(This is Part 1; Part 2 will be posted in a couple of weeks.)This PDF has been written with parents of French Immersion children in mind.
As a parent your child comes home with new words and pronounces them the way the teacher taught them to in class. You scratch your head when you see the written form of the new words and are tempted to correct your child. Hopefully this PDF will help you decipher pronunciation of French words and understand why your child pronounces them the way he/she does.
If you are not a parent of French Immersion children, but are learning French, please do have a look at the PDF. If you do not have a French speaking person to practice with, the next best thing to help you hear words as they should sound is this cool website that will pronounce text you type in French (with a choice of male and female voices with different accents): http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal
Note: If you wish to print the PDF please do so but be aware that it should be printed in color for the best usability of the document, since most of the pronunciation emphasis is indicated through use of different colors.
As a parent your child comes home with new words and pronounces them the way the teacher taught them to in class. You scratch your head when you see the written form of the new words and are tempted to correct your child. Hopefully this PDF will help you decipher pronunciation of French words and understand why your child pronounces them the way he/she does.
If you are not a parent of French Immersion children, but are learning French, please do have a look at the PDF. If you do not have a French speaking person to practice with, the next best thing to help you hear words as they should sound is this cool website that will pronounce text you type in French (with a choice of male and female voices with different accents): http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal
Note: If you wish to print the PDF please do so but be aware that it should be printed in color for the best usability of the document, since most of the pronunciation emphasis is indicated through use of different colors.
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