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:
- 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),
- 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