(French) Pronounciation of parlerais, parlerai, parlaient?

Question

In French, are the words parlerais, parlerai, parlaient pronounced the same?

I have a book entitled 'Pronouncing French Perfectly' and it says that parlerai should be pronounced with the 'e' in egg while parlerais should be pronounced like 'ay' without the y.

I find it hard to hear a difference. Is it really obvious?

Also: Fait and fais should be feh instead of fay?

Answer 1

Sorry to have to contradict previous entries , but "parlerais" (conditional present tense) and "parlerai" (future indicative tense) are both pronounced in exactly the same way: parl-erh-ray.( think of the second note in "Do, re, mi). The presence of an s at the end of the word makes no difference.
"parlaient" (past imperfect tense) is pronounced: parlay (as in "lay brother" in UK English or as the e of egg depending on the region, but there is so little difference it is hardly noticeable and not really something to worry about).

"fais" and "fait" are pronounced as feh (as in Morgan la Fey.)

I guess the disagreements in opinion are due to the differences between the way the English words are pronounced in various states of America.

Answer 2

Parlerai and parlerais are pronounced exactly the same way...
Parlaient (along with parlais and parlait) is prononouced par-le (an "e" as in egg)...

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Ask Sir Kermit.

Answer 5

No:

parlerais ends with the sound [e] as in 'hen'
parlerai ends with the sound [e] as in 'hay/hey' (sort of - but no diphthong)
parlaient is [parle] with that 'hen' sound again.

Difficult to describe unless you know the IPA.

Answer 6

Who cares. Do you know how the french army drills? They all run around with their hands over their heads in a surrendering position.

Answer 7

par-ler-eh
par-ler-i (as in the actual word I)
par-lay-en (don't pronounce the t at the end of the french word)

Answer 8

yes it is just the matter of gender.

Answer 9

no...it's like this:

parlerais=parl +(make your mouth like ,,o'' and say ,,e,,) +re
parlerai=The same as parlerais
parlaient=parle

Hope I helped you