travel_kielbas

can anyone tell me how to pronounce au bon accueil?

am planning to have dinner there, but not sure how to say it..

thanks!

blackduff

My accent is bad but I would try something like this.

Bon a coy

Now somebody will say I sound really bad.

Blackduff

robjame

isn't it more like coo-eee (blended quickly together)?
I am assuming that the rest of the name is no problem

cocofromdijon

Hi
on this website write the sentence and find Alain or Juliette who will say it in French
http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
(Copy the whole link)

cocofromdijon

Blackduff, soon I'll check if you can say it properly ;-)

MissPrism

What a great site.
Just for fun, I asked Mike (US) and Charles (UK) to say "Hairy Harry is to marry Merry Mary"

blackduff

Coco
It's my Catalan accent.

Blackduff

Lawchick

Bong awck kai

(nasal g)

cocofromdijon

Wow I'm looking forward to hearing it! :-?
And you don't laugh at my French accent please!

cocofromdijon

If you can say "oeil" (eye in French) just add "ac" before.

JaneB

Cocofromdijon, what a GREAT site! Thanks.

Michel_Paris

Juliette's pronunciation is a little off. She pronounces the two 'cc's like an 's', should be more of a 'k'...as coco has said. "ah" + "k" + "oeuil"

Alec

The endings -euil, -euille, -ueil, and -ueille are roughly pronounced like German o umlaut with a y sound, like -oey; accueil will be akoey.

eurogals

Go to this website: http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php. Under Step 1: scroll down to Alain or Juliette. Then in Step 2 type in what you want to have pronounced correctly and VOILA! You have it.

tomassocroccante

Miss Prism, I put your phrase in and asked the ladies to say it, too. Audrey +UK) said Mary as "Marie" or "Marais" (as in Paris).

Anjali (India) managed the UK differentiation between hairy and Harry that Claire (US - she sounds like a midwesterner) did not. Both of them gave "marrymerrymary" absolute equal, undifferentiated pronunciation.

I thought Charles (UK) gave it the BBC treatment.

eurogals

I should have read all the posts first. I have been pre-empted. Isn't it a great sight. I type in all my destinations etc.

Michel_Paris

Juliette is a little tired today

PatrickLondon

Oh là là, ces Françaises, alors....!

cocofromdijon

Quoi les Françaises Patrick ?!
And stop making fun of Juliette, she said it perfectly well, just a bit fast and serious, I can hear no difference with what Alain said. Is that clear ? ;-)

msm4

How's: O bun ah kuh yeee? Looks like gibberish but may sound OK...try to slop the last two letter-groups together for better effect. Another trick: when learning to pronounce a challenging new word or phrase (when you have an idea of how it should sound, so this trick wouldn't have helped you here, but...), divide it into syllables, then begin from the back of the word, saying each syllable once, then adding the preceding one, repeating the two, then adding the next preceding one, etc. When you run out of syllables and have the whole word, you can say the word from the real start and it should come out OK (do this privately until you master the word b/c you really will sound like an idiot). Someone taught me this a long tome ago and I teach it to my students now and yes, they think I'm crazy until they do it and all of a sudden they can say the word.