4 Americans Try to Pronounce French Words!! (Is It The Real Pronunciation?) 

As a french person , I’ve never felt so satisfied to see people failing to pronounce french words lol

-"I was close" , "no , i wasn't" lol 😂 her confidence is everything

J'adore le fait que dans notre langue, il faille expliquer toutes les lettres que l'on ne prononce pas x)

As a French person, I have to say I was really impressed by Ian's pronunciation. Linguistic crush on him! And I think Lucie had one too 😂❤

right, the adverb "inébranlablement" is much rarer than the adjective it is derived from, "inébranlable", which is still not an everyday word. it does not exactly mean "that cannot change", but rather "that cannot be moved/shaken", and it mostly describes a human attitude, determination/strong will and ability to overcome without flinching any dire situation, opposition or criticism.

We collectively agreed that Ian was the star student here hahah Had a blast filming with these amazing humans! Thank you for teaching us, Lucie! And thank you for having us, World Friends!

I love that the tiny french girl had all the power. 😆

I think Ian did well in French class.😄

The biggest difficulty for you guys (appart from the fact that we don't pronounce all the letters) is that french is not a tonic language. We pronouce the whole word "evenly" I'd say... Which is why the french have a hard time speaking english, because they either ignore the tonic accent inside a word, or put it in the wrong place. ;)

Even as a French man, hearing this, I realize just how much fun the Académie Française had when we invented the rules for written French to make it as weird, illogical and confusing as possible... They had centuries of advance to the Monty Python on absurdist humor !

The funniest part is that "droit" means straight (the direction), right (the direction) it also means law as in "law studies"

I liked that she wasn't hitting them on their heads, but on their shoulders instead.

Where's is Shannon ? She would be perfect for this along the others

I'm French and it's so fun to watch you try to pronounce French words correctly ! + one subscriber !

The lady in pink has what it takes to learn easily: confidence, humour, curiosity and strategies ( when she asked about the 2 l, and searched on the basis of " oui" to try and figure out "grenouille". It doesn't work here, exactly because of the 2 ll, like it was in bouilloire, but, she's on the path) This was tricky, but you can be assured that, if some of are critical over other french people when they fail ( I'm from south-east of France, and believe me, northern french people make fun out of me because my pronunciation not being standard), you have nothing to fear! Actually, most of us are delighted when a foreigner tries to speak french. No matter if the pronunciation is not totally exact, we'll correct you almost only when we can't understand. But, we really appreciate the effort, and may find a foreigner's accent lovely. Meanwhile, we are generally ashamed of having bad accent in english ( it's mainly due to the way langages are teached in school, were we mainly learn to read, write , listen. But sometimes, during a one hour lesson, not a single minute is spent on speaking and pronunication), so If you want to communicate with a french person in France, even if you don't speak french, here is the key: you'll have to learn at least ONE sentence. " Excusez-moi, je suis étranger/ étrangère. Je ne parle pas français. Est-ce que vous parlez anglais" ( I beg your, pardon, I'm foreigner, I don't speak french, Do you speak english?" ) The answer may be yes or no, but at least, asking this in french can really help the person not to feel ashamed about his own english accent.

0:30 Does anyone know that the French girl actually said "nice ass" instead of "a lot" 😂

To clarify 8:30 *After an i:* the "ll" is _almost always_ pronounced as a *short i,* like the *y* in "you". *After any other letter:* the "ll" is pronounced like a *regular "l".*

La prononciation est variable suivant la nationalité. C'est toujours intéressant d'entendre que la sonorité des syllabes dépend des règles linguistiques que nous avons appris. Pour le dernier mot, heureusement que vous n'avez pas dit anticonstitutionnellement, ils auraient été en PLS 😅. Great and very interesting video.

Ian is really good. I mean, still has an accent, but completely understandable. I know that a lot of foreigners struggle with the "in" "en" "on" sounds, but I never thought of how weird "ouille" is for a non native speaker XD

After being the first so many times and go hit and when Chelsea's pronunciation of "Droit" was so good , love her vibe

I love the New York woman! Her expressions are everything lool

0:54 aaand no, french fries are from France. It's a bit complicated. The idea is from France, the overall thing is. Simply, the current recipe used around tbe world is from Belgium. Belgians decided that the potatoes had to be cut in a specific shape, fried twice, with duck grease (or some animal oil)

The french language is a diplomatic language because of the softness ( not aggressive for the ear and very calming ) , rich vocabulary, and sensual .... French like Italian are sexy languages when spoken at a slow rythm

The word "Droit" also means "Law" (like Law studies) , especially when its written with a big D

Bro wanted to get hit hard but his knowledge of French betrayed him 😂

Interesting.. Grenouille is the name of the psychopathic main character in the book Perfume by Patrick Suskind.. The book takes place in Paris, but I never knew it meant frog!

