When listening to people speaking French at full speed, it will often seem like the words blend together and sound nothing like the written words at all. If you are using closed captions to follow a conversation you will likely wonder, ‘Where did half of that word...
Understanding the sounds that certain combinations of letters in French make can be tricky for French learners. The individual letters and their combinations don’t tend to make the same sounds as they do in English. This is where some learners can get confused. FRENCH...
The French language is full of tricks but this one will be familiar to you in English as well. Homophones or words that sound the same but spelt differently and hence have different meanings are present in all languages, but what French words with different meaning...
Many of my French language students find it difficult to pronounce words that contain the letter Y. While the letter Y is considered a vowel in the French alphabet, certain French words with ‘Y’ often use it as a consonant and put between two vowels and...
Many learners – like you – share the frustration of knowing quite a bit of French and yet feel discouraged when you cannot understand what’s said i.e. you have difficulties with your French listening comprehension.You’re not alone in this and I see it with...
Want to use those short windows of time when you have a spare 15 minutes to improve your French with quick activities? I think, you are going to love this video. I’m giving you a step-by-step roadmap on how to take every single short study session and make it as...