French was Shocked by Names of France Luxury Brands All Around the World! (India. US, Italy, Japan) 

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Stop cheating viewers. That "Japanese" girl spoke Korean. Maybe she speaks Japanese too but apparently her first language is Korean.

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@@shejekan😂😂😂

We have the same name

But that's a universal thing, isn't it?

Likewise in other countries though

I was looking for that comment, thx.

Thanks. I was so confused because I could have sworn she spoke Korean. I started to doubt myself despite having taken Korean language classes 🤣

@@xrarnaxyou must be new here? haha dw it happened alot, usually the japanese and chinese will choose to speak korean instead of english

She isn’t Japanese, she is Korean

@@myaopan i have no time to explain, but yeah she is.

He is a French who learnt English. If you do any attempt at learning some foreign languages as a French, you have to understand what you're doing with your mouth and tongue, because some sounds just do not exist in French and you have to put your tongue in weird unnatural places to produce them ! For instance, both English 'th' are a torture test for a French mouth, we can spend years and still be baffled with them. Same with the Japanese "r" - many French people just give up and use "l" instead. Actually, it's quite surprise how many version of the letter "r" exist - even in Europe where the languages stem from a common origin, the French "r", the German "r", the Italian "r" and the Spanish "r" all sound different ! Even in France itself the "r" has a lot of local variations - it rolls a lot more in the south of France (a bit closer to the Italian version), while is more of a throat sound in the eastern part of the country.

@@dangrth I mean... I'm french as well but you don't need to specifically learn the tongue placement to learn a language. After all, immersion learning exist. It's phonetic knowledge and I'm surprised that it comes from someone that doesn't look like a linguist (so, someone who took language structure as their studies). If anything, I'm more used to people having learn a language through immersion (even though I'm doing a linguistic degree) and even though they are able to do the right placement of the tongue, they can't explain it properly with scholar words. And in most case, I would say explaining our own mother tongue movement requires some studies because it comes so naturally for us that we tend to forget it can be difficult for other language speakers depending of their own language. But I don't know much about Alexander, maybe he did study korean for example at university as a degree (if in France it would be like LEA which is also with English studies so making comparison between language phonetics use would be quite common). So I'm talking about someone whom I don't know, could have the proper knowledge about this.

@@dangrth and as I've learned Japanese, I'm pretty surprised to hear that we, french, struggles with the japanese "r". Mostly because I got no problems myself by learning it through immersion when I was 15. But also because we're used to having different prononciation of "r" depending of it's position in a word (start, middle or end of the word). I've heard some french talking in Japanese and the real accent that we can have is with the "Shi", and even with my linguistics studies, I can't explain why... While for sure, English speaking people tends to have a stronger accent in Japanese because of the phonetics, but also because it's metric is strictly different. Putting the emphasis by exemple is a natural ryhtmic in English while Japanese puts "More" (not the English word) and doesn't emphasis much unless it's ん or double consonne like って. EDIT : NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT, nowadays french people tend to add a little "sh" at the end of word and it's really frequent in a termination with "i" as in "Merci". So maybe, the 私 accent I've heard back then was because of this 🤔

I mean how do you know is isn’t 😆 from the way he speaks he’s quite clearly a french teacher in a foreign country or something like that he knows what strangers would struggle with about french prononciation. Probably Japan by the way because there is one time he answers to the japanese girl in japanese !

He's making slight mistakes though. For instance Hermes would be pronounced "erm".

I’m American. I had never heard of the brand either but when I looked up multiple French sources online I saw that the pronunciation you gave as the French pronunciation isn’t correct. It’s Ja que mus. 3 syllables. I as an English speaker would naturally tend to pronounce it two syllables because Jacques is a common name for people, businesses, and landmarks where I live and it’s only pronounced as one syllable Jawk.

​@@anndeecosita3586as a French you can pronounce it with two syllabes. The correct prononciation based on the spelling is as you said, with three syllabes, but most of the time, when we speak we just skip the "que" so jacq-mus is what's left.

Same for us, the most of french people know the italian pronunciation

​@@anndeecosita3586we say it in two syllables like you when we talk

In Turkiye, we can’t pronounce any of these names, because these expensive brand names people can’t afford to buy. They make the fake products of these brands and even so, they can’t get the name right on fake product. So Dior becomes Diör, Gucci is Guçi, Armani is spelled Amrani ON the fake product! 😂

In Tamil, we have silent letters.

