First, I’ll record the different sounds that you will find in the French language, starting with the vowels and then the consonant sounds, and illustrate the sounds with examples in the form of a fun sentence. I’ll then focus on some challenging French sounds like the French U and the...
To develop this translator, we used information from different sources mentioned on this page. The phonetic transcription was taken from these sources in accordance with the Copyright Act of Canada (Paragraph 29, Fair Dealing for the purpose of education). ...
From here we arrive at the potager which we have built from scratch with raised beds made from old timber we have found lying around. It is now starting to come to life but that is going to be another entirely new post next time when it will be that little bit further forward. But ...
People were starting to feel invincible. After over two year’s of covid, they were saying to themselves: ‘it’s over – we can get back to normality’. But covid is still circulating. Let’s start with a conversation. Direct download:207-final_mixdown.mp3 ...
Here, we link the last letter -S to the second vous and the first letter of the verb form appelez with a Z sound. With this example, notice that the last letter of the word vous (”you”) is pronounced as a -Z when followed by a word starting with a vowel. This is true, even...
French has a two-part negation, e.g.,je ne sais pas‘I don’t know’, withneindicating global negation andpasclarifying the type of negation. Word order The basic word order in French is Subject-Verb-Object, but a large number of other orders is possible to indicate topic and emphasis...
He always had a way with words, a way to twist sentences, use images and play-on-words and be spot-on. He’s always spot on and the perfect definition of the phrase “many a true word is spoken in jest”. If there is no coincidence, then some underlying current brought our Book ...
r4luk commented May 23, 2019 Hello, Thank you very much. It didn't work for us :( but it was a starting point and we resolved this. What did you do about the resources? I didn't find the Partner Translation Toolkit for BC. How did you translate them? RalucaAuthor ...
Many translators, influenced by the English source text, omit them or change the word order. Preposition use is another consideration when trying to achieve a casual and conversational tone. In the Microsoft voice, starting or ending a sentence with a preposition is acceptable. Page 26 of 53 ...
Start off slowly.When you try a new tongue twister, be sure to carefully and accurately pronounce each word, even if it takes you a while. Break it all down.You are bound to have trouble with some words or phrases in these tongue twisters – even native speakers do! When you find your...