God: So, do you want tonnes of vowels and consonants that aren't pronounced, along with changing vowel combinations based on the word just to confuse the hell out of everyone else? The French: Yes. God: How many? The French: All of them.
It's funny that 85% of France doesn't speek any an i do mean A N Y other language, so when they come to a restaurant where i work they speak only french. And even if they ate all and i get 'SUPEEEEERBBBB' at the end, they leave bad review because i don't speak french. And they usually never leave a tip. I speek 5 languages, english is one of them, non of them fluent, and work in a tourist type of restaurant, french for me is mission impossible.
The lady with the ball cap is like Joey trying to learn how to introduce himself in French. She just makes a bunch of random "French sounds" and sees what sticks.
Yes. She must have learn it in school she succeded to say inébranlablement wich is hard to say even sometimes for a french person when speaking rapidly. The others were 👎but they are not exposed to french as english is the lingua franca (As french used to be in the 17th and 18th century, next it might be mandarin or hindi, who knows?).
me: "hey man, why don't visit me over here in Hedgehog, we'll party it up!" french guy: "can't right now, i'm stuck in Grenouille for business, but this place rocks too"
I mean, why not, there probably are towns named like that. People name things after some other significant things. Perhaps, some patch of land had lots of hedgehogs or frogs, you don't know.
I'm 100% french and tbh when I was 6 and learning how to read I read "Oiseau" (= bird) as Ohissaye-Ahu Quick french lesson : "Oi" reads as "Wah", as in voir (to see), croire (to believe), soir (evening)... "Eau" reads as "O", as in bateau (boat), seau (bucket), eau (water)... And when an S is between two vowels it reads as "Z", as in brisé (broken), mysogine, Asie (Asia) So "Oiseau" = "Wazo"
@@christopherrivera9827 Fam there's no 'Wha' at the end of some of those words. French write 17 lettres but only pronounce 4, why would she add some pronounciation to the word. Atleast you can try, you know
Harmxn dude ... she doesn’t even speak French like how would she know tht? I was raised in America basically my whole life but born in my home country so I speak another language besides English and y’all can’t blame them. Ofc they should try and it’s clear she rlly isn’t trying to mock but genuinely try. I don’t get mad if ppl can’t pronounce my language well or whtv. And if anything the way they say it was how I thgt too so it’s learning experience for all. Don’t blame them if they don’t know the language or expect the rules of French or whtv. Lmao.
@@yeahh8 oue mais pour, connaître des gens qui vivent en France depuis ses 10ene d'années, ils ont pas un aussi bon accent.. Ma tu comprend que c'est automatique naturel,
2:40 that girl took up French I swear. No one can guess French/know the meaning of those words just by gut feeling. If she is doing it by her gut feeling then shit she smart asf.
As a frenchman I have to say her pronunciation is on point. Especially the "R"s which are notoriously hard for English native speakers to get. My guess is that she's got french-speaking family or she's studied french for a decent amount of time.
I can understand French but I can't speak it. I can read almost perfect German but I cannot understand it. I can read arabic and guess what it will be in English...and I am a Persian who learned English from watching animation. It is a weird thing that I do, I am the same with using my left hand and right hand... But you are right, you can't tell one word's meaning out of the content.
To be fair, English and French are actually coming from two different lanaguage trees. English is more a part of the Germania tree (hence why German is easier to learn for native English speakers and vis versa) while French is derived from the Romantic tree (hence French and Spanish have a similar cadence and like easier to learn for those native speakers.) Even though Latin is heavily influenced in most European languages Engish is a bit different considering the historical rulers that have changed the language and added things to represent different influences..... for example there is a lot of French spelling in English that both makes sense and doesn't make sense in terms of pronunciation but the spelling being completely different from what you'd expect. The history of language is incredibly interesting for all cultures. You can learn a lot that way
Knowing multiple languages really helps you tie links between past cultures. So many words have somehow exchanged in between languages, hundreds of years ago, to become used words in today’s official tongues.
If you can understand french, there's a very good channel on RU-vid about linguistic named "Linguisticae". it's interesting and entertaining, while dealing with sometimes complex subjects. Obviously there's subtitles if needed.
@@sextupledvanillabeans559 true. Main reason why English speaking peeps shouldn't consider others "lower" just because they don't speak the language. Like dude, we weren't born/raised speaking English 😂.
Steve Hangzo well learning English is important (not saying French isn’t). It’s just that it’s the most common language. U don’t need to take French like u do with English.
English and French have the same stupid problem about spelling. By the way, half of the English vocabulary comes from French or Latin so we are in the same boat...
I'm french, and I can tell that even for us, native, "inébranlablement" can be a little bit tricky sometimes, at least if you're in a distracted mood. Dont get me wrong, it's not like it was very difficult or unpronunceable, but it's part of those long words where the tongue can easilly slip, so you better have a bit of your concentration to utter it or you might take two or three attempts to do it right.
she is most likely to be French just by her looks (I used to live there) not saying I can assume anything by looks but she definitely has some French in her.
