
Adrien guides this pronunciation journey, teaching the French alphabet and how to pronounce letters, then uses before-and-after voice recordings to show progress.
Learn the one sound for each regular letter A–Z, understand that some letters have multiple sounds, and practice clear letter-by-letter pronunciation with careful lip position and tongue placement.
Practice French alphabet pronunciation with flashcards that show three letters at a time in random order, then memorize and pronounce each set within three seconds.
Master French pronunciation through a recap of the alphabet, emphasizing energy, lip and tongue tension, and the technique of shortening each letter to its first half.
Practice pronunciation after finishing the French alphabet by repeating alphabet-like sentences, then compare your recordings to measure progress as you prepare to learn the mysterious letters.
Practice and check your level by recording yourself as you read easy-to-pronounce sentences, tackle the tricky letters with strokes on top, and strengthen mouth muscles to improve French pronunciation.
Master the French alphabet by learning the special symbols that aren’t in English, and prepare to grasp the full alphabet in the next section.
Explains how the ç, the cedilla, changes the pronunciation of c in French, with examples like garcon and leçon to practice pronouncing c accordingly.
Master French pronunciation focuses on the é accent, its correct pronunciation in native French, common mistakes by English speakers, and examples like café and touché.
Master French pronunciation with grave accents on a, e, and u to change sounds, déjà vu. See how gendered nouns and accompanying articles shape meaning, as shown by la plage.
Explore the circumflex accent in French, its historical s loss and its effects on pronunciation and meaning. Practice precise vowel sounds with examples like hospital, forest, and Notre Dame.
Explore the trema diacritic in French, teaching how two vowels stay distinct and how this accent clarifies pronunciation in words like naïve and Noël, including endings and feminine forms.
Explore the 36 French sounds and the underground letters œ and æ. Learn pronunciation tips, liaison rules, and how singular and plural forms shape sounds.
Engage in a flashcards lesson on French letters, including underground letters, with the three-second recall, showing that letters map to 28 of 36 sounds, including nasal sounds, before word pronunciation.
Practice French pronunciation by recording yourself reading prompts, apply corrections on silent letters and tricky sounds, and check your progress with follow-up feedback and self-review.
Master 36 French sounds in 2 minutes with practical guidance on pink, blue, and nasal phonemes, plus hands-on pronunciation practice to boost accuracy.
Practice real-world French dialogue to pronounce like a native, using IPA guidance alongside standard spelling. Explore shopping phrases and how to ask for the price in a souvenir shop.
Practice French pronunciation using IPA symbols to sound like a native speaker, mastering nasal vowels and liaisons, and read a price dialogue with intonation.
Memorize the 36 IPA letters to master French pronunciation, then apply the international phonetic alphabet to read and practice real-life dialogues for near-native pronunciation.
Practice reading a French sentence with the phonetic alphabet, mastering pronunciation tips, silent letters, and dictionary-guided checks to read more accurately and quickly.
Learn the first pronunciation rule: final consonants n, m, p, s, and t are silent in French; practice with debris, coup d'etat, and bomb to pronounce loanwords naturally.
Master French pronunciation shows how consonants before an e are pronounced while the e stays silent, demonstrated with cars, bon bon, and coop.
Practice French speaking through a realistic dialogue about the weather, focusing on pronunciation challenges like aujourd'hui and the French r, with step-by-step breakdowns, repeated reading, and natural intonation.
Practice French pronunciation by talking about the weather, mastering native intonation and liaisons, and reading aloud to internalize natural phrases and weather vocabulary.
Compare the normal French alphabet with the international phonetic alphabet to map spellings to sounds, using dictionary transcriptions to read pronunciation and distinguish multiple letter sounds.
Learn the spellings for all French consonant sounds and how they map to pronunciation, including x for z, qu for k, ch for champagne, and cedille and gn endings.
Master French vowels and their spellings, including nasal vowels, contrasting English loan words, and common spellings and accents like circumflex for practical pronunciation cues.
