In order to make this French learning experience easy, we will use simple visual aids, such as the pronunciation being labeled together with their appropriate symbols in italics. These symbols are not part of the International Phonetic Alphabet and are here just to serve as a sort of aide for the reader to better comprehend the material, and are specific to these sets of articles. The point of these symbol is to aide the learner in making his speech and pronunciation sound as native and fluent as humanly possible. We have attempted to design this guide so that it may be as simple as possible when it comes to the task of learning pronunciation. French is a language that possesses many sounds that are not commonly used in the English language, or not used at all, and therefore these symbols are there to represent these sounds, while there are some symbol where there is an equivalent or similar sound used in English, and we will try to design these symbols so that they are used in conjunction with their respective English counterparts.

For this very purpose, we advise you to go over the symbols, their explanations and their exact pronunciation. These explanations will be so thorough we will teach you have to put your mouth and lips in different positions so that they may be able to pronounce these sounds correctly.

VOWELS

French officially has 16 vowel sounds, while in contrast English only has 12. We’ll start off by combining some vocalic sounds that are so similar across French that across various French speaking regions and dialects, no significant difference will be heard in the pronunciation of these vowels.