Thanks for your article.  It condenses a lot of information that I have gathered in the past 2 years as I've been learning French.  It's going to help me a lot.  As an English speaker I often hear French as a continuous stream of vowel sounds. The absence of hard consonants at the ends of words has been my hardest struggle.   Of course all the "liasioning" adds to the confusion.  I'm only now accepting the fact that just learning a French word is not enough.  You must learn it's true sound and the sound it makes when combined with another word.  For some unknown reason que + il, elle & on keep me awake at nights.  ;-)

Your article has helped me a lot, merci.

Yes, I don't know why words like "qu'il" cause so much issues, but it does, you're not the only one, I hear it a lot. It's not "KUH-IL", just "KIL" but for some reasons, most people "trip" on that apostrophe and insist on making it 2 syllables. I usually say it's like English apostrophes (like in the word "don't"), it combines 2 words, turns it into just one sound.

Hello everyone! Thank you all for your interest in my articles over the last year. This is now time to say goodbye as I've decided to stop publishing articles here. I've had issues with the editing team for few months now, and even though they introduced a new editor recently, they still serve the same "Because I said so!" that passes as justification for just about everything. I'm simply tired of these shenanigans. If it makes me angry, there is no point in continuing. I like to have fun. Teaching is fun (I'm still teaching by the way!) Writing is fun. Sharing is fun. It's just a shame that there is something that has to get in between. Anyway, thank you all for your feedback, good and bad. It goes a long way! Cheerio!