pourquoi il n'est pas: Je viens d'Hong Kong?

Hi Atul,

• You do not say,

d’Hong Kong 

because it has what is called in French a H aspirate which means you indicate its presence by not doing what you have been taught to do when there’s a clash of vowel and consonant, called an elision...

You have to say 

de Hong Kong, de Hollande ....

Hope this helps!

 

 

 

Hi Murad, 

I have changed the audio, so hope you can hear 

de Hong Kong

better.

In the case of the word hôtel -

it has a different sort of -h , an -h mute, which acts as if it wasn't there at all and you would say 

Hope this helps!

Hi Susan, 

Please take a look at my answer to another student -

https://progress.lawlessfrench.com/questions/view/aspirated-h-what-does-this-mean

 

Hope it helps!