Chelsea 's energy is everything 😂😂❤

it's fine to see people to speak french. Our language is very hard. Merci à vous pour ces vidéos sincèrement.

Bravo les américains ! Ils on bien assuré ! Et avec le petit accent j'adore ! Good job ! 😘

The french lady is so adorable

That's way more fun to watch that I'd have expected.

I love this kind of video with French pronunciation or testing our food, liek the cheese, I'd love being in it and make taste our specialities to others, that's awesome (also trying world food would be great !)

I’m Japanese. I have been studying French. I got how to pronounce all words in this video. Maybe, you memorise even some pronunciation rules, I think it would be surely easy.

Chelsea is so cute!! But she really surprised me when she called Lucie teacher in Korean lol, my brain processed it then went …Wait. Was that Korean just now? I was nOT expecting it! I like understanding all 3 languages used in this video hehehe

Inviting an FLE teacher would have been a good idea to explain quickly and easily what group of letters make what sounds.

Watching from Morocco, french is my second language nd that was funny xD

I love Chelsea !!! More of her please 😃😃😃

Je travail en boulangerie et c’est mon plaisir coupable d écouter les étranger essayer de dire mille feuilles ils sont tellement choux avec leurs accents

C'est franchement cool de voir des gens galérer à parler notre langue qu'on parle parfaitement

Même les mots '' loyer '' et '' royal '' peuvent être très embêtants pour les gens qui apprennent le français.

0:29 Ian: "Beaucoup" (with American accent) Lucie: "aaah, beau cul" 😂😂😂 (beaucoup = a lot, beau cul = nice *ss)

French is a challenging language to learn, whether it be the grammar or its pronunciation. No wonder why French is the 5th hardest language to learn in the world. But I guess teaching my students English pronunciation is a difficult task as well. Most of them struggle with the R's and TH's, not ot mention the short vowel system vs. long vs diphthongs.

damn Ian you got that french finesse ayee!

By doing so they can realize how easy spoken French actually is. It's much more straightforward than its written form

The interesting thing is that the difficulty mostly comes from the spelling. Each langage has its ways of writing sounds. If you forget about the spelling and just listen to the word itself, it's actually easier.

We love Lucie🫰🏽💜 I know some French, but not any of the words they had here😂

ohh Ian is quite good, very impressed, but I really enjoyed they all tried nicely ♥

I never though that french could be hard to prununciate. The video was pretty fun and really cute. ❤

anticonstitutionnellement would be pretty fun to hear

The guy not only pronounces it well, he also looks like a French guy.

Chelsea is the bravest, great energy. Ian defo has some experience with the language. The other two girls made absolutely ZERO effort LOL.

The guy is really l'ose nearly every time! Well done man!

mille feuille =thousands sheets. puff pastry, pastry creme and white fondant

I've been to Atlanta multiple times and I'd say Chelsea is the most Atlanta-like person I've ever met 😂

J'ai adorée cette vidéo, merci.

I love how gentle she was with that hammer 😭😭🤌

Oh jesus as a french newbie getting almost all of these words made me feel so satisfied

Lucie!!! Hi lucie! You’re so beautiful and awesome! Sending you hugs from the USA!

The french way is softer, not like Jazz hitting their heads with a sadistic smile.

I really like that people can have fun with that. And not hate, just have fun. And learn.

Chelsea is such an icon LOL

Even modern Belgian historians says that the french fries are from Paris.

I swear the guy on the right is among us, he's so close everytime, either hidden french or he's learning the language haha ! Was fun

So funny, they are good for lot of these words, bravo à vous !

Something like that with Dutch words would be nice :)

Stop saying fries are Belgian. It has been proven that they are French. Food historian Pierre Leclerc, a Belgian, gives the origin of French fries. "It is clear that the fried potato was invented at the beginning of the 19th century in Paris", he explains to the media Brut. "It was born in the Parisian street, it was born in the hands of the Parisian street fry vendors. And it was they who made the fried potato the popular emblematic Parisian dish of the 19th century before this fries be exported to Belgium. So it is clear that the fries are of French origin".

