@Svitac they are arrogant, sorry but they are. I have traveled extensively and the most arrogant people were the French and the nicest IMO the Germans.
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"
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.
@halide pas vraiment, l'anglais a une très mauvaise correspondance entre la manière d'écrire et la manière de lire. C'est pour ça que nous apprenons le français avec une méthode syllabique ou semi syllabique et eux avec la méthode globale. Leur grammaire de base est plus simple mais comme c'est une langue avec plusieurs origines, la prononciation est très difficile à prévoir.
@Millie and Mars Tbh the confuses French as well. Sometimes we're not sure whether it's un ou une for a word, like COVID. It was "le" originally but because COVID is the illness, its feminine so it should be la. Nobody uses la.
@salami lid You should learn the IPA. It's an alphabets of sounds and it'll be easier for you to understand how to pronounce things if you can link them to a letter that makes a sound in your language. Example : [j] is the sound that makes the "y" in "you", and the sounds that makes the "ll" in famille (family).
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! 😄
@Inconnu 49 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.
@wa7saka You have to take 1 language for 3 years or 2 languages for 2 each in US high school to graduate. Given its usually 5 to choose its a 1 in 5 chance a person as taken french
@sara French is one of the choices in N. American schools to take, along with ASL, spanish or german or another random one like korean or arabic. 1 in 5 chance one of these people took 3 years of it (doesn't mean they speak it, but would know some words)
@Giustino Colameo yeahh that’s what I thought because when I was playing along I got all the pronunciations correct but it’s only cause I got the hang of the accent in the french language
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"
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.
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
@Carbon Crow but the deal with Spanish is what I'd call a more difficult grammar. Both French and Spanish have difficult grammar, but Spanish takes the crown.
@ׂ Agreed. However, I would definitely say Spanish is easier for an English speaker to learn that French. The way French pronunciation evolved makes it much harder for English speakers to notice similarities between words whereas with Spanish a third of the words sound practically the same.
Kurocoon Contrary to popular belief, only a small fraction of words used in modern English actually comes from the Vikings/Norsemen themselves, though most of them are used on a daily basis. The greater impact on the vocabulary had undoubtedly Latin and French (probably even Greek). Having said that, I'd argue that the easiest European language to learn for native English speakers would be... Dutch! It's one of the two most closely related languages to English (the other being Frisian), the grammar is quite similar, ie. no declination, no proper gender (yes, there are two different definite articles, but only one the indefinite), relatively simple tenses, and quite an interesting vocabulary with a lot of similar words, and dare I say even pronunciation... Like others pointed out, German, although having the same roots as English, is grammatically quite complicated, even though the spelling rules are much simpler and more consistent than that of English, not being heavily influenced by a myriad of other languages.
the English language is extremely Simple and then the frenches has like ten different sounding letters in each word I swear it’s so complicated as hell it sounds like a wooki from Star Wars doing mdma and gurning attempting to say something the sounds and way they pronounce stuff is absolutely mad and the funny thing is the only reason the English language has some weird as sounding words in it or words that don’t make sense in it is because we have some french words in are language I swear there words don’t sound like words they sound more like yawns or just an expression that isn’t a word like a moan or something but not words
@Lucas Latin American Americans are people who are legal citizens of the United States of America. Latin American or Central\South American aren't citizenships. You're a citizen of your country not a continent. I'm latina, and latinos really should drop this argument, it just makes us look dumb.
English is global language.I live in South East Asia. Majority of us can understand English very well and at least can speak basic English.A lot of people in my country learn English at a very younger age like 6 or 7 years old.
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.
@symphony137 exactly you just proved my point in the latter part of your comment. "Exposure" be it through official means or not. Edit: you kinda countered your own argument
Not necessarily. I speak three languages but not French and yet I know the basics of their pronunciation and how to mimic it. If you have a good grasp of languages and get exposed to them here and there for instance through tv, media or traveling, it's not really that unusual.
I learned a year of French about 10 years ago and still pronounced all of these correct! Thankfully MOST languages other than English are fairly consistent in pronunciation. French letter combination pronunciations and their silent letters are basically the same in every word they have 👏🏻
A persistent myth… English is not the only screwed up writing system or the most screwed up one. The cause of it is that as languages evolve, if the writing system doesn’t change to reflect pronunciation it gradually grows more arcane.
