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HelpRe: Favourite names that aren’t easily pronounced in English
in reply to a message by peregrine
I'm a French speaker and here are the French names I find are hard to pronunced for non-native French-speakers.
Anaïs. I think umlauts can be confusing. It mainly means that ''Ana'' and ''iss'' are to be pronunced seperately)
Camille (the ending in ''ille'' is so often pronounced Ka-meel, but the sound in French is hard to describe)
Eulalie, Eugénie, Eudes. Iseult. All the ''eu'' sound that are so lovely in French, seem harder to emulate in English. It ends up being ''yoo''.
Flavie and Flavien. In English it often seems to be pronounced like ''flavor'' (flay) whilst it's closer to the ''a'' in ''apple''.
François, Françoise (the ''ç'' is more like ''sw'' and ''s'' and the ''ois'' is not quite like ''swa'')
Don't hesitate to rate my different PNLs: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/246179
Anaïs. I think umlauts can be confusing. It mainly means that ''Ana'' and ''iss'' are to be pronunced seperately)
Camille (the ending in ''ille'' is so often pronounced Ka-meel, but the sound in French is hard to describe)
Eulalie, Eugénie, Eudes. Iseult. All the ''eu'' sound that are so lovely in French, seem harder to emulate in English. It ends up being ''yoo''.
Flavie and Flavien. In English it often seems to be pronounced like ''flavor'' (flay) whilst it's closer to the ''a'' in ''apple''.
François, Françoise (the ''ç'' is more like ''sw'' and ''s'' and the ''ois'' is not quite like ''swa'')
Don't hesitate to rate my different PNLs: http://www.behindthename.com/pnl/246179
This message was edited 4/25/2024, 1:06 PM
