french - ipa & futur antérieur
1. if you don't know IPA and you're a member of this comm, make it your pet project this summer. it's so helpful. i was having problems with orthography and vowels and IPA is definitely helping.
2. i'm learning IPA for french, and i have discovered that, lo and behold, serai [e] and serais [ε] are not the same! among others. but i'm having difficulty differentiating between, for example, [œ] and [ø]. i can't mimic the sounds properly, even after asking native speakers to help me.
is there a website online that has diagrams of how to pronounce french IPA phonemes? or one with all the IPA characters, whichever.
3. we'll eat when we get there = on va manger quand on sera arrivé ?? anterieur tenses are great, i used to just say "on va manger là"...
4. explore is amazing. canadians learning french, http://jexplore.ca. go there. stay with a host family so you don't STARVE, avoid tourist areas (when we visited, everyone in quebec spoke english to even the most advanced students; that's not the case in mtl though), try to go during the spring when it's not so hot, and take up jogging if you're going to chicoutimi, jonquière, québec, or anywhere else hilly, or your legs will fall off, i promise you... and try to go somewhere that does languages at work... et amusez-vous bien !
2. i'm learning IPA for french, and i have discovered that, lo and behold, serai [e] and serais [ε] are not the same! among others. but i'm having difficulty differentiating between, for example, [œ] and [ø]. i can't mimic the sounds properly, even after asking native speakers to help me.
is there a website online that has diagrams of how to pronounce french IPA phonemes? or one with all the IPA characters, whichever.
3. we'll eat when we get there = on va manger quand on sera arrivé ?? anterieur tenses are great, i used to just say "on va manger là"...
4. explore is amazing. canadians learning french, http://jexplore.ca. go there. stay with a host family so you don't STARVE, avoid tourist areas (when we visited, everyone in quebec spoke english to even the most advanced students; that's not the case in mtl though), try to go during the spring when it's not so hot, and take up jogging if you're going to chicoutimi, jonquière, québec, or anywhere else hilly, or your legs will fall off, i promise you... and try to go somewhere that does languages at work... et amusez-vous bien !