[hotnfresh]

One of my French professors said (and I think she was serious?) that the French have conjugation-bees, not spelling bees, because French spelling is too easy to be able to build a contest around it. If you can say it, you can almost certainly spell it. Too few exceptions to that to make spelling bees work.

[mathieuh]

It's the other way around, if you can see a word written you can pronounce it, but French notoriously has a large number of homophonous syllables.

[a-french-anon]

We have dictée exercises at school, during which an entire text is read aloud and then you're supposed to transcribe it.

[mkingston]

I need this for practice. Perhaps I ought to use text-to-speech and then transcribe the audio back to text and compare.

[omneity]

I beg to differ. Here's a simple example, both "eaux" (waters) and "oh" sound the exact same.

[psychoslave]

Ô haut zoo aux eaux d'ozone,

Qu'un verre en verre vert de vers

Puise en vous, puis en vous puisse envoûter vos badauds au bas dos.

[Namari]

Actually they don't