Two people in this video pissed me off, -The girl who added “wha” to the end of everything -The guy who was talking too much/ trying to be funny Edit: To be more specific: -The woman pissed me off cause it seemed like she had been purposely mispronouncing the words. -The man didn’t piss me off, he was just annoying/cringey. Pardon My French
2:22 "moisture, mold, MILDEW" I'm a French native from the south where a century ago, lots of people were speaking Patois (a traditional language in this region of France) and Mildew is a word that was used in Patois to describe the Moisture on plant's leaves (used a lot in the viticulture (vine-growing) wich the south west of France is the biggest wine productor of France)
@@GrievousDu38 bah ouais, je trouve ça bizarre que 2 mots de 2 langues différentes ai la même sonorité et le même sens alors que les origines des 2 langues sont complètement différentes. À aucun moment le Patois n'a influencé l'anglais ou inversement. Du moins d'après mes connaissances (qui ne sont pas extrêmement étendue en linguistique).
hang on i need to know how many of you actually see her wearing PURPLE instead of white. if we're talking about the one with the black truck in the back??
that dude in glasses is trying way too hard to be funny Edit: People asking which dude i mean; there's only 1 dude trying to be funny thanks for all the likes btw!
izzy startin actually it’s the other way around, a lot of letters or syllables are reduced to make it easier to pronounce like a flow in the river, but I’m not talking about grammar etc
@@CDTranslate I was talking about how pronunciation is confusing for non native speakers because there are a lot of vowels. But I agree in many ways French is easier than English.
Matori Shiro Yeah, but if you’re not French Canadian and simply studied French in school, you’re just as likely to end up with a more metropolitan French accent.
Ah yes, the sequel to "Hedgehog? " "I'm pretty sure that's a city" : "Grenouille"(frog) "it just feels like a place, i would love to have a house in grenouille"
I know very very little French and I got a bit of these correct (I paused before) or close to correct. Sometimes I absolutely butcher things, but languages are patterns and it’s easy for me to get the pronunciation close enough it just makes sense to me.
“There’s like 6 letters in that word and you only made three noises” As a bilingual person, I’m not kidding, I ended up being light-headed from laughing because of how much that explains the whole language
The guy in the green with glasses is so annoying and ignorant. “You can’t pronounce Os like G”. It’s a different language with different pronounciation. Edit: I’m not expecting him to know how to pronounce it, just don’t claim that they’re pronouncing it wrong
Let's see you be in front of a TV camera and asked to pronounce words from a language you don't have a lot of experience with. At least he's lively and he's trying, so chill tf out.
@@emery_is_silly Meanwhile I'm a German learning French at school and I'm like *what's up with the French pronunciation and why the heck does the Subjonctif still exist*
The man in the green shirt and I are on the same vibe about pronouncing French words ;-; This is why I was glad to learn Latin.. you say it as it’s spelled no problem (you learn like a few of the rules of “v” sounding like “w” but it’s pretty simple)
@EconphileTheAI its a really old joke that's just floating in public domain since forever so nobody stole it , infact I have heard it in some very old American show itself
@@bozoeren6451 I don't see how that is disrespectful and ignorant. Not many Americans need to know French compared to Spanish or Chinese in certain areas
@Ben Garcia huh. Seems odd that you come in here attacking people and calling them offended but they all seem calm and collected. Maybe you are the one who is a little self concious.
@@inconnu4961 yeah I’m learning it to talk to my relatives in Quebec (I have like 18 great aunts/uncles there who have kids and grandkids). Most of them speak English but not all.
Also trying to re-learn it to eventually become bilingual. Though here in Canada we sometimes get indundated with so many different dialects it can be confusing at first to know which one is right! 😄
that one girl with the leather jacket - her french was actually pretty lovely! her accent was good! i was surprised when i heard her, i wasn’t expecting her to speak so well
@@ehaitem know, knife, lamb, plumber, psychiatrist, pseudonym, Wednesday (that’s a whole syllable that’s not pronounced), Gloucester (again, a full syllable gone), ... There are countless silent letters in English. But the most difficult thing is the inconsistency in how vowels are pronounced (know / now ; yes / eyes = you add one letter in a word and it changed how a vowel in a different syllable is pronounced) without any systematic rule. At least in French when you read a word and know the rules of pronunciation, you know how to pronounce 99% of the words.
Both the Parisians trying to say English words and this one are hilarious 😂😂😂. I don't speak French, but Ive watched so much hockey my entire life that Ikind of picked up certain French pronunciations. So I actually got a few of these, which impresses myself, at least 🤣🤣🤣
@@seraby7151 dude it's their language. How the F can you call a language "habit"? Guess you're one of those typical ignorant stereotypic American guys lmao.
@@Exokris Weirdly enough, I feel that English is the closest to most French pronunciation. If you know Spanish, German or Italian, it's quite a leap to get to French in terms of pronunciation, where there are no long vowels and dipthongs are pretty settled. (I'm fluent in Spanish and trying to learn German, so I've noticed.) In English, there are a lot of long vowels, like in French, the there are A LOT of dipthongs that are very similar to French ones. The problem is that English-speaking countries are really bad at teaching their people how to properly learn a second language...
