French Phonetics Workshop

Catalog description

This workshop aims to highlight the specificities of French language pronunciation in order to correct the most frequent errors and to provide students a phonetic correction necessary for a good acquisition of French as a foreign language. We will study the characteristics of French, the specific sounds of French as well as the main difficulties encountered by English speakers. The course will provide both a theoretical as well as practical approach to ensure the acquisition of good aural and oral skills in French. Students will work on listening skills as well as oral production via in-class presentations and exercises to do at home. Through the study of poetry we will work on the relationship between sounds and the spelling of words, rhymes and intonation. In addition, students will learn the international phonetic alphabet as a means to grasping the difference between written and spoken language.