Understand spoken language

Where and when to do the breakdown of words with apostrophes

Submitted by admin on 5 November 2014

All words with apostrophes like "l'anglais" (the English) and "j'ai" (I have) will only be broken down at the very final level. i.e. do not ever break these down, except at the very last page possible.

This gives a 100% match between the sound of the sentence and the sound of the breakdown items when played in a row.

Example 1:

All sentences which use "j'ai" will never split these words into "je" + "ai", and "j'ai" will be split up ONLY on the page for "j'ai" (i.e. on the page i-have).

So, breakdown i-have-a-big-family as "j'ai" + "une" + "grande" + "famille", and NOT as "je" + "ai" + "une" + "grande" + "famille"

Exampe 2:

In the following

this should be broken down as:

  • mon + grand-pere + ne + comprend + pas + l'anglais

and not:

  • mon + grand-pere + ne + comprend + pas + le + anglais

Then on the "l'anglais" page we will breakdown as "le" + "anglais".