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28/06/2014 10:54:12
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Forum:
Linguistic
Category:
French
Title:
Re: French
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01602712
Message ID:
01602799
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>>Could someone who is native French speaker answer the following question?
>>
>>The French word “vais” like in Je vais .... According to all dictionaries the combination of “ai” should be pronounced “ay” as in English “pain”. But I can’t seem to hear the ending “y” when I listen to native speaker(s) in almost all cases of “ai”/”ay”. My question is, do you guy pronounce the “y” so lightly that my aging ears can’t hear it? Or the way you speak is not the way the dictionaries indicate and you simply drop the ending “y”?
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>>TIA
>
>Click to hear the sound http://www.forvo.com/word/je_vais/

Very nice. I like this site and the sound is good. Thank you. And for sure I hear no 'y' at the end.
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