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September 21, 2008 - Auchan

Auchan

Auchan is a French supermarket. The funny is that nobody can prounance this word in Hungary. I always say like “ocean” but my French speaking friends said it was rather “oshaan” or something like that. I think if a company wanna be multinational better to chose a name which is easy to prounance for foreigners too.:) But on the other hand a lot of “hard” French words are already in worldwide use. Renault, Peugeot for example. So maybe I will be used to Auchan one day, too.

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elise said,

September 21, 2008 @ 11:42 am

There is somebody in Hungary who can pronounce it well : Khádi ! But I had to give her one year training ;-)
In fact Peugeot or Renault are not so difficult to pronounce, as they don’t contain “nasal vowels”, which I think is the ultimate difficulty for Hungarian people in french prononciation. (with the “r”!).
Good to see your iphone in action!

Zsolt said,

September 21, 2008 @ 12:22 pm

Congratulation to Khádi:)

elise said,

September 21, 2008 @ 2:05 pm

As a matter of fact, I must confess that she still needs pinching her nose with her fingers for optimal results ;)

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