Hi everyone. Welcome to day five of this crash course with Talk In French.
For this first lesson, we are going to learn how to pronounce the elusive sound u.
I know this sounds look scary because it doesn't exist in English, but don't worry
because I will give you all the tips necessary to pronounce it well.
And talking about tips, I will show you how to pronounce the sound you in six-step.
Let's start.
Okay. First step.
Open your mouth.
Then pronounce the sound.
O. Or.
Or. And then you continue to draw with your mouth this O shape.
But you try to pronounce the sound.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You know, w whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Now you repress your lips as tightly as you can.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Keep your lips pursed and say e e.
Let's do it. Ooh ee ee ee ee.
You see, it sounds like ee ee ee ee et, voila.
This is the French U. As you can see, it's a lot less difficult than the French, R You did
a great job. Now let's make sure that you got it right and you won't mix it up with the
sound. OU.
And the best way for this is to compare words that look similar, except that one as
Ou in it and the other one as U.
Let's start. La boule.
La boule.
There is a sound. Ooh!
Repeat after me.
La boule.
And then.
This time it's the sound of .
Repeat after me.
Great. Let's see more examples.
.
Repeat after me.
Now for the sound of.
Repeat after me.
Another one ..
Repeat after me.
.
The sound U Repeat after me .
And finally, last one repeat after me.
! And for the sound you .
To repeat after me .
Yeah. Some of these lists are super difficult because there is the sound U And R
in the same word.
But don't worry.
I'm sure that soon you will be able to pronounce all of these greatly.
Maybe you are curious about why I want you to don't mix the sound OU And U.
It's because this mistake can bring you really awkward situations.
Let me give you an example in French to say thank you a lot.
You will say merci beaucoup.
Merci beaucoup.
Repeat after me. Merci beaucoup.
As you can see in the second word beaucoup.
Where is the sound OU If you do the mistake to say U instead of OU in here, it sounds
like Merci beau cul.
And you must wonder, like, where is the problem?
Maybe people will still understand now because beau cul means nice ass.
Yeah. So instead of saying thank you a lot, you will say thank you, nice ass.
Many people will take it badly, you know.
So yeah, it's definitely better to avoid this situation and to be sure to never mix OU
And U.
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