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May 1, 2024 · What Are the French Vowel Sounds? Simply put, a vowel is what happens when you’re making a sound without constricting it in some way in your mouth or throat. You’re making a consonant when you constrict the airflow (by closing your tongue against your teeth, for example).
May 1, 2024 · Like English, French has 26 letters, and most French consonants sound the same as they do in English. That’s the good news. The bad news is that there are vowel and consonant sounds in French that don’t exist in English. Moreover, things like accent marks and ligatures make French pronunciation extra complicated.
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May 17, 2024 · According to Merriam-Webster, a liaison is the pronunciation of an otherwise absent consonant sound at the end of the first of two consecutive words the second of which begins with a vowel sound and follows without pause.
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May 21, 2024 · An é in modern French is often used where a combination of e and a consonant, usually s , would have been used formerly, e.g. écouter < escouter. A grave accent over a or u is primarily used to distinguish homophones: à ("to") vs. a ("has"); ou ("or") vs. où ("where"; note that ù is only used in this word).
2 days ago · Phonemic approximations between slashes do not have absolute sound values. For instance, in English, either the vowel of pick or the vowel of peak may be transcribed as /i/, so that pick, peak would be transcribed as /ˈpik, ˈpiːk/ or as /ˈpɪk, ˈpik/; and neither is identical to the vowel of the French pique which would also be transcribed ...
2 days ago · In both French and Portuguese, nasal vowels eventually developed from sequences of a vowel followed by a nasal consonant (/m/ or /n/). Originally, all vowels in both languages were nasalized before any nasal consonants, and nasal consonants not immediately followed by a vowel were eventually dropped.
