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French pronunciation

Advanced French Lessons

Pronunciation Guides

Assimilation

French assimilationSome French consonants have two different pronunciations due to a pronunciation feature called assimilation.
Mistakes and Difficulties

E instable

French silent eIn many words the letter e is potentially silent, a characteristic which has three French names: e caduc, e instable, and e muet. Though e muet is the most common term, e instable is the most accurate.
Fun with French

Informal Pronouns

French informal pronounsPronoun usage and pronunciation varies greatly between formal and informal French. Much of what you learn at school is formal and doesn't reflect how French is actually spoken. If you want to sound more French in informal situations—not to mention understand what you hear—you need to be aware of these pronoun differences.
Mistakes and Difficulties

Optional Liaisons

French optional liaisonsSome liaisons in front of a vowel or h muet are optional, which means it up to you to decide whether to pronounce them. However, that decision matters: more liaisons means more formal speech, so obviously fewer liaisons means more informal, possibly even familiar speech.
Listening Practice

Speedy Spoken French

École vs vie réelle
Get a taste of how spoken French differs from what you learn in school with this short video.
Expressions

Tongue Twisters

French tongue twistersThink you've mastered French pronunciation? See how well you can twist your tongue around some virelangues. Repeat these alliterative and/or rhyming and/or confusing phrases as quickly as possible to put your French pronunciation to a test that even native speakers have trouble with.

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