Explore semi vowel spellings and their French sound correspondences, with examples like w, ou, eu, and the elle spelling, to practice accurate pronunciation.
Practice real-life business introductions in French with correct pronunciation, intonation, and essential phrases like bonjour, monsieur, and rendezvous to sound like a native.
Practice pronouncing names clearly in business French, using controlled speed, intonation, and emphasis guided by IPA cues to sound native, with examples like Monsieur Tavernier sur La Danse.
Master the French /p/ consonant by lip closure and air release, articulating the puh sound. Read words like pah and poop and note spellings pee pee.
Learn to voice the consonant phoneme /b/ with vibration, practicing the Buh sound. Explore spellings bay or double bay as in bon, bon, boule, bet to solidify French pronunciation.
Master the French consonant phoneme /d/ by placing the tongue at the roof of the mouth, releasing a voiced, vibrating sound, and noting its spellings such as de.
Explore the French consonant phoneme /t/ and its spellings, noting that we don't voice it, through a French tongue twister and examples like sorties, ta ta, and don't tattoo.
Master French consonant /k/ by placing the back of the tongue to the soft palate and releasing air, learning spellings k, c, ch, x with examples like club and pick.
Master the French consonant phoneme /g/ by voicing with the back of the tongue to the roof of the mouth and releasing air; practice with gourmet, grand, gulliver, and gustaf.
Explore how to produce the French consonant phoneme /f/ by pressing the lower lip to the upper teeth, then releasing a small air gap; practice with for, philosophy, elephant.
Master the French consonant phoneme /v/ by focusing on the sound rather than spelling, practicing how to pronounce words like vegan, vole, and merci with native accuracy.
Master the French /l/ by touching the alveolar ridge with the tongue and producing la and elle, noting the sound shares the same mouth shape as English.
Master the French consonant phoneme /s/ through mouth position, front-tongue height, and air flow. Learn four spellings with examples like cinnamon and sacrebleu.
Explore the voiced z consonant phoneme, its tongue placement and airflow, and how z sound appears in z, s, and x spellings with examples like philosophy, exemplar, exists.
Explore the French consonant phoneme /ʃ/ through phonetic symbols, tongue placement toward the alveolar ridge, silent consonants, and spelling notes with examples from English loanwords and crescendo.
Explore the French consonant phoneme /ʒ/ through loan words like camouflage and garage, and compare English spellings to French pronunciations, focusing on how g differs.
Practice the consonant phoneme /m/ using examples like man, me, and moon, and explore how the sound can appear with two m's.
Explore the French consonant phoneme /n/ and its spellings (n, nn), and compare its pronunciation to English. Learn how focusing on initial sound can trigger mistakes on this easy sound.
Master the French consonant phoneme /ɲ/ and its gn spelling, exploring the default near pronunciation, English contrasts, and examples like onion and companion.
Master the consonant phoneme /ŋ/ by shaping air through the nose and mouth, noting its prominence in English loanwords and onomatopoeia like ping pong, and verify pronunciation from dictionaries.
Explore producing the French consonant phoneme /ʁ/ by using the hard and soft palate, raising the back of the tongue, and vibrating the vocal cords with a wet gargle-like r.
Practice as a native speaker: pronounce phrases to ask for the time in French, master letter sounds, pacing, and intonation using three-second drills and pauses to finish sentences confidently.
Practice pronouncing French like a native by blending sounds, using IPA and the alphabet, and mastering tempo through slow, fast, and native-speed readings of time-telling phrases.
Explore how French vowels and phonemes differ from English, and learn to guess the pronunciation of each new French word despite irregular spellings.
Master the French vowel phoneme /i/ by shaping a closed soft palate, spread lips, and a tongue touching the upper teeth, with common spellings like e, ee, ea.
Master the French vowel phoneme /e/ by positioning the tongue, spreading the lips, and keeping the mouth slightly open, then explore accent aigu spellings with words like essence and clé.
