Jaap Weel There's a lot of regional variation in the pronunciation. Some Flemish dialects and "plat Haags" (the lower-class sociolect of The Hague) even turn it into a monopthong. The standard IPA, though, inasfar as a standard exists, is /œy/. That reduces it to a previously unsolved problem: figure out how to pronounce /œ/ and /y/. The latter (/y/) you'll need anyway, since it's used in Dutch words like "fuut" (a type of bird), and the closely related /y:/ in words like Dutch "muur" ("wall"). The former (/œ/) is actually a lot less critical, because it varies so much across dialects that I would dispute there's even really a standard. The /œ/ symbol appears to have been picked mostly because they had to pick something. You can substitute something like /ɛ/ or /ʌ/ or even /ɑ/ and no one would be the wiser. Before I looked it up, I honestly expected the transcription to be /ɛy/. So anyway, the hard part is to learn to pronounce /y/ as in "fuut". There, the best you can do is just... - Meryn Stol