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Reading Guide. Lire le français !. What is reading ?. What is reading ?. Reading is a comprehension issue Read and understand the meaning. What is reading ?. Reading is a comprehension issue Read and understand the meaning 2. Reading is a pronunciation issue
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Reading Guide Lire le français !
What is reading ? • Reading is a comprehension issue Read and understand the meaning
What is reading ? • Reading is a comprehension issue Read and understand the meaning 2. Reading is a pronunciation issue Read and know how to pronounce
Let’s try to read some French!Meaning ? Pronunciation ? L’AIT est un institut de technologie international dont la mission est de former des professionnels qualifiés capables de participer activement au développement de la région Asie-Pacifique et à son intégration à l'économie globale.
Your teacher’s advice Try to focus on mastering grammatical words because they are the most frequent words in the language and provide the link between the vocabulary words. Due to their complexity, you need a teacher to guide you. Don’t focus too much on vocabulary words because those words can be easily find in dictionaries. You don’t need a teacher to increase your vocabulary.
French LanguageLe français Pronunciation issue
Some differences with English 1.Intonationor word stressdoesn’t matter 2.Length of vowels doesn’t matter 3.French vowelsmakes no voice variation 4.Frenchconsonantsare harder
Final –e is silentIt is there to pronounce the final consonant
6 vowels from the alphabet A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
1st transformationIf you add i or u to a/e/o you get a new sound
2nd transformationadd accents on top of the vowel Accents are not apostrophe!
Finals are silent faut coup saut mont bar bal fau = cou = sau = mon = Except faute coupe saute monte barre balle fauté (fo-té) coupé (kou-pé) sauté (so-té) monté (mõ-té) barré(ba-ré) ballet(ba-lè)
Finals are silent pas mit banc long port pa = mi = ban = lon = por = passe mite banque bance longe longue porte passé [pa.sé] mité [mi.té] banquet[bã.kè] longé [lõ.jé] longuet [lõ.gè] porté [por.té]
Finals are silent roue roux rou = rouge route roule rousse rouble rougi routé roulé roussi roupie
Alphabet (letters similar to English) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Alphabet(letters with the sound -é) A BCD E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U VW X Y Z
Alphabet(letters with the sound -a) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Alphabet(letters with the sound -i) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XY Z
Alphabet(letters with the sound -u) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Alphabet(others) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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