2021-03-30 - MOLKOÏ French Club - Online French Class - La Prononciation: Les Voyelles (Pronunciation: Vowels)
Goals: Understand French pronunciation principles and improve pronunciation
La date du jour
Aujourd’hui, nous sommes le mardi trente mars deux mille vingt-et-un
= Today is Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Notes et Vocabulaire
(Notes and Vocabulary)
nous sommes allés à = we went to
acheter = to buy
grossiste = wholesale
j’ai entendu = I heard
élever = to raise
à l’aise = comfortable
je rigole = I’m kidding
j’ai mon ordinateur depuis trois ans = I’ve had my computer for three years
je n’ai pas écrit = I didn’t write
je n’écris pas = I’m not writing, I don’t write
dire quelque chose à haute voix = to say something out loud
j’ai essayé = I tried
a//à
il a des amis = he has friends
il vit à Hoboken = he lives in Hoboken
Pâques = Easter
le dimanche Pascal = Easter sunday
un hôpital = un milieu hospitalier
je conjugue → j’ai conjugué
je conjugué
je mange → j’ai mangé
je mangé
é, c’est un accent aigu
è, c’est un accent grave
ê, c’est accent circonflexe
une femme = a wife
la faim = hunger
y → i grec
je me rappelle = I remember
ça n’a pas marcher
Pronunciation Chart
Vowels
|
French Spelling |
Sound |
Example |
|
a, à, â |
a (like in father) |
la |
|
e |
uh (like in amazing) |
le |
|
e (when followed by pronounced consonant) |
e (like in let) |
belle, quel |
|
eu, oeu (when followed by pronounced consonant) |
uh (like in sir) with rounded and loose lips |
l’heure (the hour/the time), un oeuf (an egg) |
|
eu, oeu (at the end of word or when followed by silent consonant) |
uh (like in amazing) |
le feu, des oeufs |
|
é, er, ez (at the end of words) |
ay (like in play) |
une vallée, aller, venez |
|
è, ê, aî |
e (like in let) |
ma mère (my mother), une bête (a beast), une chaîne (a chain, a channel) |
|
i |
ee (like in feet) |
qui (who), ici (here) |
|
i (when followed by a vowel) |
y (like in yes) |
bien (well), hier (yesterday) |
|
o, au, eau, ô |
o (like in coat) |
beau (handsome, nice), chaud (hot), l’eau (the water), hôpital |
|
ou |
oo (like in tooth) |
nous, courir (to run) |
|
oi |
wa (like in watt) |
moi |
|
oy |
why |
voyager (to travel), se noyer (to drown) |
|
u |
- say ee, then round your lips |
tu, du jus, juste |
|
ui |
|
lui, fuir (to run away) |