The Flow of French
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Awareness | Tuning | Rounded Vowels | Nasal Vowels | English Tendencies | Consonants | Phonetic Notation Key

Phonetic Notation Key

This page reviews all of the French sounds and their corresponding IPA symbols. Whenever you are unsure about a symbol in this course, you may refer back to this page using the navigation menu at the top of the course.

The Basic Set of Vowels

a....i...u...e...o

ə...ɛ...ɔ


The Rounded Vowels
y...ø...œ


The Nasal Vowels
ɛ̃...ɔ̃...ɑ̃


The Strange Symbol Consonants

/ʃ/ 

*Disregard the "∑" symbol in the audio player

/ʒ/

/j/


The Semi-Vocalic Consonants

/w/

/ɥ/


The New Consonants

/ɲ/

/ʁ/

/X/


Soon, you will submit a recording to test how well you've practiced here. Once you are comfortable with all the information in this sound primer, you will get feedback on these sounds so that you know which ones you need to pay attention to as you progress through the song lessons. 

Before we get to that, I need to teach you how to send your recordings in for review. Click the button below to move on to the next section.
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