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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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 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
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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October 14, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
Yes, this one again! I think that even if you mix up these two sounds [i:] and [I], the context makes your listener understand. In linguistics, the first of rule of communication is to cooperate. This means making an effort to understand and responding with an appropriate anwser.
For example, you might mispronounce the word ’ship’ [...]
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October 12, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
The best advice I’ve heard for pronouncing the ‘th’ sound in English is to start by saying ’s’ and then slowly moving your tongue towards your teeth. When your tongue touches your teeth, you should have a good ‘th’ sound.
The video of Harry Potter saying, ‘a month?’ is the shortest video from youtube I’ve [...]
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October 9, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
Practice saying this proverb:
‘A hungry man is an angry man’
You must pronounce the ‘h’ in hungry, but as there is no ‘h’ in ‘angry’ you must say ‘an angry man’.
Vowels: the ‘u’ in ‘hungry is said like the ‘u’ in ‘cut’, while the ‘a’ in angry is like the ‘a’ in ‘cat’.
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April 13, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
Beaucoup de francophones prononcent mal le mot ‘idea’ en anglais. Dans la vidéo, je vous explique pourquoi.
La diphtongue à la fin de ce mot est:
Vous le trouvez également à la fin des mots suivants:
hear
gear
fear
tear (larme)
appear
here
weir
career (carrière)
smear
beer
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March 14, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
Question reçue:
Je voudrais savoir si l’accent tonique dans les mots composés se fait sur le premier mot et pourquoi ? (le sens global venant du second mot donc pourquoi pas celui-là ?)Merci bien,Camille
C’est une très bonne question, Camille. Les mots composés peuvent être divisés en trois groupes – noms composés,(skateboard) verbes composés (overtake), et adjectifs [...]
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March 8, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
anglais facile cours d’anglais gratuits
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