Differentiating "deux" and "douze"
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Your instincts are good. (Avoiding too many speak-English temptations or risks, etc.). But as for specific suggestions, I’m sorry. Have you considered Nantes or Bordeaux? Lyon? Really, you can’t go wrong, if you keep “maximize French use” as your goal. Perso, I might even consider Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne. (Yes, there’s a regional accent — but that’s part of the fun.)
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When deux has a liason it sounds to me indistinguishable from douze. If i listen to each number individually i can clearly tell that the "oo" sound in douze is more drawn out than that of deux, but when someone is talking at a decent pace, and the number is just mashed between a whole sentence of other words, I cant tell the difference. Deux ans. Douze ans. If someone told me « j'ai une fille de douze ans » I wouldn't know whether they had a toddler or a pre-teen.
How do you navigate this trap?