A1 French Grammar Lesson
Basics 3: Nasal Vowels
Les voyelles nasales
3:13 min video · 13 sentences · 5 key words
Transcript with English
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About this lesson
Léa buys bread and wine at a market for a dinner with Hugo. Each short line trains one nasal vowel: on, an, in.
How to practise
- Read how the pattern works on the first card, then listen to each example sentence.
- Repeat every example out loud in the À toi · Your turn pause: the pattern should start to feel automatic.
- At the end, check the common mistake and say the practice sentence yourself.
Key words
| French | English |
|---|---|
| bon | good |
| blanc | white |
| le pain | the bread |
| le vin | the wine |
| un banc | a bench |
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