Master the French vowel phoneme / ɛ / by opening the mouth, flattening the tongue, and spreading the lips, and note spellings with accent grave and circonflexe.
master french pronunciation by distinguishing /e/ and /ɛ/, using examples of how consonant sequences and word endings shape the vowel sound.
Compare French vowel phonemes /ə/ /ø/ /œ/ and learn how lip rounding, tongue position, and jaw opening shape each sound. Practice with apple and appelé to hear subtle length differences.
Learn to pronounce the French oral vowel phonemes /a/ and /ɑ/ by comparing jaw drop and tongue position, and master common spellings and accent circonflexe effects.
Explore the contrast between the /o/ and /ɔ/ oral vowel sounds in French, focusing on lip rounding, jaw openness, and back-tongue placement, with examples like opera and album.
Master the French /u/ and /y/ sounds by rounding the lips, positioning the tongue and teeth, and applying careful tongue tension to differentiate them.
Master the French vowel sounds and their spellings, focusing on the ou sound, mouth positioning, and practical examples like vu, dou, qu, cool, cooker, and nasal sounds.
Master nasal vowel phonemes /ɛ̃/ and /œ̃/ by examining symbols, practicing nasalization with breath control and open soft palate, and mastering spelling patterns ending in n or m.
Master the nasal vowel phonemes /ɔ̃/ and /ɑ̃/ by shaping the soft palate, rounding the lips, and keeping the tongue raised and back, noting their spellings like on.
Learn the gliding vowel /ɥ/ and transition vowels in French. This lecture details mouth shape, lip rounding, and tongue position with practical examples to improve articulation.
Master French pronunciation in 7 days: learn the gliding vowel /j/ through mouth positions, tongue placement, and air flow, with spellings, examples, and word-linking tips.
Master the gliding vowel /w/ in French as a voiced transition to the next vowel, with rounded lips and a soft palate, including oui and voila.
Practice reading a French dialogue aloud without IPA, record your voice, then repeat with IPA to compare and track pronunciation progress.
Master French pronunciation in practice as this lecture guides you through IPA-based dialogue corrections, demonstrates linking and word mergers, and teaches how natives pronounce common phrases under different speeds.
Master four essential liaison rules in the final, most advanced pronunciation section by reading a French text with Emma and spotting where liaisons occur, including mandatory, prohibited, and optional liaisons.
Struggling with French pronunciation?
And it leads to these problems?
You often can't understand fast french
You'd like to get a visa or residency in France but language is the biggest hurdle in your way
You feel anxious and awkward when speaking
Native french speakers regularly make confused faces when you speak
You need to pass a test but the speaking and listening parts stress you out
It increases your stress when communicating in French speakers
To remedy these issues, you usually need 3 things:
Time:
Pronunciation takes time, especially since a lot of methods out there are not efficient.
Courses with official institutions last over 20 hours.
When you factor in your obligations -work, family, life admin-, scheduling live lessons can extend the course over several months, with unguaranteed results.
2. A High Budget:
Recent studies show that French as a second language teachers are undertrained when it comes to French pronunciation.
Only 1.5% of their training time is dedicated to pronunciation & phonology (Miras & Vignes, 2021).
Talented French Pronunciation & Accent Reduction teachers are a rare find, thus expensive (1-1 courses start from several thousand dollars).
3. Customized material:
As an English speaker, you'll encounter specific struggles when acquiring French pronunciation.
Different from difficulties met by a native speaker of Spanish, or Chinese, or Arabic, etc.
That's because :
Languages, when it comes to pronunciation, are simple.
They consist of a number of sounds (phonemes). This number is very limited.
French consists of 36 sounds. English consists of 44 sounds. Spanish consists of 24. Etc.
When 2 languages share a large number of sounds: speakers from these countries can pronounce each other's words easily.
Italians can pronounce Spanish without difficulty, for instance.
