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Mastering French Pronunciation: Vowels, Nasals, and Consonants

Improve your pronunciation skills with difficult French vowel sounds, nasal sounds, and challenging consonant sounds, including the French "R" and "j" sounds. Learn the correct pronunciation with helpful examples and tips!

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Mastering French Pronunciation: Vowels, Nasals, and Consonants

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  1. La prononciation difficile le 28 août2018

  2. Difficult vowel sounds.

  3. Les diphtongues /ü/ et /œ/ • /ü/ is formed by saying “oo” (as in “hoot”) with your lips and “ee” with your throat. • /œ/ is formed by saying “oh” with your lips and “ay” (as in “May”) with your throat.

  4. ATTENTION! • Please WAIT until you have heard the correct pronunciation of all of these words before attempting them yourselves. Otherwise you may pronounce them incorrectly!!!!!!!!

  5. Par exemple… • flûte • zut • pull • une • lune • sœur • œuf • ordinateur • cœur • bœufs

  6. Écoutez, mais ne répétez pas! • Mon chef-d’œuvreest un pull qui a un dessin d’une lune fait avec les jaunesd’œufslà-dessus. Je l’aioffert à ma sœur Julie, qui estprofesseur.

  7. French nasal sounds

  8. Les voyellesnasales • Nasal sounds usually have a vowel and then an “n” or an “m,” which then either ends the word or is followed by a consonant

  9. Hein?! (Say what?!) • Here are some examples: main, un, mon, en, lampion bonjour, faim, fin, lundi • Non-examples: haine, une, monastique, venu, lune, fumez, samedi

  10. Case #1: “an,” “en,” “am,” and “em” are pronounced /oň/ • Try to say the “on” in DON, however instead of completing the “n” sound, open your mouth as widely as possible. • Manche, pendant, vendredi, maman, femme

  11. Case #2: “in,” “ain,” “im,” and “aim” are pronounced /aň/ • Try to say the “an” in MAN, however instead of completing the “n” sound, open your mouth as widely as possible. • Fin, pain, main, faim, demain

  12. Case #3: “on” and “om” are pronounced /ohň/ • Try to say “own,” however instead of completing the “n” sound, open your mouth as widely as possible. • mon, pompier, on, plomb, tombe

  13. Case #4: “un” and “um” are pronounced /uň/ • Try to say “un” as in UNDER, however instead of completing the “n” sound, open your mouth as widely as possible. • un, lundi, brun, chacun, Verdun

  14. Difficult consonant sounds

  15. The French “R” Sound • The French “r” is made in the back of the throat, a slightly guttural, clearing sound. Sometimes it’s not very easy to hear and/or reproduce.

  16. “R” at the beginning of syllables • Here is where the “throat-clearing” sound is at its clearest. • radis, rouge, renne, réel, rôtisserie

  17. “R” after beginning consonants • This is much more difficult to hear, however it is audible. • quatre, prononce, litre, centre, grand

  18. “R” at the end of syllables • Sometimes this is very difficult to hear clearly, because it is muted compared to the English R. • ordinateur, air, mer, sincère, cœur • ATTENTION: When a word with two or more syllables ends with “er,” it is in 99.99% of cases pronounced like /ay/. Please be careful!

  19. French “j” sound • This sound is not a natural English sound, however it sometimes comes out in “garage.” • Monsieur Risley uses /zh/ to symbolize the sound, and it is kind of like a pneumatic drill used by automobile mechanics.

  20. French “j” sound • Notice that besides “j,” “ge” and “gi” make the sound. “Ga,” “go,” and “gu” do not. • jongle, bijou, girasol, jamais, gêne, dérange

  21. French “ñ” sound • This sound is always written “gn” in French (and Italian). It is the equivalent to the Spanish ñ, and is pronounced close to “ny,” where the “y” is a consonant and not a vowel.

  22. Hein?! • Here, it is truly much easier to demonstrate than to try to explain in detail: • agneau, beignet, signé, montagne, Espagne

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