French Video 1: The French Consonants and the IPA 

That's not just nice stuff, That's tremendous work. Thank you so much. I love it. I was looking for a video explaining French IPA. since I started learning French, I just knew I needed to learn IPA to get past the scattered letters of a word that is pronounced so differently from what's written. never needed IPA for English before; but for French, IPA just saved me from going crazy on French.

My dude, the tempo precision and accuracy in your explanations is superb.

This is one of the most helpful videos I have ever watched on youtube ! Thanks a ton :D

amazing video even after six years I really appreciate it

This is so incredibly helpful!!

This is a marvelous job bro Thank you so much

Quality material. Good job.

It's been very helpful, thanks!

This is exactly the video I've been looking for! So many pronunciation videos say, "oh, the consonants are the same as English ^_^ , it's so easy" but I could always hear the difference in French audio. Thanks for finally being the one to point this out and explaining how to make the proper sounds! The mouth-shape diagrams and comparisons (cat's car vs. cat scar, etc) help tremendously. You're the hero we don't deserve :D

Exactly what i am looking for, thank you so much

I think you are the best at explaining, merci, y espero sigas haciendo buenos videos, poka !

Funnily enough, as a native English speaker, I’ve never struggled with throaty r’s like in French and German. R’s made with the tip of the tongue, on the other hand, those throw me for a loop.

Thanks body,the best video ever that could help me the way I would like

My philosophy is when one masters the fundamental phonemes of a language and their formation as lexicons then ze can easily conquer that language. I already know 4 languages. Many times tried to practice French phonemes but failed (actually I didn't put much work- as I learn languages on my own on habitual basis and it has no direct material benefit in my life). But here when I come across yours I could able to grasp it without any effort / with very minimal energy. Thanks a lot. Really helped. Certainly, soon I will know French.

Really nice stuff!

This is so helpful. Thank you!!!

Excellent!

Extremely helpful!!! Thanks you

You are just excellent ! Dony SANON, Linguist

Super well done! I didn't know the y-w/v in 'nuage' was a distinct consonant phoneme. Thanks.

It's helpful but I think it can be much better for beginners if you pronounce the sounds a little more slowly. Haha.

amazing video.

insights are served.

well done

magnifique

It's nice to see someone knew the difference between [kʰ] and [k] xD But just one thing, [ɥ] is a semivowel and not a consonant. For the [ɲ] consonant you could take the example "canyon" [kʰænjən].

5:25 the correct ipa symbol wouldn’t be ʀ?

When i hear French people say oiseau I hear the last vowel as an [u] sound, is that normal?

Very helpful vids Gabe. I'm about to start the beta testing now, can't wait.

A question about the letter u: the u in musée and the u in nuage, are they pronounced the same? So far as I know, there's only one pronunciation for this letter in French, but why are the symbols different (y for the first u and the upside-down h for the second)?

Legendary

5:55 review

nice ipa for french, i already know the ipa for english.

5:31 he was the WAP blueprint

MAdness in the french spelling is right. It makes the language needlessly hard to learn.

DEAR ADMIN.WOULD YOU PLZ SUGGEST ME A DICTIONARY WITH IPA FRENCH SYMBOLS?

Does the o in homme sound like the au in caught?

Do you have a video that teaches step by step how a person who has 0 knowledge of French can use the IPA? For example I am teaching a group of students French, but one of them says: "But how do I know what IPA symbol to put if I have no idea how it sounds?" What does he/she do then? He/she will look at the word and then have to work out all the letters and their IPA symbols but the question is: how does one who has no knowledge of the language know that the 'eau' in 'oiseau' has the [o] IPA sound? And similarily how will they know that the 'oi' in 'oiseau' will be [wa]?? It seems like IPA is good if you already know what/how the words are pronounced. Your response would be much appreciated :)

My vision shakes a little bit when i pronounce that upside down R. Anyone else get that too?

I started learning French from IPA Is it right or wrong?? Pls?

I didn’t know about k and kh

You did get some pronunciation "wrong" but it wasn't in the highlighted consonant so it isn't that a big deal. "zoo" we pronunce it with the z sound then the same sound as in "au(x)" (as in "au marché") or "eau" (water). And tobogan. Both o are pronounced like the first. Thanks for this great vid.

1:55 it sounds the same, but it looks different.

Uvular R

It's more easier because i am an arab most sounds we actually use thank god 😭

5:15 The reason most of us are here.

2:55 loup l 3:28 ʃ (same as english) 3:35 ʒ (same)

I appreciate this video, but it teaches way too fast!

Why is this video not included with my $300 + text book???

Note to self French L is apical not laminal ugh

French t d are dental. English t d are alveolar.

whats your mother tongue,Gabriel?

Wait the English and the French "s" are the same "s"! I always thought they were different...

way too fast bruhhh

Sorry this turns me off the language even more...

There is no such thing as Englishy words. Those n sounding words are pure French and was borrowed in English.