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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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teaching English to French seniors
Claude ROUSSEAU - Hello, I am an active retired woman of the south of France and I am teaching English to a group of senior students - I lived in London for three years a long time ago and studied English at the Polytechnic of Central London - Now I am looking for means of having my students listen to real English by contacts with anglophone people living in Lunel Hérault or in its vicinity - or maybe by writting to English retiries in an association similar to ours or any other means you could think of - Sure I also will need correcting my English or explaning difficult words or correcting my orthograph that is not too good even in French.
Just at the moment, a studient asked me the following question that I was not capable to answer : why a different pronunciation of the "i" in five and six - I could find many exemples of each way of pronuncing the "i" but no grammatical explanation - Could somebody help ?
Thanks a lot for anything you can do
Just at the moment, a studient asked me the following question that I was not capable to answer : why a different pronunciation of the "i" in five and six - I could find many exemples of each way of pronuncing the "i" but no grammatical explanation - Could somebody help ?
Thanks a lot for anything you can do
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Anonymous but no grammatical explanation - Could somebody help ? The grammatical explanation is that English is an imperfectly phonetic language. lt is not written as it is spoken.
- Anonymous but no grammatical explanation - Could somebody help ?
- The grammatical explanation is that English is an imperfectly phonetic language.
- lt is not written as it is spoken.
- The reason is historical: English is a hybrid language, made of a Germanic base, with a huge influence of Latinate romance, and many loan words from other sources.
- org/wiki/English_orthography After the printing press became popular, there were scholarly efforts to standardize spelling, but there were many regional pronunciations.
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Anonymousbut no grammatical explanation - Could somebody help ?The grammatical explanation is that English is an imperfectly phonetic language. lt is not written as it is spoken.
The reason is historical: English is a hybrid language, made of a Germanic base, with a huge influence of Latinate romance, and many loan words from other sources.
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