"Mick Butler" <pariscyclesuk@hotmail.com> schrieb:
>You say it like Pooke. Nice and long.
well - almost :-) the "u" is short, not long. You might try to pronounce it like "Pookh" with a short "oo" and without putting any emphasis on the "k".
(I understand it is almost impossible to teach a native english speaker how to promounce the "ch". the sound that comes closest is a little like "sh"; JFK had phonetically written down his famous "ich bin ein Berliner" speech and had the "ich" as "ish", iirc.)
Martin Appel Munich, Germany (sorry for the previous post; mousebutton finger was too fast...)