Pronunciation Drills

You know that your u is not right. You knew it last month too. Knowing has never once changed it, because a sound that is wrong is wrong automatically — it is produced below the level you can supervise, and the only thing that rewrites it is repetition narrow enough that all of your attention fits on one contrast at a time. Twenty minutes on "my pronunciation" achieves nothing; four minutes on the front-rounded vowel, today achieves something measurable.

This track is that, organised. One rung per difficulty, thirteen of them, each recorded and scored: the front-rounded /y/, the eu pair, closed é against open è, the nasals in two pairs rather than four at once, the schwa that appears and disappears, then each kind of join on its own — obligatory liaison, forbidden liaison and the h aspiré, optional liaison and enchaînement, élision — and finally group-final stress, question intonation, and melody with emphasis. Nothing here introduces a new concept: every one of them is a slice of what the Pronunciation & Liaison track presented as a system.

The point is the schedule rather than the content. Your campaign brings these back one at a time, spaced, so a contrast is re-tested days after you last produced it correctly — which is the interval at which a rewrite either holds or reveals that it has not taken. A drill you pass twice with a gap between is a sound that has actually moved; a drill you pass three times in one sitting is a sound you are currently concentrating on.