Once you have a good understanding of French pronunciation, you can start exploring this list of our favorite apps for improving your speaking skills (in addition to all these other French language apps<\/a> we\u2019ve told you about before).<\/p>\n The more work you put into working with these apps, the more you\u2019ll get out of them. Really take advantage of them every day and you\u2019ll notice the difference in your pronunciation skills before you know it!<\/p>\n We’ve also compiled a bunch of other online tools to help perfect your French pronunciation<\/a> you should check out.\u00a0<\/p>\n Duolingo incorporates French pronunciation into every part of the app.<\/p>\n Not only does the app dictate French text to you, but it also makes you repeat French phrases<\/strong> into your microphone. This reinforces the pronunciation skills you’ve started to pick up by making you practice out loud.\u00a0And the app rewards you and incentivizes you (with the coveted prizes of pride, bragging points and their digital currency, Lingots) to keep learning and practicing every day.<\/p>\n The less-than-great part of the app is that the French-speaking voices are somewhat robotic, so you\u2019ll have to get used to that if you want to get the most out of the app. It also mispronounces words on occasion, <\/i>but I\u2019ve\u00a0only run into this issue a handful of times.<\/p>\n Generally, the app is a really solid resource for learning vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. It\u2019s also really easy to make into a habit.<\/b> For example, if you devote 15 minutes every morning during your commute or 15 minutes every evening before bed to completing one or two lessons on Duolingo, you\u2019ll have finished the app in no time.<\/p>\n Once you’ve gotten that far, you\u2019ll have a pretty solid understanding of the basics of the language upon which to build.<\/p>\n Available:\u00a0<\/strong>iPhone\/iPad<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0| Android<\/a> | Browser<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n On FluentU, you can hear native pronunciation from many different sources.<\/strong> The program has put together a collection of authentic French video content that features native French people speaking.<\/p>\n Videos like movie trailers, show clips, news segments, funny commercials and informative talks are paired with learning features to make them accessible to learners of different skills. Each video has interactive subtitles with on-demand translations, multimedia flashcards<\/a> and transcripts, key word lists, personalized quizzes and more.<\/p>\n For a learner who wants to practice pronunciation, this translates to hundreds of hours of authentic speech to listen to and mimic. Accurate subtitles and native pronunciation<\/strong> mean that you can easily shadow any content you enjoy or want to learn.<\/p>\n You can also repeat after the audio pronunciations that accompany every flashcard. And since the flashcards also include clips from other videos where the word appears, you’ll be able to hear and repeat after many different accents.<\/p>\n Finally, FluentU’s review exercises include questions that let you speak your answer<\/strong> for further pronunciation practice.<\/p>\n Available:\u00a0<\/strong>iPhone\/iPad<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n With (How to) Pronounce, you can learn pronunciation in languages from Spanish to Polish to, of course, French. The cool thing about this app is that it will read any text you input out loud, <\/b>either at a normal speaking pace<\/strong> or at a slightly slower speed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n All you have to do is select \u201cFrench\u201d as your language and type in the French text you need to know how to pronounce.<\/p>\n The key thing to know is that this app is excellent for learning the pronunciation of single words<\/b>, but it\u2019s not so great with streams of text.<\/p>\n For example, if your type in the word fatigu\u00e9<\/i>\u00a0(tired), the app will read the text back to you perfectly. However, if you were to type in a sentence such as Ma m\u00e8re est fatigu\u00e9e parce qu\u2019elle a beaucoup travaill\u00e9<\/i>\u00a0(My mother is very tired because she worked a lot), the app would read the sentence back, but the pronunciation wouldn’t be as clear. When pronouncing sentences, the app strings all the words together in a monotone stream, making it a bit difficult to grasp the pronunciation of each individual word.<\/p>\n Of course, French is often spoken with lots of elided words and no clear breaks between words, so the app is faithful to the language in that regard. However, French speakers will usually also have inflections in their voice and parse their sentences, whereas this app does not.<\/p>\n When learning basic pronunciation skills, hearing a Siri-like voice dictate monotone streams of text isn\u2019t great, but if you need to know the pronunciation of a specific single word<\/strong>, this app is a pretty great resource.<\/p>\n Oh, and you can also choose between French as it\u2019s pronounced in France and French as it\u2019s pronounced in Canada, if you\u2019re interested, because keeping your audience in mind is important<\/a>, too!