Am 10.05.2010 18:25, schrieb Darren New:
> Invisible wrote:
>> The guy sitting there is called Léon Boëllmann.
>
> é in french is pronounced like the A in Hate.

Um... well... actually, no, it isn't. There is no such phoneme as the 
french é in the English language.

There is a /sound/ in the English language that comes close, but it only 
seems to appear alongside other sounds - for instance as the /first 
part/ of the a in Hate; I guess a French person trying to explain how 
"Hate" is pronounced might actually render it as "héite".

So to pronounce "Léon" properly, you'll need to get rid of that "i"-ish 
ending of the "Hate-a".

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