How to pronounce jeune

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ʒ	This sound is the sound represented by the 'g' in "beige", or the 's' in the English word "leisure".
œ	To pronounce the French 'open eu' vowel, imagine the body of the tongue slightly "forward of and below center", with the mouth roughly half open and the lips rounded.
n	The French 'n' sound is similar to the 'n' of English "tenth", i.e. pronounced with the tip of the tongue touching the upper teeth.
ə	The 'schwa' or 'neutral e' is pronounced with the tongue in a "central, relaxed" position and the mouth also in a 'half open, relaxed' position. Note that many French speakers actually tend to pronounce this vowel as a 'close eu' vowel (as occurs at the end of words ending in -euse), or at least with some rounding of the lips.	Even though the word ends in -e in the spelling, notice how in the pronunciation, this vowel isn't "fully" pronounced. Instead, the syllable before it receives the stress.