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’ [...]
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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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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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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 [...]
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Des Moines is obviously from French!!
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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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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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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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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) – [...]
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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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