1. French 1
ACCENTS

2. Accent aigu - É
Tells you to pronounce an e similar to the a in the English word date.
Éléphant
Sénégal
The accent start down on the left and goes up on the right.

3. Accent Grave over an E - È
Tells you to pronounce an e like the e in the English word jet.
Zèbra
Zèle
The accent starts up on the left and goes down on the right.

4. Accent grave over an a or U – À or Ù
Doesn’t change the sound of these letters. It does change their meaning.
Ou = or, Où = where
The accent starts up on the left and goes down on the right.

5. Accent circonflexe – Â, Ê, Î, Ô, Û
Appears over any vowel and it doesn’t change the sound of the letter.
Pâté
Forêt
Île
Hôtel
Flûte
The accent looks like an upside down flattened “V.”

6. cÉdilla - Ç Under a c tells you to pronounce the c like an s.
Français Ça
The accent looks like a 5 missing the top.

7. TrÉma – Ä, Ë, Ï, Ö, Ü
Goes over the second vowel when there are two vowels beside each other and it tells you to pronounce each vowel separately.
Noël
Haïti
The accent it two dots over the vowel.