The sounds of French

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Skill	topic	unit
Basics 1	French sounds	1
Basics 2	Gender	1
Basics 2	Use your nose!	1
Greetings	Accents	1
People	French sounds	1
People	Spelling	1
Travel	Tu as un passeport ?	1
Family	Whose kid is this?	1
People 2	TAKE THAT!	1
People 2	Pronunciation	1
Restaurant	Je voudrais un verre d'eau !	1
City	French sounds	2
At Home	French sounds	2
People 3	Tu n'es pas français !	2
Friends	Mon amie !	2
Activities 2	No more silence!	2
Activities 2	French sounds	2
Breakfast	French sounds	2
Routine	Whatcha doin'?	2
Sensations	Why? Parce que...	3
Housing	What have you done?!	3
Family 4	Duo revient de France !	3
Money	Est‑ce que tu as assez d'argent ?	4
Dream Trip	Pourquoi pas tous les deux ?	5
Encounters	C'est un vieil ami	5

• Duolingo Tips for Sounds - older courses
• French Vowel Sounds
• Other information

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Duolingo Tips for Sounds

1 st Unit

Basics 1

• French sounds

  Basics 2

• Use your nose!

  People

• French sounds
• Spelling

  Travel

• Tu as un passeport ?

  Family

• Whose kid is this?

  Take that!

• Pronunciation

  Restaurant

• Je voudrais un verre d'eau !

2 nd Unit

City

• French sounds

  At Home

• French sounds

  People 3

• Tu n'es pas français !

  Friends

• Mon amie !

  Activities 2

• No more silence!
• French sounds

  Breakfast

• French sounds

  Routine

• Whatcha doin'?

3 rd Unit

###Sensations

• Why? Parce que...

  Housing

• What have you done?!

  Family 4

• Duo revient de France !

4 th Unit

Money

• Est‑ce que tu as assez d'argent ?

5 th Unit

Dream Trip

• Pourquoi pas tous les deux ?

  Encounters

• C'est un vieil ami

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Other information

Learning the sounds of a foreign language can lead to some very interesting and controversial discussions at times, I have always found. This of course is confused further, from a native English speakers perspective - due to the huge number of different accents English speakers have. And this is not a unique issue to English speakers.

The French alphabet consists of 26 characters, and are the same 26 characters as used for English. However, note :

• https://blog.duolingo.com/how-is-the-in ... abet-used/
• Pronunciation of the letters are different - between English and French.
• There are several additional accents and letter combinations that are different between English and French.
• Also note - just as with English, letters have "names" , and separate "pronunciations" when used in words. Many other languages also have this.

Pronouncing the NAMES of the letters of the Alphabet:

Here are a few internet resources you might find useful to assist in pronouncing the names of the letters in the French Alphabet ( again remember the names of the letters can be different to how they are said/pronounced in words ) :

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/French
• wikibooks
• wikiHow
• wikipedia
• French Learner
• https://frenchcrazy.com/2011/12/french-phonetics.html/

YouTube:

• Alain de Lait's L'alphabet en Français - a 'catchy' alphabet song. (as per recommendation from hivemindx.)
• French Alphabet song , to the same tune as the alphabet is commonly learnt in English - but instead in French, and for the names of the French Alphabet.

In this voyage of discussions of sounds, you will come across the concept of :
IPA in English, which stands for the "International Phonetic Alphabet",
or ( perhaps more correctly ) :
AIP : "L'Association Phonétique Internationale" in French.
This is one and the same organization, and was founded in Paris in In January 1889 (under a slightly different name). Its aim is basically the establishment of a set of phonetic symbols to describe the sounds of language. To read more about the organization wikipedia: International Phonetic Association

IPA : https://www.internationalphoneticalphabet.org/

You may also like to read about romaji using the Latin script to write Japanese - rōmaji (ローマ字?, literally, "roman letters". I came across this script when I studied Japanese.
And even in this there are several different romanization systems.

( I will continue to expand and modify this list of references over time - I welcome recommendations from others as well. )
( I will also talk about "the other letter symbols used" and move on to the phonetics of French.
This will include a resource on the sounds and common letter combinations in French ).

• Orthography : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_orthography
• https://www.omniglot.com/language/tongu ... htm#french
• French Nasal Sounds https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/3419734
• Casual R Sounds https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/24546907
• sounds is a little youtube video by Kylie Hicken, which is great for sounds in French.

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Originally posted by hivemindx

With regards to the names of the letters of the alphabet in French I found this video very useful. Alain de Lait's L'alphabet en Français:-

[MoniqueMaRie]

I have always been looking for a song to help me learn the French alphabet.

Fortunately, it is less different from the German alphabet than from the English alphabet I learned already in school (with a song)