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French · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "la nourriture" in French?
la noo-ree-TÜR — four beats, two throat "r"s, and the tight French "u" at the end.
la nour-ri-TURE, weight on the final syllable. Three full vowels in a row, none reduced, which is what makes long French nouns sound so evenly paced compared with English.
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La nourriture est bonne ici.
The food is good here.
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"La nourriture est bonne ici" uses the feminine "bonne", /bɔn/, with a real "n" and an oral vowel — quite different from the masculine "bon", which is nasal. "Est bonne" runs together, and "ici" takes the final beat. The article before the noun is required in French even for a general statement.
Where English speakers slip
The two "u" spellings do different things — "ou" is the back "oo", "u" alone is the front /y/ — and learners frequently swap them, producing "nü-ree-toor". Keep the first rounded and back, the last rounded and front. English also reduces unstressed vowels to schwas; French keeps them all full. And both "r"s belong at the back of the throat.