A little Pronunciation Exercise

Au travail! Below are five French tongue twisters to practice your pronunciation with.

Remember 's' is usually pronounced like the English 's' in 'set'. However, when an 's' is in the middle of a word and between two vowels, it is pronounced 'z' like in 'désert', 'poison', 'maison', etc. Bonne chance!

1) Un chasseur sachant chasser sait chasser sans son chien de chasse.
A hunter knowing how to hunt can hunt without a hunting dog

2) Je suis ce que je suis et si je suis ce que je suis, qu'est-ce que je suis?
I am who I am and if I am who I am, who am I?

3) Les chaussettes de l'archiduchesse sont-elles sèches? Archi-sèches!
Are the socks of the archduchesse dry? Super dry!

4) Ces six saucissons-ci sont si secs qu'on ne sait si s'en sont.
These six sausages are so dry that we don't know if they are sausages

5) Poisson sans boisson, c'est poison!
Fish without drink, is poison