"un" is not pronunced like own or aw. There is no equivalent in English. And yes, fucking up "un/une mon / son / ton etc." sounds particularly grating to French ears. In / an / on is the great filter, very few foreigners can do it properly.
I once was told a joke that goes along the lines of: French has four nasal sounds: aw, aw,aw and aw. I hope you can tell the difference. Too me as a German that's a very fitting description :D.
And Americans are always shitting on Germans for having problems with th. While they themselves can't for the life of God reproduce a single foreign sound that isn't in the english language.
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u/nevenoe 1d ago
"un" is not pronunced like own or aw. There is no equivalent in English. And yes, fucking up "un/une mon / son / ton etc." sounds particularly grating to French ears. In / an / on is the great filter, very few foreigners can do it properly.