5 mistakes you're making with your French pronunciation of vowel sounds
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- čas přidán 19. 04. 2024
- Sound more authentically French and fix your French accent by mastering these vowel sounds.
0:00 - Intro
0:44 - Mistake 1: y & "ill"
4:22 - Mistake 2: u & ou
6:00 - Mistake 3: in, an, on
8:05 - Mistake 4: é & è
9:55 - Mistake 5: eu & e
14:48 - Outro
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A question I often get from my students is “Géraldine, how do I improve my French accent so I can sound more French when I speak?” Of course, it takes a lot of practice! But knowing where you’re going wrong can help tremendously.
In today’s lesson, we’re going to focus on the mistakes you’re probably making with your French vowel sounds. Once you know how to fix them, you’ll be able to practice pronouncing them correctly - and see an improvement in your French accent overall!
Take care and stay safe.
😘 from Grenoble, France.
Géraldine
In way I feel that as long as your accent doesn't impede communication, it's ok to have an accent but I also do agree that pronunciation of the vowels in French is super important and it makes a BIG difference when you get it right!
Merci beaucoup pour cette nouvelle leçon du jour
You are very good! It would be MUCH better if you give the explanations in French with subtitles in English. For foreigners listening, listening and listening helps a lot. Regards
Je suporte
Merci beaucoup. These subtle differences are really hard! Your explanations are extremely helpful. Just love your videos!
The end of the lesson, with the open or closed "eu" sounds. I never noticed that. But now that you pointed it out, it is embarrassing that I didn't notice. Because in Swedish, we have a similar difference in the same sound. But in Swedish it is only a matter of dialect, where in Sweden you come from. Me, I always use the open sound. And people from some other parts of Sweden always use the closed sound. And it's very easy to spot that someone is an outsider, if they use the closed sound. So I know I'm really good at spotting that difference, in my own language. But I never noticed the French language had both a closed "eu" and an open "eu". Now I can't understand how I missed that one! 🙂
I could totally hear the differences between the vowels for most of the lesson, but I'm not yet able to detect differences between the phrase at 11:50 and 12:16. I haven't yet looked through the full written lesson, but for accent aigu and accent grave I always remember crème brulée saying it to myself in my head. Great video, and much thanks!
At 12:16:
Un "Je relis", the E's are like the oo in look or the OU in could.
In "le premier", first two E's are more like the u in cup or nut.
Some also put this English "uh" sound in words like bonne. This would make it rhyme with fun. It is very common but you'll notice it's not identical to the English u in fun, more like anywhere from nearly identical to about halfway between that "uh" and the French O that it is spelled with.
Also, of course, when speaking slowly, they'd pronounce the e at the end of bonne (at times), so it wouldn't rhyme with fun in that case since doing so adds a syllable.
Courage pour les études. Aussi, on écrit crème brûlée, je crois.
Mistake #5 was a bit confusing 😕because I thought the IPA symbol [ə] represented the 'E' sound in LE, mE, chEval, chEveux etc, but the screen showed the [œ] symbol which represents the 'OEU' and 'EU' sounds in: cOEUr, OEUf and nEUf.
It was good at 13:29 when you pronounced 'feu' and 'jeu' the wrong way then correctly. The difference was apparent because you were using the same word thus eliminating any extraneous variables.👍
Merci beaucoup! Vous êtes incroyable. J’essaie de prononce les mots
Very helpful! Merci!
I learn such a lot from your classes ..loved the video so educative ..you teach v well ..thankyou
mistake #1 and #5 are most useful to me as an intermediate speaker
I love the French language and the sound is what I love, with all it's strange pronunciation!
You are good and a very good teacher. But i wish you would also tell the average french person to be more tolerant of our mispronunciations, as they occur. Try to encourage, not discourage! A cold pardon? is very discouraging and flattening? But you are nice.
Gracias GÉRALDINE!! A GOOD LESSON, BUT A LITTLE NOTE: HAVING SPANISH AS MY MOTHER TONGUE, THERE ARE SOME OBSTACLES WITH THE FRENCH SOUNDS...[...], I MUST ADMIT, THAT FRENCH IS FRENCH, NOTHING TO COMPÈRE WITH...GRACIAS POR EL BUEN TRABAJO 👋🇪🇸🇬🇧
Some I found that I knew just by learning the pronounciation by heart, just like for English (being careful of Regional forms). But some subtle differences are hard. You lost me on the pronunciation of the two e. And please help on pronouncing the r, it's very hard to say nasally...
哈哈，原來有法國區的！Merci beaucoup pour ce programme exceptionel! 還是超愛台灣！
I thought , and I was taught , that un crayon is a pencil. Un stylo is a pen : un stylo-bille, un stylo-plume, un stylo -feutre .
What is the difference between o and when o and e are attached to each other?
EXCELLENT DEAR TEACHER 👏👏👏 CHARLES STAUDT FROM BRAZIL 🇧🇷
I believe you said "crayon" was a pen, but isn't it a pencil?
Your channel is always in English. It would more efficient to hear spoken French while learning French. Better to raise the bar than lower it.
I never meet any French people, so my American English accent doesn't really matter.
Where do you currently live? If you live near enough to Quebec or in parts of Floride, you would meet the Quebecois/se! But totally different accent!
@@inconnu4961 I live in Northern Michigan. I am hoping to visit Quebec someday in the near future. Meanwhile I will keep struggling with French. It is much harder than Russian, you know!
@@irenemcnamara9699french harder than russian that’s really interesting.. is it because russian has more flexible grammaire ?
Russian has a very structured grammar. What makes French so hard is its pronunciation. I have to repeat every word 5x in French. Once you learn the pronunciation of the Russian alphabet, it is pretty straightforward from there. Russian has no articles but you still have to learn gender.
@@irenemcnamara9699 very interesting thanks for the input i have hopes on learning russian one day after mastering french
It's not ell it's ill