Students’ reviews of the Pronunciation course
Students' Reviews
Vanessa Barrett

MoreOkean

The drawings in colors helped me so much!
Thank you for the time you spent putting this course together. I love it. I still taking it at the moment and I have already learned so much. French language is actually a very delicate language. Very soft. The sounds are very close to each other but actually very distinct from one another. I understand that now. Thank you.
Amazing way to learn the sounds of French
I thoroughly enjoyed this course and strongly recommend it to anyone looking for a detailed look at each of the French sounds and how to produce them.
Response from Classic French
Thank you very much Vanessa. It was a pleasure to help you with French pronunciation. Your participation was amazing and you deserve the amazing pronunciation of French that you have now. Thank you again, Gil
great way to learn the sounds
Thank you for this amazing course and this great method.
Merci!
Merci beaucoup pour ce course de français prononciation. je beaucoup aime ce course et recommende tout le monde. Merci!
I discovered my French mouth
Thank you for this course. I was at home saying sounds alone in the living room in front of my computer. That was a bizarre experience at the beginning, but after few days I could only enjoy coming back to this personal experience. I was then training almost silently and for myself when walking during the daytime in the street, trying to find the sounds in my mouth. Thank you for the passion you’ve put in this course, I received it and it moved me in my personal life. I will definitely continue with French. Really a great course.
I love the Silent Way Method
I didn’t know that you could learn French language with colors. It makes the learning so much more fast and easier. Understand and produce, instead of listen, repeat and… forget. Thank you for these great materials and for the method. I know my mouth in a different way now. The French way.
Great!
Great time, great materials, great method, great teacher.
Worth the time!
A long course, but super worth the time. Thank you! I feel way more confident with my pronunciation.
Great explainations! I love the colors
Thank you for this amazing journey through French pronunciation. I haven’t finished the course yet at this time, but I will. Definitely worth it!
Definitely recommend this course
A long course to finish, but how detailed! Best course for French pronunciation.
great course
Helped a lot! Thanks
I love the colors! Fantastic method!
I am a very methodical person and this course was just a great fit for me. Each sound has a color, each sound is studied separately and thoroughly.
And the more you go through the course and learn the new sounds, the more you can practice for the previous sounds thanks to the colors.
I just love it. It must have been a lot of work to put this course together and it deserves 5 stars. Thank you!
Thanks ! Never seen anything like this
This course is a must take! The method with the colors is just genius.
It makes the learning of French so much more easy. I especially liked the reading of the different spellings of each sounds. Thanks to the colors I was able to see the letters that go together to form each sound in the words. So difficult before. But now I understand.
Thank you very much.
Amazing course! Sometimes the video is slow
Thank you Gil for this great course. I have learned so much about French pronunciation. But I had troubles with the videos freezing. Thank you anyways.
Response from Classic French
Thank you Miguel! I am happy that you liked the course and a bit sorry that it was slow on your end. We are always looking to improve our students’ experience and we will soon install a CDN on our site, so no matter where you are in the world, the video will always be very fast. Thank you Miguel for your valuable feedback!
Gil
Merci!
Merci Gil! Thank you for having put this course together. It’s such a work and so helpful. You are a great teacher and I feel so much more confident in my pronunciation of French now. The foundation is laid! I can build my French confidently now. Thank you! I can’t wait for the other courses you will publish in the future.
Response from Classic French
Merci à toi Gege! I am happy that you are now more confident in your pronunciation of French! And I will let you know by email when our next course is out! Thank you!
Gil
Excellent!
I recommend this course. So exhaustive. Now I understand how spoken French and witten French are linked together. Great improvement of my understanding of French pronunciation! Thank you!
