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Re: The stressed syllabe, Mrs. Claire, please (nt)
No, Mrs. Claire. What I say is that every word has a stressed syllabe. I don´t care if it's the last or the first, even in French. I think you should write "seh-VREEN" or "SEH-vreen"; "seh-vuh-REEN" or "SEH-vuh-reen". This opinion has nothing to do with the stereotype you mention.
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I really can't, unless I have a sentence with it...
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Profe Esteban is right. In French words have a stressed syllable even if this one is always in the same place. This is very clear in a sonogram (or in a good IPA transcription) and it can be very easily noticed when French speakers are learning/speak other languages because they tend to stress the last syllables of the words.The stress is not stronger as in other languages, but it is still there.Many French speakers, since in French the place of the stress is non-distinctive (because it is always in the last syllable), are not able to say which syllable is the tonical one, and sometimes they mix the concept of stressed syllable in the word with stressed syllables and/or words in the sentence (stress with intonation and melodical curve). Even in languages with distinctive position of the stress (Spanish and Catalan, for instance), the syllables and/or the words are more or less stressed depending on the position in the sentence. But since position of the stress inside the word is distinctive, the speakers are (in general) able to discriminate and to say which syllable is the stressed one in a word. (And, on the other hand, they could not be able to recognise some differences in pronunciation because these differences are no distinctives in their language: [e] vs. [ɛ] in Spanish or [b] vs. [v] in both languages.)I don't have here my books of French photenics to copy you the paragraphs about the stress in French, but I found a more or less clear explanation at Wikipedia in French (note the IPA transcriptions of the words, with the mark of stress in the last syllable):"Alors que dans la majorité des langues romanes elle est très marquée, elle est, en français, relativement faible voire inaudible. En effet, l'accent tonique du français est marqué pour chaque mot (hormis les clitiques) seulement quand ils sont isolés. Dans une phrase, seul le dernier mot de chaque syntagme portera l'accent, d'autant plus dans une diction rapide et courante.

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