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> French is pretty clear and easy to pronounce, After half an hour of French, I often have difficulties pronouncing properly the difference between en, on, un
by dmichulke 9y ago
> French is pretty clear and easy to pronounce,
After half an hour of French, I often have difficulties pronouncing properly the difference between en, on, un and in(-ternet).
> I rarely ever ask people to repeat themselves in French
Among the two other non-native langauges (EN, PT), it has been the hardest to understand for me because it's hard to map sounds back to writing.
- tnzn 9y agoA lot of French people pronounce un and in the same way
- btschaegg 9y ago> After half an hour of French, I often have difficulties pronouncing properly the difference between en, on, un and in(-ternet). I find this very interesting, mainly because I see similar effects when I'm using a foreign language :) For a long time, I felt that speaking in a certain language forces me to "shift" my language brain to a degree. German is my mother tongue, but I have trouble pronouncing e.g. German names correctly within an English sentence. The opposite - English words in German context - isn't really a problem, although that might be the product of modern German adopting more and more English words into the common vocabulary. I also recall having trouble with the German-style "R" in a french context. As a side note, I do hope they won't butcher all those English words in the future like they did the French ones :-/