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steel spindleBOT
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young flax
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Do you know IPA

sweet terrace
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No, what is it

young flax
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Because the transcriptions you wrote are all off

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International Phonetic Alphabet

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its basically a way to write sounds

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that's a natural challenge of trying to write pronunciations

sweet terrace
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Yeah I just wrote based off what the words sound like they would be spelled in english

young flax
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because the IPA for all of these are

tu - \ty\
suis - \sɥi
femme - \fam\

ripe barn
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the vowel in "tu" doesn't exist in English

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and the glide in suis (looks like the upside down h) also doesn't exist in English

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so... trying to use English orthography is pretty difficult

sweet terrace
young flax
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No I'm not

sweet terrace
young flax
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I agree with @ripe barn 's writing

sweet terrace
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would I still be understood if I used english equivalents

young flax
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I have a hard time understanding people that use a heavy english pronunciation

sweet terrace
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hmm

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Are there any videos that show how to pronounce the various french sounds? I could only find alphabet videos and they just tell you how to pronounce the letter itself, not the sound that the letter produces

young flax
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I'm sure there are

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I don't know them off hand

sweet terrace
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ok ty

gritty nest
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quick tip to pronounce the French "u": try pronouncing an English "e" but round your lips instead (similarly to when pronouncing "oo")

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and overall, French is more reliant on vowel sounds for understanding compared to English, and there are a number of important distinctions to make.