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I wouldn't mind the call but I'd be the worst teacher ever.
I think it is the salesperson blood in me. If I hear somebody struggling in one language, I automatically switch to the other. Twenty-some-odd years of making it easier for my buyers has made this second-nature. I have a really hard time sticking to the language they want to learn.
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Hi mav,
I beg to disagree. I found it quite acceptable, as computer talk goes.
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The computer voicing maybe ok, but the French pronunciation is rubbish! For example it gives plait as 'plate'.
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It seems quite authentically French to me. I asked it English "Which way to Notre Dame?" and it told me to f--k off.
Last edited by Alex Williams; 02/02/06 02:33 PM.
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ROFL! 
TEd
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I don't know what language / voice you're using in the dropdown list, but it pronounces plait as /plE/.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Mav, I think I know what's going on.
You have to choose "Juliette French" as the speaking voice or the words are totally butchered.
If you simply type in the words on the opening page, "S'il vous plaît" is said as "Sill v - o - u - s plate" with vous spelled out letter by letter. It is absolutely horrible.
If you choose Juliette as speaking voice, it sounds quite good, with very little errors to speak of.
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You have to choose French, I chose Alain, otherwise the pronuciation is not butchered, it is just in English, the default language. How do I say mantled auf Französich? Ah, actually now I understand, I'm being ignored. Sniff. Ah, well, it'll free up my posting stylo.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Give Gin a call once a week, you'll do fine! 
Peut-être pas. I had a French language teacher once who, like our BelM, was from Quebec. She seldom missed a chance to tell her students that people from "la terre des cesmes" had often refused to concede that the language she spoke was French.
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