milkmanoffical

[steel spade]

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[static pebble]

Both are generally pronounced the same, /wi/

[lime rampart]

but yeah technically it shouldn't

[valid linden]

They are really close.
if you want to go down to the details, you can find some differences, but i'm fairly sure that the French pronunciation of "oui" is within the leeway of realisations of English "we", eg. there is probably an English accent out there that gets extremely close if not spot onto French oui.

[hidden idol]

The “w” sound in oui to me sounds soft

[valid linden]

The difference imo is in the vowel, not the initial w.

[hidden idol]

Shoot you’re right. My point still stands

[winter bramble]

yes, they're pronounced differently lol

yes, they're transcribed the same most of the time with ipa

yes, you can hear the difference

[fleet pewter]

i think its that the english "w" as in "we" is pronounced with the top teeth touching the bottom lip and voicing it, and the french "oui" is doesn't involve the teeth, and is more like you are pronouncing it like ou-i if that makes sense

the english w is pronounced in almost the same position as v but french it is positioned like a vowel

[marsh quartz]

My teeth don't touch anything in either language

[winter bramble]

me neither

im not a native speaker of french but i pronounce /w/ exactly the same in both languages

[marsh quartz]

I pronounce them a bit differently but I don't know enough to describe it (and obviously there's sort of a range + thinking about it consciously introduces bias)