Learn French - Les accents

[tonysanthedarkstar]

@mariananu

Si le mec avait écrit ça :

Message.

Méchant.

Après.

Être.

Noël.

Il aurait fallu leur apprendre la prononciatinon "complète" de ces mots.

[Valkyru]

I'm French and the 3 last ARE the same. "é" and "è" are the most frequently used.

"ê" comes from the Latin. For exemple : "forest" has become "forêt", the "^" symbolises "s".

Same for "hospital" "hôpital". It doesn't really change the pronunciation here.

And finally "ë" is used to pronouce the letter entirely. For exemple "Poire" [poar] would be "Poïre" [poir]

[mariananu]

il etait peut etre necessaire d'y ajouter des exemples...pardon pour le manque des accents

[XxgangjouxX]

The last three sound the same. And in southern France in many words we pronounce è like a é. Don't worry with the accents.

[Tao33316]

Je préfère la méthode que les religieuses utilisaient pour distinguer les lettres avec accents parce qu'elle ne laisse aucun doute à propos de quel accent est sur la lettre. La voici:

"e" accent aigu (é)

"e" accent grave (è)

"e" accent circonflexe (ê)

"e" tréma (ë)

C'est clair, n'est-ce pas?

[sahajad]

Is it correct to say that thw last 3 words sound similar ? . Please correct me if I am wrong ?

[NadiaFranke]

Merci !! Gros bisous :)

[NadiaFranke]

The first 3 e é è sounded different .. the others sounded the same to me !! OMG How am I ever going to learn that !! :( I'm brazilian and it should be easier for me .. However, English sounds way easier !! I love French and i won't give up learning no matter how many centuries it'll take me to learn . Thanks for the videos.  Kiss from Brazil

[mat6268]

@NadiaFranke, joancamo

When you learn a new language, first, it must be simple. French is phonetically simple (no word stress, no diphtong, no "schwa"...). Don't worry and just pronunce these "é" sounds the same way (as you can), you will *always* be understood (at worst, you will just sound non native).

[amvrositah]

ok, wtf is the difference ?

[joancamo]

this is a nightmare for me!!!, many of them sound the same!!! how to distinguish them T.T

[goethegyminauen]

ich will 31 sekunden meines lebens zurück

[noxus1988]

Also keep in mind that the ´ accent appears on e ONLY (é). It cannot appear on any other vowels. Its only function is to indicate the pronunciation (closed "e").

The ` accent can appear on e, a, u (not on o / i). As for the "e", it indicates the pronunciation (open e), on "a" and "u" it is used only to distinguish homophones. (la/là, ou/où, a/à etc.)

[noxus1988]

The ^ accent sounds like è (at least for the ê).

It is also the only accent that can appear on all vowels (â, ô, û, î, ê). It may have 3 different functions (only 1 of them at a time, of course) :

a) it changes the pronunciation (â, ô become long vowels for example, although most native speakers tend to pronounce those vowels just like a normal "a" or "o")

b) it distinguishes homophones (words that are pronounced the same but have a different meaning), example: du / dû, mat / mât, etc.

[noxus1988]

c) it indicates that an "s" that once followed the vowel was dropped at some point. examples: forêt (originally forest, like the English word), fête (originally feste, cf. Spanish fiesta), bête (origin: Latin "bestia"), etc.

[cuentagerardo]

e, e, e all is ee!!, xD

[supermiimi]

lol am ende: Ä... Ä....Ä XD i think the ê is looong and the è is short :) but im not french lol

[power29200]

on dirais un autiste qui veut dire une phrase '' EHHHHHHHHHHH'' ''EHHHHHHHHHHHHH'' '' ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh''

XDDDD

[FisOQuimFan]

There is no difference between è, ê and ë, but there is difference between e, é and (è, ê, ë).

e can also sound also as è or as é in words like "est" and "et"

[lxSwiftSlyxl]

@FisOQuimFan how do you type the é i just copy and pasted it? plz tell

[Generalvaldez]

@lxSwiftSlyxl ctrl +',e. same for other vowels.

[papouville]

uh, eey, eh, eh, eh lol

[CharlieLoveBill]

Son si facile o.o

[flocyna]

C'est vrai que la grammaire française est compliquée,même les français ont du mal avec tout ces temps ^^

[Angvk]

je suis néerlandaise et je trouve que français est bien <3 je suis en quatrième, j'ai trois ans français (je dois prendre des leçons au plus haut point 2013) j'aime la langue, mais je crois que la grammaire est très difficile.. la semaine prochaine (le mardi) je dois passer un examen, je dois réussir ! :o c'est très important pour moi.

je pouvrais demander mes questions a un personne!! mais je parle un peu français (i'm sorry, my french is tooooo bad), please can anybody help me ? x

[punkcoustic]

im studying french ..can anybody tell me the difference between the last 3 accents LOL ..i realy didnt get it

[frezatto]

there is not :)

[BreizH89]

@punkcoustic

There's no differences!!! 8)

But in texts you'll find "è" more often tan "ê" or "ë".

