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Your accent will not damage your child's French

This is the fear that stops more parents than any other, so let's deal with it directly.

Children calibrate their pronunciation to the input they get most of and the input that comes from native sources. A child who hears native French, from audio, from school, from media, from anyone fluent, and also hears their parent's imperfect French does not end up with the parent's accent. What they end up with is a parent who talks to them in French.

Here's the liberating maths: a parent who says it slightly wrong, warmly, five times a day, gives their child thousands of moments of French a year. Every imperfect sentence counts in full. The scripts and audio exist so that un versus une never has to hold you back again.

Seven sounds are worth ten minutes

Not for your sake, for comprehension. These seven change meaning, and getting them roughly right means your child understands you the first time.

u, tu / ou, tout The one that causes real confusion.
les voyelles nasales, pain, un, bon, banc Nasal vowels. Air through the nose, not the mouth.
le r, rouge, encore Back of the throat, not the tongue tip.
les finales muettes, petit Silent final consonants. Petit ends at the i.
la liaison, les enfants The s comes alive before a vowel.
é / è, été, très Closed and open. Small difference, real difference.
eu, deux, bleu Round your lips, say eh.

The full module is a 25-minute video plus a sixty-second daily drill you can do in the car. Free, it's the foundation everything else builds on.

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