well every website i go i see a strange phonetic form of french alphabet for example http://www.france-property-and-information.com/fre… when i listen to french alphabet for example i hear that the ( A) is pronunced like æ while the other web pages say it is pronuned ah ….oh im confused …what is the correct phonetic of french alphabet words?
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French Phonetic Alphabet
A – ah
B – bay
C – say
D – day
E – euh ** N.B. et, er, é, ée, ez, ai, aie, ait, ais = “ay”
F – eff
G – shjay
H – ash
I – ee
J – shgee
K – ka
L – l
M – m
N – n
O – oh (spelled o, au, eau, aux, ot)
P – pay
Q – cue
R – air
S – s
T – tay
U – ** N.B. ou = “OO”; ue, ut = “u”
V – vay
W – doo-ble-vay
Y – ee – grec
X – eeks
Z- zed
** unique to the French language and difficult to find an equivalent in English
Pronunciation
Some general tips:
. Do not generally pronounce the last letter in the word:
e.g. le grand tapis – (le gran tapee)
. Do not generally pronounce -ent at the end of verbs
ils marchent – (eel marsh)
. Make a liaison between a consonant and a vowel.
une grande école – (gran day col)
Source(s): Educator
That chart in the link is… misleading. The letter A is pronounced æ, and ah is an attempt at spelling the same sound. So the pages that say it’s pronounced æ and the pages that say it’s pronounced ah are really saying the same thing. Many people don’t understand how to read IPA, or type IPA, so that’s why you get pages of attempting to “sound out” the pronunciation.
If you’re asking if the IPA is applicable to French or if there is a separate French phonetic alphabet: the IPA works with French.
Don’t get too hung up on subtleties though. There are variations in pronunciation between French dialects just like there are in English. Think about how different the same sentence sounds when spoken in a Welsh accent or a New York accent. That comes through when people are trying to spell out pronunciations too, and can make it even more confusing. (Have you ever tried to read Trainspotting?!) The best way to learn pronunciation is to LISTEN to the language, but if can read IPA that’s the next best thing.
Phonetic symbols are more confusing than enlightening ,so I sympathy.
In the alphabet it is called “ay” but in a word “ah” e.g. a la carte ” ah lah cartuh ” , the “e” is only there to emphasise the preceding letter i.e. “t”.
For clarity ,I write a French phrase phonetically as if it were English e.g. ap-pray too ( apres tout ) ” after all”; oat ( haut ) “high” to bah ( ba ) “low”; fr-wa / fr-wa-duh ( froid / froide ) “cold” to showed ( chaud ) “hot”, thereby dispensing with the weird phonetic symbols.
To pronounce a “J ” think of a bee that`s had a liquid lunch and collects nectar buzzhing, buzzh, ( hic ) ,buzzh , ” bujj ” from flower to flower.
A (ah), B (bay), C (say), D (day), E (euh), F (f),G (jzeh) ,
H (ash), I (ee), J (gzeeh), K (kaa), L (ell), M (emm), N (enn),
O (oh), P (pay), Q (kyoon), R (air), S (es), T (tay), U (yooh),
V (vay), W (doopla-vey), X (ix), Y (ee-grek), Z (zed).
but warning, as in english, depending on rhe word, the same letter has not always the same sound !
Source(s): French