French People Try to Pronounce Difficult English Words! 

I want to see Americans pronounce difficult French words. Like, squirrel is tricky for non-Americans. Ecureuil is hard for non francophones to say.

Funniest thing is that most of these words are french originally and were imported into english langage like theatre, paradigm, temperature etc. 😅

As an Englishman, I found the pronounciation of the words just fine, for example "turtle". I feel the lady was looking for a specific regional American accent, which is obviously not the sole correct way to say the word in question, as there are many variations. The French subjects all clearly had a great grasp of the English language, so it seemed a bit of a non event, in my opinion.

I've never seen so many people from France on World Friends before , loved them , especially the guy

It would have been interesting to hear both the full french pronounciation of these words, as well as their french equivalent.

I think Jazz was way too harsh with this, at one point it was even difficult to watch. They pronounced the words just fine.

Watching her hit these people when they're pronouncing it right is r/mildly infuriating.

I don't believe anyone mispronounced the words. Jazz didn't take into account that everyone pronounces words differently even in the U.S. She just wanted them to speak like Where's she from.

Just wanna say that all the French guests were very intelligible for me as an English speaker, like I can understand them 100%. And they're accents are so cute!! And just wanted to add to, so many people study English that it comes in so many accents, and for the most part, we pretty much understand most of it, and it's not really a big deal. So if you're feeling insecure about your accent, don't worry too much and just speak it to the best of your ability and most English speakers will try to understand you :)

This judge is bad. I’m not even through everyone trying to pronounce “thorough” and it’s already evident. Most people have pronounced it the same exact way during the first round and she is only bonking some of them. The second round is an improvement and she’s still penalizing them.

I'm French (born and raised in France later moving to an English speaking country) and they said most of the words correctly and I feel like they got a bonk on the head for no apparent reason which made me mad I remember having an accent but ppl still understood me but she bonked their heads bcs they didn't have an American accent that's unfair imo

The thing that makes it difficult here is that most of the words are actually very similar in french : Yacht is also yacht Temperature is température Movie theatre is cinéma but we've got théâtre for theatre Otorhinolaryngologist is otorhinolaryngologiste and Paradigm is paradigme

J'ai l'impression qu'ils prononcent correctement les mots et que je ferais totalement pas mieux X). Mais quand elle dit le mot en anglais je vois pas de différence

I couldn't pronounce French properly no matter how hard I tried. These people are doing a fine job AFAIC

I think she was often arbitrary about what she would pass or reject. I would say she was being pedantic, but her explanations were often simply wrong and didn't even describe her own speech. Most of the contestants had rather thick French accents, but even when their pronunciation of the word was perfectly fine, she often rejected it. Trying to please her couldn't have been much fun for the contestants.

I was getting confused at first because some of them that sounded wrong to her actually sounded right to me but now I see what this is about it's not pronouncing difficult English words it's pronouncing difficult English words the way Americans pronounce them.

Jazz must be fired!

honestly the lady was looking for a very specific american accent and it’s very unfair

Some of these words were pronounced fine - they just got a bop on the head for not pronouncing with an American accent 😂

I fell like they should've had someone who teaches English to non-English speakers, because they were saying some of these words correctly and she still marked it as incorrect. . .

This is so typically American - judging others based on their own standards and wanting everyone to be the same as they. The title of this should be, "French trying Californian pronunciation of English words".

Isn’t the premise of this video to pronounce English words…. not pronounce English words with an American accent? Many of the times, they were bopped on the head. They had pronounced the word fine, just with a French accent. A lot of them even pronounced it exactly the same, but were told only some were correct. Also a lot of the corrections felt a little patronizing. It’s giving silly American.

Me watching her hit the people who pronounce "thorough" the same as me 👁️👄👁️

english speakers will be like 'these words are so difficult i'm sure they will be confusing to these people who speak another language' and then the words come from latin and the other language is french

I went to school with Jazz!! She's an amazing person!!

The way this girl was docking them for SAYING THE WORDS RIGHT! Miss girl maybe you need an English class cause they were fine.

