Learn French → France
Master the French.
Master standard Parisian French — uvular R, strict liaison, four nasal vowels.
About this accent
The phonetic identity of French.
France French uses a uvular R (back of the throat), strict liaison rules (linking final consonants to following vowels), and four nasal vowels that English lacks entirely. Each syllable gets near-equal weight — French is syllable-timed, not stress-timed.
Phonetic signature
Three sounds you will drill.
Uvular R
rouge → /ʁuʒ/ — back of the throat
Nasal A
blanc → /blɑ̃/ — air through the nose
Labio-palatal
huit → /ɥit/ — Y + W combined
Try it
Sentences AnyAccent will score.
Real sentences picked for the phonemes that distinguish French from sibling accents.
Je ne sais pas, mais j'apprends.
Elision: "j'apprends" not "je apprends".
Comment vas-tu?
Liaison: "vas" + "tu" link with a Z sound.
Bonjour, ça va?
Standard greeting. Uvular R in "bonjour".
C'est un bon vin blanc.
Four nasals possible: "un", "bon", "vin", "blanc".
Excusez-moi, je suis pressé.
Formal apology. Liaison "excusez-moi" with Z.
Merci beaucoup, à demain.
Polite thanks. Silent P in "beaucoup".
What you drill
What AnyAccent fixes in the French.
Uvular R training (the famous Parisian R)
Nasal vowel drills (an, en, in, on, un)
Liaison and elision rules
How it works
Three taps to a better accent.
- 01
Pick a language and accent
Choose any of 33 languages. For English, Spanish, Portuguese and more, pick your target accent — the same engine, tuned for the locale.
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Speak any sentence
Type or paste a sentence, tap record. Auto silence detection stops the recording for you. Sub-second analysis.
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See exactly what to fix
Words colored by accuracy. Phonemes flagged with IPA and tongue-position hints. Native TTS to compare side-by-side.
FAQ
Common questions.
How do I make the French R?
The Parisian R is uvular — produced at the back of the throat, not the tongue. AnyAccent uses progressive drills (gargle → consonant → word-final → word-initial) and scores R placement separately.
Will I learn the four nasal vowels?
Yes — an, en, in, on, un are the foundation. The scoring engine flags non-nasal renderings (a common English-speaker mistake) and scores nasal placement separately.
Is this Parisian or general France French?
The fr-FR model targets the Île-de-France broadcast register. Southern French, Belgian, and Swiss variants are not modeled separately.
How is this different from Québécois?
Different vowel system, different R (often alveolar in Quebec), different vocabulary. AnyAccent treats them as separate accents — fr-FR and fr-CA score the same sentence differently.
How long until I sound French?
Liaison and elision rules take 2–3 weeks to internalize. Nasal vowels take longer — most learners pass the "no longer recognizable as English-speaker" threshold in 6–10 weeks.
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