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We’ve been so busy working on some fantastic new features that I haven’t actually had time to tell you they’re been released!
Listen to French Grammar Examples
We know French can be tricky to pronounce sometimes. Like English, French is not always written phonetically, so we’ve added the ability to make our French grammar examples speak to you!
Thanks to a little help from some amazing Google technology, you can now listen to the French grammar examples on any of the French grammar topics in our system.
Check out the voiced examples in this lesson (NB: you might need to be logged in to view this):
Avoir peur de: to be afraid / scared of
This is synthetically voiced; in other words, it’s not a human speaking but the technology is so good that in many cases you can’t tell. Google speaks French fantastically well!
We’re constantly working to improve our French tests and lessons and we love this new feature. It is in BETA though which means it won’t work 100% of the time. If you find a problem with the pronunciation somewhere let us know – we’ll have native human French speakers provide voiced examples in cases where synthetic voices aren’t up to the job. So far, though, we’ve found only a few cases where it isn’t quite right.
So now when you take your French tests with us, and we analyse your results and build your lesson plan, you will have voiced examples to help you learn the correct pronunciation.
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[Follow on Twitter: @gruffdavies] Despite the very Welsh name, Gruff is actually half French. Nowadays, he's a tech entrepreneur (and some-time novelist) but he used to be a physicist at Imperial College before getting hooked on inventing things. He has a special interest in language learning, speaks five languages to varying degrees of fluency and he often blogs about language learning, science, and technology. As well as co-founding Kwiziq, he is the author the Amazon best-selling SF thriller, The Looking Glass Club and the inventor of the Exertris gaming exercise-bike and Pidgin, a free online tool that makes drawing flow charts and relationship diagrams as quick and easy as describing them in pidgin English.
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