For french speakers... please answer this.?

Question

i am currently studying your language and it's quite hard 'coz i study by myself and rely on different free language tutorial sites.

uhm my question is "in" is pronounced as "an" right? because of nasalization. But how do you pronounce the word "pain" (bread) is it /peyn/ or /pan/? and please give me examples of nasalized words.

thanks very much

Answer 1

I'm not a French speaker but I'm also studying French. I know this word is pronounced like "pan" without pronouncing the "n". U know, there r some good French dictionaries that show how to pronounce words in French; I already have one. I think this will be very useful to u.

Good luck!

Answer 2

well, there's not a word "in" in french, but if there were, it would be pronounced more like "ehn" without sounding out the "n". "pain" is pronounce "pehn", still not pronouncing the n. it's hard to describe without sound.

more words

faim=hungry

main=hand

on=we, one, as in a person or people

un=one, as in the number

Answer 3

I don't know where you're from but I just recently did my French GCSE and got an A* as a result.

Being from the UK, I don't know what this means to you.

If you have some kind of American-ized understanding of schooling then I can't really help you, but suffice to say it's the best grade available. I'm nearly 16 and have been speaking French in school for around five years.

Anyway...

-in would be pronounced generally as "an".

Pain is pronounced as "Pan".

There are some examples of how this could be put into practice.

"Cousin" (Obviously that would be cousin) is said more like "Coo-zan" instead of the "Cuz-in" we are used to.

However, similarly to English, when an "e" is placed at after a consonant that follows the "i" it changes to an "ee" sound.

For example, "vite" (quickly) is pronounced as "veet".

This is only the tip of the iceberg though, so if you want to properly learn, understand and be able to speak French, I suggest you invest in some kind of tutor or language class. It is by no means an easy language to learn. There are a lot of rules, tenses, exceptions, etc. to grasp. I'm still not fully able to converse and such myself.

I hope I've at least solved your bread problem and that I haven't over-complicated it for you.

Bonne chance. =]

Answer 4

a word like pain is pronounced without the "n". we say it like a strong force of air coming out of mouth.

Always over exaggerate the shapes your mouth makes also, this helps pronunciation.

rent a few french movies, you dont have to comprehend them but just listen to them speak.

Answer 5

I can't tell you how to prononce "pain" as you don't know this sound. OK, "pan" or "pehn" are close but you just have to listen to the sound once to get it...and remember it.

What I can tell you however is the different spelling of this sound :

in, im, ain, aim*, un, ein and en in some specific words like "bien"(good) or "chien" (dog).

Thus, the sound is exactly the same in the following words :

malin, impardonable, pain,..., lundi, freins.

(clever, unforgivable, bread,..., monday, brakes)

* I found no example with aim but i'm pretty sure there are.