Wednesday, September 7, 2016

French e, è, é, ê, ë – what’s the difference?

Tomorrow happens to be my french placement test and I am trying to find out how to pronounce the different e, è, é, ê, ë in french. I have not reached there yet. Like the nepali अ आ इ ई उ ऊ ए  things change here as well. Hopefully by the end of this session I will have a direct french to nepali translation to the pronunciaiton to the words. Or english translation to the pronuciation.

okay here are some ground findings french e is pronunced like english a or in case of nepali अ so french le becomes nepali ल
french les becomes nepali ले
This also happens because the last letter is not pronunced in french.

Going with the simplest é is pronunced as [a in jail] in nepali ए
ê is pronunced as [eeh in english] so tê becomes [teeh]
è is pronunced as [eh in english] so père which translates to 'father' sounds [pehr]
ë is pronunced as [aae is english] so noël beccomes [ naw ell]
and again e is pronunced as [a in english] in nepali [अ]

This may not enitrely be accurate. I would love for some suggestions below.



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