Excerpt from Practical French Phonetics

This book aims to help students of French to over come the difficulties which confront them when they try to acquire a correct pronunciation of that language. It is the result of many years' successful experience in teaching phonetics to American students. The author is thoroughly familiar with the difficulties of pronuncia tion which they encounter, and understands how to lead them to acquire a good French accent.

The book discusses the principles of voice production, illustrates by means of two cuts the organs of speech, and gives the exact position of these organs in making each French sound.

It devotes a chapter to the vowels and one to conso nants, giving the phonetic symbol for each sound with a paragraph explaining its use. One chapter is devoted entirely to daily exercises for the pupil's practice. An other is given to phonetic transcription of French stories and poems, the same piece of literature being presented in two columns, side by side, one in the regular Roman print and the other in the phonetic alphabet.

The vocabulary at the end furnishes the student with the meaning of every French word and idiom occurring in the chapter on phonetic transcription.

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