Etape 1 Les lettres et les sons du français - First step : the letters and sounds of French

Practice listening, then repeat the sounds. Entraînez-vous à écouter les sons de l'alphabet, puis répétez les lettres.

Here, an exercice to listen and to practice french alphabet :

http://phonetique.free.fr/alpha.htm

ACTIVITY 1 : Listen and watch this video. 

In French, you have 26 letters. Each letter is pronounced in a certain way. It is important to learn how to pronounce these letters very correctly.

You can try this webpage to listen the sounds : 

http://phonetique.free.fr/alpha/alpha.htm

(You need Microsoft Explorer, or EDGE, or Chrome to use this website. With Firefox, you will need to use Adobe Flash.)

Each letter is pronounced in a certain way. It is important to learn how to pronounce these letters very correctly.

There are several sounds that consist of two, three or sometimes four letters. For example, the sound [u] is made up of the letters O and U. So the word twelve is pronounced : [duz]. In this word you can also see that the final letter e is not pronounced.

You can observe this in this video : 

or here : 

ACTIVITY 2 : EXERCICE 

Now, do this exercise : listen the sounds when you click on “ears” : place each sound to complete the right word.

phonetique.free.fr/alpha/exalpha1.htm

(You need Microsoft Explorer, or EDGE, or Chrome to use this website. With Firefox, you will need to use Adobe Flash.)

ACTIVITY 3 : Letters with Accents 

In French, in addition to the standard alphabet, many letters have accents. These signs again have a particular pronunciation, or are pronounced in the same way as other sounds seen previously.

You can listen this sounds here : http://phonetique.free.fr/alpha/accent.htm

(You need Microsoft Explorer, or EDGE, or Chrome to use this website. With Firefox, you will need to use Adobe Flash.)

ACTIVITY 4 : General activities : exercises

You can go to this webpage : http://phonetique.free.fr/alpha.htm

You can click on all the links “exercices de repérage”, or “exercices de production” to practice, listen and be used to all these sounds. 

Here, you have a lot of sounds in this video : 

ACTIVITY 5 : WORK TO DO : 

Take your computer or your laptop, then register your voice and send it to me. First spell the word with french letters, then pronounce the word in french. WHEN THE LETTERS ARE RED, it means it’s not the classical pronunciation. WHEN THE LETTERS ARE GREEN, it means you don’t have to pronounce them.

WORDS TO SPELL AND TO PRONOUNCE : 

• TRACTEUR

• DROIT

• TABLE

• DAVID

• ONGLES

• BOUTEILLE

• FAMILLE

• CROCODILE

• APPAREIL

• MOUTON

ACTIVITY 6 : 

Do the exercises you want : 

EXERCISES : http://phonetique.free.fr/indexphonvoy.htm

ACTIVITY 7 : At the end a long exercise made for you to notice the good sounds of French. Choose the right sentence with the right sound. Take a paper and write your answers. Then correct at the end of the test : you’ll have the correction.

ACTIVITY 8 : 

Practice listening, then repeat the sounds. Entraînez-vous à écouter les sons de l'alphabet, puis répétez les lettres.

Here, an exercice to listen and to practice french alphabet :

http://phonetique.free.fr/alpha.htm

ACTIVITY 1 : Listen and watch this video. 

In French, you have 26 letters. Each letter is pronounced in a certain way. It is important to learn how to pronounce these letters very correctly.

You can try this webpage to listen the sounds : 

http://phonetique.free.fr/alpha/alpha.htm

(You need Microsoft Explorer, or EDGE, or Chrome to use this website. With Firefox, you will need to use Adobe Flash.)

Each letter is pronounced in a certain way. It is important to learn how to pronounce these letters very correctly.

There are several sounds that consist of two, three or sometimes four letters. For example, the sound [u] is made up of the letters O and U. So the word twelve is pronounced : [duz]. In this word you can also see that the final letter e is not pronounced.

You can observe this in this video : 

or here : 

ACTIVITY 2 : EXERCICE 

Now, do this exercise : listen the sounds when you click on “ears” : place each sound to complete the right word.

phonetique.free.fr/alpha/exalpha1.htm

(You need Microsoft Explorer, or EDGE, or Chrome to use this website. With Firefox, you will need to use Adobe Flash.)

ACTIVITY 3 : Letters with Accents 

In French, in addition to the standard alphabet, many letters have accents. These signs again have a particular pronunciation, or are pronounced in the same way as other sounds seen previously.

You can listen this sounds here : http://phonetique.free.fr/alpha/accent.htm

(You need Microsoft Explorer, or EDGE, or Chrome to use this website. With Firefox, you will need to use Adobe Flash.)

ACTIVITY 4 : General activities : exercises

You can go to this webpage : http://phonetique.free.fr/alpha.htm

You can click on all the links “exercices de repérage”, or “exercices de production” to practice, listen and be used to all these sounds. 

Here, you have a lot of sounds in this video : 

ACTIVITY 5 : WORK TO DO : 

Take your computer or your laptop, then register your voice and send it to me. First spell the word with french letters, then pronounce the word in french. WHEN THE LETTERS ARE RED, it means it’s not the classical pronunciation. WHEN THE LETTERS ARE GREEN, it means you don’t have to pronounce them.

WORDS TO SPELL AND TO PRONOUNCE : 

• TRACTEUR

• DROIT

• TABLE

• DAVID

• ONGLES

• BOUTEILLE

• FAMILLE

• CROCODILE

• APPAREIL

• MOUTON

ACTIVITY 6 : 

Do the exercises you want : 

EXERCISES : http://phonetique.free.fr/indexphonvoy.htm

ACTIVITY 7 : At the end a long exercise made for you to notice the good sounds of French. Choose the right sentence with the right sound. Take a paper and write your answers. Then correct at the end of the test : you’ll have the correction.

ACTIVITY 8 :