Letter: Vowel play. Published 23 April 2008. From Nancy Hoar, ... This also happens the other way round, which explains why the /n/ sound in German “Natter” and French ...

After mastering French consonants, you can move on to vowels. French vowels are pure, meaning there are no diphthongs in standard French. (A diphthong is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds ...

In French, there are vowels and consonants as there are in English. To pronounce words confidently in French, you need to know which sounds they make. ... Understanding silent letters in French.

I saw this as phonetically interesting. In my research, I compared nasalized vowels before nasal consonants in the English speech of two first language (L1) speakers of English and two French second ...

A French team has decoded a letter from Charles V, revealing rumours of an assassination plot. ... Vowels were in the main not written as letters, but added as diacritical marks as in Arabic.