Response from Classic French
You’re welcome Mag! I am happy that this course has helped you!
Gil
Best course for French pronunciation!
It’s not the first course for French pronunciation that I have taken, but this one is the best. I needed the full picture of French pronunciation and this course provided it. In all the other courses that I have taken, there was always something missing. Whether it was the written aspect of french, the listening aspect of french and so on. This course is a full skills course. It has trained me for the entire system of French. When I listen to the radio or watch TV, I understand much better than before what is said. And the teacher is very reliable in the forum. Thanks!
Response from Classic French
Thank you Hannet! I am happy that you finally found the course that you needed. You are welcome anytime.
Gil
Great course! Just solved my problem!
Straight to the point. This course solved my problem with French pronunciation. Step-by-step method, systematic and complete. Thank you!
Response from Classic French
Thank you for your very straightforward review Elena! I like it!
Gil
Amazing method with the colors - Systematic course
Finally a systematic course showing the entire system of French pronunciation at once. I used to go on youtube to watch tens of different videos to understand French pronunciation. But this course is everything you need all at once. Thank you for putting this course all together. You work on all the skills for each sound : pronunciation, listening, reading and writting.
Great method with the colors. Each sound has an attributed color all along the course, so you can learn to decode the written French.
I recommend this course. It is definitive.
Response from Classic French
Thank you Bashir! Happy that you finally found the course for French pronunciation you were looking for!
Gil
I feel more confident with French pronunciation than before
I have always struggled with French pronunciation, but this course has definitely solve this issue. I couldn’t understand how to read and properly pronounce French before. All the silent letters of French are a mess! But this course showed me the patterns of the written French. I love the method with the colors. That’s exactly what I needed to understand how to pronounce French. Much recommended course. And the teacher is great.
Response from Classic French
Very happy for you Jenny! I am glad that you are able to read French now! Thank you!
Gil
Highly recommended course for French pronunciation
Extremely detailed course for French pronunciation. You first start to learn how to pronounce each sound of French, then you are trained to listen to the sounds and distinguish them from one another, then you are trained for the silent letters of French language and then you have a tongue twister exercise for each sound of French, where you can post in the forum of the group a video of you saying the tongue twister. The teacher comes in the forum to give a feedback on your pronunciation. Very interactive course and you can learn from other students tongue twisters. I feel very confident with my French pronunciation now. Thank you. Best course!
Response from Classic French
Thank you for your review Sam! I was glad to have you in the course. You can come back anytime!
Gil
Excellent course! I have learned so much!
I recommend anyone wanting to fully understand French pronunciation to take this course. This is probably the most detailed and most complete course for French pronunciation out there. There are lots of exercises and the teacher is just very supportive. Thank you!
Response from Classic French
Thank you for your kindness Michelle! I was happy to help you during this course! You can come back whenever you need it.
Gil
Magnifique course Monsieur Gil!
Excellent school and excellent course for French pronunciation. The course is very detailed and covers every sounds of French. For those struggling with French pronunciation like I was, this course will explain how to position your mouth, lips, etc. to properly pronounce each sound. You have also exercises to train your ears to recognize the sounds and you will learn the different ways each sound can be written. Very important with all those silent letters. Thank you Monsieur Gil for putting this course together for us!
Response from Classic French
Merci Monsieur Michal! I am very glad that you liked the course. You are welcome anytime!
Gil
The French pronunciation Course – Learn to sound like a French native
Students' Reviews
Vanessa Barrett

