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[languid holly]

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[quartz cove]

same with the written line "je ne savais pas" which is pronounced by the speaker like "jeune savais pas" (where "je" and "ne" are conjoined)

[sharp loom]

it's almost 100% of informal speech

we skip the [ə] sounds that you find in those words

tout l'temps
je n'savais pas

[obsidian crow]

Final unstressed schwa has a tendency to be dropped in spoken French, that's why you pronounce « samedi » as « sam'di »

[sharp loom]

not necessarily final

[obsidian crow]

no not final

but last one in a syllable

[quartz cove]

thx!

[toxic gale]

also "ne" tends to get dropped in conversational french.
so "je savais pas", and because the schwa in "je" also gets dropped... "j'savais pas". But "js" is hard to pronounce so you usually hear "sh" instead -> shavais pas

[quartz cove]

is that like "shais pas"? j'sais pas?

[toxic gale]

yes, same thing

[quartz cove]

ty! 🙂

[obsidian crow]

@mellow light Hi, please respond in the threads created below each question, not in the actual channel itself so it won’t get bogged down by answers

Also, it’s more about how the final vowel in « le » is reduced or even removed with the consonant moved to the front so instead of « tout le », you get what sounds like « toull » which can be difficult for beginners to pick up on

[mellow light]

Bertie, I'm not sure that I'm entirely clear as to how that work but I'll try my best, thanks for the heads up

[obsidian crow]

No worries. Every time a message is posted on any of the salles-de-classe, a bot will create a thread which is like a mini-channel. This is done automatically by the bot, you don’t have to do anything. We answer the questions within the thread so that we don’t fill the main salle-de-classe with answers and thus block out any other question.