I get sad about it because Le Grenouille was the last old school French restaurant in my city (actually the same place this was filmed) and it closed recently.
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.
“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
I'm french, so i do realize how hard my language is compared to some languages I've learned or studied like Spanish, English, Italian or Russian. Good luck with our language guys 😂
I feel like they were more lenient with the Americans. They pronounced words with a really heavy accent and got them right while they didn't do the same for the French. There were some times I was like 'come on, that was close enough'
I studied french in highschool I feel like once you get the hang of enunciation its actually pretty straightforward, of course there's always some rules that don't make sense and some exceptions like with all languages. Also as an English speaker there are certain sounds that I just have to put extra effort into making but I can pull it off. At least it's not like in Mandarin where if you change your intonation a little bit it changes the whole word.
I took French all through high school and then got a college degree in it, so I know it well. When I went to France I got compliments on it but would never pretend that I don't have an American accent. I think what's being missed here a bit is that if there are two languages notoriously famous for having COMPLETELY non phonetic spelling systems, it would have to be both English and French. (As opposed to Spanish) Children of both languages have to learn patterns of reading and all kind of exceptions because of the ridiculous alphabet combinations being put before them. Native children of course already can already produce the sounds of these spoken words in their own language, so that's how they can learn to read aloud correctly... eventually, by miracle of effort! So...granted there's a bit of clowning around here by the participants, but asking an English speaker to glance at a French word and make heads or tails of it is with minimal or no exposure to it results in the fun results of this video.
As a Chinese I’m way more comfortable with French pronunciation. After half a year of studying French, I was able to pronounce most words I saw. My English is pretty advanced now but whenever I see a new word in English I have to make my online dictionary pronounce it for me.
Flush Gorgon Agreed. Imagine a foreigner to each language seeing a native speaker write out these really difficult sentences and then hear the native speaker pronounce them in either of the languages: Could you thoroughly confirm that the water is at roughly the right level of purity for the next manufacturing process, please? Qu'est-ce qu'ils donnent à l'autre groupe, des rapports de recherche sur quoi que ce soit dans l'histoire ou quelque chose des sciences naturelles? (Apologize if there is a mistake in this one I'm not advanced in French)
Quite. Two languages thriving on exceptions. I think French is slightly easier to read out loud though, because its vowels are consistent, unlike in English. On the other hand, French seems impossible to write correctly.
The beautiful brunette is probably fluent in french, there s no way she can pronounce french words that well, her accent is damn too good, or else she took loads of french classes. She had me at saying inébranlablement, she nailed it like a native (I am one). Plus this is a word that french ppl never use in their daily lives, how could she pronounce it so perfeclty. Well, overall, she should become a teacher, its a sign of fate. On a last note, I read a comment where someone said she was showing off, this is utterly stupid, if she is good at french and gets asked questions why would she pretend being bad at it? People and ego issues are real.
French has a number of Germanic vowel-sounds because of its history. When the Roman Empire collapsed, different dialects of Vulgar Latin developed in different areas. In the northwestern area, Gaul, the Gallo-Romans were taken over by the Franks, a Germanic tribe. For a time Frankish was a prestige language, and so the ordinary people started to pronounce Latin words with Germanic vowels. Those vowels are now spelled œ (German ö), eu (also German ö but pronounced like Norwegian ø), and u (German ü). For example the Latin word pura (POO-rah) became in French pure (pronounced "püR").
@Erik Eriks English doesn't have these 3 Germanic vowels at all. Nor does it have four nasal vowels found in the French phrase "un bon vin blanc." The sounds are difficult for English-speakers to learn. In fact the sounds aren't found in the other Romance-languages either. But Portuguese has two of the nasal vowels.
I remember how my French teacher made me over and over pronounce words till I got it right. So thankful because when I went to France it was nice to communicate with locals 🤗
It's so funny how when you become fluent in French you kind of become able to tell what thing you should or shouldn't be pronouncing even if you don't know the word (: French is one of my favourite Languages but it really is so annoying ! I remember as a kid i cried for a half an hour when my mum told me that in Longtemps you don't pronounce the G, the T, the P and the S and both the N and M are nasal sounds and not actually prounounced (: i thought it would be impossible to read anything in it especially that my native language *arabic* is a language where you just read what is written, except for 5 words maximum
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.
i think that one woman who kept on pronouncing them right probably spoke a language really similar to french, maybe spanish or something idk as a person who also speaks french (though not completely fluently bc it's not my first language), i found this very funny
I’m American, and I tried to pronounce all the words the way I would think they’d be pronounced before I heard them, and it’s so different. My mouth did acrobatics to try and pronounce them. It’s almost like there’s something stuck it your through when you try and spit out the words. But it still sounds so cool when you get it right, it really is a beautiful language.
