How to pronounce “frivolousness” in English

You get to dance, swan-like, a few times, then you're expected to teach it. What is pretty anyway? Not just beauty. It's an attitude toward life, a frame of mind, a lightness,even a frivolousness; it's attractive and charming, yet also naive. It's endearing particularly because it's so innocent, because it seems to disregard, or simply be unaware of, allthe things in the world; the experiences, the people, the accidents that increasingly defy and deny the sense of giddy hopefulness. When I told a friend I was writing a book