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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
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tee hee, florence, i was just writing a very long explanation (to say basically "i don't know"
) but your solution is better... but, your youtube link doesn't work !
anyway, the short version of my now pointless reply is : i'm not really sure, because i'm not too sure how you pronounce "few", "food", "book" etc.
i recently heard an australian person say "good" and i noticed they pronounced it with a very pure long "o" sound, "goood" rather than the much shorter version closer to "gud" you can sometimes hear. i would say it's closer to "few" than anything with "oo" (particularly in light of the "oooooo" pronunciation), but "few" is a diphthong like "fee-oo" and french "u" is not. it's similar to a german ü i believe, if that helps you at all. i once heard someone explain how to pronounce german vowels by saying "form your mouth as if you were going to say "ooo" and then say "e" (the name of the letter) through that shape" and i think that's a pretty good explanation.
as for "mum-oo", it could be maman maybe, is the end more like "oh" : "ah" than "anne" ?