French and English use the same alphabet (unlike the Spanish alphabet, for example, which has a few extra letters), but the letters are pronounced differently:
| a
b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z |
ahh
bay say day ehh eff jhay ahsh ee jhee kahh ehll ehmm ehnn ohh pay koo aihr ess tay ooh vay doo-bluh-vay eex ee-grek zed |
- The unaccented French e is pronounced similarly to the e in the English word the, but slightly shorter and further back in the throat.
- The French letters g and j are pronounced with a soft jhay sound similar to the s in Asia. The vowel sounds in the French letters are switched—g being jhay, and j being jhee.