Quote Originally Posted by it-ogo
Quote Originally Posted by snorkyller
It's because the french sound "u" doesn't exist in the russian langage. Ю is really not the same sound. "u" sounds like pronuncing Y and И at the same time, not one after the other as with Ю(YИ). SHe may have understand you if you have said "пyре".
After she finally recognized what I was talking about she pronounced something like "пухи".
"пухи". Yes, you're right! x is really like the r ! Thank you, I was searching the last week a way to right r with russian alphabet.

In french, we don't have a russian x (or a spanish j, or an arabe kh, etc). So we usually pronunce "r" like x, but in some places, the pronunciation is more close to p. Pronuncing p correctly has been my nightmare in my spanish and russian courses.