Hi everyone.
Welcome to day six.
You are almost done with the crash course.
Today's topic will be fashion and shopping.
And as always, the first lesson will be about pronunciation.
But what we are going to learn how to pronounce: the nasal vowels.
Yeah.
The nasal vowels are the last one in our series of pesky French sounds.
They are four nasal sound.
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And the great thing about the nasal vowels is that they exist in English too.
So it won't be as foreign as the sound U and R it's called nasal vowels because it's
produced by both nose and mouth.
We can see that in English, too, in some words, like sing uh oh.
Let's do a little exercise to see where the nasal sound is formed.
First place a finger along the side of your nose and say mmmm.
Let's go. Do you feel this vibration?
These indicate that you are making a nasal sound.
Now put back your finger and make the sound SSS.
Like a snake. And check if there is this various vibration again.
Let's do it.
As you can see, no vibration.
So is not a nasal sound.
This is the key to make sure that you are pronouncing the nasal vowels correctly.
Every time you have a doubt put your finger because you need to feel this same feeling of
vibration. Now, let's start with the nasal.
Oh, this nasal is pronounced try to repeat after me
the N in here represents the nasal sound.
And to pronounce this sound.
You need to keep your mouth unrounded.
Oh. Oh, let's try you again.
AN. They are different spelling ending with the same sound there is
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Let's see a few words that contain this sound.
And of course, I will ask you to repeat after me, as always.
Let's go An.
This one is really short.
Oh. Repeat after me.
Oh. France.
France. Repeat after me.
France. And finally, .
. Repeat after me, .
Now let's see the nasal.
This nasal is pronounced.
And here again, the IN is here to represent the nasal sound.
Can you try already to repeat after me this sound For this one.
Also, there are different spin.
, , and .
Now let's see some word that contains this sound.
It will be easier for you to pronounce it.
repeat after me.
Next one .
Repeat after me.
. This one was really difficult.
Right? There is the sound.
Un, but there is also the sound U and R.
But I hope that soon you will be able to pronounce it perfectly.
. Repeat after me.
. At least this one will be really useful because we are
bread lovers in France.
Great job as always.
Let's continue with the nasal vowel ON.
This one sounds like ON.
And here again, the RN is here to represent the ON.
And again, there are different spelling.
ON and On.
Yeah, as you can see, it's always the same thing.
The good point of this is that it will be easier to remind.
Let's practice.
On with some words.
As example. Accompli.
Accompli. Accompli.
Accompli. Repeat after me.
Accompli. .
repeat after me.
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And the last one is really short.
Bon. Bon.
Repeat after me.
Bon. Now, let's see.
The last one, the nasal vowel.
This sound is a rapidly becoming deformed by young generation and is totally absent from
some dialect.
But it has not completely disappeared.
Not yet. So you still have to learn it again.
There are different spelling for the sound.
Let's take it easy.
Let's practice it with some words.
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Repeat after me.
. Next one.
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. Repeat after me.
. And the last one.
The day that I hate the most in the week.
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Repeat after me.
. Good job.
It was not that easy.
But you did it well.
We finished with this lesson.
So now you can join me to listen two.
To learn some new vocabulary about shopping.