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Pronunciation tip: Paris Olympic venues

It’s time for the Olympics again, which means it’s time for lots of names that aren’t English! They’re in Paris this time, which means all the venue names are in French. Many English speakers are confident that they know how to pronounce French. Some of them are right. For the curious, here are the ways these places are pronounced – using fairly standard metropolitan French. And, of course, in English.