I’m having trouble pronouncing the “œ” sound in these words. It sounds to me like it’s in between “a” and “u”.
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1What can we do to help on that matter ?– EriaJan 14, 2016 at 16:38
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@Eria Actually, I was wondering to which vowel in English the “œ” sound is closest to. {a, i, u, e, o}– SegwayintoJan 14, 2016 at 16:42
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2I would use forvo.com for things like this. Reverso also has native pronunciations for every word in its database.– temporary_user_nameJan 14, 2016 at 18:02
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1Project Shtooka is a multilingual database of audio recordings of words and sentences. Audio files are said by real people. It is used by by wiktionary whenever they give the audio of the words.– NoneJan 14, 2016 at 18:24
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4It'd be like how you pronounce the "ea" part in pearl, I'd say.– SakeJan 14, 2016 at 20:51
2 Answers
Think about "hour". Split it in two syllables. What you are looking for is exactly the second one.