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Old 08-29-2009, 05:21 AM
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Default Excellent short video to help with those difficult French 'R's

I hope this helps

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Yay, it's Leyla !

I discovered her videos a year or so ago, and her videos are indeed very helpful.
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Ooh, this will be very helpful. I've always loved how Alizée said "très très très bien" (is that how you spell it?).
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I don't have english accent so I don't know what problems you have For me 'r' isn't so hard, but video seems to me very helpful.
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Ooh, this will be very helpful. I've always loved how Alizée said "très très très bien" (is that how you spell it?).
You spelled très bien
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ha ha I'll have to check that out. I don't have any problem with the R now, though my throat does get sore after a while of speaking French, à cause du R ! I guess I'm doing it wrong or need to practice more.

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Yeah, the 'r' is just something you kinda gotta here a few times to get right; text descriptions always seem to fall short. Between listening to French music and watching French movies, I heard it in lots of contexts and have been able to use it to varying degrees of stress. This is why this video is great because it features the casual pronunciation, there's what the sound is nominally, and then there's how the sound actually gets pronounced in conversation where it often just becomes a hint of a closing of the air passageway in the throat rather than a full fricative.
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CFHollister, could you repost that video please. I've become comfortable with the french "R", but I like to check myself once in a while to make sure I'm doing it right, because I never hear it pronounced and I dont want to get rusty.

Edit: Nevermind, it's working for me. I don't know what was up with it a minute ago.

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This is funny, as I have never had trouble with 'French R's'. They came fairly naturally to me. I sing along with Alizee, and that helps me out a lot with this sort of thing. I took French in 6th grade, and my teacher told me my pronunciation was perfect! But that was 6 years ago, so I may not be as good now.

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One hint I can give is to put a slight 'h' sound infront of your French 'r'. You hear peopple teaching it as a slight gurgle, and this is true and proper, but I have found the slight 'h', or almost even an American 'ch' as in chair.

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it's Leyla ! ^_^
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