As a foreigner, 1) it takes long indeed, tho almost completed. 2) the gap between how it’s written and how it’s pronounced is non-trivial.

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  10. To the first point, I’m also confused about construction in Switzerland. Projects that would take a couple months at most back in Canada stretch out for years here.

    Here in Lugano we had them close a road and reroute the bus for almost 3 years just to install a single roundabout. We’ve had a blue parking area half closed off in order to hold construction equipment that never gets used for over 2 years now.

    There’s so many ongoing construction projects that seem to get worked on for one day per week, and are just constantly left in a state of limbo.

  11. I’ve been living next to Renens for 2 years and took the train there countless time and I’ve always said “Re-nens”

  12. I thought I had forgotten how to speak french for a moment when I saw “r-heu-neu”

    It’s a lot more like “ruh-na”, if anything

  14. It’s pronounced exactly as it is written. You can’t expect foreign words to be pronounced according to whatever standard your native language has…

  18. >the gap between how it’s written and how it’s pronounced is non-trivial

    That’s a good way to sum up English.

    But I agree that its homophone Renan BE is easier to pronounce correctly when you don’t know it. Place names ending in -ens are tricky, as a general rule in Fribourg you pronounce the final s while in Vaud you don’t.

  21. I always find it amusing when English speakers exclusively try to have a go at any other language, what ensues is fail, denial and the absolutely ignorance to their own racism, oh wait that’s offensive right, their ‘nationalism’ lol😅

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