[punkcoustic]

@BreizH89 oh ! :) i noticed that ! i got one more question, about the "e" without accent, sometimes they pronounce it like how they read it in french alphabet, sometimes they pronounce it like "e" in english/spanish, the normal way, O_O kinda tricky

[13laciotat]

Pas d'accord sur 2 choses:

1) mettre le è et le ê sur 2 images donne à penser qu'il y a 2 sons. 2) Associer ë au son è est faux. c'est l'association e+consonne ou ë+consonne qui génère le son è. Ex: Noël, réel. A contrario, "aiguë" se prononce "aigu" et pas "aiguê" comme la video le suggère.

[evane1989]

I'd say English is fairly difficult also. Perhaps this applies to every language; the way you write English is so very different from the way we speak in personal, casual conversations.

[saakuraii]

French is one of the difficulest language to learn !

(I can say this beacause i'm french lol)

So Good luck !

[assasin1911]

easy for me but it's normal, because i'm french lol

[cherrysugarpie]

i learn italian but yeah i can do the italian accent though lemme trii

[the737yo]

Try using them in words.

[EmmWi]

Why are there so maney "E"s???

[mat6268]

@Emmwi Not "so many E" but e,é,è,ê :)

It's a way to distinguish pronunciation between different words when you read them.

Let me give you some examples of ambiguities in english. For example,try to explain why "lead" (metal) is not pronounced the same way than "lead" (verb) or live (verb) and live (noun) or "rebel" (noun) and "rebel" (verb), etc.

Why is there so many ways to pronounce "a" in english?Obvious for native speakers but weird for the others!

[harropt89]

@mat6268 good comment, i never thought of that

[hanzimaster]

@mat6268 how do you type the e with 2 dots? ëё

[quinquinette]

'Bon courage' to those who learn french...Even if I'm french I know it's a very difficult language to learn...and here with the accents that's just the beginning of the difficulties...but you've got a very good method here with those videos.Very good work.

[mat6268]

@quinquinette.c'est un mauvais encouragement que tu donnes. Les accents aident en levant les ambiguités en français! Ils aident à bien lire/prononcer le mots. Tu écris en anglais au dessus, Compare la lecture/prononciation : bien plus difficile en anglais, par manque de règles claires. l'absence de règles laisse croire au débutant que l'anglais est facile (peu de règles à savoir), mais devient source de confusion quand tu veux progresser (tout est fixé par l'usage(!)

[koni1314]

fastoche kan meme!! sérieu

[nohachopin]

nice useful videos thanks

[kngiht84]

Ca va tres bien, et toi ?

-Mr Lucas-

[mrios328]

the last 3 sound the same.

[mat6268]

Good remark :) There is a slight difference between è and ê, but not so easy to catch. you will be understood if you pronounce them in the same way.

For the last sound, in fact the "trema" on "ë" is (first) a way to indicate that this Vowel (a,e,i,o,u) must be pronounce separately.

ex : "Naïf", but "Lait".

[Raldonado]

Me temo que te equivocaste, mat6268. Los sonidos se van remarcando con colores. Así pues, el sonido de è, ê, y ë es el mismo y remarca en azul. Los dos primeros: e y é son diferentes entre sí al igual que diferentes con los tres ejemplos anteriores.

[Obnosim]

The people from France usually pronounce é and ê (and sometimes even è) the same, but in other countries, there is a big difference.

[Polishaisdown]

@mrios328 The second-to-last one is an accent circumflex (or circonflexe), which is pretty much useless in modern French because nowadays it doesn't make a difference in the pronunciation of the word. But they keep it anyway. That's why that one sounds the same as others. As for the others, not only do the different accents change the pronunciation, but the meaning. So even though they sound the same, they can make the word entirely different.

[Infinitygirl28]

@mrios328 it is XD

But in Québec, è and ê are prononced a bit different.

[AkunaAkuna]

@mrios328 Finement observé.

[thewargammer]

@mrios328 i speak french, and the last 3 realy sound the same!!!!

[greatteacher100]

@thewargammer You have to know that if the three last accents sound the same , it 's because they MUST sound the same as there is NO difference as regarding the sound between : ë / ê / ;)

[Kunichiro]

Je vais m'en servir !