ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the pronunciation guide for French learners under the course of colloquial French. It might be useful to learn the phonetic transcription of the sounds of French, especially if learner intends to go beyond this book. He/she can then find out how a word is pronounced by looking it up in a good bilingual or monolingual French dictionary. Each entry will have its phonetic transcription. The chapter gives both the phonetic transcription of most French sounds and, whenever there is one, a nearest English equivalent. It also provides the idea of square brackets denote a symbol from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Accents in French can be disconcerting for a learner, but they are important, because, in a lot of cases, they will give you the key to how a word is pronounced and will also help to differentiate between words which are nearly identical but have different meanings.