@@shankarmgs4056nice, we don’t have silent letters, mostly in Marathi, very few exceptions.

@@shankarmgs4056but those exceptions are due to the conversational language having bit different pronunciation katoon than grammatically perfect word. The dialects add the variety.

In Bengali also we have silent letters! A lot of the spelling doesn't match the pronunciation!

I agree, usually dont have silent letters

It's so weird and cute at the same time lol

I think He's quite tall

He's probably taller than them, but the reason the others look like dwarfs and Alexandre looks like a giant is because he is sitting more in front of the camera. The fact that the whole background is white, creates an optical illusion. Pay attention to the placement of the shairs.

To me Alex was sitting slightly more forward than the others as well as his height.

​@@lissandrafreljord7913 chairs

It is so surprising that I almost thought I was wrong about Japanese and Korean. It was not until I read your comment that I confirmed I was correct at first😂 I wonder how the other people understands her when she is talking in Korea instead of English.

Right?1 I was actually confused they all are saying it is Japanese but the accent and all was Korean.

I think it's because they are in Korea and they all learn/speak Korean. That's why.

The videos r made in Korea. And I think when they talk in koream, they r talking with tre crew too.

Yeah that was soo confusing

I would argue that while Hindi has no silent letters, the ह (h) sounds tends to be omitted in a lot of dialects of Hindi.

But English does.

I agree

Also the thing is that single consonant does exist in "verbal" Japanese. But people do not realize it when they speak.

In that way I feel indian hindi is much more flexible...we have more consonants than English lol

Thank you so much for pointing this out. You're so right, and as a (not native) Japanese speaker that's what I've been dying to try to explain to Japanese people for so long! That's for this reason I don't recommend them to use katakana when they learn foreign languages, or they will be extremely limited from the beginning. However I don't agree with the last part of your comment. For western people for exemple, on the contrary, most of the time it's very easy to pronounce Japanese words, whether we know the Japanese writing system or not. In France, outside of its "R", which should be pronounced more like an "L", and maybe some " long O" or "long U" which are not elongated enough (for example in "Tokyo", which should actually be "Tookyoo" or something like that), all Japanese words are transcribed let's say correctly.

I'd say it's very different, depending on the western language you start out in. I've seen people from Poland, France and Italy doing extremely well pronouncing japanese words without ever seing any Hiragana written out. My comment mainly focused on the overall dominating english languaged mainly monolingual world. But in other languages i'd very much agree with you. I'm German and always felt it's (at least in its pronunciation) very easy for Japanese people to learn, not in Katakana though...

Exactly

i worked with a lot of french people and not once do they try to fix how they talk in english and how they pronounce things xD

I wouldn’t think it’s impolite as long as they are willing to teach me patiently 😂

I have to disagree. Not that you're wrong, but it really depends. Some people here can really be arrogant and love to correct only to feel superiority. I won't risk it by claming a made up percentage of who is trying to help foreigner to improve, or who does it to improve their ego, but I can affirm it's not uncommon. For myself, I will try to correct someone only if the pronunciation is very bad (to the point it's hard to understand), because I know how diffucult and confusing french might be for others. Also, I don't judge people making little mistakes too hard because that's one of the reason french people aren't good at english : judgement. So basically you've to make a difference between people trying to understand you and quibblers. One is trying to help, the other is rude.

As someone who studied French in France I personally found it very helpful the few times it did happen to me. It's very opposite in the US, where someone can speak a slew of English words in all the wrong order and we just politely and quietly try to decipher what they're saying without actually ever correcting them. Then we wonder why people's English end up so broken when we did literally nothing to help them in the first place because we thought it would've been rude. I think the French have the right idea here.

We have a similiar reputation in Germany, but the same way we just wanna help people to improve. And it's in our nature to assume for people just wanting our help and wisdom :D

Mostly say it lui viton (person knowing hindi would get what I mean more accurately)

We say Louie Vuitton... Not only that, we say Saint Laurent not Laurren.. Even Givenchy was wrong..We say more like American guy.. we won't say car- teer

In we never say how you say it. It is just your own way of saying it.

Well this girl is pretty bad when it comes to pronunciation in general. Hell, she even mispronounced the word “pronunciation” at the end of the video. Wish they had a better person representing India.

