A short spoken pronunciation tutorial by Hadar Shemesh explaining how to pronounce the word "entrepreneur." The speaker breaks the word into syllables, describes vowel qualities (noting French origin), consonant changes (t before r sounding like ch), stress placement, and alternative realizations of the final syllable.
How to pronounce entrepreneur, we first start with the ah, as in father. So even though the word is spelled with an e, it's derived from French. And then the sound is closer to the ah as in father. So the first syllable actually sounds like the word on. On. Turn it on. That's the primary stress. So this syllable is going to be the highest in pitch and the longest on. Then we have tr, a t sound in r and a schwa. But when the t appears before an r, it actually becomes a ch sound, as in chips, tr TR as in truck, tr and then we have pr a p sound in r and a schwa PR entrepr And then finally we have ner. That last syllable could be pronounced as noor or newer. I just pronounce it as ner, an n sound that shifts to an r. NER entrepreneur.
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