Talk:French pronunciation

message: Perhaps it should also be noted that the stress in French words always falls on the last syllable. Unless the last syllable contains a schwa. In that case, the stress will fall on the penultimate syllable.
For example:
PARLER
je parle
tu parles
il parle
nous parlons
vous parlez
ils parlent
Safari
84.193.165.47 19:01, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If there are two pages, they should be French phonology and French orthography, since phonology and orthography are two completely different areas. The current situation, with French phonology and orthography one on page and French pronunciation on a different page is confusing and unnecessary. --Angr/ 09:48, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

message: re: "If a word is a verb (that is, it has a subject like "ils" or "elles"), and it ends in "-ent," then the final "-ent" is completely silent. This rule does not apply in some parts of Québec and North America where simply the t is silent."
Being a native speaker of French from Québec (Montréal), I wonder where in the province the 3rd person plural has the "-en" pronounced. I've never heard native speakers from different regions of Québec pronounce "-en". The entire "terminaison", e.g. "-ent" is silent.--Shimmeryhz 19:03, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think they do that in Gaspésie. 24.203.155.119 02:35, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I think you are referring to the simple past or passé simple: j'aimai, tu aimas, il aima, nous aimâmes, vous aimâtes, ils aimèrent. Aimèrent is pronounced  (eh-mehr). The "r" is pronounced, but the "ent" is still silent. (It's often more efficient to post questions not directly related to the editing of the article at Wikipedia:Reference Desk). Lesgles (talk) 17:15, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Misc.

message: I put the merge tag up because, as far as I can tell, the French phonology page not only covers the same ground, but does so to a much more extensive degree.  This article should just be deleted and French pronunciation then redirect to French phonology.  AEuSoes1 02:09, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. Linguists, or those interested in linguistic structure, will look at phonology. Others will come here to learn how to look at a French word written and pronounce it, which is not at all covered in the other article. The purposes are different, so the article should remain separate. --67.109.56.162 23:32, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: The British (yes, even the OED) love to use the symbol [a] for the sound in father (instead of [ɑ]) because they don't have a different pronunciation for the vowel in the word car as in America (before the r-coloring). Well, there's a difference in proper French between the pronunciation of pas and la, and it mirrors the American pronunciation of father and car. 
I would expect this difference to be given on this page. 
Yet contrariwise I have read that recently the common folk of France no longer take the trouble to use the different sound in pas anymore. So I would also expect to find something about this matter on this page. Sobolewski 19:50, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ''Pas'' cette tra-la-la! 

message: I decided to post here instead of starting an edit war.  I recently changed the pronunciation guide for é/er/ez from "pay" to "sit".  According to wikt:pay, the pronunciation is [peI]. However, in the American dialect, the pronunciation is much closer to [pɛI]. So I then decided to look up the pronunciation of sit.  Shockingly, it is marked as IPA [sIt], not IPA [set].  Maybe this is just a matter of differences in the British and American pronunciation?  Am I just not getting the IPA pronunciation?Because introductory French textbooks and examples of pronunciation in the media mark the pronunciation similar to the example "pay but shorter", this causes the vast majority of English speakers learning French to mispronounce all words containing é/er/ez.  Either they end up pronouncing é/ez/er the same as è, or é/ez/er as èï. When I correct people's pronunciation, and tell them that its sounds like the i in 'sit', then they sound much closer to the correct pronunciation.  Am I making sense here?--Cnadolski 21:07, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The last edit replaced pay with "chaos", but that's still not quite right.  The example implies that would make it sound like the French [ké-os], but reality sounds more like [queil os]. User:Lesgles what regions are you from?  My English is Midwestern, and my French is Parisien/Normand.--Cnadolski 23:24, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Okay, I'll relent in that what you say is true for British variants of English, but I'm putting up a pronunciation sample for clarity.--Cnadolski 15:57, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation of é/er/ez

message: The AFD has been settled and we need an admin to merge this page.--PrestonH 06:10, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  OK...