Practise French in two ways. The vocab drill works through about 480 common words in ten tiers, with audio. The grammar drill has nine tracks — present-tense conjugation, articles and gender, negation, describing things, questions, likes, commands, the future and the past — each built from short concepts with a reference to read before you start. Every concept starts as multiple choice and moves on to typing whole sentences.
Final consonants are usually silent — parler, petit, vous — and so is a plain -e at the end of a word.
an, en, on, un, in are single nasal vowels: the n colours the vowel through the nose and isn't said on its own.
Stress is even across the word, with the lightest lift on the last syllable — never the heavy English thump on the first.
Nothing else does: un, une, qui and tu keep their vowel — une école, qui aime.
h is never pronounced. Most words starting with it act as if they start with a vowel: l'homme, l'hôtel, j'habite. A few, marked "h aspiré" in dictionaries, block elision: le héros, la haine.
Hyphens join a verb to a pronoun after it — Manges-tu ? Habille-toi. When the verb ends in a vowel and the pronoun starts with one, a -t- goes between: a-t-il, va-t-elle. est-ce que is always written with a hyphen.
Liaison: a silent final consonant is said when the next word starts with a vowel, in words that belong together — les‿amis ("lay-zah-mee"). It can be the only difference you hear: ils‿ont ("eel-zon", they have) against ils sont ("eel son", they are).
Silent endings: verb endings -e, -es and -ent are not pronounced, so je parle, tu parles and ils parlent all sound the same. The spelling is for the eye.
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