Prononciation

Auteur: Ken Fagan • Ken in the News

Dans cet enregistrement, vous m’entendrez prononcer 125 mots que mes clients avocats/juristes français prononcent souvent mal.

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PRONUNCIATION

The English 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

General pronunciation tips for native speakers of French:

1. When you conjugate a verb in the preterit, we need to hear the ‘ed’ at the end of the words: examples: contested, drafted, participated, reminded),
2. Don’t insert an ‘h’ sound at the beginning of common words that do not have an ‘h’: Examples: ask, our, all, etc.

A

April, analyze vs. analysis, angry vs. hungry (I’m angry because I’m hungry), ate vs. hate, appeal, acquire, acquirer, acknowledgement,

B

Bought,

C

Ceiling vs. selling vs. sailing, clause, clientele, cause, cyclical, cough (“tousser”), criminal,

D

Determine, debt, doubt,

E

et seq. (“et suivants”), examine, equivalent,

F

File vs. fill, filing vs. filling vs. feeling, frequent (pronounced like “freqwent”),

G

guarantee,

H

Her vs. hair, hyphen (pronounced ‘hi-fen’), hierarchy,

I

Incur (not ‘incure),

J, K: no words

L

Law vs. low, letter vs. latter (ce(s) dernier(s)) vs. later, leave vs. live, level (not ‘leevel’), lack vs. lake, 3 common words that end in “ld”: could/would/should,

M

Months,

N – no words

O

our vs. hour (the 2 words are pronounced the same way)

P

Personal vs. personnel, pursuant (pronounced like ‘per-soo-ent’) , plan vs. plane (“I plan to take a plane”), promise, parliament,

Q – no words

R

Receipt, recognition we need to hear the ‘g’), recitals,

S

Subtle (pronounced ‘suh-tel’), sue vs. sued vs. suit, scheme, sale vs. sale vs. sell,

T

Threshold, thesis, tribunal, typo (pronounced ‘tie-po’), throughout, though vs. thought, taught (pronounced like ‘tawt’)

U

Usual (pronounced like ‘you ja well’)

V

Variety, varied (pronounced like ‘var-eed’),

W

Walk vs. work (‘I walk to work’), writing vs. written, were vs/where (Where were you?), whole vs. hole (the 2 words are pronounced the same way)

X, Y, Z – no words

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