A good resource for them as is learning French

and a useful revision help for today. The thing is, with these things, you have to reach the point where your ear tells you what to do. Until then, it's a case of staring at the rules and trying to rehearse the sentences that really matter...

http://french.about.com/library/pronunciation/bl-emuet.htm

http://french.about.com/library/pronunciation/bl-liaisons.htm

except that she doesn't mention the way that e caduc sometimes pops up where it never was "le cantique deux cent-er vingt-er trois" or the Rule of the Three Consonants, one of Sherlock Holmes' most perplexing cases...

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Anonymous said…
Sure I do, on page 2, section B, 2, b. I just don't call it the "rule of three consonants" because that's not quite accurate; it's actually 2. -)
6:52 pm
Alan said…
Hi Laura! Thanks for your visit.

I shall challenge Madame Kancellary-Delage at the DEFLE with her somewhat inaccurate description of the rule of 2 or 3 consonants - although not until after my marks are published for the phonetics exam I took this morning.

I feel really honoured to have heard from you yourself!
9:07 pm
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