I love Chelsea's energy.

French: written and spoken are two different languages, but at least there are fixed rules. English: sometimes you pronounce letters in a way, sometimes in another. No rules just randomly.

Ian is impressive. He even successfully pronounced inebranlablement which is very difficult according to me. the first "e" is é but there's no accent because there are two consonants just after it. Mille-feuille is really hard too. In mille we pronounce "ll" like "l" but in feuille it's kind of like "y".... As a native french speaker it sounds absolutely easy but most of us are not able to explain why like the frenchgirl in this video ! But I promise, there are official rules lol ! (However they are very complicated. For example the word "donc" (which means therefore) was modified a few weeks ago. It's grammatical class isn't the same anymore 🤣. In fact, the people who decided to change that debated and finally thought that it was more logical that way... Sorry about my english skills (obvisouly, I'm French !). If sth isn't correct please don't hesitate to tell me.

As French speakers. Let me tell you this, speaking French is quite hard for beginners.

That freezer laugh tho at 4:28

Using a piko hammer for that is actualy pretty funny 😅 good to see a guy also among these Girls 😄

Hunter is so United States 🇺🇲

C'est un pure délice de pouvoir tout comprendre

The face of the french girl at the word Inébranlablement is priceless

Ahah c trop drôle. Trop bonne ambiance en vrai, c'est trop cool :)

Ian has a good pronunciation most of the time. And he's very handsome to perfect the whole.

As a french I had a good laugh

4:28 she started laughing like Frieza🤣🤣

Hello , fun video. I am a french and i guarantee you, i never heard a french guy say in a conversation this word at 8:51 "inebranlablement". Thanks for sharing and don't stop having fun.

Whether we pronounce h in English depends. Herb like the plant. The h is silent in American English and pronounced in British English. But Americans pronounce the H for the person named Herb but not in the name Hebert. No t sound at the end of Hebert either.

As a french, i don't know why but knowing how to pronounce the words from my own language made me feel proud 😂😭

Ian is a legend 🔥

omg it was deeply satisfying to see them struggle this hard since some americans are like yeah french is like baguette croissant and they can't even pronounce croissant correctly

Très intéressante cette vidéo, et on s'aperçoit que notre langue n'est pas facile à prononcer, mais on ne fait pas non plus les malins avec les autres langues. :)

Chelsea should have more appear on nexts videos.

Ian and Chelsea are my two favorite people!

Ian is the kind of american guy that every french person would fall in love with.

the language of romanticism and of the great classical writers.

Yay Hunter. And good try for the whole team. French for me is a mixed bag. I do okay until I have to do that back of the throat stuff.

Cool !

Pretty sure Ian was a french mole in the guise of an american 😂😂😂 Man, I did not expect an american to be good at the French pronunciation, with an accent though😂😂😂 He is like the topper of the class who sits in the front row 🤣🤣🤣

Lucie is acting in a dominatrix vibe, so funny 😂

For the "ill" sound they are struggling with it's pronounced very much like the "y" in young, you, yellow, crayon. In grenouille the -ouille sound is basically like saying you but reversing the sounds like "ou-y" it's not an order English speaking people are used to using so it can take some mouth gymnastics. There are however quite a few exceptions where those letters are pronounced "il" as in "ee-L". These exceptions include the number 1 thousand which is in the word "mille-feuille" that they tried to pronounce here and any other word related to mille such as millionaire. Other exceptions if I remember my 1st grade reading lessons in France from 25 years ago include: chinchilla (loved that word as a kid), ville ("town" and all related words such as village), all words starting in ill- (illusion), all words ending in -illaire (capillaire), tranquille (and related words), a bunch of random medical terms (pénicilline...), and some names of places and people (Lilles, Achilles...)... and others I've surely forgotten! And there is as far as I remember no rule for when exceptions apply. It's one of those cases where you just have to try and hope for the best. As the words above are the exceptions you'll have a higher chance of success pronouncing it as "Y".

Lucie its a attenciously french teacher 🌹💋🤙🍻🥂🫂👏🌹

I can't take my eyes off the guy. 😍

As a French person I can tell you im so satisfied to see people struggling with my language 😅

9:06 actually, it's written inébranlablement, with an acute accent. Without this accent, the pronunciation changes. ;)

4:25 i thought she was going to mispronounce it but she made it, i'm proud of her ;)

4:21 She nailed it!😲👏