3/2/2015 FrenchforBeginnersChapter1

FrenchForBeginners
parOlivierMalet

ChapterOne

Chapter1 EnglishandFrenchusethesamealphabetevenbetter,EnglishandFrenchhavein
commonseveralhundredwordsthathavethesamespellingandmeaninginboth
Chapter2 languages.
Chapter3 Hereareonehundredexamples!
Chapter4
rage,bandit,banquet,Bible,bizarre,boulevard,avenue,bracelet,budget,
Chapter5 capable,capital,torture,tradition,train,triple,type,union,urgent,
vacant,vague,vengeance,zone,information,conversation,menace,
Chapter6 minute,municipal,muscle,nation,national,lion,indulgent,installation,
Chapter7
inspection,instrument,grain,horizon,imitation,humble,final,fortune,
golf,motion,existence,durable,date,destruction,construction,dispute,
Chapter8 docile,contact,concentration,cage,canal,canon,cigarette,client,code,
colonel,combat,art,article,aspect,pigeon,portrait,biscuit,circuit,
Chapter9 piano,rail,rural,air,plateau,change,orange,tribunal,taxes,fruits,
Chapter10 assassin,absence,accent,accident,accusation,acquisition,action,
adoption,affection,agent,agriculture,album,alliance,allusion,ambition,
Chapter11 amusement,anecdote,angle,animal,aptitude,volume,tunnel,style,
sublime.
Chapter12

Chapter13 Youmightassumefromthisthatyouhavelesstolearnthanyouanticipated.Inaway
itistrueforifyoudidseethesewordsinwritingyouwouldguesscorrectlytheir
Chapter14 meaning.Howeverifyouonlyheardthemyouprobablywouldnotrecognizethem
becausetheirFrenchpronunciationisverydifferentfromtheEnglishone.
Chapter15

Chapter16
>Nowlistentothefollowingwordsandsee(orratherhear)foryourself:

Chapter17 Durable,date,destruction,muscle,change,national,lion,indulgent,
installation,amusement,anecdote,angle,combat,art.
Chapter18
Thereforeyouneedtobeabletoassociateaspellingyoumightbefamiliarwith
Chapter19
withanewsound.Inthisbookwearegoingtousetermssuchassound,syllable,
Chapter20 stressandintonation.Itisimportantyouunderstandexactlywhattheymean.

Chapter21 Whatisasound?

Chapter22 Inlanguagestherearetwokindsofsoundsconsonantsounds(p,t,k,b,d,g,f,v,s,z,
etc)andvowelsounds(aeiou).
Chapter23

Chapter24 Awordlikeinhastwosounds:(thevowel/i/+theconsonant/n/),

Chapter25 beanhasthreesounds(/b/+/ea/+/n/),

Chapter26 pinnedhasfoursounds(/p/+/i/+/n/+/d/),
Chapter27 skilledhasfivesounds(/s/+/k/+/i/+/l/+/d/)
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