Books: pronunciation

[Guest balletluver13]

I'm looking for a pronunciation guide that has all the french ballet words and how to say them. Kind of like a dictionary. Does anybody know of anything like that?

[rg]

TECHNICAL MANUAL AND DICTIONARY OF CLASSICAL BALLET by Gail Grant - Dover (paperback)

the form of the entries goes like this, with the foreign term in bold and then elaboration of pronunciation following:

for ex.

ADAGE, ADAGIO [French: ah-DAZH].

hope this helps.

[Dance_Scholar_London]

If you learn the French alphabet and how to pronounce combination of letters and accent, it will not be too difficult to pronounce ballet terms. French is quite consistent in pronuncition in comparison to English.

[Guest balletluver13]

That book sounds so helpful. I have to get one. I looked it up on amazon and it's not that expensive. Thanks sooooo much.