How to Pronounce All of the Most Difficult Sounds in French (R, U, EU, L, LL, nasal sounds)
Summary
TLDRRoya, non locutrice maternelle française, partage ses conseils pour maîtriser la prononciation du français. Elle explique l'importance de la forme de la bouche, compare la prononciation anglaise et française, et donne des astuces pour les sons difficiles comme le 'u', les sons nasaux, le 'eu', le 'R' français, le 'L' et le 'll'. Elle suggère des exercices pour pratiquer, comme imiter un son de singe ou un buzzer, pour faciliter l'apprentissage. Roya encourage à apprendre des locuteurs natifs mais offre sa perspective pour aider à surmonter les défis de la prononciation.
Takeaways
- 🗣️ Roya n'est pas une locutrice native française, mais elle a une bonne prononciation et veut partager ses conseils pour aider à maîtriser la prononciation française.
- 👄 La forme de la bouche est cruciale pour la prononciation en français, contrairement à l'anglais qui est plus ouvert et souriant.
- 🐒 Le son de la lettre 'u' en français peut être appris en se rappelant le son d'un singe ('ouhou').
- 🎺 Les sons nasaux en français (comme 'in', 'an', 'on', 'un') peuvent être appris en imitant le son d'un buzzer lors d'un match de basket-ball.
- 🤔 Le son 'eu' en français est difficile mais peut être appris en imaginant être frappé dans l'estomac pour produire le son 'uh'.
- 🍞 Le son 'r' français est souvent difficile pour les non-locuteurs natifs, mais peut être appris en se concentrant sur le son 'g' comme dans 'Hawking'.
- 📚 La lettre 'l' en français se prononce avec la langue plus en arrière dans la bouche par rapport à l'anglais.
- 📚 La prononciation de la lettre 'll' en français peut varier, souvent se prononçant comme un 'y' après un 'i'.
- 🍁 Le mot 'écureuil' en français est un exemple de difficulté prononciation, utilisant plusieurs sons complexes.
- 👍 Roya encourage les apprenants à pratiquer et à demander des conseils supplémentaires si nécessaire, et elle aimerait créer plus de leçons de français basées sur les commentaires des apprenants.
Q & A
Quelle est la première chose que Roya recommande de pratiquer pour améliorer la prononciation française ?
-Roya recommande de commencer par la forme de la bouche pendant qu'on parle, car cela forme la base de toute prononciation.
Pourquoi Roya pense-t-elle que la bouche est si importante pour la prononciation ?
-Elle pense que si on utilise une forme de bouche différente, cela peut affecter la façon dont le son se produit.
Quelle est la différence de forme de bouche entre le langage anglais et le langage français selon Roya ?
-L'anglais est un langage très souriant et avec une bouche très ouverte, tandis que le français a plus de sons fermés et les lèvres presque pincées.
Comment Roya suggère-t-elle de pratiquer la prononciation de l'U en français ?
-Elle suggère de penser à l'U comme au son que fait un singe (ouuh) et de combiner cela avec le son 'eu' pour avoir une bouche plus fermée.
Quels sont les sons nasaux que Roya aborde dans sa leçon de prononciation ?
-Elle aborde les sons nasaux 'in', 'an', 'on' et 'un', en se concentrant sur le son 'in' comme étant le plus facile à apprendre.
Quel conseil donne Roya pour apprendre à prononcer le son 'in' français ?
-Elle suggère d'imiter le son d'une sirène de basket-ball qui marque la fin du temps de jeu, ce qui est proche du son 'in' en français.
Quelle est la méthode que Roya utilise pour apprendre à prononcer le son 'eu' en français ?
-Elle utilise l'imagerie de quelqu'un qui reçoit un coup dans l'estomac pour produire le son 'uh', en utilisant le diaphragme et en fermant légèrement les voies aériennes.
Quel est le son le plus difficile à prononcer en français selon Roya ?
-Selon Roya, le son le plus difficile à prononcer en français est le 'R' français.
Comment Roya a-t-elle appris à prononcer le 'R' français ?
-Elle a appris à prononcer le 'R' français en se concentrant sur le son 'haw', comme si elle était en train de faire un personnage de Hawking, en se plaçant à la base de la gorge.
