Re: History of French

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 07:14:39 +0200

Ruud Harmsen writes:

> Can you put some samples of your students on the web, so we hear how
> well they can hide their foreign accent?

I haven't recorded them, although I've thought about it. They all have
an accent in normal speech, though, since they wouldn't need me if they
did not.

> If you think your students talk rather well, and I think they still
> have a strong accent, we may know a little more.

Some of them talk well with a heavy accent; others talk very poorly with
hardly any accent. Accent is often uncorrelated with fluency, provided
that students have mastered all the phonemic distinctions. A few
students also get a bit ahead of themselves, speaking very rapidly even
though it makes them impossible to understand. 

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