Expert tips, guides, and insights to help you master French faster. From grammar basics to cultural nuances.
Read the explanation here, then say the sentences and see which sounds you are missing.
They nod, pause, then answer a question you did not ask — or switch to English. Six sounds cause most of it, and each one is a contrast English never built into your mouth. Here is what each failure sounds like from their side, and the sentence to say out loud to test it....
Twelve French tongue twisters (virelangues) ranked from warm-up to archiduchesse, each with IPA, a translation and the one sound it trains. Say them out loud, get scored, and aim for 90%....
The French you need for the classroom and the office — people, subjects, supplies, exams, jobs and meetings — with genders, the false friends that change your meaning, and the eight work words English speakers mispronounce....
Recording yourself is the cheapest French diagnostic there is — but your own ear can only grade half of what it captures. Here is the honest split, a 5-minute routine, and five sentences to record....
Monsieur has no "mon", merci beaucoup can come out as "thanks, nice backside", and bonjour has no n. The 10 French politeness phrases English speakers mispronounce most, drilled and scored....
A French adjectives list built for speaking, not reading. 90+ describing words plus the agreement endings you have to actually pronounce — petit vs petite, heureux vs heureuse — and a 12-pair drill....
Shadowing French for weeks and not sure it's helping? Five sentences, three recordings, ten minutes. Find out which part of your pronunciation shadowing is fixing, and which part it can't reach....
Tu or tout, le or les, sans or son, poisson or poison. 50 French minimal pairs across the 10 sound contrasts English speakers blur most — with a drill routine you can check out loud....
Every place in a French town you will need to name, find or ask for — shops, services, streets and landmarks — with genders, the à + le trap, and the eight place words English speakers mispronounce....
You can follow the podcast and still freeze when someone asks you a question. Three separate bottlenecks produce that gap — ten minutes of tests to find which one is yours, and what each one actually needs....
The 15 hardest French words to pronounce, sorted by why they break English-speaking mouths — with a drill for each failure type and a way to check yourself....
Simply French listens to you say each sentence and scores it word by word, so you can hear the difference you have just read about — and fix it while it is still fresh.
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