One of the things I like best about your videos is that you’re a non-native speaker & therefore understand the issues we English speakers encounter in learning French.
I have found that to build a good speaking level, the first step is to read out loud, after having heard the French pronounced correctly by a native. The next step is to form small sentences about your daily life and passions. And third step is to speak with another person who speaks French. Moving up in the these stages allowed me to build my level with confidence - by the time I was speaking with French people, my level was already Intermediate so I had strong confidence in each conversation, as opposed to being scared to speak. Hope that helps some of you! Thanks, Rory :)
Your videos are essential, and excellent. My French is OK, but the nuances and tips that I learn from them (and the 'shorts') have been, and are invaluable. And fun too! Merci braucoup!
This was very helpful. I’ve been married to a French guy for many years, so I can pronounce most things correctly when I’m speaking slowly, but at a dinner table, I’m afraid I sound very American. Your last example is the most difficult for me. Don’t get me started on écureuil. 😩
You can do it slowly. That's more than doing being able to do it at all. The next stage is doing it in real time at real step. Go gradually and appreciate each step of progress. Not all the rungs of the ladder are equally spaced. :)
1). Personne. Open the mouth for the r, like in pear, and sound the double nn as in Son. 2). I. Can either be “e” or “un”. Interessante is sounded liked unterressante. Immersive is sounded like emersif In, Inn, Im, Imm, if followed by a vowel then sound like an “e”. If followed by a consonant then sound like an “un”. Important - is un por tan 3). Dans l’hopital. No liaison 4). Beaucoup. ou bou-cou. dessus v dessous. Sound the ou like in soup for dessous, and like a u or ew for dessus 5). Fueille. Don’t say foy. Instead feu+i+yuh Accueille. A + que + yir
I'm French. I have no idea why RUclips recommended this video to me, but that was fun. I thought I might comment on your own pronunciation. 1) "Regarde" wasn't correctly pronounced, either. You said it ʁeɡa:ʁd instead of ʁəɡaʁd. For those who don't read the phonetic alphabet, you pronounced the first "e" as if it was "régarde". You also spent slightly too long on the "a" (but that one could be done by a native speaker to add emphasis on the word). 3) The pitfall with the liaison can be avoided entirely on this one because you would say "je le vois bien à l'hôpital" instead of "dans l'hôpital" anyway. 5) I can't quite put my finger on exactly why, but the "s'il" in "s'il te plaît" doesn't sound quite right. It's definitely subtle. Maybe you're going down instead of going up, or maybe there's a hint of an "a" sound. I don't know. Throughout the video, your French "ʁ" aren't very consistent. Some of them are perfect, others... well, I wouldn't go so far as to say they're incorrect, but they'd definitely out you as a non-native speaker :)
Haha. I confuse French people. Sometimes they think I'm one of them, at other times they spot me right out of the gate. At other times, I get "Vous êtes suisse, ou canadien"?
One of the things I like best about your videos is that you’re a non-native speaker & therefore understand the issues we English speakers encounter in learning French.
Thank you Arianne!
I have found that to build a good speaking level, the first step is to read out loud, after having heard the French pronounced correctly by a native. The next step is to form small sentences about your daily life and passions. And third step is to speak with another person who speaks French. Moving up in the these stages allowed me to build my level with confidence - by the time I was speaking with French people, my level was already Intermediate so I had strong confidence in each conversation, as opposed to being scared to speak. Hope that helps some of you! Thanks, Rory :)
Great tips Rory. Thanks a lot for sharing :)
@@FrenchinPlainSight de rien. Bonne journée à vous !
Your videos are essential, and excellent. My French is OK, but the nuances and tips that I learn from them (and the 'shorts') have been, and are invaluable. And fun too! Merci braucoup!
I love to get an insight how people learning French deconstruct the phonetic system. It's fascinating.
The brain is always looking to make sense of things. This is how mine works, haha.
Ugh #4 I never could get right. At least #5 I can say since my favorite pastry is mille-feuille.
Mille and feuille end with the same four letters, so one might think they rhyme. Not even close.
True. Very different pronunciations.
This was very helpful. I’ve been married to a French guy for many years, so I can pronounce most things correctly when I’m speaking slowly, but at a dinner table, I’m afraid I sound very American. Your last example is the most difficult for me. Don’t get me started on écureuil. 😩
You can do it slowly. That's more than doing being able to do it at all. The next stage is doing it in real time at real step. Go gradually and appreciate each step of progress. Not all the rungs of the ladder are equally spaced. :)
This is excellent ! ❤
Glad you think so!
Is that really how you pronounce regarde? Seems quite different from how I've been learning it so far.
He missed the French 'rrr' ... So I would say this word was also pronounced incorrectly? 🤔
Definitely @@joygreen9323
@@joygreen9323 He also pronounced the "e" as in English, and not French.
And the "a" was slightly too long as well.
No, all the words in the examples are done with a strong English accent, not just the ones he's describing.
1). Personne. Open the mouth for the r, like in pear, and sound the double nn as in Son.
2). I. Can either be “e” or “un”. Interessante is sounded liked unterressante. Immersive is sounded like emersif
In, Inn, Im, Imm, if followed by a vowel then sound like an “e”. If followed by a consonant then sound like an “un”. Important - is un por tan
3). Dans l’hopital. No liaison
4). Beaucoup. ou bou-cou. dessus v dessous. Sound the ou like in soup for dessous, and like a u or ew for dessus
5). Fueille. Don’t say foy. Instead feu+i+yuh
Accueille. A + que + yir
Hi, are you looking for a conversation partner? Je suis français et je serai ravi d'échanger anglais/français et français/anglais avec vous :)
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Can u dig in , without so much blah, blah , blah ???
I'm French. I have no idea why RUclips recommended this video to me, but that was fun. I thought I might comment on your own pronunciation.
1) "Regarde" wasn't correctly pronounced, either. You said it ʁeɡa:ʁd instead of ʁəɡaʁd. For those who don't read the phonetic alphabet, you pronounced the first "e" as if it was "régarde". You also spent slightly too long on the "a" (but that one could be done by a native speaker to add emphasis on the word).
3) The pitfall with the liaison can be avoided entirely on this one because you would say "je le vois bien à l'hôpital" instead of "dans l'hôpital" anyway.
5) I can't quite put my finger on exactly why, but the "s'il" in "s'il te plaît" doesn't sound quite right. It's definitely subtle. Maybe you're going down instead of going up, or maybe there's a hint of an "a" sound. I don't know.
Throughout the video, your French "ʁ" aren't very consistent. Some of them are perfect, others... well, I wouldn't go so far as to say they're incorrect, but they'd definitely out you as a non-native speaker :)
Haha. I confuse French people. Sometimes they think I'm one of them, at other times they spot me right out of the gate. At other times, I get "Vous êtes suisse, ou canadien"?