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>>Now you'll have the pleasure of learning to pronounce French expressions properly, learn that "masseuse" is not mass-OOS, but massuhhhse, Croisant is not kwa-SAHn, but KWA-sahn, Notr Dam not Noter Dame, et al:-)
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>While you and others and in the French mood, I have a question about pronouncing "vin" (wine). In one manual I found it says that the "i" sound in this word should be like "a" in english "lamp". To me, "a" in lamp is an open "a" and not at all like "ah". But on the tape I am listening, the "vin" sound like "vah". Am I just having hearing problem or the manual is not correct by giving "lamp" as an example of the sound?

Yes, like va but the a is pronounced through the nose. Actually it's the whole "in" that is pronounced this way. Similarly "maintenant". Think of the way we pronounce maintenance in English: the "ai" is pronounced nasally.