MoreOkean

Level : All levels & all public
Time required to complete this course : 10 Hours
Time required to master each sound : 10 to 15 min (exercises included)
Last updated : February 2021
Learn French pronunciation with colors
The Silent Way© Method :
The Silent Way© method, used in this course, is a methodical world wide renowned method to teach language pronunciation. It’s one of most efficient and systematic in the world.
This method uses colors to help you learn, distinguish and pronounce each sound of French language.
The Silent Way© Method uses unique materials to help you learn French pronunciation :
- The 41 Drawings of the French Sounds in Colors©
- The 100’s of Words in Colors©,
- The Tongue Twisters in Colors©,
- The 2 Maps of your French Mouth in Colors©.









Methodical structure of this course :
A dedicated chapter for each one of the 41 French sounds :
In this course, each one of the 41 sounds of French has a dedicated chapter to better guide you with the learning of French pronunciation.
Each chapter is made of :
- Step n°1 : 1 HD video lesson to learn how to pronounce the sound you are studying,
- Step n°2 : 2 listening exercises to educate your ears to hear, recognize and distinguish the sound,
- Step n°3 : 1 reading and pronunciation exercise with Words in Colors to train you for the different spellings (ways to write) of the sound,
- Step n°4 : 1 Tongue Twister exercise to train for difficult pronunciation. You will have the opportunity to record yourself in a video and post it in the forum of the course to receive a feedback from Gil, the French teacher.
In each Chapter, 4 steps to learn each French sound :
Step n°1 : Learn to pronounce the French sound with the video lesson :
You will start each chapter of this course with a 3 minute video lesson to learn how to position your mouth, tongue, lips, jaw to properly pronounce each French sound.
Step n°2 : Learn to listen, recognize and distinguish each French sound :
After having learned how to pronounce each sound with the video lesson, you will do 2 exercises to train your ears to listen, recognize and distinguish the French sound from the other ones.
Step n°3 : Learn to read the difficult written French
The exercise n°3 is probably the most important of all. It will train you for the most frequent spellings of each sounds. In French, each sound can be written in many different ways. Sometimes, several letters can be composing only one sound. This exercise will train you for the most frequent spellings of each sound.
Step n°4 : Record yourself in a video saying one of the tongue twisters and post your video in the forum to get a feedback from Gil, your French teacher :
To check your French pronunciation and get a feedback about it, you will be able to record yourself in a video saying 1 of the 3 tongue twisters and post it in the forum of the Pronunciation group to get a feedback from Gil (your French teacher) and to learn from other students who have posted their videos as well.
Materials used in this Course

The 2 Maps of your French Mouth in Colors©
In this course, a unique color will be attributed to each sound of French language. These colors will help you to pronounce and read the difficult written French.
From one chapter to the next, from one sound to the next we will construct methodically the two Maps of your French Mouth in Colors©.
These two maps will help you to distinguish the French sounds that are very closed and similar to each other.
The first map is the map of the French vowel sounds and the second map is the map of the French consonant sounds.



The 41 Drawings of the French Sounds in Colors©
In this course, the HD videos lessons will explain you how to produce each one of the French Sounds.
Thanks to the Drawings of the French Sounds in Colors©, you’ll be able to visualize how to properly position your lips, jaws and tongue to pronounce each sound of French.
You’ll be able to download each one of these Drawings of the French Sounds in Colors© inside the course to train by yourself at home.







The 100's of Words in Colors©
Once you will be able to produce each new sound of French properly, you will train to pronounce French with hundreds of carefully chosen French Words in Colors©.
These Words in Colors© will train you for the most frequent spellings of each sound of French. Because in French, a single sound can be written in many different ways.
You need to be trained for these patterns of the written French.







The Tongue Twisters in Colors©
At the end of the study of each sound, 3 Tongue Twisters in Colors© will be proposed to you as an exercise.
You will have the possibility to record yourself in a video saying one of these three Tongue Twisters in Colors© and post it in the forum of the Pronunciation Group associated with this course.
If you don’t want to participate to this community exercise, because you don’t want to post video of yourself, no problem. You are free to do so. But you will simply not have feedback about your French pronunciation from the French teacher and the other students in this course.
You can simply train for these Tongue Twisters in Colors© by yourself and continue to the next sound without posting any video in the Pronunciation Group.






Complete French Pronunciation Course
Sound like a French native (HD Video lessons)
A webcam for the tongue twister exercises :
To participate to the Tongue Twisters in Colors© exercises, you will need a webcam or a camera to record yourself saying the Tongue Twisters in Colors©.
If you don't want to participate to the Tongue Twister in Colors© exercises, you will still be able to follow this course normally.
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