Hi again and welcome back to Seattle Learning Academy's American English pronunciation podcast.

My name is Mandy, and this is our 157th episode.

We've had a lot of people asking us to do a special podcast for French speakers lately, so here it is.

The transcript page for this lesson is especially important because I'll add links there for all the lessons on pronuncian that can help you with these issues.

You can find all of our episode's transcripts by going to

www.prenantian.com slash podcast. For this episode, just click Episode 157. Also, lessons with exercises, quizzes, and audio for everything that I talk about here regarding

vowels and consonants is in our book pronunciation pages too.

You can find information about both the physical and e-book format by visiting our products

page at pronuncian.com.

If you want all of your practice to be online, exercises, quizzes, and videos for everything

I'll talk about in this episode is available to our pronuncian.com subscribers.

English really is a quite difficult language for native French speakers to pronounce.

When speaking a language that is not your first language, a concept called interference occurs.

Interference is when characteristics of your first language are used when pronouncing a non-native

language, even if those first language characteristics don't exist in the non-native language.

French speakers tend to have a lot of interference when they are speaking English,

so it can take a lot of practice to acquire new

language characteristics. Here are the top 10 most troublesome pronunciation issues for native

French speakers when speaking English. Number 1. One of the most troublesome aspects of French pronunciation interfering with English pronunciation is in rhythm.

English rhythm is based on syllable stress.

Although English does have a lot of patterns to help learners understand stillable stress, it still is

much more irregular than the patterns of French. French speakers need to pay special attention

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