Re: History of French

From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:56:37 +0200

Fri, 17 Sep 2004 05:00:15 +0200: Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>: in
sci.lang:

>I can teach adult learners to produce any sound in English in a few
>minutes, without an accent.

1) What's the difference between the sound of 'ow' in the word 'know',
in Australian English and in British RP English?
2) How do you manage to teach a Frenchman, or even an American, to
make that difference, so s/he can use both sounds (in isolated words)
at will?

The answer to 1 is on my web site, the answer to 2 is not. 

-- 
Ruud Harmsen - http://rudhar.com

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