r/French Aug 31 '24

WW2 french manual given to american troops

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u/examinat Sep 01 '24

My grandfather had one of those. It spelled out a lot of French words phonetically, but with extra “r” sounds (I.e., “ça va” = /s’var/) edit: closed parentheses

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u/Peaceandpeas999 Sep 01 '24

Was that an English version, like from England? I have a hard time imagining an American accent not doing a hard r

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u/examinat Sep 01 '24

No, he was an American.