Product Description

This enhanced edition of French Phonetics is intended for college-level instruction, for self-study and for reference purposes. The text, including Cahier d'Exercices, helps the student to become proficient in the pronunciation of French by explaining the characteristics of the French sound system clearly and systematically and by giving precise rules of pronunciation throughout. Cassettes or CD's for French Phonetics and the Cahier d'Exercices are available by contacting the author at Booth@up.edu.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #151443 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 152 pages

Language Notes
Text: English, French

Customer Reviews

Mediocre
First, I felt this book was terribly overpriced. In order to use the book, one must have an intimate knowledge of the International Phonetic Alphabet...which I have. With that knowledge, this book gives little that cannot be found in a French dictionary which uses the IPA. My main subject of interest was how one physically forms the French sounds. This book contains nonthing on that subject.

wonderful book!
I have the previous edition of this book. It is wonderfully clear, complete and compact. It gives you the basics but also includes lots of detailed information about pronunciation that would be very hard to find out anywhere else or to figure out on your own. It has plenty of examples, points out the exceptions in detail and is very thorough! If you are not at all familiar with French pronunciation, you will have to turn elsewhere to find out the sounds of the international phonetic alphabet because this does not include a cassette or cd (at least the previous edition didn't) but that is less of a problem than you might think - all you have to do is match up any French audio source with a dictionary that uses the IPA, and you will see the connection. The book has a no-nonsense, direct and authoritative tone that I found quite charming. You will have no doubt that the author knows what she is talking about! Even if you have a set of tapes for French pronunciation from some other source, this book should be very helpful. Highly recommended.