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slender pagoda
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I saw you asking about the last syllable, in "bien", you pronounced it right. It's not a hard "n" but rather "en" make a nasal vowel, which you pronounced all right. Overall pretty clear.

sage dew
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Interesting how using the nose can work for a better pronunciation

slender pagoda
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it's right. The spanish pronunciation would be the right French pronunciation for the word "bienne" where the ending causes the "n" to be a separate consonant sound.

slender pagoda
sage dew
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Ohhh I see understood! I was using chatgpt too to have conversation like I got the prompt from here but it wasn't catching when I said ça va bien 🥲

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What's IPA?

slender pagoda
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International Phonetic Alphabet
It's used to describe sounds as letter combinations are inconsistent across languages and even in a same language

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each letter in the IPA represents a sound

sage dew
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I see

slender pagoda
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you don't have to know it to learn a language but it can definitely help clear misunderstandings

sage dew
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Ohhh okok

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Thank you for letting me know

slender pagoda
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what's your native language?

sage dew
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Ummm it's Malayalam lmao it's not that famous

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I'm actually from South India and for each state there's like a specific language that's mostly spoken

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And with different dialects it gets even more crazier and difficult to understand sometimes

slender pagoda
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oh interesting. Unfortunately I don't know it well so I can't really help making direct comparisons between both languages.
But vowel sounds are usually the most important part of pronunciation for learners to get understood. There are a lot and they help a bunch distinguishing between words. (they usually are at least, it can vary based on your native language)

sage dew
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Ohhh okay can you suggest a website or resource to understand vowels

slender pagoda
# sage dew Ohhh okay can you suggest a website or resource to understand vowels

I don't know an especially good one but I checked online and this one seems to contain the important ones with examples. Feel free to ask followup questions
https://www.fluentu.com/blog/french/french-vowels/

FluentU Language Learning
Mose Hayward
French Vowels: The Complete Guide to the 15 Vowel Sounds | FluentU ...

The French vowels are a, e, i, o, u and y. But there are 15 total French vowel sounds, like /ø/ and /œ/. Click here to learn how to pronounce each vowel sound in French correctly with examples and native audio pronunciations. Master close vowels, close-mid vowels, nasal vowels and more. Get tips on how to perfect your pronunciation.

sage dew