IMPROVE YOUR FRENCH PRONUNCIATION
French Pronunciation techniques
At DialoguE, we have developed for the French language an
extremely
effective pronunciation-improvement method.
A
great number of university professors and international businesspeople
come to DialoguE to improve their French pronunciation in record time.
Several
professors from Harvard University who gave presentations at the
Sorbonne in Paris directly after DialoguE training were complimented by
the French themselves on their unusually fine pronunciation skills.
American student Elliot Essman comments about DialoguE
French pronunciation method
I
had been studying French for years before I spent my first week at
DialoguE, and my pronunciation was not bad.
Over a period of four years
I had taken private lessons once a week with a French woman in my
neighborhood in New York City.
Once, when she was trying to correct my
pronunciation, I imitated a difficult French nasal vowel sound
precisely.
She was astonished. "You can say it!" she said. I answered,
"Of course".
The problem is that I almost never can hear it.
"To improve you French pronunciation, you must
train your ears"
The fact
is, as determined as I was to learn "real" French, my English trained
ears could simply not distinguish an entire range of French vowel
sounds that are critical if you want to speak French. My mouth, lips
and tongue were willing to move in very un-English directions, but my
ears lagged far behind.
DialoguE's method works rapidly to cure that
fundamental problem for English-speaking students of French.
We took
words apart, played games with their pieces, and trained my ear
(actually both my ears) with minute precision to hear and distinguish
the vowel sounds and combinations.
Then we applied the knowledge by
means of another type of intensive training : using videos of people
speaking rapid French to train my ear to distinguish entire words that
English speakers often fail to hear because they are three-quarters
vowel, elided together, or spoken rapidly.
"The French pronunciation progress is
permanent"
When I returned to my
local French conversation group back in the US, one of the French women
in the group noticed that my pronunciation had improved dramatically --
all in the space of a week.
The beauty of the ear training is that it
lifts you out of a fog; you start to view the French language as a
series of natural French sounds instead of a series of strange
"foreign" sounds.
This kind of progress is permanent.
DialoguE:
" One of the best French immersion courses"
The Wall
Street Journal
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