Quelle est la différence de prononciation entre le 'L' anglais et le 'L' français selon Roya ?
-Le 'L' anglais est prononcée avec la langue très proche des dents, tandis que le 'L' français est plus à l'arrière de la bouche, avec la langue vers le milieu du palais.
Quelle est la règle générale que Roya donne pour la prononciation de la 'Double L' en français ?
-Elle suggère que si la 'Double L' vient après un 'i', on devrait la prononcer comme un son 'y', comme dans 'idée'.
Quel mot difficile Roya utilise-t-elle pour mettre en pratique les sons appris dans sa leçon ?
-Elle utilise le mot 'écureuil' qui utilise plusieurs des sons difficiles comme le 'R', l' 'U', le 'uh' et le son 'y' de la 'Double L'.
Outlines
😀 Introduction à la maîtrise de la prononciation française
Roya, non locutrice natale de français mais avec une bonne prononciation, présente ses conseils pour apprendre à prononcer les sons difficiles du français. Elle insiste sur l'importance de la forme de la bouche et compare les différences entre l'anglais et le français en termes d'ouverture bucco-labiale. Elle donne des exemples de son application en anglais et en français pour illustrer les différences.
📚 Considérations sur les sons nasaux et la prononciation du 'U' français
Le guide se concentre sur les sons nasaux (comme 'in', 'an', 'on' et 'un') et sur la difficulté de prononcer le 'U' en français, suggérant de l'associer au son d'un singe pour obtenir une bouche close et un son plus précis. Roya propose également des exercices pour pratiquer ces sons, comme imiter un bruit de buzzer ou un son de coup de poing dans le diaphragme pour le 'eu'.
🤔 Apprentissage du 'R' français et des sons 'L' et 'LL'
Roya aborde la prononciation du 'R' français, suggérant de l'apprendre en imitant un son de 'HawKing' pour atteindre la profondeur de gorge nécessaire. Elle traite également du son de la lettre 'L', qui est plus à l'arrière de la bouche en français qu'en anglais, et explique la complexité de la prononciation de la 'Double L', qui peut être un 'l' ou un 'y' selon le contexte. Elle donne des exemples de mots pour illustrer ces sons et comment les combiner pour prononcer des mots difficiles comme 'écureuil'.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Prononciation
💡Guide
💡Lettre U
💡Nasalisation
💡Consonne R
💡Consonne L
💡Double L
💡Forme de la bouche
💡Voyelle
💡Consonne
💡Apprentissage des langues
Highlights
Roya introduces herself and her guide to mastering French pronunciation.
Roya is not a native French speaker but has good pronunciation, which has been confirmed by native speakers.
Learning from non-native speakers can provide a different perspective on language learning.
The importance of mouth shape in French pronunciation is emphasized.
English is described as a 'Smiley' language with an open mouth, contrasting with French.
Roya demonstrates the difference in mouth shape between English and French.
The letter 'U' in French is identified as a difficult sound to pronounce.
A method for pronouncing 'U' in French is suggested, involving a 'monkey sound'.
Practicing the number 'eight' in French helps with the 'U' sound.
Nasal sounds in French are discussed, with a focus on the sound 'in'.
Imitating a buzzer noise helps in learning the nasal 'in' sound.
The sound 'uh' spelled 'EU' is part of difficult French words.
A method for pronouncing 'uh' involves imagining being punched in the stomach.
The French 'R' is a famously difficult sound to master.
Roya suggests thinking of 'Hawking augi' to pronounce the French 'R'.
The French 'L' is further back in the mouth compared to the English 'L'.
The Double 'L' in French can make an 'l' or a 'y' sound, depending on its position.
The word 'écureuil' (squirrel) is an example of a difficult French word incorporating multiple challenging sounds.
