PRONUNCIATION OF H

H aspiré - H muet

Words starting with H in French are quite tricky, not because it changes the pronunciation of the word itself, but it changes the pronunciation of the group of words such as article + word starting with H.

If you look into my article "How to read in French" (coming soon) when we pronounce a group of words such as an article and a noun starting with a vowel, we link the words together.

For example :
Un ami is pronounced Un nami, we link the word Un and Ami because Ami starts with a vowel.

But if we look into another example, this time with a word starting with a consonant :

UN COPAIN doesn't have a link between Un and Copain, simply because Copain starts with a consonant.

It's going to work the same way with words starting with H. We have 2 different types of H, H aspiré and H muet.

H aspiré works as a consonant therefore there will be no links, when H muet works as a vowel, there will be a link. Let's see more examples below.