I feel like becuz he's french his name pronunciaton is different. so i want to know how to pronounce his name. dumb question i know but im just curious

Its pronounced as if his name was Leon. I have no clue why they spell it that way.

it's pronounced french.

Pronounce it Lion Rafal. French never say 'e' or 's' if it's at the end of a word.

Pronounced as Leon Rah-fahl

It's spelt as Li and not Le because in Japanese "Le" makes it sound like "layon". "Li" in Japanese sounds like "lee".

It's not meant to be pronounced as Lion as in the animal, but if you do people will still know who you're talking about.

Actually I think it is meant to be pronounced like the animal, just not in english

i say it like the animal

That shit say Lion and thats that. I tell you half of you dudes swear you fucking Japanese or something now that ya'll played VF lol!

Lion = Lion
Leon = Leon

Just to get on somebody's nerves
Jean Reno + Professional = Leon (Lee-On)

haha i actually say both it depends where the sun is

Until I heard the announcers on the game say "Leon" I had always called him "Lion"

Luckily, the finnish way to pronounce 'Lion' is the same way as french pronounce 'Leon' ;). And thats the way I have pronunced it, although we finns would pronounce Leon also differently..

To cut it short:

In French
Lion = Lee-on
Leon = Lay-on

Everybody got that? Okay then.

This topic is so annoying. Its the same as the damn Kage pronunciation topic. I cant count how many times I have ran into people from other countries who screw up my name or other words. I speak English, thusly I am going to pronounce it the way its spelled, if they can do it, I can do it!

Auvii:
I prefer to pronounce stuff the proper way, exactly because of that sentiment you just described. It's annoying when people mess up your name, so I make it a point to try and not to do it to others.

I do notice that some people don't care about it too much, or don't want to bother other by bringing it up. We've had some people from India over at work, and when I asked if I was pronouncing their name correctly they just mumbled over to another topic.

Maybe its because a lot of people mess up my name no matter where I go. I've got a Dutch first name and a French last name. Its a great recipe for hilarity though. Whenever I meet someone that's reading names up from cards its always a surprise what they're going to make of it.

aside:
And I'm a bit of a language freak. Not the best learner but word deriving, old language, poetry and such is something I find strangely interesting.

It's supposed to be Lee-on but that's no fun... I say it like Leon, the french city because it sounds so cultured

Not to be a kill-joy but, erm, the city is called Lyon or Lyons, and its pronounced exactly like Lion in Fench. So it should still be Lee-on phoenetically...

I've always called him Bill...

Lol, I when I was much younger, I called him Lion, and I'd pit him up against Wolf, just so I'd have some weird animal-named battle lol

But yeah, now I know it's pronounced Leon =)

I think Lion it's a mistake, for many raisons :

The "correct french way" to write "rafale" (with the e or ending the word)
The commentator says clearly Leon
etc etc

But Leon is so old dated name for french people, that I understand Leon change his name into Lion lol.