Exactly

I agree and I’m American. Very refreshing. I enjoy the channel but I wish they didn’t single us out as often.

Same. I'm French and I didn't even know this brand. And I naturally pronounced the "s" at the end. As a Southern French, I pronounce more final letters than Northerners. For example, a town near my town is "Bias" and the "s" is pronounced at the end of the name. Another example is the word "moins" where I naturally pronounce the final "s" sometimes.

Same here, i'm french and i would say JacquemuS with a S

Well I naturally did not, though I did hesitate. If it helps putting things in perspective I'm from Haute-Savoie and we have towns or mountains with z at the end that you are not supposed to pronounce (Semnoz is Semno, Avoriaz is Avoria, Metz is Mè ...) so that might have a role in it

Jacquemus is an overrated brand. It's only got some attention because of Loic Prigent does a lot of interviews for him, and Gigi did that famous Naomi Campbell hair flip. But yea, the clothes look straight out of Kanye West's Yeezy or Rihanna's flopped Fenty fashion line that LVMH shut down after poor sales. It's minimalistic, monochrome boring colors of just whites, beige, nudes, and mocha, simple designs, nothing that we haven't seen before. For a Parisian house, it should not be featured in Paris Fashion Week, considering Paris is the capital of haute coture, and Jacquemus is clearly prêt-à-porter.

pareil, le s parait naturel sinon on dirait un mot étranger

Mygosh I thought i was having a stroke

but everyone seem to understand Korean…is this channel programmed by Korean people??

@@adelinemadelynjohnson5851yes it takes place actually in South Korea

I certainly don't pronounce it hat way, and I'm an American.

@@kevinburnett5475 Just him then 😂. Or maybe he was told to “Anglify” it so they could have more to discuss in the video, although they kind of glossed over his pronunciation anyway!

@@allywell5579nother option is that he doesn’t ever say some of these brands aloud and this was his first time trying to pronounce it. I have heard of Yves Saint Laurent but it has never come up in conversation for me so I have never actually vocalized it. In the US, I also think how we tend to pronounce brands is largely dependent on how it’s pronounced in the advertisements and in their stores. Some companies change the pronunciation depending on the country. I assume that is why many Brits pronounce Nike as one syllable when it’s two.

Yeah. Even in America we don't say "saint" we say EVE-sahn-LOR-ahn. It still rhymes. So it's basically the French pronunciation with an American accent lol 🤭 Dude is probably not into fashion. To be fair everyone said in the beginning they weren't 100% sure on pronunciation but would try their best

It depends city people will produce the words similar to french

They speak korean actually if u really watch this vid

Girl, humans can learn to speak multiple languages. 🤣

french correct each others also since theyr are kids, it s became a second nature/automatic, language is not easy, mistakes are easy even for natives, it s more in a way to self improve others to reach a standard, it's not mean (well it could be , sarcasm can come fast in french) but as the language can lead to many mistakes, correction is useful. for natives, if u make mistakes in grammar, words , it will indicate from which social classes u r from, kinda a social indicator.

Americans and Brazilians usually are the ones who complain the most about this lol

@@LloydSkyLion I didn't find it at all condescending. They don't correct you in a mocking way, more like a teacher-student type of situation. Like I said, I'd rather someone correct me now, so I can quickly correct my mistake/a, than go on with my life saying something the wrong way and wonder why people smirk or giggle when I say it. Like when someone tells my my fly is open, or I have tissue paper under my shoe, or I forgot to cut the tags/sticker off a brand new shirt, etc. Heck, I'd prefer if someone tells me I have sauce on my lip, veggie on my teeth, or booger sticking out my nose lol If you did come across someone correcting you in a condescending way, that's on that particular person, not on the country as a whole. They're an asshole, you carry on, and just mutter asshole under your breath and walk away 🤣

@@alistairt7544 too much text.

@@LloydSkyLion you're just against critics right ? 🤣

This woman is speaking Korean though. Japan is not ilbon, it's nihon.

I’m American but I have heard people say Cartier with the ending as ay rather than yay. Also I would naturally pronounce Jacquemus as two syllables the first sounding like Jawk. I lived most of my life where the first name Jacques isn’t isn’t uncommon for people and place names. So I would associate it with that. Fortier is a common last name there with same ending as Cartier. We say it For tee ay.

