Teaching French Pronunciation at the Real Colegio de Santa Isabel de Manila (1882)

Abstract

In 1882, the Ramírez y Giraudier Typographic Establishment published the Manual de ortología francesa dispuesto para las señoritas educandas del Real Colegio de Santa Isabel de Manila composed of the pianist, musicologist, music critic and French professor Óscar Camps y Soler. With him, he intends to provide his students an easy and simple way to acquire French pronunciation. The following pages present the treatment that the teaching of the sounds of French to Spanish receives in order to contribute to the historiography of phonetics, as it approaches, in a country and at a stage still little explored, articulatory descriptions and comparative methodologies which constitute a chapter of Linguistic History.