Pronunciation

Question 1

Chaude

Answer 1

Hot (with fem. Pronounce the d)

Question 2

Trois

Answer 2

Three

Question 3

Quatre

Answer 3

Four (~katr)

Question 4

Désolé

Answer 4

Sorry

Question 5

la même chose

Answer 5

The same thing

Question 6

L’eau

Answer 6

The water (rhymes with shoe)

Question 7

Le pain

Answer 7

The bread (le rhymes with lupin but shorter, ai is Man but with lips closer together, and n is like Urdu nasal N)

Question 8

Ou

Answer 8

Or (like shoe but slightly shorter)

Question 9

où

Answer 9

Where (like ou but a slightly descending tone?)

Question 10

deux

Answer 10

two (almost like ü i.e. the fronted u in dude)

Question 11

Les yeux

Answer 11

The eyes (s pronounced before y; rhymes with deux)

Question 12

Qu’il

Answer 12

That he (pronounced almost like boat keel)

Question 13

À cela

Answer 13

To this (à is like bat; e is like je)

Question 14

il faut les récupérer

Answer 14

we must recover them (il like eel, faut like “foe”, s in les is silent, é like désolé)

Question 15

comme

Answer 15

As (like ö + maybe lengthened by the e and double consonant?)

Question 16

hommes

Answer 16

Men (rhymes with ö in comme and def a little longer than a typical vowel)

Question 17

s’engagèrent

Answer 17

engaged (s’en pronounced without any stop/pause)

Question 18

Et le

Answer 18

And the ( pronounced w/o t)

Question 19

Est sinistre

Answer 19

Is sinister (like bay, and seeneest)

Question 20

Était

Answer 20

Was (é like Je but with slightly rising tone; ait rhymes with say but slightly shorter)

Question 21

étaient

Answer 21

were (sounds exactly like était, maybe sometimes slightly longer)

Question 22

être

Answer 22

To be (ê like set, but with a slightly raised tone; final e silent)

Question 23

ses gyroscopes

Answer 23

his gyroscopes (both final s’s are silent)

Question 24

d’un autre côté

Answer 24

on another side (d’un rhymes with bun, au like boot, côté rhymes with au but higher accented/pitched slightly; é rhymes with désolé)

Question 25

supposait

Answer 25

supposed (ait almost rhymes with say)

Question 26

se disait-il

Answer 26

he said to himself (se like je; I like bee, t in ait pronounced)

Question 27

elle pense que

Answer 27

she thinks that (elle rhymes with sell; que rhymes with stew, but shorter)

Question 28

aucune des

Answer 28

none of the (rhymes with go, and then sounds like cyün)