French speakers, come hither!
I'm taking a French course online and it's using Rosetta Stone. Now I'm doing great on it and I can understand a lot of it BUT I'm having problems when it comes to the listening part. It's not that I...
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I think homme has an s at the end for the plural. It's been two years since I took French. Plural: Les hommes court. Singular: Le homme court. Just try to listen for the "les". L'homme would sound...
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Yea, thats what I've been trying to do just it's really hard to catch. And since this rosetta stone thing is for a class those damn listening portions are graded and it's so hard to hear the speakers...
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In regards to the example you gave, it would actually be 'L'homme court' for the singular and 'Les hommes courent' for the plural. But you are correct: homme and hommes sounds exactly the same, as do...
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I don't know if the s in les is silent or not. Like I said, it's been a while for me. Listening was always hard for me, but it helped having a professor who's native language was French. He would talk...
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Well in that example in particular, I'd listen for the liason (sp?). There should be a Z sound between les & hommes.
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The S in Les is silent. It sounds like Lay. The easiest thing you could do would be to listen ford the 2 words to be blended in L'homme because like HP said, it sounds like lom
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KiKiKelly22 wrote:The S in Les is silent. It sounds like Lay. This is true, unless the following word has a vowel sound at the beginning, which is the case for 'hommes', so 'Les hommes' would sound...
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i duno... there is also a difference in english which is 'the man run' and 'men run'. Dont worry too much about little things like that, get the sense of your phrases right first, worry about tenses...
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RayK3193 wrote:Well in that example in particular, I'd listen for the liason (sp?). There should be a Z sound between les & hommes.Liaison.
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pariswhitney wrote:KiKiKelly22 wrote:The S in Les is silent. It sounds like Lay. This is true, unless the following word has a vowel sound at the beginning, which is the case for 'hommes', so 'Les...
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Thanks for the help. And yea, my professor is a native French speaker but it doesn't really help that much since the class is online. I think I'll just have to call either my grandmother or great...
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écoute la radio française, mets des sous-titres français avec les DVD et lis beaucoup en français, ça va d'aider. Courage! Fais pas attention aux petites fautes, tant que ta phrase a un sens, c'est...
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