French Class
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Outline
Introduction to French language
Basic French pronunciation
Useful expressions and Vocabulary
Basic French grammar
Speaking practices
Introduction to french language
More than 5000 languages spoken in 233 diferent countries and regions
French is the 4th language of the internet, 3rd language of business, 2nd
language of international information in the media, 2nd work language in
most organizations and 2nd most learned language in the world.
5th spoken by a lot of people across the world
2nd spoken in many countries(29) as ofcial language
1st romantic language
Introduction to french language
Introduction to french language
Introduction to french language
French is one of the simplest languages to learn if you speak English.
There are signifcant similarities between French and English.
English and French do share the same alphabet,
Both are not Phonetic languages (spelling doesn’t match the
pronunciation ),silent letters.
They have similar grammatical structures,
They have a number of words (or at least word roots) in common;
27% of the words or lexical similarity between English and French are
shared (similarity in both form and meaning).
45% of terms in English have French roots.
Introduction to French language
However, There are signifcant distinctions between French and English.
1) French Nouns Have Genders ; masculine or feminine
2) French Accent-marked language ( 5 accent marks)
3) Adjectives can be placed before or after Nouns in French, often
placed after nouns; the meaning is almost the same.
4) The use of double negations in a sentence.
5) French Has two auxiliaries “etre”, to be and “avoir” to have
6) French has a lot of ways to ask question : Inverting the Verb and
Subject, intonation(lafuthi - sw) in spoken form, the use of “est-ce
que”(je - sw)
Introduction to French language
Exercise : Create French words from english words
Find English words ending in the following forms
15 words in -ion
3 words in -um
5 words in -ty
10 words in - able/ible
5 words in -ture
5 words in -ant/ent
5 words in -or
5 words in -ive
Basic French pronunciation
Basic French pronunciation
Speech sounds (37) : Vowels(6),
consonants(20) and others
sounds(11)
Vowels : a e i o u y
Consonants : b c d f g h j k l m n p q r
st vwxz
Basic French pronunciation
Accent Marks
ç – la cédille (the cedilla)
é – l’accent aigu (the acute accent)
â/ê/î/ô/û – l’accent circonflexe (the
circumflex)
à/è/ì/ò/ù – l’accent grave (the grave accent)
ë/ï/ü – le tréma (the trema)
Basic French pronunciation
Accent Marks
ç , soft c when meet with a , o and u ; français,
garçon, reçu .
é , openly pronounced écouter Jésus;
â/ê/î/ô/û
Pronouciation: “â” becomes “ah”, “ê” becomes
“eh” (the same as the grave accent) and “ô”
becomes “oh” , âge, fête, tête, île, nôtre,
Separate From Other Words du , dû
Missing Letter; Hôpital, Côte, Hôtel
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Accent Marks
à/è/ì/ò/ù , the accent grave points
down , chèvre, élève
ë/ï/ü – le tréma (the trema),
pronounce both consecutive vowels
Noël, maïs
Basic French pronunciation
Nasal vowels
Basic French pronunciation
Exercise; Pronounce the following words
Enfant
Comment, comme, commenter
Salut, salir, saluer,
Fiancé, finance,
Téléphone, Téléphoner, tenter, tente, tante
Leçon, laisson
Basic French pronunciation
Cours, course, courir
Maladie, malade
Tanzanie, tanzanien
Burundi, burundais
Bureau
France,français
Acheter , achète
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Temps,tas, tasse
Chanson, chanter, chanteur
Prononcer, Prononciation
Commencer, fête, fêter, fenêtre
Va, vend, vendre, vent,
