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I once spent an hour trying to teach a French girl how to pronounce the English month name "August". It was a failure. She could get the "au" or the "ust", but never both together. When I first began to use everyday French I had horrible difficulties pronouncing words that contained "roi". I used to frequent a café called "Les Trois Rois". It always seemed to come out as "Les tra ra" or "Les twa wa". And then there was the problem of combining different "u" sounds with "r"s as in "une livre de prunes rouges". They would always be either "prunes ruges" or "prounes rouges".
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