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It is not about transcribing, it is about reading/pronounciation. By convention, in French every time you find written: "au", "eau", "aux" "aux" you pronounce
by jaclaz 6y ago
It is not about transcribing, it is about reading/pronounciation.
By convention, in French every time you find written:
"au", "eau", "aux" "aux"
you pronounce it "o".
If you hear "o", it may be "o" or any of the above.
There may be small "nuances" like with Z in some languages that can be hard or soft (there are anyway "coded" rules - not necessarily "simple" - but only a handful of exceptions), Italian:
http://www.attori.com/dizione/Diz11.htm http://www.attori.com/dizione/Diz11.htm
Now go to English and read aloud (say):
flier
plier
pier
tier
tire
- toolslive 6y agonot even that is really true: the "s" at the end of a French word, do you pronounce it or not ? depends, and there's no real consistency. (Sorry to be picking on French, but I don't know Spanish, nor Italian)
- zaat 6y agoParent was actually referring to write as you speak, not reading. It is true that if you happened to know French well, and you are familiar with the language writing conventions you can read the language just fine, but that's tautology. Roughly half of the letters written in French are not pronounced, either because they come too soon in the word, or because they are followed by another letter or because they are too late in the word. Unless the next word starts with specific letter, in that case you do pronounce the ending of the previous word. Sure, for a native speaker it could be very easy to read and write, and it might be determined by very consistent set of few dozen rules, but I would say that reading or writing French is anything but straightforward.