French Bugs for the English Ear

French Bugs for the English Ear

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The french_resources had been shaped by the users of the French language, the French peoples. The french_resources do consequently are more than just sounds that you might be familiar with; they are french_resources with special character traits just like their owners. When closely examined, the french_resources carry very distinct sound values and should not be considered to be the equivalent of the English or German sounds for example.The French or any other language's sounds, as a matter of fact, are unique in their own ways and this is why the serious language learner must spend a considerable time to acquire the necessary skills to generate sounds that are approved by the native users/consumers.

DO NOT CONTINUE IF you do not know the difference between a vowel and a consonant.

The french_resources are unique
For example:

·	they are sharp and crisp sounds with lots of tension in facial and throat muscles
·	the vowels should not be dragged as in English with the few exception that are highlighted in this program.
·	the sound production focus is towards the frontal part of the mouth
·	in addition to nasal consonants there also nasalized vowel sounds
·	the standard or institutionalized French R is pronounced on the UVULA and not the tip of the tongue
·	lip rounding for OU and U is very pronounced
·	the U, like the R might require special effort to acquire as it is not present in the English repertoire
·	for the i and é sounds the corners of the lips are widely spread up towards the ears
·	-emm- is pronounced [aam]
·	-ez, -er are pronounced just like a in [ale]
·	the double consonants [mm] [ff] [ss] [pp] [nn] etc. in French are only double in writing but in speech one must pronounce them as a single sound .

Frank ANTAL

Page updated 04/07/11 Brisbane Queensland Australia