🇫🇷1- French Lesson - The alphabet

🇫🇷Welcome to my virtual French classroom! 🇫🇷

Lesson #1 – Let’s learn the Alphabet 🔤

1-    The French Alphabet counts 26 letters from A to Z:

A–B–C–D–E–F–G–H–I–J–K–L–M–N–O–P–Q–R–S–T–U–V–W–X–Y–Z

📝Fun fact: The letter “I” is pronounced as “E” and the letter “E” is pronounced as “EU”.  The letters G and J are inverted to J and G! 

2-    Let's spell the following words:

-       Bonjour (Hello)

-       Au revoir (good bye)

-       À bientôt (see you soon!)

-       Français (French)

-       Merci (Thank you)

-       De rien (You are welcome)

-       Le bébé (the baby)

-       La mémé (the grandma)

-       La mère (the mother)

-       Le père (the father)

-       Noël (Christmas)

-       Où (where)

-       La fête (the party)

-       Août (August)

-       un œuf (an egg)

-       Le jeûne (fasting)

-       Jeune (young)

3-    In addition to the 26 letters, the French language counts many accents to change sounds, to replace the letter S, or to simply annoy you!!! 🤣

-       L’accent aigu: é (gives a “et” sound to the letter “E” – le café, la mémé, le pépé, etc.)

-       L’accent grave: è (gives a “ai” sound to the letter “E” – la bière, la mère, le père, le frère)

-       L’accent grave: à or ù (changes the meaning of a word:  “a” means “has”, but “à” means “at” or “to”.  Equally, “ou” means “or”, whereas “où” means “where”.

-       L’accent circonflexe: â, ê, î, ô (also called “petit chapeau” or “little hat” in English. It replaces the letter S used in the old days – so we say “La Forêt” instead of “La Forest”, “l’île” instead of “L’isle”, “l’hôpital” instead of “’hospital”, “les pâtes” instead of “les pastes”.

📝Fun Fact: The letter “S” is still present in all these English words…. So perhaps, someday, the English Language will adopt the accent circonflexe!!!

-       L’accent circonflexe: û (changes the meaning of a word – for example: “Mur” means “wall”, but with the accent, “Mûr” means “ripe”)

-       Le tréma: ë and ï (creates a better flow between the vowels – So we say, for example Noël, Canoë, Maïs, etc.

-       And last, but not least, Le C Cédille: ç (this little comma placed under the letter C is there to change its sound from a “K” sound to a “S” sound: la leçon (the lesson), le garçon (the boy), etc.

So you have it! you know the French alphabet!

Voilà, c’est tout pour aujourd'hui!!!! You survived your first lesson “en français”!

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📬If you have questions, or if you would like me to send you homework, please do not hesitate to contact me at: [email protected] 

Credits:

-       🎶 Music: Parisian Café – Aaron Kenny