Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Bienvenue Monsieur et Madame

Bonjour!

Thats French! :) I didn't know! French, known for their "From French, For French, and By French" still remain the same though change has started creeping in the city of Paris!

Smaller towns still live the true French spirit with very little or no sign of English! French accent and pronounciation is completely different! Interesting!

A few interesting things about French:
1. French are very fast and most often the vowels at the end of a word are not at all pronounced.
2. Pronouncing "R" is very difficult for them.
3. No pronounciation of "H"
4. "A" pronounced as "A"(first swara) of Sanskrit/Hindi
5. "I" pronounced as English "e"
6. "E" pronounced as English '"a"

Aware of "Kundapur Kannada" - a Kannada dialect spoken by a few districts in the north coast of Karnataka. To understand this Kannada you have to where to eat, devour and skip the phonetics! Very similar is French.

Looks like there are many similarities between French and Sanskrit! Who knows if the origin of French also is Sanskrit!

That is a small lesson about French!

Au revoir!

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