Help me pronounce Le Cellier...

[Microcell]

I don't want to look like a fool with the CM when I call.

Is it Le Cell ie r

or Le Cell i ea

 

[Sammie]

luh cell' yea, the r is silent.

 

[Microcell]

Thank you so much, I actually took French in HS, so shame on me! I took Spanish in College, so they are lucky I don't call it Le Cellierrrr!

 

[lynninpa]

I was told it was la sell e a
And if you are laughing at me right now? Hey, that's only what I was told!

 

[Micca]

I'm pretty sure most CMs don't know the correct pronounciation. I think luh-cell-yay is correct.

 

[Sammie]

The actual pronunciation is kinda hard to spell out, too.

Since it is French is the final R is silent. Le, means "the" so that is your article, cellier means cellar. The cellar.

the le is actually more similiar to the li in the word lips.

La is one syllable and cellier is two.

Now you are ready Le cell' yay and a free short French lesson.

Enjoy the food!

 

[MyGoofy26]

Don't worry - I heard a number of CMs calling it "Le Celli-air" while I was there. I studied French all through HS and 4 semesters in college and it just grated on me, LOL, but it seemed most CM (away from the restaurant) pronounce it the "American" way

If you want to get really authentic though. . . most Francophones say it so fast that they don't even fully pronounce the L's, LOL. It comes out more like "Le say-yay" . . . or something like that, LOL. We Americans give "cellier" three syllables, the French give it 2.

 

[DeterminedOne]

When I called for ADR's I must have said it wrong because the CM corrected me and pronounced it with Lee yah on the end, like the girls name.
When you call maybe you should just spell it for them, or say you want to make ressies for the steak house in Canada.

 

[webray]

I'm pretty sure most CMs don't know the correct pronounciation. I think luh-cell-yay is correct.

This is correct and how the cast members say it when they greet you at the restaurant. As far as castmembers on the dining line...they just guess at how it should sound.

 

[jsmla]

Lots of French class in college and many trips to Paris and "Luh Say Yay" (stress on the "Yay") sounds right to me. (That's how I pronounced it when I made my ressies anyway and the CM seemed to understand, I hope!)

Dorky aside: French pronunciation, like that of English, differs from country to country and region to region. I grew up in a "French" speaking part of the US and the language spoken there was quite different from the French I encountered in Europe. Maybe Canadian French is the same sort of thing?

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

I'm pretty sure most CMs don't know the correct pronounciation. I think luh-cell-yay is correct.

Yes, this is correct. (confirmed by the French teachers I work with)

 

[Microcell]

Thanks to everyone! I said a weird combo of Le Cell yay, and the CM said "Le Cell yah" I got what I needed at least and she didn't laugh, so I think it is good!

 

[PandaBear & Boo]

Being from Canada the way to pronounce it is

Luh Sell Ay NOT Luh Sell Yay

You have to take the last L in Sell and use it to begin the word Ay. So it sounds like you are saying Sell then Lay. You have to say both words fast enough so that Sell and Lay come out together as one word. Like 'Sellay' it has to flow as one word. "Le Cellier" means 'The Cellar'. Hence why the restaurant looks like you are in a wine cellar.

Hope this answers your question.

Cheers!

 

[Ms.Mouse]

When I spoke to the hostess at the restaruant, they pronounced it like this: Try this..... Let's go back to English class with the short/long sounds...Remember that??? It's ground into my head and when I can't get something, I separate it into syllables and put a long/short sound over the letters
So it's Le/Cell/i/er

Le as in Lee (long e sound)
Cell as in Sell (like your selling something)
i as in ee (long e sound)
er as in Ya (with a long a sound)

Now put it all together and say it fast....

 

[bethbuchall]

If you want to get really authentic though. . . most Francophones say it so fast that they don't even fully pronounce the L's, LOL. It comes out more like "Le say-yay" . . . or something like that, LOL. We Americans give "cellier" three syllables, the French give it 2.

This is what my ds told me as well, though he is only in his 2nd year of high school French. I still say the L's.

Beth

 

[MyGoofy26]

When I spoke to the hostess at the restaruant, they pronounced it like this: Try this..... Let's go back to English class with the short/long sounds...Remember that??? It's ground into my head and when I can't get something, I separate it into syllables and put a long/short sound over the letters
So it's Le/Cell/i/er

Le as in Lee (long e sound)
Cell as in Sell (like your selling something)
i as in ee (long e sound)
er as in Ya (with a long a sound)

Now put it all together and say it fast....

I have never heard a Le pronounced like that. Must be pronunciation variations between the Canadians as well. When we first got there, the two girls pronounced it "luh sell e yay" The girl that sat us, you could tell was Quebecois and she pronounced it "luh say yay" (the way I had it in my mind from all those years of French class)

This will probably one of those never quite fully answered questions - too many French dialects

 

[DisneyWorldWisher]

I guess I pronounce it wrong.

I pronounce it Le-Cell-e-yer
Kind of funny.
Or Le-Cell-e-air.

I switch between the two in pronouncation.

 

[hawt1]

When I spoke to the hostess at the restaruant, they pronounced it like this: Try this..... Let's go back to English class with the short/long sounds...Remember that??? It's ground into my head and when I can't get something, I separate it into syllables and put a long/short sound over the letters
So it's Le/Cell/i/er

Le as in Lee (long e sound)
Cell as in Sell (like your selling something)
i as in ee (long e sound)
er as in Ya (with a long a sound)

Now put it all together and say it fast....

Definitely not the long e sound for Le...not even the short e sound...more like the u sound from push.

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

Definitely not the long e sound for Le...not even the short e sound...more like the u sound from push.

Yes.

In English, it's the sound referred to as "schwa". I always thought that was such a fun word to say, lol.

 

[PandaBear & Boo]

After living in Ottawa, Ontario CANADA where there is a lot of French-Canadian people. Like I said in my earlier post it is pronounced like Luh-Sell-Ay. Put it altogether fast you have Luh Sellay. The Le is pronounced like the start of the name Lucy and the Cellier is pronounced like Sell and Lay together Sellay.