Transcripts
hi everyone my name is Roya and this is
my guide to mastering French
pronunciation I'm putting together a
list of all of my favorite tips and
tricks to help you figure out how to
pronounce all of the most difficult
letters and sounds in French before I
jump into the pronunciation I want to
preface this by saying I am not a native
French speaker however I do have very
good French pronunciation I've been told
this by many French people so I'm
confident in my ability to help teach
you
pronunciation and while I do think it is
so critical to learn languages from
native speakers there can be an
advantage to learning from non-native
speakers for example a native speaker
didn't have to consciously learn the
language that they speak they learned it
as a baby or a toddler and they don't
necessarily know how they learned the
pronunciation that they did how they
learned the grammar or the words that
they did they just did and picked it up
naturally however people like myself
have gone through exactly what you're
going through I know what it's like to
struggle through certain pronunciations
because I had to figure that out myself
as well consciously and later in life so
I just want to say I completely advocate
for learning from native speakers as
well but I hope that I can provide a
different perspective as a non-native
speaker of French and with that here is
my guide to all of the most difficult
letters and sounds to pronounce in
French the first thing that I want to
start out with today is not a letter or
combination of letters at all it's
actually your mouth shape while you
speak so I think that this forms the
basis for all pronunciation and in fact
if you are trying to pronounce something
but you use a different mouth shape that
can affect how the sound comes out so
for example how this was explained to me
is that English is a very Smiley
language and a very open mouth language
so when I'm speaking English as you can
tell I'm just a smiley person in general
so I smile a lot while I talk I really
cannot even help it but the corners of
my mouth are a lot more wide and we also
tend to open our mouth a lot wider when
speaking English and compare that with
French which has a lot more closed
sounds and you have your lips almost
pursed out or puckered when you speak
when you're speaking French try to
consciously make your mouth into a
different shape while you're speaking
think of like an ooh sound or you know
pulling forward instead of up and out
and wide so English up out and wide and
French is more purse together or closed
sound and being able to consciously move
your mouth a bit while you're speaking
French in general is going to help your
pronunciation overall to give you an
example I'm going to introduce myself
and tell you my age in English and then
in French and I want you to pay
attention to how my mouth moves and
where my lips are hello my name is brya
and I am 29 years
old is
as you could tell in French my mouth was
a lot more closed my lips were pursed
and more forward whereas an English I
open my mouth wider and not just in the
upward Direction but also left to right
as well in more of a smiley shape so
that's something that I think is just
important to think about while you're
pronouncing and speaking French is the
more that you can try to keep your mouth
more Clos and forward the more that's
going to help your pronunciation overall
now to get into the letters so I'm going
to start with a couple of vowel sounds
and then in the latter half of this
video I'm going to focus on consonants
and because in this video I want to
focus on just the most difficult sounds
to learn I'm going to skip over most of
the vowels because their sounds exist
pretty similarly in English except for
one and that's where I'm going to start
and that is the letter U I think the
letter youu in French is one of the most
difficult sounds to pronounce so here is
the exact way that I learn to pronounce
the letter U so I want you to think
about what you learned as a kid for the
sound that a monkey makes know it sounds
silly but that
ooho that ooh that o ooh part that
sounds actually quite a lot like the
letter U in French it's not quite there
but what it makes you do is it makes you
have more of a closed mouth sound than
you normally would for the letter U in
English from there I also want you to
think about U like oh that's so gross ew
ew but now you want to have more of a
closed mouth forward lips like you would
do with that silly monkey sound so
instead of o or instead of e which is
more open now you can
go and now to put it into practice let's
practice with the number eight in French
which ISAT we are often taught in
English to think of this as wheat like
what you make flour from which isn't
that far off Bas it's not a terrible
pronunciation by any means but it's not
quite there either so I want you to
think of that monkey sound and mixed
with E and then you have and then eat at
the
end and slow it down if you need to
practice if you're at home I encourage
you to make the silly monkey sound um
when no one's watching for me it really
helped with pronunciation next up is
nasal sounds which I think are a lot
easier to learn than you might think
these are the sounds for i n a n o n and
u n I'm going to focus specifically on I
in because I think this is the easiest
sound to learn um this is the sound for
p like bread or F like the end and from
there once you master that sound you can
then move your mouth slightly to get
the and a and what I think is the
easiest way to learn these sounds is by
imitating ating a buzzer noise and a
basketball game so the seconds tick down
times's up and it
goes that's actually as silly as it
sounds very close to the nasal sounds
that you need to make in French as well
so instead of that's really open close
it a little bit more and just
