french

About 124 million people in the world speak French, so it's one of the most spoken language of the world.

Speakers are from France, Québec, Belgium, Switzerland, Haïti, French Guiana, Monaco, Africa, Southwest Asia, & French Polynesia.

French pronunciation is quite different from the English one. So note that the pronunciation table given below is not perfectly exact. It is worth listening to a French speaker so as to improve one's pronunciation.

Letter(s)	Pronunciation	Letter(s)	Pronouciation
a,à,â	like father	t,tt,th	like tea
b	like bear	u,û,ù	like German ü
c	before e & i: like sit. Else: like cat	v	like voice
d	like David	w	like water
é	sthg like late (without diphthong)	x	pronounced ks or gz. At the end of a word, not pronounced
è,ê,ai	like get	y	like yes
e,eu	sthg like other	z	like zoo
eu,oeu	sthg like pleasure
f,ff,ph	like father	an,en,am,em,aon	sthg like tarnish
g	before e & i: like pleasure. Else: like get	in,im	sthg like rang
h	not pronounced at all!	on,om	sthg like corn
i,î	like meet	un,um	sthg like rang
j	like pleasure. Never like John	ou	like look
k	like kill	ch	like shirt
l,ll	like London	gn	like Kenya
m,mm	like mum	ill	like i+y
n,nn,mn	like night	oi	like water
o,ô,au,eau	like wrote (without diphthong)
o	like hot
p,pp	like Paris
qu	like kill
r,rr	like German r or Spanish j
s	like sit or zoo. At the end of a word, not pronounced
ss,ç	like sit