3 MOST COMMON ERRORS OF FRENCH SPEAKERS IN ENGLISH

FOREIGN SPEAKERS TEND TO IMPORT THEIR NATIVE
SOUND SYSTEM INTO ANOTHER LANGUAGE.

This is called sound substitution.

1. For French speakers, the lingua dental sounds /th/ are substituted usually by ‘z’ or ‘s’ (rarely by ‘f’).

2. The French uvular /r/ produced in the back of the mouth is used instead of the semivowel American ‘r’.

3. The French language overwhelmingly places stress on the last syllable of words, while American English is relaxed and places stress mid-word.

Voila!

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