Popular foods: Popular French food

💬 The [t] at the end is not pronounced: [croissant] sounds roughly like (krwah-sahn). French often drops final consonants like this.

🇫🇷 In France, a [croissant] is usually a breakfast pastry from a bakery, not an anytime snack by default.

💬 The end of [fromage] is softer than English spelling suggests: (froh-mahj), not a hard [g]. That same [ge] ending works like this in words like [garage].

🇫🇷 French for wine is usually [vin], not [vino]. [Vino] sounds foreign or playful rather than the normal everyday word in France.

💬 In [quiche], [qu] sounds like [k], not [kw]. You see the same thing in [qui] and [quart].

💬 The final [t] is silent in [escargot]: (ess-kar-go). French often leaves final consonants unspoken unless the next word pulls them into a link.

💬 In [boeuf bourguignon], the last letters of both words are mostly silent: roughly (buff boor-ghee-nyon). French food names often look longer on the page than they sound.