Hpw terrible is americans school system if people in ur class pronounce Literally one of the most used words like quest cay ce. Then what do ya'll see in these lessons like really nothing
I thought I wouldn’t be able to pronounce these words, but after hearing them it was really easy. Spanish is my 2nd language so that helped. Still would never be able to learn french without someone speaking to me
Lol I studied French for two semesters in college and now I can barely put a sentence together in French. I prefer Spanish because words sound like how they're written.
As a french, it's funny to see all people saying '' it's hard to speak, '' '' it helps me to learn Spanish... '', i learned spanish and it's easier to learn Spanish than German for example, i have some problems with english, but i think i'm good,
Just so you guys know, Romanian sounds exactly as you write it. Sure, there are some groups of letters that are spelled differently, but they are pretty common so you'll get used to it relatively easy. The grammar is the most horrible thing in Romanian.
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
@Kirsty Diaz People who are going on about the spelling are people who learned French in school, according to foreign language teaching systems that have it all wrong. Learning a language involves two steps, neither of which is spelling: listen and repeat. You know how I know this? Because every single one of us has done it successfully at least once. We all had five years of successful language training leading to a high degree of fluency before we ever gave a single thought to how words were spelled. Every person reading this has learned a foreign language to a very high degree indeed. And if you want to do it again, that's clearly the best way to go about it.
@Who's Who But the pronunciation rules are all about how you leave logic behind and go down some other route. Of course, once you've learned the rules it's relatively easy, but the rules themselves are immensely complex. Don't tell me 'grenouille' is a logical spelliing. If you want simple rules, go to Spanish or to slightly lesser extent Italian. My Spanish is basic, but you could show me any word in Spanish and I could pronounce it right away. French is very much not in that category.
@Kirsty Diaz The only word she stumbled over, inébranlablement, is by no means a common word. That was the only time she was caught off guard. Some people are suggesting a native French speaker would have no problem. I invite them to watch a French TV news show to see how people pronouce perfectly simple French words, let alone more difficult ones.
@Sara I'm going for biiingual, American father, French mother. Her first language is EN but she can do FR convincingly although she may now speak FR rarely. Inébranlablement is not a common word and would make most French speakers hesitate, and they kept than in the edit. She may not even know what it means, but her upbringing allows her to figure out how it must be said.
I barely known any French but hearing the way it's pronounced here and hearing the way I approach it, I somehow still managed to develop a French Canadian accent. 😅
@Slurmophidal Fellatrosk ? i think you @ the wrong person as I have no clue what your talking about and do not remember the content in the video. Not to be rude but im not bothered to find my comment and watch the video again as it is of no importance to me anymore. Have a nice day
Qff Qff Wbhjob Thank you so much for saying that! I was thinking the same way!! I hate it its so stupid that someone would think that complimenting someone's looks going make them feel happier then complimenting their personalitie, they were born this way so what are you complementing them for? They did nothing to get their faces (except if they like did a surgery).
My native language is Spanish, and that's exactly what I feel when I try to pronounce some words in English, GOD nothing seems to be pronounced the way I think. Though even that, French is tougher to pronounce.
@Lizzie she has yes. It's stronger when she says "chanter le yahourt". Even if she is not a native french, she has spent a lot of years there to take our accent.
Once you learn the rules of French or almost any other European language pronunciation, you can pretty much read any word because the rules are regularized. Writing those words accurately can sometimes be a little harder even for the natives because there are a lot of silent letters. Learning English pronunciation correctly is much harder for students of English because the rules are fluid and there is a lot of irregularity.
C'était amusant en tant que britannique parlant couramment le français, je trouve ça drôle Translation:That was entertaining As a British girl who speaks French I find this very funny
lol, they are still doing great !!! I won't be finding fault with their pronunciations and accents because as far as I am concerned I keep struggling to correctly pronounce.
