As some of you may already know, I am French and Aus­tralian. I speak Eng­lish and French with almost equal flu­ency, although my French com­pat­ri­ots assure me that, since I have returned from my 6 years in Aus­tralia, I have a slight Eng­lish accent.

I have a great interest in lan­guages, and I am always eager to help people learn how to bet­ter speak or write Eng­lish or French. I have taught my wife the basic found­a­tions of French pro­nun­ci­ation, and the efforts have borne their fruits, since she has little dif­fi­culty pro­noun­cing new words she learns in her daily French classes. I decided to make my rather unusual approach to the study of the French lan­guage avail­able to the pub­lic: this is the first in a series of short les­sons on the French lan­guage, start­ing with pronunciation.