A short spoken tutorial explaining the English pronunciation of the French-derived word "genre." The speaker breaks the word into two syllables, describes the first syllable as a 'j' sound (as in 'father') and the second as a quick 'r' plus a schwa, and emphasizes that the word has two syllables, not one.
How to pronounce the.
Word genre.
This word originates in French as well, but it's vastly used in English, and it has an English pronunciation which I'm going to teach today. This word has two syllables. The first syllable.
Is jaune jaune a.
J sound, the as in father and.
An n jaune jean.
The second syllable is quick and short. It's an r sound.
And a schwa. Genre Genre.
So unlike what it feels like or seems like, this word does not have one syllable.
Genre.
But two syllables.
Genre genre.
What's your favorite.
Literary genre? Let me know in the comments.
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