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>>18330
Nigga why are you asking me? Well, it's not THAT hard to remember. Most final consonants are silent, except for C, R, F, and L. The weak e in the middle of words disappears in speech, like in fenêtre which sounds closer to fnètr. Vowel + n or m usually makes a nasal sound, so pain becomes peh(n). But if another vowel follows, the consonant comes back, like bonne année. And when a word ends in a normally silent consonant and the next word begins with a vowel, that consonant links over, like vous avez (to) voo-za-vay. Add in the fixed letter groups (oi = wah (sound it makes), eau = oh, ch = sh)
It's not nearly as bad as some languages. I just try to remember it as, just don't pronounce the last letter of a word, and always, ALWAYS pronounce words with an accent, or else you won't get the sounds right.