Improve Your French Pronunciation - What NOT to pronounce! 

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So, do you read this letter? Well...yes, but actually no

to people getting discouraged by this: once you speak it casually, you'll pick it up quickly. till then, don't worry! people will still understand you if you pronounce plus in the wrong scenario, it's not too important

I’m am so motivated to learn french but all these exceptions, silent pronunciation, tiny rules, and seemingly multiple variations to say the same thing.... I don’t know how I’m going to learn how to speak french :(

French will eventually evolve to be silent 😄

Pierre's content and delivery cuts straight to the essence of linguistic concepts in an interesting and engaging way. His logical and straightforward explanations have helped to slowly de-mystify the French language for me. Nicely done and much appreciated. Merci.

I like the way he teaches. Makes it seem so easy but the truth is French is one language with way too many grammatical rules 😭 hope I get it though

Even better memo : Learning French gives me PTSD

It's a good explanation for silent words in french

For English speakers who think silent letters and syllables in French are ridiculous, you obviously haven’t been paying attention to your own language. I think it is fair to say that French actually has more consistent rules (including consistent exceptions) than does English. Unlike French, which is a Latinate Romance language, English is the result of a confluence of many languages. English originnated as a Germanic language (technically an Indo-Germanic language) and was heavily influenced by Saxons, Angles, Jutes and Scandinavian Old Norse thanks to the Viking invasions. All of this is well before we even get to modern English which was created upon the injection of _(Voila!)_ French - approximately 25% of English words are of French origin - due almost entirely to the French Norman conquest of England in 1066, which made French the new “it” language.. By the late Middle Ages, the English we speak today was largely established, though obviosly, it continues to evolve. The English colonization of, well, the world added thousands of new words to the English language from places as far flung as India and China: pajama, veranda, avatar, bangle, bandana, chit, dungaree, cash, catsup/ketchup, brainwash, gung-ho, mandarin, paper tiger, etc. Point being, English, unlike French, is a melange* of at least a dozen disparare languages, including even Persian and Arabic. (*See what I did there?) In brief (or should I say _"En bref"_ ? - since it is literally a borrowed phrase), English is a "Frankenstein's monster" language with parts sewn together over many centuries. Consequently, it is far too much a mish-mash (that's a technical linguistic term 😉) of many different languages to have clear, consistent and obvious rules about spelling and pronunciation. Like all languages, its grammar has a structural logic, but spelling, including which letters to pronounce and when, is not one of them. There was a turn of the centurry attempt to simplify American English by Melvil Dewey (1851-1931; creator of the Dewey Decimal library cataloging system), but obviously it wasn’t much of a success - or would that be _sukses_ ?

The best video about French pronunciation. Thanks a lot!

Awesome! I took 4 years of french and this video explained it best lol

Very helpful. Merci.

This was really great! Your explanations were very helpful and well organized. 😃

Merci beaucoup Pierre!! c'est un trés bonne votre vídeo!! vous m'aidez beaucoup 😘

Magnifique explication.

Thank you so much, Pierre!

Merci beaucoup, monsieur... ☺️☺️

Extremely helpful

Merci beaucoup pour l'explanation🙏🙏🙏

There is a category named P T S D I'm scarred to learn rn

Boa apresentação. Je suis brésilien et j'aime la langue française. Au bientôt

Great summary!

Super useful. Thankssss.

This is so helpful! Great instructor

merci beaucoup

It's a good lesson. Just that the words on the board are too small to see.

outstanding lesson. before this lesson reading french was impossible, now its only hard. 😅

This video is SO helpful! Wonderful! Thanks a lot! Subscribed and looking to enroll in frenchpod101

Very helpful, thank you merci

Learned a lot. Merci!

Thanks for teaching me !!

My mouth for whole time trying to read the TRAINING : 😗

thank you so much! This lesson has been extra useful

A very helpful video. Sirr. Clear my most of the doughts.. thanks a lot

Thank you so much!

THANK U MY FRIEND, U WERE SO CLEAR!!!

