Help with French pronunciation

Cunning Linguist

You're a girl, right? It would be:

ook - renn
and
ook - rè - nyenn

(rè = "red" without the d)
(renn = wren)

-ra-, surely?

Reply 3

quintsy

generalebriety

-ra-, surely?

Oddly enough it is more like an è. :s:

Don't ask me why though.. :p:

Reply 4

girl_in_black

OP

Thanks a lot, I'd been wondering about that for ages lol

*goes back to learning presentation without ommiting nationalities*

:tsr2:

Reply 5

Heya guys I need help ASAP - my exam's in less than 3 hours!

Please could someone tell me how to pronounce "Nihilisme"?????

Reply 6

An hour and a half to go. Anyone? Anyone at all??

Reply 7

Cunning Linguist

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lol i guess it's over now.

it's just how it looks:

nee - hi - leezm

Reply 8

Thanks, lol :p:

Meh, I forgot to mention it anyway. Kicking myself for it too cos I had some really good stuff!

Reply 9

Cunning Linguist

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Mentioning nihilism in a french oral - you must be very philosophical!

Reply 10

Not hugely. I wrote my coursework on suicide amongst French teenagers and my overly enthusiastic french teacher thought it'd be a great idea to talk about them having to learn philosophy such as nihilism. She told me last week she'd love to have a kinda philosophical debate with me in my oral, so its probably a good thing I forgot to slip that one in :p:

Reply 11

Honey, you think you are having trouble with pronunciation. Ten minutes before my oral, and our French assistant tells me I can't pronounce "un".
That wasn't good.

Reply 12

generalebriety

Ice_Queen

Honey, you think you are having trouble with pronunciation. Ten minutes before my oral, and our French assistant tells me I can't pronounce "un".
That wasn't good.

Heh, very few French learners can pronounce "un", though. Everyone has difficulty with the an/en/in/on/un sounds.

Reply 13

I've been doing it seven years!
He told me to pronounce it like when someone woke me up in the morning and you go "uuuuhhhhh".

I sat there and stared at the twit. Then walked out.

Reply 14

Ice_Queen

Honey, you think you are having trouble with pronunciation. Ten minutes before my oral, and our French assistant tells me I can't pronounce "un".
That wasn't good.

Lmao. I can't pronounce it properly either. I think I just say "une" all the time :rolleyes:

Reply 15

Une is easier.
But with "premier temps", une sounds much more natural, to me anyway.
So most of my oral practice with Romain was him yelling at me to pronounce "un" and me screaming at him to shut the hell up and that if he can't pronounce "th", why the hell should I pronounce "un" right, and why couldn't he have told me this four weeks ago?

Reply 16

generalebriety

Ice_Queen

Une is easier.
But with "premier temps", une sounds much more natural, to me anyway.
So most of my oral practice with Romain was him yelling at me to pronounce "un" and me screaming at him to shut the hell up and that if he can't pronounce "th", why the hell should I pronounce "un" right, and why couldn't he have told me this four weeks ago?

"First weather"? :s-smilie:

To be fair, "th" is a much harder sound to say than "un".

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