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LanguageLessons

FrenchLanguageLessons:TheAlphabet

GuidetoTransliterations

SteveCohen

Alphabet

Occasionally,youmayneedtospellawordorrecordthespellingofawordinFrench.
Youmaywishtospellyournamewhenmakingarestaurantreservationorperhaps
writedownthespellingofaFrenchwordornamespokentoyou.Thetablebelow
indicateshowtopronounceeachletternameandgivesthestandardassociatedword
usedforclarification,similartotheAmerican"Able,Baker,Charlie,etc."Startby
learningtospellyourname!Youcanlistentothelesson.

Countingto20
Countingto100
TimeTalk
ConversationBookends
CafeTalk
DinnerReservations
OutforDinner

NotesonPronunciation

PlaceNames

Frenchwordstendtobeaccentedlightlyonthelastsyllableorthelastsyllableofa
groupofwords.Inrareinstancesforemphasisorwherethisisnotthecase,an
accentedsyllablewillbeindicatedbyALLCAPS.Liaisonsareindicatedbyred,italicized
initialconsonants(e.g."Puisjevousaider?"pronouncedas"pweezhuhvoozehday").
SeeGuidetoTransliterationformoreinformation.

LAlphabet(TheAlphabet)

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LETTER

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ASIN(COMME)

AlphabetLetters
FrenchLessons

ah

Anatole

ArabicAlphabet

bay

Berthe

say

Clestin

day

Dsir

uh

Eugne

ehf

Franois

zhay

Gaston

ahsh

Henri

ee

Irma

zhee

Joseph

kah

Klber

ehl

Louis

ehm

Marcel

ehn

Nicolas

oh

Oscar

pay

Pierre

kew

Quintal

ehr

Raoul

ehs

Suzanne

tay

Thrse

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ew

Ursule

vay

Victor

doobluhVAY

William

eeks

Xavier

eeGREHK

Yvonne

zehd

Zo

Listen
Youcanhearthislessonbeingspoken.
DownloadMP3soundtrack:fr_alphabet.mp3(1.23mb)
Clickonthelinktoplaythesoundfile(ittakesafewminutestodownload).
Rightclicktodownloadthefiletosaveonyourcomputer.
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