THE BEST SIDE OF THE FRENCH ALPHABET

As an example, if you recognize that the letter i looks like ee as in “cheese”, rather than i as in “time”, Then you really will much more easily know how to pronounce these kinds of phrases as merci A cedilla under ⟨c⟩ signifies that it is pronounced /s/ as an alternative to /k/. So je lance "I throw" (with ⟨c⟩ for /s/ in advance