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Moisés Solé wrote on Wed, Dec 3, 2003 09:47 AM UTC:
unless some french speaker corrects me, I pronounce it 'jah-DOOP'.

The 'j' sound is hard to describe. it's sort of an in-between of
'sh'
from 'show' and 'y' from 'you'. Try it and you'll get pretty
close.
if that's too hard for you (and I understand it can be), just saying
'yah-DOOP' will work pretty well. The point is making it clear that you
don't want to move that piece.

Antoine Fourrière wrote on Wed, Dec 3, 2003 02:24 PM UTC:
j'adoube is pronounced zhadoob, with zh like s in pleasure or vision, a -
german or spanish a - like in ask, but shorter and oo - german or spanish
u - like in balloon, but also shorter. There is no tonic accent.

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