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Not entirely true, liaisons---and the rules around them---make part of any half-decent French curriculum. But liaisons are only one part of the "dropping/concat
by maxFlow 5y ago
Not entirely true, liaisons---and the rules around them---make part of any half-decent French curriculum. But liaisons are only one part of the "dropping/concatenating" in spoken French, the other part being accents. Accents can obfuscate speech terribly, but detecting accents can only come by with practice and exposure [in the wild] to regional varieties of FR.
The thing that made liaisons much more clear for me was bucketing them by: optional, forbidden, and required.
- wbsss4412 5y agoThis is true. But as you say it is only a part of it. Whole words get dropped as well “ne ___ pas” simply becomes “pas” as an obvious example. This phenomenon happens in spoken English as well. “I am going to go to the store” => “imagotada store”