French pronunciation
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2017
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today I've got a Frenchwoman who teaches French at French Today to teach me French pronunciation today.
Still following?
Good. Here comes Camille Chevalier-Karfis, who runs the French Today website, and she sets me straight on how to pronounce the following ten words.
(Plus we have a good old chat, with me in the studio and her at home in Paimpol, Brittany).
Here are the words:
Brouilly (a wine, and a place in France)
Reims (a place in France)
Caen (a place in France)
Rouen (a place in France)
Buoux (a place in France)
Grenouille (a frog)
Serrurerie (a locksmiths)
Bouilloire (a kettle)
Ecureuil (a squirrel)
Vadrouille (a wander about)
Hang around for a story from Corey Frye, this time about language too.
PS: The movie Camille refers to is called La Grande Vadrouille.
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| 0:00.0 | Here, Full Tower listeners, first of all, thanks for a record break in November, 14,000 downloads. |
| 0:05.0 | That is way higher than I ever would have guessed a year ago when I started this project. |
| 0:10.0 | So thanks for listening. |
| 0:11.8 | Now, today we've got a language-based episode. |
| 0:15.0 | We're going to be chatting with Camille from French Today.com. |
| 0:18.0 | She's one of my favorite French language teachers in the world, and it's all about difficult French words to pronounce. We've got about 10 of them in there. |
| 0:25.2 | She walks me through it. You're going to find out pretty quickly just how terrible my |
| 0:29.3 | pronunciation is, but that's okay. She's there to help us all out. And then hang around |
| 0:33.7 | for a story from tour guide, Corey, Fry at the end, but this time it's not about a mystery of Paris. |
| 0:38.2 | It's also about language. Yep, the whole episode's about language and that's partly because you |
| 0:42.3 | guys asked for it. So popular demand and you get it. Now before we get into the episode, I want to do a |
| 0:48.1 | reminder that the season finale is already coming up. It's going to be the 50th episode that I've ever recorded and I'm going to do it live. |
| 0:55.2 | So December 13th at the point of them out, if you're in Paris, go on the yearfultower.com |
| 1:00.0 | for all the details. If you're not in Paris, you can also chip in on the donations page because |
| 1:05.0 | it is entry by donation. But I'm going to put the episode out after. So if you like the show, |
| 1:10.3 | chip in whatever you want, one euro show, chip in, whatever you want, |
| 1:12.3 | one euro, a thousand euros, whatever you're feeling like, I don't really mind. And, yeah, |
| 1:17.0 | enjoy that season finale, which is also going to be like a Christmas party and a one year anniversary |
| 1:21.1 | because we've been doing this show for a whole year. Anyway, as for season three, I'm thinking to get it started about February 1st, |
| 1:30.7 | and by the time that comes around, we're going to have set up a little crowdfunding thing |
| 1:34.6 | for the people who really like the show to support it. |
| 1:37.1 | So if you want to be one of the early birds to help out with it, |
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