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One of my French professors said (and I think she was serious?) that the French have conjugation-bees, not spelling bees, because French spelling is too easy to
by hotnfresh 3y ago
One of my French professors said (and I think she was serious?) that the French have conjugation-bees, not spelling bees, because French spelling is too easy to be able to build a contest around it. If you can say it, you can almost certainly spell it. Too few exceptions to that to make spelling bees work.
- mathieuh 3y agoIt's the other way around, if you can see a word written you can pronounce it, but French notoriously has a large number of homophonous syllables.
- omneity 3y agoI beg to differ. Here's a simple example, both "eaux" (waters) and "oh" sound the exact same.
- Namari 3y agoActually they don't
- psychoslave 3y agoÔ haut zoo aux eaux d'ozone, Qu'un verre en verre vert de vers Puise en vous, puis en vous puisse envoûter vos badauds au bas dos.
- a-french-anon 3y agoWe have dictée exercises at school, during which an entire text is read aloud and then you're supposed to transcribe it.
- mkingston 3y agoI need this for practice. Perhaps I ought to use text-to-speech and then transcribe the audio back to text and compare.