You actually already know French !

OBJECTIVE:

• In your own language you have thousands of words that are really, really similar to French. I AM going to give you French words for FREE right now !!

Look at SOME examples, you already know many 1000's of French words. *

• Le pingouin visite l'Antarctique :

La télévision est radioactive

Le pirate écoute la radio

Vous observez Uranus avec un télescope

Le docteur fait une autopsie

Each table shows how words that END in a particular set of characters (and sound) are the same in French.

TION OR SION

ENGLISH• PRODUCTION• ATTENTION• POPULATION• SOLUTION• ACTION

FRENCH• PRODUCTION• ATTENTION• POPULATION• SOLUTION• ACTION

ITY OR ITÉ

. ENGLISHREALITYCITYETERNITYELECTRICITYLIBERTY

• FRENCH• REALITÉ• CITÉ• ETERNITÉ• ELECTRICITÉ• LIBERTÉ

Ic OR IQUE

ENGLISH• PICNIC• SPECIFIC• ATHLETIC• PACIFIC• TECHNIC

FRENCH• PICQUE-NIQUE• SPÉCIFIQUE• ATHLÉTIQUE• PACIFIQUE• TECHENIQUE

Now impress your friends with:

C'est une CONVERSATION CLASSIQUE!

L'ALPHABET 

• The letters within the French Alphabet are the same as they are in the English one.The difference lies in the pronunciation.

• what about all those characters with funny lines on...

• Well these are called Accents and this is one of the most notable differences between written English and French.

LES ACCENTS:

• É The aigu accent • È The grave accent • Ê The circumflex accent

The French alphabet and those 26 (and a few) sounds! 

• From the earlier lesson you should now be able to see that some words are the same! However in French you must pronounce (say!) them differently.

• In French if the last letter of a word is an E, it is not pronounced unless it has an accent on it. Notice the last E in Pirate is silent, but you can hear the T!

P I R A T E:

• P• I• R• A• T• E

TÉLÉVISION

• T• É• L• É• V• I• S• I• O• N

ACCENTS EXPLAINED !

ACCENTS ARE: • They change the

sound of the letter