IMPROVE YOUR FRENCH PRONUNCIATION
French Pronunciation techniques
At DialoguE, we have developed for the French language an extremely
effective pronunciation-improvement method.
The English actress
Gemma
Arterton (Hansel & Gretel, Prince of Persia, Tamara
Drewe, Quantum of Solace, Byzantium ...) came to DialoguE in order to
work on the pronunciation of her role in the French film adaptation of
Posy Simmonds' graphic novels "Gemma Bovery" directed by Anne Fontaine.
(See
her testimonial)
A great number of university professors and international business
people 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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