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

In 1882, the Ramirez y Giraudier Typographic Establishment published the Manual de ortologia francesa dispuesto para las senoritas educandas del Real Colegio de Santa Isabel de Manila composed of the pianist, musicologist, music critic and French professor Oscar 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.