you said about sample phrases, you'd probably just find it tedious and wouldn't get a lot out of it. Edited by garyb on 06 June 2011 at 12:15pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5176 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 4 of 4 06 June 2011 at 4:20pm | IP Logged |
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I'm sorry that I don't have a specific resource to suggest, however I strongly recommend you learn IPA and the phonology of English. A lot of resources are available online, including in Wikipedia. After you've understood exactly how you speak in English, it will become much easier to understand where and how French differs.
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