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Connecting the French you read vs. how it actually sounds is one of the biggest hurdles for many French learners.

The melodic French language is full of subtle pronunciation patterns that often slip through the cracks in traditional lessons and get completely overlooked in books and apps.

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RULE 1: DOUBLE CONSONANTS

• belle → “bell” (beautiful – described feminine singular thing or person)
• mettre → “met-rrrh’” (verb ‘to put’)
• un homme → “awm” (a man)
• frapper (to hit, to knock)
• elle → “ell” (she)
• cette → “set” (this/that – followed by feminine singular noun)
• une lettre → “let-rrrh” (a letter – one from the alphabet or found in your letterbox)
• bonne → “bawn” (good – described feminine singular thing or person)
• une pomme → “pawm” (an apple)
• de la colle → “kawl” (some glue)
• un mot (a word)
• vos (your – possessive followed by plural)
• haut (high)
• beau (beautiful – described masculine singular thing or person i.e. handsome)

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RULE 2 : ENDINGS IN -TION / -SION

• la conversation → “kon-ver-sa-syon”
• la situation → “see-too-ah-syon”
• la décision → “day-see-zyon”
• une illusion → “ee-loo-zyon”
• la confusion → “kon-fyu-zyon”
• la passion → “pah-syon”
• une action → “ak-syon”
• une fonction → “fon-ksyon”

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RULE 3 : NUMBERS THAT MORPH

• 6 : six→ “seess”
• six chats → “see shah” (six cats)
• six enfants → “seez‿an-fahn” (six children)
• 8 : huit → “weett”
• huit chats → “wee shah” (eight cats)
• huit ans → “wee‿tahn” (eight years old)
• 10 : dix → “deess”
• dix heures → “dee-zur” (ten hours or ten o’clock)
• dix jours → “dee zhoor” (ten days)

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RULE 4 : French Rhythm

• comfortable → “com-for-tabl” (comfortable)
• la température → “tem-pé-ra-tur”(temperature)
• un intérêt → “in-té-rêt”(interest)
• le laboratoire → “la-bo-ra-toir” (laboratory)
• une université → “u-ni-ver-si-té” (university)
• le téléphone → “té-lé-fon” (a phone)
• magnifique → “ma-gni-fik” (magnificent)

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RULE 5 : The IN- Prefix Illusion

• le pain (bread)
• le matin (morning)
• invisible → “ɛ̃-vee-zeebl” (invisible)
• intéressant → “ɛ̃-teh-reh-sã” (interesting)
• inutile → “ee-nu-teel” (useless)
• une innovation → “ee-no-va-syon” (innovation)
• intelligent → “ɛ̃-teh-lee-zhahn” (intelligent)
• impossible → “ɛ̃-po-seebl” (impossible)
• infini → “ɛ̃-fee-nee” (infinite)
• instable → “ɛ̃-stahbl” (unstable for a structure, erratic for behaviour)
• inattention → “ee-na-ten-syon” (inattention)
• inadmissible → “ee-nad-mee-seebl” (inadmissible, intolerable)
• initial → “ee-nee-syal” (initial)
• innocent → “ee-naw-sahn” (innocent)

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RULE 6 : The Tréma

• mais → “meh” (but)
• le maïs → “mah-eess” (corn)
• Noël → “no-el” (Christmas)
• naïf , naïve → “nah-eef”,”nah-eev” (naive – masculine and feminine versions)
• haïr → “ah-ee-rrh” (to hate, to despise)
• un canoë → “ka-no-eh” (canoe)
• Haïti → “ah-ee-tee” (Haiti)
• Jamaïque → “zha-ma-eek” (Jamaica)
• égoïste → “eh-go-eest” (selfish, self-centered)
• Joëlle → “zho-ell” (French girl name)
• Noëlle → “noh-ell” (French girl name)
• Anaïs → “a-nah-eess” (French girl name)
• Loïc → “loh-eek” (French boy name)
• le poëte → “poh-ett” (the poet)

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RULE 7 : Stop the Slide

• La sécurité → “sé-ku-ree-té” (security)
• La qualité → “ka-lee-té” (quality)
• La curiosité → “ku-rio-zee-té” (curiosity)
• Le casino → “ka-zee-no”
• Un piano → “pya-no”
• Un bureau → “bu-ro” (office or desk)
• Un café → “ka-fé”
• Le menu → “muh-nu”
• La photo → “foh-toh”
• Le gâteau → “ga-toh “ (cake)

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