Me when l’m trying so hard to read a word in French : French is stupid 😂😂😂

even though it was really confusing...but it was also formidable!! and help full so thanks a lot...merci

Excellent video that what I have been searching for to learn French.

Thank you very helpful

Merci beaucoup pour votre cours de prononciation!

Excellent teacher.

merci beaucoup! I learned so many things from you guyss!!

merci beaucoup. vous etes un bon professeur.

Then why do u have those letters??

Thanks. It is informative

very useful indeed

Good lesson thank you

Merci Beaucoup

Thank you

Very good job in explaining, I don't find French stupid , I just find it very hard as in difficult! Merci beaucoup pour de lesson !

Thank you. :)

Excellent Clarity

Magnifique information pour apprendre a lire et comprendre sur le theme des mots et phrases en francais et pour apprendre a ecrire questions francaises, thanks you very much for this wonderful information on the theme of french pronunciation for understand more on the french grammar and french vocabulary

I found it very helpful. Subscribed

Très bon vidéo

Good job Pierre.

Very good!

Très agréable explaination

nice video! solved my problems

Quick general rule (many exceptions, of course): If a consonant is followed by a vowel, wither within a word or at the beginning of the next word, the consonant is pronounced. Otherwise it is silent. (Again, a quick trick/generalization; there are lots of exceptions).

Great video about what not to pronounce in French!

Good explanation .

I think it'd be easier to cure every cancer known to man, than to master the french language....

The STPD --> Stupid connection really helps to remember!

thank you babe

Learning french is very challenging!! I started it with greetings and it took a weeks to memorize every sound, pronunciation and intonations. Make me nutty but am trying to continue to learn coz I find it interesting to learn new language. Thanks for sharing your video. It adds to my progression to keep me learning esp.this period of quarantine. It's very useful to me.

helps me ALOT merci

I am attempting to learn French after I gave up on Japanese, and i feel like this I WAAAY easier, I'd rather silent leters than kanji...😵 And plus Google translate with Japanese is like ''wAkAranAi😄" But w/ French is like " Oui oui 😉"

Pierre, rather than saying that the _r_ is silent at the end of _-er_ verbs, I think it is easier for students to learn to pronounce _-er_ as a long _a_ (ā) , like the _a_ in the English word hay.

he's so cute

sir plz increase volume of ur videos. but ur content is good

Forgot everything- the teacher is cute😍

Charisme :-)

There are 92739183923810890670986986979086978798798607980796796978969768978787696989782828473894787858376489748289386483889587547878347878784857856 exceptions altogether in french... (TRUE FACT)

j'apprends beaucoup

“It’s normal to fail” - the year 2020

14:56. it sounded like he said a lest DUDU parc. he said DU twice really quickly

Wow

My man looks like he is about to slay Voldemort. Great video anyways. Loved it and loved the teach's effort.

These exceptions are mind boggling 😵‍💫

Next how not to pronounce English I volunteer to help this man

Very helpful. Note that in English G is not pronounced J.

So the language got updated and developed but the scripture didn't?

I always have problems when e is at the end of the word. Do you have a video for that?

Thanks for this lesson Pierre. Can I correct your English slightly- we don’t say “you have not to say” in English. That’s a deliciously French way to put it. We say simply “you don’t say x”

Merci pour la classe. La pronounciación en français est plus difficile.

When will you teach to pronounce in Canadian french?

You should to make a zoom to there.

Please teach preposition in french

Out of 26 alphabets, 16 are silent and the remainings can be ad-hoc silent.

Basically, all the letters are silent in French. lol ....It sounds difficult in the beginning, after sometime you get used to it though.

I came here just for this teacher, Damn!! He is so fucking handsome.

Good job Pierre. And you’re really cute also!

1:45 Is the H in CH only silent when it isn’t preceded by a E or I? In which case it’s like the Italian C

Example 😇😄hahaha it's aaa😆 no pun intended , I am trying to learn a Lil French with a 💗

Des tas de remerciements pour vos efforts très utiles ! J'adore qu'il vous fallait corriger une de vos propres phrases à cause d'un point de grammaire.

The guy is identical to Jim from the office lol

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