Louis? C'est lui (was: Russian orthography (was: A perfect day ...))

At 22:30 03/02/00 +0100, you wrote:
>
>Why "of course".  We anglophone are supposed to be even worse at 'foreign'
>sounds, but I have no difficult in pronouncing 'lui' & 'Louis' differently.
>The semivowels are, to be sure, both rounded, but one is made at the front
>of the mouth, the other at the back.  The two words don't sound the same to
>me - and, of course, aren't the same.
>
Then you are an exception (how long did it take to you to learn to master
this sound), as AFAIK, this semi-vowel is the most difficult sound to
master for foreign people trying to learn French (I saw a programme about
Phil Collins learning to sing the songs of Tarzan - The Disney movie - in
French - phonetically of course -. It was Eric Serra - the music of the
Fifth Element and all the other movies of Luc Besson - who learnt him, and
he said that the most difficult part was to make Phil Collins pronounce the
'u' in 'lui' correctly). But of course, after a while you learn to make the
difference.


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