Then, for you go through the teens from quatre-vingt onze to quatre-vingt dix-neuf. Download PDF of this lesson. Get the French Pronunciation Crash Course!
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Calli Zarpas Calliope Zarpas, writer and graphic designer, is a collector of foreign words and experiences. Sign up to stay in touch. I usually have to pause and really concentrate on deux and douze. Take a chance by trotting them out in the next French conversation you have well, if it makes sense to do so, of course , and keep practicing with the French Together course and the other methods I suggested. These things will really help. But most of us non-native speakers feel a sense of triumph any time we do things like give someone our phone number without getting jittery, or effortlessly rattle off a meeting time.
As a general rule, numbers in any foreign language are tricky, for many reasons. Alysa Salzberg is an American writer, worrier, teacher, and cookie enthusiast who has lived in Paris, France, for more than a decade. She has taught English and French for more than ten years, most notably as an assistante de langue vivante for L'Education Nationale. She recently published her first novel, Hearts at Dawn , a "Beauty and the Beast" retelling that takes place during the Siege of Paris.
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Just a question: why is it that number 21 in french is pronunced vingt-et-un while the number 81 is pronunced quatre-vingt-un not quatre-vingt-et-un?
Thanks for reading, Emma, and thanks for a great tip! I love the idea of tying a great American president into learning French numbers! That is the best, most comprehensive explanation of French numbers that I have seen. In the Comma paragraph million should have six zeros, not nine. Perhaps one should add that in UK a billion is a million million, whereas in US a billion is a thousand million.
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