think and then once you get that sound
down the you can move your mouth just a
little bit to get some of these other
sounds like like B
or like because they all have a very
similar placement of where you get that
sound next up is the sound uh which is
spelled EU and so this is part of some
of the most famously difficult words to
pronounce in the French language think
of
or that uses that sound twice so the way
that I learned how to pronounce this
sound is by imagining being punched in
the stomach so uh if you think about
somebody hitting you and the sound that
you would make it's uh uh uh that will
help you utilize your diaphrag and then
you also want to have your tongue placed
over your bottom teeth and kind of
closing your Airway so that'll look like
this or you have your tongue almost up
against your lips your mouth is going to
be pretty much closed and it'll
be uh uh uh uh so then once you practice
that uh sound and you can even place
your hands on your diaphragm to feel the
movement of your diaphragm if that's
helpful to you so you can make that
sound
so and you can say after that that you
are happy and now I'll move on to
probably the most famously difficult
letter to pronounce in French it's the
one that I get questions on all of the
time is how do you pronounce the French
R the French R appears all over over the
place so mastering it is really key to
having good French pronunciation it's
in and Mer which are some of the most
common words that you're going to use
when speaking French and in my case I
think I was probably forced to learn it
because it's in my name which in English
is Roya but in French is Roya and how I
was taught to pronounce the French R is
by thinking about Hawking augi so if you
are making an exaggerated like C Tune
character version of Hawking aloi you
are going to go in the back of your
throat and that is similar not quite the
same but it is similar to the French R
sound and it's going to help you master
the French R so that once you get that
then I want you to try to start
inserting it into French words but do it
in a really elongated and exaggerated
way this is not how you want to speak on
a daily basis this is not how French
people speak but it'll help you get used
to using that sound in the middle or in
the end of a word for example I want you
to start
saying was something that was actually
really a hard one for me to learn and it
took a lot of time so I would walk
around my house just
going and once you have that me then you
start shortening it little by little and
you go from me to
to and there you have it next up is the
letter L which is not often talked about
enough if you ask me but I think it's a
very easy switch to make that will also
help your French pronunciation so in
English the L Sound is very close to
your teeth so when I say l like Library
my tongue is basically in the middle of
my teeth or you might have it at the
back of your teeth but in essence the
tongue is very forward in your mouth so
the French L is actually further back in
your mouth than the English l so instead
of saying library or L you want to say l
l and put the top of your tongue towards
the middle of the roof of your mouth
instead of towards the front just to
give you an example of a word so you can
compare the L I want to talk about
library and library but Library does not
mean Library it means a bookstore so
it's a bit of a false friend so if you
noticed in the French Library my tongue
was not at the front of my mouth anymore
and that would make the difference
between saying
Li and LI or it could be the difference
in the sound
of
versus and the further back you put your
tongue the more of a French sounding L
it is and then last one on the list
today is the Double L and what I think
is tricky about the Double L in French
is that sometimes it makes an l sound or
an l sound but sometimes it makes more
of a y sound a y so to try to remember
how to pronounce the Double L for the
most part if it comes after an I think
of it as a y sound so think of it as an
i dou l instead of just the Double L
there are a few famous exceptions like V
but there are about you know one to two
dozen exceptions but for the most part
if you have i l l e that's going to make
a y sound and why I wanted to talk about
the Double L Sound is one because of
that inconsistency and then two because
some of the most famously difficult
words to pronounce in French have this
sound in it a common word like f which
means a leaf but is often used for a
sheet like a sheet of paper
in that has not only the Y sound but one
of the sounds from earlier
which is the uh sound and you need to
combine those together so I want you to
think about the sound that we did the uh
sound and how that goes into now A Y
sound so you just kind of close your
mouth from the uh sound to make
the so then from there you
have and to wrap this all up one of the
most famously difficult words in French
is squirrel or a
and this actually utilizes a lot of the
sounds that we just talked about today
because you have the r the u sound you
have uh and you also have the L sounding
like a y so if you put all of these
together and you slow it down you should
be able to after this video pronounce
the
infamous and there you have it those
were all of the letters and sounds I
think are the most difficult to learn in
French thank you so much for watching
and if you haven't already please hit
the like And subscribe buttons I'd also
love to know in the comments what you
thought if this was helpful to you if
you think I missed any difficult letters
or if you have any other requests for
things that you're struggling with in
French I would be happy to put together
more mini French lessons just like this
one thanks everyone and have a great day
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