<\/p>\n With Memrise, language learners are tested on all things spoken French, but it\u2019s all part of a fun adventure that makes language learning an exciting and challenging journey. It begins:<\/p>\n \u201cThe Uniformist front is infiltrating the Multiverse… Soon, they\u2019ll overthrow the Alliance and establish a rule of uniformity and hate… Welcome to the Alliance, recruit. To commence training, please confirm your credentials.\u201d<\/p>\n As you can see, it\u2019s certainly entertaining!<\/p>\n In this regard, Memrise is similar to Duolingo in that it makes language learning a fun, addictive and gamified experience<\/strong> for its users. It likewise incentivizes users to practice every day with goals and leader scoreboards.<\/p>\n It also offers good quality French pronunciation for every vocabulary word that it introduces to you. And its patented “mems” feature lets you add your own personal memory aid to every word, which can be super helpful with remembering French pronunciation. Memrise recommends you think about how the word sounds, what the sounds remind you of and what it rhymes with. All good habits for French learners who are improving pronunciation.<\/p>\n Unlike Duolingo, however, a lot of the language you\u2019ll learn through this app is fairly casual.<\/b> For instance, the first few words you\u2019ll learn are salut<\/i>\u00a0(hi), which is a casual way of saying b<\/em>onjour<\/i>\u00a0(hello), q<\/em>uoi de neuf ?<\/i>\u00a0(what\u2019s new?\/what\u2019s up?) and condensed phrases like j\u2019ai pas compris<\/i>, which is the casual, truncated version of j<\/em>e n\u2019ai pas compris<\/i>\u00a0(I don\u2019t understand). This makes it the perfect app for French language learners who only want to learn casual conversation skills, and nothing too fancy.<\/p>\n The app does offer its users some interesting English translation choices, like \u201cbottoms up!\u201d as a translation for \u201csalut !<\/i>\u201d But hey, this certainly keeps the language-learning process entertaining!<\/p>\n With this app, you can either type or speak the text<\/strong> that you want to know how to say in English (or any of a multitude of other languages) and the app will translate and dictate the word\/phrase in French for you.<\/p>\n In this regard, the app serves a pretty unique niche. The app is great for French learners who like learning the language with the help of a dictionary or vocab book. This app essentially serves the same purpose as a dictionary<\/strong>, but with the added perk of teaching you how the French words are pronounced as well.<\/p>\n However, just like many machine translation services, the app certainly makes its share of mistakes. It\u2019s much better with<\/strong> single words <\/b>than it is with full sentences.<\/b> For example, when I dictated \u201cMy father is not home\u201d into my microphone, the app repeated it in French as \u201cMon p\u00e8re n\u2019est pas maison,<\/i>\u201d a more-than-literal, grammatically-incorrect rendering of the English sentence.<\/p>\n Yes, of course, I could have said \u201cMy father is not at <\/i>home\u201d to clarify any confusion for the app, but regardless, this indicates that the app, like many machine translation services, isn\u2019t quite there yet in terms of full sentence translation.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, the app is pretty good at translating single words, like \u201cfather,\u201d \u201cmother,\u201d etc. So, it\u2019s certainly more of a pronunciation dictionary<\/b>, than a pronunciation phrasebook. And the pronunciation of the words is pretty good.<\/p>\n One cool feature of the app is that you can also save translations<\/strong> that you\u2019ve already searched for, essentially creating your own offline personalized dictionary to use whenever you want.<\/p>\n Available:\u00a0<\/strong>iPhone\/iPad<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0| Android<\/a> | Desktop App<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This app is part audiobook player and part textbook<\/b>, and it\u2019s tailored specifically to French language learners. <\/b>Check it out and download your first free audiobook, the first installment of the series of audiobooks called “<\/em>\u00c0 moi Paris,”\u00a0<\/i>for free to see what it\u2019s all about.<\/p>\n Each audiobook tells a story with characters and a plot. The\u00a0app offers you the option of hearing the French text of the story dictated to you at various speeds (normal, slower or modern street French)<\/b> as you read along with the text. The pronunciation is perfect, not at all robotic, and very clear. And you can also choose to read along with the French text, either with or without the English translations underneath.<\/p>\n Following each chapter, there\u2019s a question and answer section<\/strong> where you can test your comprehension, and a study guide section<\/strong> with vocabulary charts and grammar explanations. (This is where the \u201ctextbook\u201d part comes in!)<\/p>\n The app probably isn\u2019t perfect for everybody. But the first installment of the “<\/em>\u00c0 moi Paris”<\/i>\u00a0series of audiobooks is free, so you might as well check it out and see if it’s the language learning and pronunciation tool you need to take your French skills to the next level!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There you have it, folks.<\/p>\n You’ve got nothing to lose with these free (or at least, affordable) French apps.<\/p>\n Give these a try and see how far you go with your French pronunciation! 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