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February 22, 2010 | Posted by profanglais
Merci Marc, pour cette excellente question:
Just one question about a pronunciation :
It seems that September must be pronounced with the voyel “e” as the French “é” though December is pronounced with the voyel “e” as the French “i” .
Could you tell me the reason why ?
Thanks
Marc
The French vowel ‘i’ is between the English [...]
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February 19, 2010 | Posted by profanglais
Certains mots sont particulièrement difficiles à prononcer en anglais à cause de trois raisons:
1. La phonétique : les sons qui n’existent pas en français comme ‘th’; le ‘r’ anglais, par exemple.
2. L’articulation. Ne pas savoir où placer l’accent tonique; ou quelles sont des syllabes ‘avalées’
3. Les lettres muettes, comme ‘gh’ dans ‘bought’, ‘caught’ ‘through’.
Voici ma [...]
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February 6, 2010 | Posted by profanglais
This film was made in the 1960’s – there’s nothing new about these contractions!
hey, flaps, what we gonna do? (=what are we going to do?)
I dunno, what d’you wanna do? (=I don’t know, what do you want to do?)
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December 14, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
Practice this children’s nursery rhyme in order to get a good idea of how English is articulated, using sentence stress and word stress. Don’t worry if you don’t understand all the words, just learn it like you were a child. You’ll have other opportunities to hear and see these words, and you’ll understand in the context.
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December 14, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
Les français souvent ont du mal à prononcer ce mot en anglais. Sachez que si un mot vient du grec, le ‘ch’ est prononcé comme un ‘k’ (comme d’habitude il y a des exceptions, mais en générale, c’est le cas).
ce n’est pas la vraie phonétique, mais quand vous répétez la prononciation de la fille dans [...]
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December 9, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
Des Moines is obviously from French!!
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December 9, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
How we count syllables:
job : one vowel sound, one syllable
steamboat : two vowel sounds, two syllables
states : one vowel sound – the final ‘e’ is not pronounced – one syllable
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December 6, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
Voici un autre exercice si vous êtes débutant : dites les mois de l’an en anglais en placant l’accent tonique au bon endroit!
JANuary
FEBruary
MARCH
APril
MAY
JUNE
juLY
AUGust
sepTEMber
ocTOber
novEMber
deCEMber
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November 30, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
I believe that language is like music, and even if you know all the words, it doesn’t mean that you can sing the song, right? when you sing, you sing with rhythm, when you speak, you should also speak with rhythm.
In this lesson, I’m going to share a children’s rhyme, or as we say, [...]
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November 30, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
voiced: voisé
unvoiced : non voisé
try saying these phrases:
That clothing
these brothers
another mother
this is smooth
the father is there
bathe them
Notice that verbs coming from nouns are voiced.
teeth (les dents) – unvoiced
to teethe (faire des dents) – voiced
bath (bain) – unvoiced
bathe (se baigner, se laver) – voiced
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November 30, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
Theo
Keith
Garth
Arthur
Thelma
kathy
Catherine
Dorothy
Cynthia
Ethel
Thayer
Thacker
Thornton
Smith
Horvath
Roth
Hathaway
My favourite:
Thistlethwaite
Fortunately, there aren’t many people called Thistlethwaite outside the north of England.
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November 30, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
This is a very popular English learning channel on Youtube. Jennifer has a lovely approach, a very good teaching methodology, and a soothing, attractive voice. I’m sure her students adore her!!
Jennifer’s sentence to practise is this:
“Kathy thanked both Theo and Thelma for everything.”
My advice:
Try saying the sound ’s’. As you make this sound, push [...]
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