French Pronunciation of "Bonjour" and "Salut"

FrenchSounds, LLC offers you specific hints on achieving a great French pronunciation. This initial video explains how to pronounce the two basic greeting words in French: "Bonjour" and "Salut".

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[gisforgary]

Salut! I love the way you teach French. I am bilingual Spanish/English and Americans have a tendency to speak to the other side of the room so your emphasizing works well.

I was wondering if you would consider doing a video of French words common in the United States but mangled -- off the top of my head noir pronounced by Americans is nails on chalkboard and drawn out into three syllables. A friend of mine goes crazy over chardonnay.

Bouquet is phonetic to me -- but not in English.

[frenchsounds]

@gisforgary Merci !  C'est une bonne idée.

[DaggerNubC2]

est-ce que vous etes francaise ou vous etes americaine mais vous avez apris le francais à l'école ?

[frenchsounds]

@DaggerNubC2 Bonjour... je suis bilingue de naissance, étant née aux États-Unis dans une famille multiculturelle.

[Xro306]

Merci!!You deserve more views!

[moonk321]

Thank you!!! Very helpful.

[gisforgary]

@frenchsounds i think a big problem for english speakers is they try to pronounce multiple vowels in foreign languages when we don't even do that ourselves -- like boat, perceive, soup, etc. i spent a good 15 mins learning souer, the whole time I was being difficult because I wanted to drag it out and pronounce all the letters instead of make one simple word. people that say noy-yer for noir still make crazy though. aucune tolerance ici.

[Kasia405]

I love your videos! They are so helpful! I'm from Poland, I study English and I decided to learn French on my own. I find the pronunciation extremely difficult but with your tips there is a great hope for me:) Thank you very much!

[berrylict]

@frenchsounds Thank you so much, very helpful. I discovered that there is quite a variation in pronouncing the indefinite article (and the same sounds, e.g. in "lundi" etc.). What made me happy recently is that after some three weeks of practising, a native French speaker understood my short but quickly uttered sentences such as "Je veux un verre d'eau" etc. (the words are so short and I thought it must be hard to distinguish them in the merged result, even more so with a foreign accent :) )

[frenchsounds]

@berrylict Bonjour et merci de vos commentaires! Please check out the last section of my newest video, Spelling-sound correlations for /ɛ̃/, in which I briefly discuss contemporary pronunciation of the "un" and "um" spellings. In Québécois French I mainly hear the version with rounded lips.