Please note this is the last post for now, but I'll be back in September 2010. Look up my previous posts there are resources that could help with French.
The diaeresis (in French: le tréma) can be put on the vowels e, i, and u to indicate that the vowel is detached from the preceding or following vowel and pronounced as a separate syllable.
In French there are vowel combinations that produce one sound, for example the vowels ai: they can be pronounced like an é or an è. But with the word naïve (naive in English) because there is a tréma it is pronounced na-i-ve, as opposed to nai-ve.
The tréma is also found in unusual vowel combination such as Gaël, Israël, and Noël (pronounced Ga-el, Is-ra-el, and No-el), which are often proper names.
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