i'm now looking at my list of least favorite french words to pronounce and going "too many r's" for about 40% of them and "skill issue" for most of the rest. some of these are actually very fun to pronounce i just couldn't wrap my tongue around them a year or so ago, but now i can i guess??? so that's very exciting. makes me hope that someday i'll be able to pronounce the rest of them. this is a bit pie in the sky because i really don't see myself ever getting there with procureur du roi but you never know. and luckily the french abolished the monarchy so it's not like i'll ever have to use that phrase in modern conversation.
anyway here are the words i actually love pronouncing now:
décaféiné
diététicien
filleul
pneumonie
i now feel normal/neutral about these words that used to be hard for me:
automne, condamner
douloureux
électricité, énergie
inférieur, supérieur, etc.
itinéraire
lourdeur
salmonellose
sclérose
subodorer
succincte
words that are definitely within the realm of my current capability but i haven't practiced them enough:
bugle
hiérarchisation
méditerranéen
phtisie
words that are still the bane of my existence but i live in hope:
[yʁ] plus at least one other r or [y] sound: chirurgie, fourrure, marbrure, moirure, nourriture, ordures, peinturlurer, procureur du roi, prurit, purpurin, sculpture, serrurerie, structure, sulfureux, tournure
all words beginning with ur-, hur-, or sur-
other difficult sequence of r's and vowels: construire and other -truire verbs; lueur and sueur; utérus
too many r's: marbre, martre, meurtre, opprobre, proroger, réfrigérateur, rétrograde, rorqual
difficult sequence of vowels and/or semivowels: coopérant, extraordinaire, hémorroïdal, kyrie eleison, météorologique, micro-ordinateur, micro-organisme, mouillure, quatuor, vanillier
not pronounced the way i would expect from the spelling: indemne, penta-, punk
just hard for some reason: humour
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