Hello Jack,
"Jack Schmidling" <arf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> a écrit dans le message de news:
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>
> First of all, are these words or just sounds?
=> They are complete words. But their meaning doesn't matter in this
exercise. You're just expected to listen to them while you read them, in
order to associate what you see with the way it sounds :-).
>
> Next, am I supposed to hear a "D" sound in the first one? Or am I again
> hearing something that is not there?
>
> I hear... da reel eh .... accent on the reel
=> Well, to tell the truth, "huile" doesn't start with the sound D.
However,
it is certain that no English word starts with the sound "hui", so it may
be
difficult to compare. In the sound D the tongue touches the palate, while
in
the sound "ui", the tongue doesn't come into contact with the palate but
the
lips almost close, as if you wanted to whistle.
> Finally, I am trying to relate this to ... hot a tul ya..
>
> Which you say is an r sound not an h.
=> I recorded the words "huile" and "houille" to let you hear the
difference
between the sound "uile" and the sound "ouille", which are in "Tuileries"
and in "ratatouille", because you explained that the word ratatouille made
you think of the Tuileries. To my ears, the sound "uile" and "ouille" are
very different. But as none of them exist in English, I believe that this
difference may not be obvious to foreign ears.
Besides, there was no direct connexion with the sound R and its similarity
with the English H (as Jean-Louis relevantly mentioned).
>
Best regards,
Jeannielle
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