In re: "mischievous" -- One of my English teachers in high school *hated* the "miss-chee-vee-us" pronunciation (since there's no I after the V) and she threatened to give a "zero for the day" if anyone said it like that in her class. Since it's not a commonly used word, it never came up, but her making a big deal about it stuck with me, so I always make sure to use the "miss-chiv-us" way instead as a result.

How about the word: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?😂

To be perfectly honest it’s not uncommon for Americans to pronounce the same word in different ways depending on the situation or mood. Case in point the word literally. Usually it becomes a four syllable word when people want to add emphasis. Interest is another that can go multiple ways.

That last girl definitely knows her English it’s spot on and I don’t blame them for having a hard time but it’s also accent that makes it sound different I think she discredited them a little too much but yeah I would definitely do worse learning French I probably wouldn’t be even close 😂

Mischievous in American English is ONLY pronounced mis-cheh-vus.. Every other pronunciation is just common errors. It doesn’t mean it is an acceptable form of pronunciation, it’s just an often mispronounced word. Like for example some people say SAHL -MON with the L sound, but really the only correct way to say it is Sah-Mun

Cutos to all the french people. I absolutley love their accents

Bruh she would hit people for no reason lol

they were literally saying them right and still got bonked? I’m upset at this

The people were saying it correctly, why was the 🔨 hit? This word is Hellenic🇬🇷 It’s almost like a tongue twister😂 Ωτορινολαρυγγολόγος Oto-rino-laringo-lògos In ancient Hellenic oto means ears 👂🏻 Rino (rinikò) means nose 👃🏻 Làringas > larynx means throat And lògos goes at the end of many doctor professions. So, he’s a doctor for the ear-nose-throat system, cause they’re all connected. We are usually saying “orilà” using the first letter of each “part”

What is funny is that some of the words come from old Norman French.

I loved the french guy's accent in english

French accents are adorable.

I think squirrel is one of the hardest for French speaker 😂

As an English speaker who is learning French, she was literally bonking some people that pronounced the words the same exact way as some others. Like thorough. Someone said it a way and someone else said it the same exact way but the girl only bonked one person

French accents are so beautiful 😻

The rhino in Otorhinolaryngologist, isn’t pronounced Thule the city of Reno, it’s pronounced like the rhino in rhinoceroses. The the first i is pronounced with a long i sound not a short one.

Alan Davies saying 'Well they were thorough' - Thugh-ruh, when discussing Knights Templar.

They all need to say "Hamburger" like in pink panther!!!

It was a black guy with the hammer in the other video also, it sounds like one of these pro-black bs program or smth.

I don't like banging the head

Every time one of them would get hit in the head i couldn't help but to laugh poor things 😂

Squirrel is super hard to prononce for french ! Tongue spain for sure !

As a American and a Californian I think the French and other countries don’t understand that we don’t really care about accents as much as we care about your ability to communicate. United States is a huge melting pot with many people from all over the World. What I mean is can I understand you? Because I don’t have time to waste. You could be holding up the line at lunchtime or something. Nobody has time to correct you on your accent. Today this little old Asian lady was ordering a sandwich from a Latina girl that was working. The old lady was holding up the line during lunch because of her inability to communicate with the girl. Which created more stress as more and more people entered the store. English was for both of them their second language. everybody knows you only get 30-45 min lunch. As long as you speak clearly and directly. You should do fine. As an American I noticed when I go to other countries people get hung up on proper pronunciation and I find it a waste of time and a little pretentious.

You ought to hear Danish people try to say "probably in the refrigerator ". 😂

I can imagine Jazz hazing people in a sorority

As someone who is born in the u.s and grew up here, i had no idea how to say the first word through until now. I thought it was pronounced throw or thought without the T. TvT no one taught me this but i should know it and i already forgot how to pronounce it when when typing this. Im going to just rewatch the part when she says the word the right way until i vet it right

This is great. I wonder how English speakers would say French words

American trying to tell French how to speak English.. using mainly French words..

*8:10** In French, we say: "ORL"* 😂💙🤍❤

The lady in the brown sweater was much better at English pronunciation than the rest of them

Not fan of that hammer...

Ils peuvent rêver pour qu'on apprenne l'anglais avec cette méthode...

The second pronunciation of "mischievous" is the correct one; with 3 syllables, not 4.

