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Pronunciation of some French names (e.g. Sophie Neveu)



 
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Pronunciation of some French names (e.g. Sophie Neveu) #1 (permalink) Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:17 am   Pronunciation of some French names (e.g. Sophie Neveu)
 

Hello everybody,

I would like to know the English pronunciations of the given nouns. Could you please help me?

They have all been taken from Da Vinci Code.

1- Jacques Sauniere
2- Chateau Villette
3- Citroen
4- Sophie Neveu
5- Opus Dei
6- Fache

Many, many thanks in advance

Tom

PS: If you could give some examples rhyming with these words, it would be great help, too.
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Say it the French way #2 (permalink) Wed Aug 30, 2006 16:01 pm   Say it the French way
 

By ‘English pronunciation’ of foreign names, do you mean their original pronunciation with an English accent?

1- Jacques Sauniere => [ja:k so:n’je:r]
2- Chateau Villette => [sha:’to: vi’let]
3- Citroen => [sitro’en]
4- Sophie Neveu => [so’fi: n9’v?] (the sound ‘eu’ in 'Neveu' is like the German ‘?’ and has no exact equivalent in English)
5- Opus Dei => [‘opus ‘dei:] (or, with an English accent, ‘oup9s ‘dayee)
6- Fache => [fa:sh] (as in ‘marsh’)
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