Note: if you don’t hear l’autre in the 4th line, scroll down to the video.
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3 responses to “8-second French listening – Gite 04-4”
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Can’t hear the l’autre
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Hello Mohibul,
Thank you for letting me know. I made a video that you can see above. Thank you also for your comments on the other exercises. I am glad to know that they are helping you.
Best regards, David Tolman -
Hello Mohibul, here is an analysis from another subscriber….
In familiar (non-standard) spoken French, if a word ending in “re” is followed by a consonant, the final “re” is sometimes dropped. (See “French Phonetics”, by Trudie Marie Booth, page 17.) In this case, the “re” of “autre” is dropped, leaving “aut”, and then the final “t” is assimilated onto the next word “chambre”. Thus one hears something like “l’eau tchambre”. The “I’eau” is spoken softly and quickly, but I think that it is easy to hear the change of the pronunciation of the word “chambre”, so its initial “ch” now sounds like the English “ch” in the word “church”, and not like the “sh” in the English word “shell”.
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