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French Phonology

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Category: Learning Languages
Forum Name: French
Forum Discription: Discussion about studying French using the FSI course.
URL: http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=308
Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 2:42am


Topic: French Phonology
Posted By: fastjet
Subject: French Phonology
Date Posted: 09 February 2007 at 7:35am
I was wondering if anyone had a rough timeframe as to when the French Phonology course will be posted? I find it would be helpful before continuing further with the French Basic course, if I could get the prounciations down.
 
Thanks in advance for you help!



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Posted By: lelemds
Date Posted: 10 February 2007 at 4:31pm
I'd like this course too......


Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 10 February 2007 at 6:01pm

According to the Status Page, smoen and gdfellows were working on it. But since gdfellows' scanner has just broken down, I'm not sure how this affects progress on the course.

If I were you, I'd dig in, and just wait until it comes out. After all, everything here comes up voluntarily and there are other courses on the go...


Posted By: lelemds
Date Posted: 10 February 2007 at 6:31pm
i've a scanner, if i could do anything to help, not only in this course, but any one, just let me know....


Posted By: Aquilon
Date Posted: 17 February 2007 at 9:31pm
Actually, you can develop a perfectly acceptable accent from the Basic FSI French courses--if you listen --really listen -- and repeat.  At the Basic levels, you're a lot further ahead by learning more French, rather than pronouncing a little French "perfectly."  The accent will come on its own in the due course of time.

I used to worry about my accent as well, but my French and Quebecois friends are just delighted that I can speak their language.  Everybody has an accent--even the French and the Quebecois.


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Posted By: toivo
Date Posted: 19 February 2007 at 11:37am
Alternatively, you can check out this page:
 
http://palimpsest.lss.wisc.edu/lss/mediacat/fr/5/590/index.html - http://palimpsest.lss.wisc.edu/lss/mediacat/fr/5/590/index.html


Posted By: fastjet
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 7:11am
Thanks everyone for your help. I will try and plunge through the FSI course, and first give palimpsest site a try. Thanks for the link toivo! Appreciate your help.
 
I also have a scanner here at work that can output to pdf. So if any help is required, feel free to contact me.


Posted By: daristani
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 12:06pm
Re the FSI Phonology course, I had sent the text to gdfellows for copying, while Smoen was ordering the audio.  gdfellows' scanner has evidently developed problems, and he has other things he's working on as well.  Accordingly, you might want to drop him a note to see if he wants to send the Phonology book to you for copying into PDF format.  The written text will be of little use without the audio, though; perhaps smoen could chime in to provide an update on how things stand with the audio work.


Posted By: smoen
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 1:06pm
The Phonology Audio is complete, and was sent to gdfellows a while back. I know that he was going to scan the phonology text, but his scanner went on the blink. Assuming I didn't really screw up the audio, it should be ready to post as soon as gdfellows has a chance. Thus far, there hasn't been much of a demand for this course, so I assume that, with everthing else that gdfellows has been/is doing, he hasn't gotten around to it yet. Either that, or I messed up the audio real bad, and gdfellows won't tell me. Tongue
 
SteveM


Posted By: gdfellows
Date Posted: 20 February 2007 at 3:42pm
Originally posted by smoen

I assume that, with everthing else that gdfellows has been/is doing, he hasn't gotten around to it yet. Either that, or I messed up the audio real bad, and gdfellows won't tell me. Tongue
 
 
Absolutely correct, smoen.  There is no problem with your work!  The French phonology audio is next in queue now that I've completed the Spanish Programmatic.
 


Posted By: fastjet
Date Posted: 26 February 2007 at 6:57am
Thanks for posting the Audio! I really appreciate it. I'm gonna start on this those tapes today. Let me know if you still need help with scanning the text.
 
 


Posted By: SmoothSailing
Date Posted: 17 May 2007 at 8:45pm

Has there been any progress on the text so far? 



Posted By: Alex
Date Posted: 20 May 2007 at 1:17pm
Hello everyone, I am very delighted to discover this forum,
fantastic collection of FSI courses, as for "French Phonology" text book I am ordering the manual from amazon (400 pages) here is the direct link
http://www.amazon.com/French-Phonology-Programmed-Introduction-Institute/dp/0884328031/ref=sr_1_6/105-0035841-5883632?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179684722&sr=1-6 - http://www.amazon.com/French-Phonology-Programmed-Introduction-Institute/dp/0884328031/ref=sr_1_6/105-0035841-5883632?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179684722&sr=1-6
 
I hope it might be of some interest, who wants to use this text with audio


Posted By: Chung
Date Posted: 20 May 2007 at 4:12pm
It looks like Amazon gets the book from Audio-Forum instead of the government.


Posted By: raikkonen
Date Posted: 27 June 2007 at 10:34pm
Hey everyone, someone from how-to-learn-any-language.com forum has started to type up the text for the french phonology part. So far, I think he's only done part 1

Here's the link:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6371&PN=1


Posted By: reltuk
Date Posted: 07 July 2007 at 12:04am
Originally posted by raikkonen

Hey everyone, someone from how-to-learn-any-language.com forum has started to type up the text for the french phonology part. So far, I think he's only done part 1

Here's the link:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6371&PN=1


Yep, the text is going up at:

http://sohn.ws/fp.txt - http://sohn.ws/fp.txt

It's slow going though. The first two Chapters are complete, which cover the first 4 tapes.

Enjoy, and please don't hesitate to provide feedback =).

-- reltuk


Posted By: Aishia22
Date Posted: 16 May 2008 at 1:52am

Hi Alex, thank you so much for the Link that you've shared to us. This is a great help to me.

Regards to everyone

 

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Posted By: Bree_Benson
Date Posted: 26 May 2008 at 12:47am
Here are some notes that ive found:

http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~lingnews/cote.pdf

Here is an audio learning tutorial:

http://www.frenchclasses.com/learn/dictee/index.html
http://fs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/XXXIX/4/385

P.S.: Hope this helps others.Big%20smile


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