ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how to learn the elements of French pronunciation. The words used to illustrate the French sounds need no translation, for they have the same or almost the same spelling as corresponding English words of like meaning. The chapter helps to correct French pronunciation in words and expressions useful for the traveler, and in short easy dialogues. Most French consonant sounds are like the corresponding English consonant sounds. Pronounce each sound and the words which illustrate it three times. Stress lightly the syllable in heavy type in the pronunciation key of each word. The description of each French sound is accompanied by a pronunciation key, which indicates the nearest English equivalent of that sound. In the pronunciation key, over the symbol indicates that the preceding vowel sound is nazalized.
