French Alphabets

French Alphabets

L’alphabet en français

French alphabets denote the sound of the language. The best part is, French alphabets if compared to written English alphabets are precisely the same. The only difference is with there pronunciation however not with all alphabets. You will observe that few alphabets are pronounced exactly the way we pronounce them in English and few have similar pronunciation.

French Alphabets

List of French Alphabets

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

Compared to English Alphabets

Now let’s compare French alphabets with English alphabets.  After listening to French alphabets you must have observed that there are few letters which have same sounds as English letters. They are :

L.
M.
N.
O.
S.
Z.

Nevertheless, there are alphabets which sound more or less like English letters only. Find them below :

English Alphabets

French Alphabets

B. B.
C. C.
D. D.
P. P.
T. T.
V. V.

If you have listened to all the alphabets given in above paragraph then you must have noticed that there are two French letters which sound opposite if compared to English alphabets. French ‘G‘ has ‘J‘ sound and ‘J‘ has ‘G‘ sound. You can listen to the audio file given below.

English Alphabets

French Alphabets

G. G.
J. J.

W‘ is a combination of two ‘Vs‘ and hence pronounced as ‘Double V‘ in French. In the end, we have few alphabets where you need to practice a little more.
Learning French alphabets are not hard if you know English alphabets. Listen to the list of French alphabets and practice repeating after it, all you need to follow is the pronunciation.

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