I'd say "jah-kay-mus" 😂

As an Italian, that's something I noted too. For example, I always found Japanese much easier to pronunce than Korean because of the syllables that mostly have consonant+vocal group

@@francescomercanti7500 I feel the same with Portuguese (I guess it makes sense because Italian and portuguese is similar)

@@danidanih Tenho certeza que você é brasileiro... kkk sim, português, italiano, francês, romeno e espanhol são línguas românicas, óbvio que vai ter similaridades. Por exemplo, o português (principalmente o brasileiro) é mais similiar ao espanhol (89% de similaridade lexical), o espanhol é mais similiar ao português (89% de similaridade lexical), o francês é mais similar ao italiano (89% de similaridade lexical), o italiano é mais similar ao francês (89% de similaridade lexical) e o romeno é mais similiar ao italiano (77% de similaridade lexical).

@@danih487 acho que me expressei errado, quis dizer que como falante de português eu sinto a mesma coisa que ele, falante de italiano, sente com o Japonês. Até o Obrigado/Arigatou acho bem similar por algum motivo. As vogais etc também são muito parecidas. Inclusive já vídeo de gringos reagindo a português e achando que tavam falando em japonês KKKK

@@danidanih Respondeu rápido kkkk Eu tbm não sei explicar pq pode soar parecido essas línguas... Falam até que o russo parece português kk Mas acho que no fundo parece pq são línguas humanas, e os seres humanos (falando) fazem os mesmos sons, sei lá to viajando aqui...

Yes, they’re shot in Korea

They probably just had a Eng/Kor translator?

The rest won't be able to understand if she speaks Japanese. She speaks Korean probably because she isn't conversational in English like the others. For your info this channel is based in Korea. All of the guests work and live in Korea hence they all have basic/working proficiency of the language. In times like this Korean acts as a mutual language for everyone.

@@leontnf6144 Thank you for your responses. I was just curious, but now I understand.

Burn lol

I'm French and I don't know it either

It's very popular among young rich girls and it's very recent

i m french, never heard of...on the other hand , i m not a woman and i guess they are the marketing target..

It's also unknown in France lol I'm French, and I've never heard about this brand.

Like Jean Paul Gauthier

En anglais au moins vous avez déjà les sons "on" et "in" dans "Don't" et "Ain't"

​@@fs400ion C'est une très bonne observation!

félicitation !!! notre langue est très souvent difficile pour les étrangers à cause de toutes exceptions et sa conjugaison. de ce fait il est assez rare de croiser des personnes ayant assez de volonté et de détermination pour l'apprendre. en tout cas bonne chance et bonne continuation sur ton apprentissage 👍

@@uatch c'est quand même la langue étrangère la plus apprise après l'anglais

@@fs400ion sérieusement ???? j'aurais pensé à l'espagnol personnellement mais pourquoi pas. après généralement les personnes qui prennent le français en deuxième langue ne sont jamais réellement motivé pour l'apprendre entièrement. dans la plupart des cas ils ne prennent le français que pour venir en France ou se donner un style. après je ne stigmatise pas, bien évidemment. il y a toujours des personnes qui partent jusqu'au bout de l'apprentissage de la langue mais ils sont néanmoins très peu nombreux

And Nike is a greek word so the correct pronounciation should be [nǐː.kɛː] and not /ˈnaɪki/, but an American name is an American name, not a Greek one. The same for the Japanese Studio Ghibli where Ghibli is an Italian word and the pronunciation is "gi-blee" and not "jiburi".

Yeah, yep, And then you break down and deceive yourself and deceive lay people if the person cannot pronounce Nike in Statenitan English, mad o, the Greek pronunciation prevails because the English adapted and removed this word from the Greek, in the case of linguistic appropriation, therefore, your hasty layman prevails the Greek pronunciation and not the English one especially in case the person does not speak English. English is a new language that was formed with etymologies of the Greek language, you know, Greek came first, not English, English then comes from Greek. In this sense, there is the example of jacquemus, Latin prevails and not French, the French that came from Latin never the opposite, sequeled. About Ghibli, of course, if the word is Italian, gi-blee prevails and not jiburi, which is from Japanese, forgive japanese people teach italian to them they don't have the european phonetics, nome of them, understand this too. Correct, but before I knew this yet. I work with language and I don't need a little class, you layman know-it-all. I know what I'm talking about, since you speak by assumption and imagination. No more of you and silence if you don't have a new idea to add.