Ok Guyz,
There was this time that I had taken a month long classes in French, but now, its kinda rubbing off me & hence this attempt to retain some amount of French through this blog. A couple of entries are gonna comprise of French pronunciations & commonly spoken words as devised 4m sites across our very own internet & 4m some notes of mine which my teacher- Claire, a Chinese student exchange girl left with me (she had a Chinese name that was too difficult to pronounce).
| French letter(s) | English Sound |
| a, à, â | ah |
| é, et, and final er and ez | ay |
| e, è, ê, ai, ei, ais | eh |
| i, y | ee |
| o | oh |
| o | shorter and more open than aw in bought |
| ou | oo |
| oy, oi | wah |
| u | ew |
| u + vowel | wee |
| c (before e, i, y) | s |
| ç (before a, o, u) | s |
| c (before a, o, u) | k |
| g (before e, i, y) | zh |
| ge (before a, o) | zh |
| g (before a, o, u) | g |
| gn | nyuh |
| h | silent |
| j | zh |
| qu, final q | k |
| r | rolled |
| s (between vowels) | z |
| th | t |
| x | ekss, except as s in six, dix, and soixante in liaisons, like z |
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