'Les Cigognes' pronunciation

[ercoupepilot]

This is a dumb question I realize, but the thread under movies about someone's French being rusty brought this question to mind:

How does one pronounce 'Les Cigognes'?

Regards,
Ryan

[bzhyoyo]

see-gog-ye (same "e" as in "the")

gn : difficult to translate this sound into English as this sound doesn't really exist. It's a bit like the n with a tilde in Spanish : ñ
Think of it as the "ng" as in seeing followed by the sound "y" as in 'you'.

HTH

[Cigogne]

Sea-goy-n(uh) (soft "uh" as in when you stop clenching your teeth and tongue to make the "n" sound)

[MilesC]

Sort of like See-goi-nya, (slurred together but not quite). As the previous post stated that French sound doesn't exist in English and is hard to approximate.

[JFM]

Which syllable is accented, please?

[jellytwig]

Try this one, sick ON yer. Emphasis on the On, ending almost silent.

[bzhyoyo]

Originally Posted by JFM

Which syllable is accented, please?

there are no accented syllables in French. The final "e" is almost silent though.

[TOMS]

Previous post is totaly right.
pronounce:
see-go-nee-a.
The last "a" being almost silent.
the "gne" is pronounced as in "new" in english.