English and French use the same alphabet; even better, English and French have in common several hundred words that have the same spelling and meaning in both languages. Here are one hundred examples! Click here.
Tricks about French stress. Click here.
Tricks about French intonation and pronunciation. Click here, here and here. Tricks about French alphabet. Click here.
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Yes: Oui /wEE/
No: Non /nOHN/
Please: s’il vous plaît /seal voo PLAY/
Thank you: merci /maire SEE/
Hello: Allô /al OH/
Good: Bon /bohn/
Bad: mauvais /movEH/
That’s good: C’est bien /say BYEIN/
Silly: fou /foo/
Good morning: Bonjour /bohn XHOOR/
Good day: Bonjour /bohn XHOOR/
Good afternoon: Bon après-midi /bonn app ray me DEE/
Good evening: Bonsoir /boh SWAR/
How do you do?: Comment allez-vous? /come on talley VOO/
Very well, thank you: Bien merci. /byehn, maire SEE/
So-so: Comme-ci comme-ça /come see come SAH/
It’s been a while: Ça fait quelques temps /safay ein kalke ta or Ça fait longtemps /safay long TOHN/ What’s up?: Quoi de neuf? /Quad’NUHRF/
Nothing much: Pas grand chose /pah gron SHOWS/
Enjoy (your food)! : Bon appétit /bonn app eh TEE/
Cheers! (When drinking): Santé! /son TAY/
Watch out!: Attention! /at on SYOHN/
Excuse me: Excusez-moi /ex cü zay MWAH/
Excuse me: Pardon /Par DOHN/
Of course: Bien sûr /byein SÜÜR/
Are you ok? : Ça va? /sah VAH/
I’m ok: Ça va. /sah VAH/
No problem: Pas de problème /pat prob LEM/
There (showing something): Voilà /vwa LAH/ or Voici /vwa SEE/
(Over) there: là /LAH/
Here: ici /ee SEE/
Here (handing something): Tiens /tyEHN/ or Tenez /tuhNAY/
There, there (comforting someone): Allons, allons /al OHN, al OHN/
That’s it: C’est ça /say SAH/
What’s going on?: Qu’est-ce qui se passe? /kess kiss PASS/
That’s fine! (All the better!): Tant mieux! /tohn MYUHR/
Too bad!: Tant pis! /tohn pee/
What a shame!: Quel dommage! /kell dum AH XH/
What was that? (Say this again?) : Comment? /cumOHN/ Still! :
Quand même! /com MEH MUH/
Cut it out! : Ça suffit! /sah sü FEE/
I changed my mind. : J’ai changé d’idée. /xhay shohn xhAYdee DAY/
Once in a while: de temps en temps /duh tOHN zon tOHN/
Why? : Pourquoi? /poor KWA/
Because: Parce que /par suh KUH/
Then (next): Puis /püEE/(FRANCE) Pis /pee/ (QUEBEC)
But: Mais /meh/
Good bye: Au revoir /orv WAR/
See you later: À bientôt /ah bee ein TOE/ or À plus /ah PLÜSS/
Click here to see a list of 50 common French phrases.
French in class
To help students use as much French as possible in the classroom, you can see a list of essential words and phrases related to comprehension and typical classroom requests. Click on a word or phrase to hear it pronounced.
http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/classroomphrase.htm
French Alphabet
Some nasals
Phonétic
Key French sounds & spellings from Jo Rhys-Jones 
French-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Visual Dictionaries) [DK Publishing]
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