Indian shorty was letting all her ancestors anger come out 😂😂😂 they not british relaxxx💀

Rest of the world gives us shit for not saying words **to the letter** correctly, so when WE do it, its annoying?? Gurl bye 😭

Vive la France !! 🇫🇷🗼🥖🍷

The American is giving school English teacher vibes 😂

"No American" hahaha 2:38

I love French

You guys are ragging too hard on the American girl. Of course she is going to pronounce words with a California accent/inflection. There was an English guy with the hammer a few weeks ago, and he absolutely mutilated words of Native American origin. You cannot tell me those words were of English etymology and pronunciation. I did not hear you UK people complaining then.

"Hi, my name is Aboubacar, i am from France" 😂😮

I’m literally British and Im struggling to pronounce these words 🤣

These are all American pronunciations and words. Bear in mind that France is right next to England and French are taught British English in school

As an English person, this is interesting. We pronounce most of these words differently to the American pronunciation. Thorough, for example, is pronounced thuruh/ thurrer. The way the guy in the white t-shirt initially said turtle is how we would say it. We say Yot for yacht. Mischievous- mid-chee-vus

Paradigm can equally be pronounced as; Para-Dim or Para-Dime

The blonde and black lady have very good French 👍🏻!

Where is the second part? The revenge! Six french with hammers around the american?? 😛

I am not sure how most people in the US say it, but i do not hear people pronounce the first R in temperature where I live. It sounds more like temp-uh-cher

English is one of the easiest languages out there. That’s why most English speakers can’t even learn any basic foreign language.

More of French people plz❤😂

French is being spoken in many other countries though

From the first word on, they were pretty correct. Besides they all speak English. The French, in general, are very good with teaching languages. They did the same thing with a group of Americans who failed, for the most part, pronouncing French.

Squirrel!

The black girl 🤌🤌😍😍😍

Hi, french guy was cool, and american girl too

i love french people

oof I pronouce "thorough" differently xd

The American girl looks like Lesley-Ann Brandt (Mazikeen in Lucifer)

YALL picking on the American girl like she made it her mission to annoy you all 🙄 She JUST did her job...She clearly was there to judge their AMERICAN prononciation. It's the producers's fault for not being more specific in their title....

That is the luckest guy in the world

Can you have them try to pronounce Worcestershire sauce

The guy is so french with the "boum let's go" and "baaah"

"Wait, no American!"🤣

The judge just wanted to hit people tf lol

Some of this can differ depending on the region of the USA. I have heard some people from the Southeast say theater as thee ay ter. I think most Americans would say they are going to the movies and not use the word theater unless it’s a stage production type. We don’t tend to use cinema that much per se but we often say cinematography. Contrary to popular belief we also say film but it tends to be in certain contexts. For example I say film festival, feature film, film school. I wouldn’t ever refer to a documentary as a movie, but I would call a documentary a film.

The American actually doesn’t know how to say otorhinolaryngologist either. It’s oh-toe-rhino (like the animal) at the beginning. I have never heard anyone pronounce it like her and knowing the root words you can be certain she is incorrect.

7:39 It's actually oto RHINO as in rhinoceros, but I'm sure we pronounce it the other way like the city Reno in Nevada.

Mischievous is MISS-che-vus, not miss-CHIE-VIE-us, because there's no "i" between the "v" and the "o" (in other words, with the second pronunciation, it would have to be spelled mischievious, and it itsn't).

As an English person, everyone including the American said "thorough" incorrectly 😀

7:54 I was shocked of Briggite first🤯 I can't pronounce this word😂😂I can't even write it correct "otorhinolaryngologist"😝

I can say them easily as I'm fromthe USA but listen to th m struggle made me forget

Ok glad I'm not the only one who felt like they were saying the words correctly. She was hitting most of them for no reason🙄

Ouate ze matteur wiv our accent ? There's a lot of words in which we struggle, such as this damn squirrel 😅 Courage les amis, vous vous en êtes bien sorti. Cheers from France 👍

No squirrels? I pronounce the "rhino" part as /ɹaino/, not /ɹino/. And I've seen "otorrinolaringologista" in lists of difficult words in other languages too.