Hi

I know I'm a french student and this is a really popular a-level topic, but how do you pronounce l'immgration, l'immigré(es) or l'immigrant?!

Is it I mmigration as in I gloo or I mmigration as in a micable. I'm talking about noises not spellings.

I;ve got a presentation on friday and I've completely forgotten how to say it, and don;t want to look a rigt prat by saying the key word of my presentation wrong!

Thanks

I think "a" because I would say "incroyable" with the "ang" rather than the "ing" nasal sound... and I think the rule divides between in + vowel and in + consonant.

But it's an awful long time since I did French. Sorry.

I can't even find help in the French pronunciation bit of the French version of Wikipedia, I thought that was a surefire place to check.

Do you not have a dictionary with the phonetic symbols for each word?

Thanks anyway. I tried the 3 dictionaries that I have, and none of them had any sounds in- not even the big doorstep one!!!

I thought the same as you, so I'll practice it that way, and then just wait and see if someone else does the same topic as me and if they say the same!

I hope it's right!

If I had my dictionary I'd check but I leant it to a friend.

I've been trying to think of other in/im words and I can only think of ones that have consonants after it, but they all do sound right with the "an" sound not the in... so hopefully it's right

That one . I talked about it with the exchange assistant a few weeks ago.

According to my dictionary it's i as in igloo.

Just seen Helen's reply - now we've really confused you. My disctionary is a 20-year-old Collins Robert.

According to my Collins French dictionary (2005) it's "i" as in "ici" or, as they put it, "i" as in "heel"

Something between igloo and amicable.

Don't forget that the exact sound will in any case change slightly depending on the region.

The sounds of in.., im.., en.. etc can be a real pain to learn at first.

Consider:
en
amen
examen

In each word the 'en' is pronounced very differently!

Good luck!

Steve

so like intelligent sort of noise?!

Another questions, since I know some people are french/lived in france!

What is the right context to use immigrée and immigrant?! I've used the two without thinking, but can't remember if there's a differnet meaning for each!

Just spent a choir rehearsal trying to sing, juggle a score, write notes on the presentation and corret the notes I;ve done, so I'm getting a bit stressed! And I'm in school all day tomorrow (yes I know some of you are in school fulltime, but I have two days where I only have an hour free and I'm in uni tl 9am til 10pm and then a full day working in a school.....)

I asked a Canadian friend of mine with good French, and she said it should be pronounced i as in igloo. As stevensfo says, though, it might well vary by region, and Canadian French might be different altogether. Good luck .

The double m would make it i as in igloo, I think. Some of the other words mentioned have only a single consonant before them, giving the i as in urgh...
oh, dear. As usual, my brain has done another sideways step. this time into that old chestnut about "fish" having the alternative spelling: "ghoti".