The way you say a word is called pronunciation. In French, there are some sounds that are different to English sounds. Even if a word looks the same and means the same thing, the way that you say ...

In French, the letters “-oup” at the end of a word are pronounced as [oo]. When we borrowed this word from French, we also adopted its pronunciation. Therefore, the correct way to pronounce ...

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Bourré - roughly pronounced boe-ray - is best known for its meaning in French slang, but literally it translates as ‘filled ...

Cagade - roughly pronounced ka gad - is a French word that originally comes from the regional language of Occitan, which was ...