é ez er ai ei e

Please be mindful of the fact that all the French sounds are produced with greater facial, throat and other phonatory muscle tension than any English sound.

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The French [é] sound is very close to the [é] first component vowel base sound of the glide [é-i] in English words like ate[é-it], lake [lé-ik]], gave [gé-iv].
English background learners of French should be very careful not to confuse this sound with the English /ee/ sound like in the word see. It is close to it but slightly more open towards the /ai/ sound like in the English word bad. You should be able to hear a clear difference between French words like
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The sound's written representations are: é ez er ai ei e

Click the buttons to hear the samples that follow:

·	é - is always pronounced [é] in all positions;
·	ez - word final position:
·	er - word final position in words with more than one syllable:
·	ai - ( future tense ) (historic past tense) -- j'ai (exception )
·	ei -
·	e -
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