Its because most Americans know its not the same phonetics as English but she doesn’t know how its different so she uses something that “sounds french” to us
everyone: *tries pronouncing words* guy in green shirt: SEE THERES SO MANY SYLLABLES IN THIS WORD WE DONT NEED IT edit: thanks for 1k likes french person date me please i promise i’m not like the guy in the green shirt
You know, everyone in the world sounds the same and has the same reaction when pronouncing a different language word 😂 That’s how you know we are all equal
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)
@Grievo 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).
As an American who is currently taking French you eventually get used to the pronunciation of the words but it takes time I got some of these wrong the first try or so
Entertainment
![YONEX All England Open 2023 | Lee Zii Jia (MAS) [4] vs. Shi Yu Qi (CHN) | SF](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ESD8csG4e9c/mqdefault.jpg)
Everyone’s making fun of the guy who though grenouille was a place, but we can’t forget the French guy who though that hedgehog was a city.
Lmfao
@Guillaume Sora we know him.. as "sonic le herisson"
Like don't forget about that
it was funny though 😭
plus adding -ouille to the end of a place's name is pretty common in english
*S Q U A R E F R I E N D*
"I made it way more complicated than it needs to be"
-Creator of French
@Svitac they are arrogant, sorry but they are. I have traveled extensively and the most arrogant people were the French and the nicest IMO the Germans.
😂😂😂
That was an easy one
@Dill Pickle true
passé composé in a nutshell
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"
In the town of Cailly there is a street named Grenouville
I LITERALLY JUST CAME FROM THAT EXACT VIDEO
In his defense he perhaps may have heard of Grenoble, and wrongly made the connection lol
He's thinking of Grenoble.
We are all so predictable.
Nous sommes tous si prévisibles.
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.
At least, the sounds are quite convincingly French. All that’s left is to arrange them properly. It is, non-ironically, a nice start!
0:42 JUAN!!!
EXACTEMENT. Je m’appelle Jean-Claude : ja Veda fa loufff.
Nailed it. Joey speaking French, exactly.
"Oh I made it more complicated than it needed to be"
The French language in one sentence.
@halide pas vraiment, l'anglais a une très mauvaise correspondance entre la manière d'écrire et la manière de lire. C'est pour ça que nous apprenons le français avec une méthode syllabique ou semi syllabique et eux avec la méthode globale. Leur grammaire de base est plus simple mais comme c'est une langue avec plusieurs origines, la prononciation est très difficile à prévoir.
Why the hell did that girl keep saying gwa at the end of the words
@Millie and Mars Tbh the confuses French as well. Sometimes we're not sure whether it's un ou une for a word, like COVID. It was "le" originally but because COVID is the illness, its feminine so it should be la. Nobody uses la.
@salami lid You should learn the IPA. It's an alphabets of sounds and it'll be easier for you to understand how to pronounce things if you can link them to a letter that makes a sound in your language. Example : [j] is the sound that makes the "y" in "you", and the sounds that makes the "ll" in famille (family).
French is my first language and this is 100% accurate.
As someone who is learning French and kind of speaks it, this gave me a lot of confidence. Can’t be worse than them lmao
@Mish375 S but yeah I totally understand
@Mish375 S I don’t think any one dialect is “right”, maybe it’s kind of beautiful to have a mix
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! 😄
@Inconnu 49 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.
Keep practicing, its a great language and you will meet people who know it, so it can be a bridge language.
Basically they're trying to speak in the most exaggerated French accent while still speaking in an American accent
What accent do you want them to put on. 💀
"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States.
The girl with the pink fleece and back cap was doing it for he most. It sounded nothing like How the guy said
To be fair it took me 6 years to get an accurate French accent and I actively study it ahaha, they probably only hear French in English movies
@Buzz Buzz TV Watch the “French people trying to say English words” counterpart to this video.
