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French · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "la maison" in French?
la meh-ZOHN — the "ai" is an open "eh", the "s" is a "z", and the ending is nasal.
la mai-SON, weight on the second syllable. The word is feminine, which is worth fixing early since "maison" appears in many fixed phrases.
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Je rentre à la maison.
I'm going home.
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"Je rentre à la maison" uses "rentrer" for going back home, and "à la maison" is the fixed phrase for "home" as a destination or location. French will not let you drop the article the way English does. "Rentre" ends in a fading "-tre" cluster: RAHN-tr, with a nasal vowel at the front.
Where English speakers slip
The "s" stays a hiss and the "ai" gets read as "ay", producing "may-SOHN". Both need fixing: flat open "eh", then a "z". The ending also gets a real "n". And the article is not optional — "je rentre à maison" is wrong; French needs "à la maison" every time.