Newsletter Q&A: 3 Tips for French Teachers | Talk in French Bonjour tout le monde. In the weekly Talk in French newsletter sent to email subscribers every Sunday, I feature a question from subscribers. The questions cover everything—French language, culture, travel, and even totally random ones—and a lot of it are quite useful. Today, I will be sharing with you a question sent by Daniella. « My Core French classrooms in Southern Ontario read your article about not worrying about sounding French! My question: how can I help students improve their oral French in an Anglophone environment? They can conjugate a verb. Do you have any suggestions? Here is my answer: It’s a very challenging job to teach when people have little interest in your topic. Learning the grammar rules or conjugating verbs can be really boring for your students and they’ll just be doing it mechanically. Students like movies, music, food, TV shows, and other pop culture topics so I am sure you can find a lot of activities related to that.
FLC: Lesson 1 - Pronunciation guidelines You too can learn French ! Created by Jacques Léon Page design by Roberth Andersson Lesson 1 - Pronunciation guidelines A written course in not the best suited means to learn how to pronounce a language, especially when you have never heard it. In addition, the way people pronounce their own language may tremendously vary from one place to another and is strongly dependent on the local culture, customs and neighbouring influences. As mentioned above, learning how to pronounce a language from a written course is a tough job. . For MAC users, a freeware called SoundApp is able to read and play various sound file formats. 1. a Pronunciation: like the first "a" in "marmalade" or in "heart", but just a little bit less open. Notes In most cases, the final e in a word is not pronounced. 2. One of the most striking differences between the French and the English words is the use of accented characters in French. Accents which change the vowel sound è and ê but with a much more open sound. 3. 4. r j g h
30 Difficult Words to Pronounce in French: Part 1 | Talk in French One of the most difficult things non-French speakers all agree on when learning French is the pronunciation. You’ll often hear French learners grumbling about: how to pronounce the letter u’s and the r’s, how to let the French words roll off the tongue without sounding funny, and how to say certain French words that almost seem impossible to pronounce. In some cases, these words are too difficult to say that you’d probably just have to avoid altogether any scenario that requires you to say the particular word, otherwise you’d go: via GIPHY We asked the Talk in French community on Facebook to share the French words that they have the most difficulty pronouncing. We have narrowed down the list to 120 words which will be spread out into a series of 4 articles, with 30 words for each article. So if you’re ready, let’s begin! To download a copy of the audio, subscribe to the newsletter by clicking the photo below. Did your submitted word make it to this list?
30 Difficult to Pronounce French Words: Part 3 | Talk in French French pronunciation can be a total pain sometimes. When we asked the people over at the Talk in French page on Facebook what the French words they simply couldn’t pronounce, we received a whole truckload of answers. As Elizabeth described it on her comment, “It’s easier to list the ones I can pronounce.” We totally feel your pain. So, are you ready? 1. “I find ‘mille feuille’ a bit tricky – the double l’s sounding like u’s just confuse my tongue