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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Ah . . . . I think that it would be pronounced something like Frwahd, then (the "e" at the end should be silent), right?
People often mispronounce it, though, I'm sure. It takes a little effort for English speakers, at least, to pronounce the first part of the word. Reminds me of the football great Brett Favre. Everyone pronounces his last name "Farv," because it is much easier to pronounce than how it should actually should be pronounced, which is something like, "Favr."
I wish that I had paid bettter attention and applied myself more in French in high school and college. I'm doing research work now in which a great number of the scholarly articles and books that I would like to (so far, am not required to) read are in French. Let that be a lesson to all of you kids out there in MobileReader Land who are in school. ha
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Yes, non-French speakers often do mispronounce "Froide". The following link takes you to Google Translate, where if you click on the speaker icon you'll hear the correct (French) pronunciation of
"Froide".
OT: I love Google Translate. I frequently consult it when reading foreign language passages in my English-language books (e.g., the
Mexican Spanish in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy and the Italian in Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti books) and hearing the correct pronunciation helps me better remember their meaning.
It's never too late to learn or brush up on a foreign language. Like almost everything else in this digital age, there's a wealth of
apps and
online classes that make it
très facile to do so.