Leçion quatorze 14

Feb 21 2010 Sunday

Leçion treize 14

This lesson is packed with all the vowels left. Not an easy lesson, I tripled my time just on repeating the sounds.

Song of the day: Fais dodo, Colas mon p’tit frère (22:15)

It’s a bed time song. Mama is making cake while Papa is making chocolate…

Words:

Dodo – d

P’tit – p

Gâteaux (cake) – g

Papa – P

Bas – b

Chocolat – ch

Leçion treize 13

Feb 20 2010 Saturday

I started unit 6 of the radio archive. Today I learned the semi-voyelles.

Song of the day: Alouette

It’s a children’s song, features a bird called lark (云雀). The song is about depilating this bird, its back, beak, head, tail…

Pronunication:

Alouette – ou

Les yeux (eye)- ue (closed sound)

Les ailes (wing) – ai (open sound, should combine the two sounds together)

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Feb 19 2010 Friday

Another a few days of vowels learning, I’ve decided to learn to tell a date. It’s a flash program which is more interactive than plain paper.

Le Calendrier

It involves new vocabularies that are familiar but somehow different.

The wish you a happy birthday listening exercise is difficult as I almost the French numerals…

In order to tell a date, I have to revise the numbers as well.

les nombres

This is repetitive and boring.

Leçion onze 11

Feb 18 2010 Thursday

As expected, I could not recognize half of the consonant sounds that I learned yesterday. It’s difficult for me to learn these sounds as this is totally a new world. Luckily, the Unit 5 of the radio archive gave me some comfort as it went through the things in Unit 4 again. This time, it focuses on nasal vowels (voyelles nasals).

The associated phonics words in the example column is useful to provide memory assistance to both the vowels and words. The vowel in the third row, , has another example – bonbon. It’s a French word borrowed by the English. It reminds me of a very funny movie Night at the Museum, which the Moai statue always says something like ‘Hello dum dum! I want bonbon!’

Today’s song: J’ai du bon tabac (I have good tobacco), starts from archive 19: 50

Related vowels:

bon - on,

dan –an,

Tu n’en – en

J’en ai du fin – en

Ton – on

Vilain – ain

Second song: Le pont d’Avignon (A bridge at Avignon), starts from archive 22:25

Related vowels:

Pont – on,

On y danse – on, an

Tout en – en