"Tu portes ton nouveau manteau" vs "Tu portes un nouveau manteau"
What would be the difference between how these two sentences sound?
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Tu portes ton nouveau manteau.
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Tu portes un nouveau manteau.
I keep getting nailed on this one thinking that I am hearing #2 when the answer is #1.
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This might not be helpful, but usually 'un' sounds like 'an' in English while 'ton' has a visible t and more of a nasal sound!Even if you don't really get the difference right now, your ears will eventually get used to the difference. Hopefully this helped, I'm not very good at explaining things :)
Have you tried the slow speed? It's often much clearer.
Forvo is also a good resource to hear actual people pronouncing it rather than robots whose pronunciation may or may not be correct.
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is pronounced "tu-porr'ton nouveau manteau."
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is pronounced "tu-portzun nouveau manteau."
Note: the z sound is very subtle.
The words blend into each other, thats what I tried to show by writing them this way.
Thanks. That makes sense. Liaison at work. That will help me a lot to keep that in mind.
