The French R Trick - Fluent French Audio

Copyright D. Tolman 2016
The French R Trick
By David Tolman, French pronunciation lessons by phone: 1-888-259-9601.
These are the practice words for the recording, “The French R Trick” which is available for free at
http://site.fluentfrench.com/blog/
1
roue (wheel)
2
rue (street)
3
grue (crane)
4
réponse (response)
5
rond
6
ronronner (to purr)
7
Paris
8
mettre (to put)
9
rendre (to give back)
10 fruit
(round)
11 chéri/chérie (sweetheart, dear); mon chéri
12 chirurgie (surgery)
13 marguerite (daisy)
14 boulangerie
15 Valérie
16 quincaillerie (hardware store)
17 bonjour
18 au revoir
Now that you have learned the French R Trick, keep practicing the French mouth position with the
free slow echoing recordings available on the blog.
http://site.fluentfrench.com/blog/french-accent-improvement/
What you’ll find at the link above: free recordings you can download and practice over and over so
that you can learn where to place your tongue and lips. This sort of practice is especially important
for English speakers already living in France: the problem is that you KNOW what you should do, but
you forget it when you go buy bread or talk to your French neighbors. Practicing the French mouth
position will help you feel where your tongue and lips should be so that you can easily switch from
the English mouth position to the French mouth position whenever you need to do so.
Questions? Problems finding the recordings? Email me at [email protected]