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Originally Posted by pdurrant
It's not that I can't pronounce it, it's just that that sound doesn't happen in English. Well, except in other borrowed words, e.g. masseuse. So it doesn't sound right in English.
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actually, i think the sound does occur in english ; i believe it is more or less the vowel sound in the words "her" "fur" ("occur"...) etc., if you can say that but replace the final "r" with a "z" sound then it's quite the same.
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Originally Posted by kazbates
Out of curiosity: I've been pronouncing "liseuse" as ~lisoos~. Is that not correct?
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pretty close, yes. you can hear it pronounced in this page :
http://www.mediadico.com/dictionnair.../LISEUSE/parle
click on "écoutez la définition" if you want to replay it.