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Pronouncing ɛ̃: are there variants?

There definitely are variants in the pronunciation of that sound. It depends on things like the age of the speaker and where they come from. I don’t hear that much difference between the two examples you link, but truthfully I don’t have a very good ear for differences between sounds. However, the phoneme /ɛ̃/ of French is usually realized quite a bit lower (closer to an “a” sound) than the vowel phoneme /ɛ/ (and depending on your dialect of English, possibly lower than the sound in “and” as well, so that’s not a great reference point). The phonetic sound is often transcribed [æ̃], which is closest to a nasalized version of the sound in the English word “lad” or “lab”.

 

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