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The Sounds of French

French spelling looks wild and is in fact quite regular. This book takes it one sound at a time: a cut-paper picture where every label holds the sound, then how it is spelled, how to make it with your mouth, and the trap. By the end you can look at a French word you have never seen and say it.

  • 65 pages · 24 sounds
  • Every labelled word has the letters that make the sound marked
  • Word pairs to say side by side, with how to say every one
  • PDF, A4 — made for a screen or tablet, and prints at home
  • Buy once, yours forever — updates included
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What's inside

All 24 sounds, in order, with the page each one opens on. Every one is a full cut-paper picture with the teaching on the facing page.

Les voyellesthe vowels
  1. 8 ou · u
    tout or tu?
  2. 10 é · è
    été or mère?
  3. 12 eu · œu
    deux or heure?
  4. 14 o · au · eau
    beau, mot, porte
  5. 16 oi
    moi, trois, voiture
  6. 18 ui · oui
    lui or Louis?
  7. 20 e
    le, petit, samedi
Les nasalesthe nasals
  1. 24 an · en
    the nasal in enfant
  2. 26 on · om
    bon, nom, pont
  3. 28 in · ain · un
    vin, pain, un
  4. 30 n · nn
    bon or bonne?
Les consonnesthe consonants
  1. 34 r
    rouge, Paris, merci
  2. 36 ch · j
    chat or j'ai?
  3. 38 c · ç · g
    café or ceci? gare or girafe?
  4. 40 s · ss
    poisson or poison?
  5. 42 gn
    montagne, champignon
  6. 44 ill · il
    fille, travail, soleil
  7. 46 h · qu · th · ph
    hôtel, qui, thé, photo
Les lettres muettessilent letters
  1. 50 Chut !
    silent last letters
  2. 52 -e
    petit or petite?
  3. 54 -ent · -er · -ez
    ils parlent
Liaison et rythmeliaison and rhythm
  1. 58 les amis
    the liaison
  2. 60 l' · j' · qu'
    elision and linking
  3. 62 le rythme
    every syllable the same

Inside the book

Real pages, straight from the PDF: how the book works, then one complete spread — the picture, and the facing page that teaches from it.

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