Why is nobody talking about the brunette who NAILS EVERYTHING
(I told myself I would never do this, but we’re at 6,9K likes and that’s just too nice)
Also she looks nice and speaks with cool accent. ^^
@Ghoul idk I commented that 2 years ago
@wa7saka You have to take 1 language for 3 years or 2 languages for 2 each in US high school to graduate. Given its usually 5 to choose its a 1 in 5 chance a person as taken french
@sara French is one of the choices in N. American schools to take, along with ASL, spanish or german or another random one like korean or arabic. 1 in 5 chance one of these people took 3 years of it (doesn't mean they speak it, but would know some words)
@Giustino Colameo yeahh that’s what I thought because when I was playing along I got all the pronunciations correct but it’s only cause I got the hang of the accent in the french language
“And that’s not how you call someone in a restaurant?”
I would love for someone to call a waiter “hey mold come over here” to get their reaction
Me: "Moule garçon! Venez ici!"
French waiter: "I'm gonna spit in this guy's food."
Ok that made me laugh
lol i was thinking the same thing XD
This should have atleast 1k likes
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"
Thanks! This was actually really helpful as a student trying to improve my French pronunciation
@M. Kostoglod I'm glad I can help with such basic words (ofc aside from sieg he-)
And i LOVE Du Hast,but I didn't know you were refering to it
@Crow Is Better Than Leon Oh I'm learning German now and seeing such a mixture is sure fun.
Btw I thought you'd get the du hast joke
@M. Kostoglod Why did you remind me of this cring childish reply a whole year later?
@Crow Is Better Than Leon DU
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"
And hedgehog is a German city
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.
There probably is a town somewhere in America called Hedgehog lol
HAHHAHAHZHHZA OUI
@R R
and of course it's a restauraunt
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
@Carbon Crow but the deal with Spanish is what I'd call a more difficult grammar. Both French and Spanish have difficult grammar, but Spanish takes the crown.
@ׂ Agreed. However, I would definitely say Spanish is easier for an English speaker to learn that French. The way French pronunciation evolved makes it much harder for English speakers to notice similarities between words whereas with Spanish a third of the words sound practically the same.
It's way easier for an English speaker to learn Spanish than to learn German.
Also, English has _a lot_ in common with both German AND French.
Romantic tree?? Lol I bet you mean Romance. And you're talking about the Romance subdivision of the indo-european root.
Kurocoon Contrary to popular belief, only a small fraction of words used in modern English actually comes from the Vikings/Norsemen themselves, though most of them are used on a daily basis. The greater impact on the vocabulary had undoubtedly Latin and French (probably even Greek). Having said that, I'd argue that the easiest European language to learn for native English speakers would be... Dutch! It's one of the two most closely related languages to English (the other being Frisian), the grammar is quite similar, ie. no declination, no proper gender (yes, there are two different definite articles, but only one the indefinite), relatively simple tenses, and quite an interesting vocabulary with a lot of similar words, and dare I say even pronunciation... Like others pointed out, German, although having the same roots as English, is grammatically quite complicated, even though the spelling rules are much simpler and more consistent than that of English, not being heavily influenced by a myriad of other languages.
Language Gods: How many vowels and unpronounced letters do you want?
French: Yes.
@Alf In English at least, it's because those letters USED to be pronounced. For example, "knight" was originally pronounced "kuh-nikt."
the English language is extremely Simple and then the frenches has like ten different sounding letters in each word I swear it’s so complicated as hell it sounds like a wooki from Star Wars doing mdma and gurning attempting to say something the sounds and way they pronounce stuff is absolutely mad and the funny thing is the only reason the English language has some weird as sounding words in it or words that don’t make sense in it is because we have some french words in are language I swear there words don’t sound like words they sound more like yawns or just an expression that isn’t a word like a moan or something but not words
@Eren M. give me an example
In Old English, all the letters used to be pronounced until the French influenced it
@darkzcapta bloodedge urufu gosuto true, but same with English t
Confirmed: French words are more difficult to pronounce by Americans than English words that are trying to be pronounced by the French
@mig There is no logic. English is grammatically quite simple but phonetically absurd
@mig merci :)
@Lucas Latin American Americans are people who are legal citizens of the United States of America. Latin American or Central\South American aren't citizenships. You're a citizen of your country not a continent. I'm latina, and latinos really should drop this argument, it just makes us look dumb.
"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States.
English is global language.I live in South East Asia. Majority of us can understand English very well and at least can speak basic English.A lot of people in my country learn English at a very younger age like 6 or 7 years old.
1:26 HIS "HUH" IS SO AMAZING AND I LOVE IT
The perfect HUH
fr its so cute
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.