Good news: French and English share a lot of the same sounds.
Bad news 1: These common sounds are often not produced by the same alphabet letters. You'll need to know the rules.
Bad news 2: Some sounds only exist in French. You'll need to learn how to make them. Physically.
To acquire French pronunciation fast, you'll also need a lot of customized examples.
Words carefully curated so that you don't waste time learning sounds that already exist in English.
English words that would boost your French progress by 10 times.
But words that you wouldn't think of.
Because that's not your job, this requires extensive knowledge of both French and English, from a field expert.
Here is an example:
How would you pronounce "chat"? "T-SHA-T" like in English?
No. Think of the English pronunciation of "Cheryl, Chicago" ... "Champagne"!
The letters "CH" in French make up the sound "SH".
"chat" (meaning "cat" in English) is pronounced "SHAH".
To sum-up, to learn French pronunciation you need:
Time, to acquire the sounds and learn the rules
A high budget, to find & learn from a professional that'll guarantee you get feedback and results
A customized course, that will fix the specific hurdles experienced by North American English speakers
3 things that most learners of French simply can't afford.
This is why I decided to create this course.
It is designed to let you master:
- the 36 sounds that make up the French language
- all the rules that'll let you read and speak French like a native
But before telling you more on how this method will work on you, so that you become a confident, native-sounding French speaker, let me introduce myself:
My name is Adrien.
I'm a native French instructor with over 12 years of experience teaching both English and French pronunciation.
I was born and raised in France, and learned to speak English at an adult age, past 22 years old.
I have lived in Australia, Japan and speak English with a hint of a French accent (especially when going back and forth between English and French in the same conversation).
Over 75 learners of all ages have acquired French pronunciation with me, using the same method that let me acquire English.
One day, after years of seeing so many American and Canadian learners of French struggling to find a program that would successfully fix their French pronunciation,
I decided to create a comprehensive, efficiency-focused, step-by-step course customized for North American English speakers.
So, how does the method work?
1. You'll learn along another English speaker
Most of the videos of this course were recorded with Emma, from Denvers, who experiences the same difficulties as you.
She'll have most of the same questions.
She will make a lot of the same mistakes as you would.
She'll get the corrections and feedback you would.
2. You'll learn from a native, bilingual accent reduction expert
I have authored several best-selling language and pronunciation courses (sold in Asia), covering both French and English.
I know English in and out: my corrections are custom-made for English speakers.
I use this experience to teach you french pronunciation in an unprecedented level of customization.
3. You'll learn the sounds and rules with a proven method for English speakers
I'm using a "magic mix" that has always gotten my students through the finish line of mastering French pronunciation:
The phonics method: you'll hear and visualize each sound through precise videos and diagrams
The verbo-tonal method: I'll engage your ears, eyes and body simultaneously.
This technique will allow you to perceive each foreign sound physically, just like a musician follows a conductor.
You'll replicate it via tailored exercises.
4. You will practice with real-life conversations
You will not practice from random words and phrases listed one after another.
Two crucial parts of pronunciation are: rhythm & intonation.
Rhythm and intonation reflect the emotions coming with words and phrases we're saying.
You'll get 17 drills consisting of French natural conversations so you can practice the intonation of:
- neutral questions
- surprised questions
- rhetorical questions
- short responses
- long-winded sentences
- exclamations
- and many more.
In short, everything that makes the language alive and fun!
5. You'll get a Live coaching class with me
After completing 50% of the course, you'll get access to a free coaching session with me.
That way:
- You'll get more interactive practice
- You'll get my feedback on your weaknesses & quick hacks to fix them
- You'll get a roadmap to keep your clean pronunciation
Learn Risk-Free
This course comes with an unconditional money-back guarantee: get natural French pronunciation within 7 days or claim your money back.
You can take a free preview of the first lecture, or join Emma and myself directly inside the course, where the step-by-step method is ready to help you reach your dream French pronunciation goal.