@symphony137 exactly you just proved my point in the latter part of your comment. "Exposure" be it through official means or not.
Edit: you kinda countered your own argument
Not necessarily. I speak three languages but not French and yet I know the basics of their pronunciation and how to mimic it. If you have a good grasp of languages and get exposed to them here and there for instance through tv, media or traveling, it's not really that unusual.
@sans sucre ajouté Yes i know
@MEE6 she's not french , im french and she has a accent
I watch some shows that are French, maybe she watches French shows and picks up on the pronunciation and stuff from them
I like the guy with the glasses. He’s genuinely made me laugh, in a positive way.
@superkittyninja i assume he meant the less annoying one
all the guys are wearing glasses 😭😭
Yes, more of him , doing this please!, Give him a free trip to Fance if we can follow him around
I learned a year of French about 10 years ago and still pronounced all of these correct! Thankfully MOST languages other than English are fairly consistent in pronunciation. French letter combination pronunciations and their silent letters are basically the same in every word they have 👏🏻
Last Irish spelling reform was around 700 years ago and look how they pronounce their words.
A persistent myth… English is not the only screwed up writing system or the most screwed up one. The cause of it is that as languages evolve, if the writing system doesn’t change to reflect pronunciation it gradually grows more arcane.
Me who’s taken French for three years: Gets extremely excited when seeing the word grenouille
@Zeda Thomas PAPILLON IS MY FAVOURITE FRENCH WORD
I get sad about it because Le Grenouille was the last old school French restaurant in my city (actually the same place this was filmed) and it closed recently.
same except i've been studying it for like eight years because i've been going to a french immersion school
Gren oo wee?
NO LITERALLY SAME
Haha as a French, I laughed way too hard, but the brunette woman nailed it! The short round smiling man with the glasses is somewhat charming :)
right?! He's so cute!!
@Danielle Miller French is offered as a foreign language in just about every high school here
@Julia J Not necessarily, there's plenty of native French speakers in New England, my family is just one of many families in that area.
@- untcuchable.mp4 She's probably from Louisiana where French is highly spoken there or she learned it in school.
round?
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.
“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
SAME, as a French, THIS IS SO TRUE
But we all agree it was to piss off the American
Spanish can second that
J’adore c’est super bien quand je vois des étranger parler notre langue, je vois à quelle point c’est aussi difficile que d’apprendre en anglais
I'm french, so i do realize how hard my language is compared to some languages I've learned or studied like Spanish, English, Italian or Russian. Good luck with our language guys 😂
Coming to this after all the “French people trying to say English words” is some of the most enlightening shit
They’ve been vindicated
@Steve Hangzo Most English speaking people don't do that lol they are usually impressed
I feel like they were more lenient with the Americans. They pronounced words with a really heavy accent and got them right while they didn't do the same for the French. There were some times I was like 'come on, that was close enough'
Yup lmao exactly where I just came from
🤣🤣
C'est a mourir de rire 😂😂😂mais après on pleure quand des français essayer de prononcé des mots anglais 😭
Yes, everyone loves to have a place in grenouille
Grenouille me an frog guys QWQ (im french)
I studied french in highschool I feel like once you get the hang of enunciation its actually pretty straightforward, of course there's always some rules that don't make sense and some exceptions like with all languages. Also as an English speaker there are certain sounds that I just have to put extra effort into making but I can pull it off. At least it's not like in Mandarin where if you change your intonation a little bit it changes the whole word.
I took French all through high school and then got a college degree in it, so I know it well. When I went to France I got compliments on it but would never pretend that I don't have an American accent. I think what's being missed here a bit is that if there are two languages notoriously famous for having COMPLETELY non phonetic spelling systems, it would have to be both English and French. (As opposed to Spanish)
Children of both languages have to learn patterns of reading and all kind of exceptions because of the ridiculous alphabet combinations being put before them.
Native children of course already can already produce the sounds of these spoken words in their own language, so that's how they can learn to read aloud correctly... eventually, by miracle of effort!
So...granted there's a bit of clowning around here by the participants, but asking an English speaker to glance at a French word and make heads or tails of it is with minimal or no exposure to it results in the fun results of this video.
"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States.
As a Chinese I’m way more comfortable with French pronunciation. After half a year of studying French, I was able to pronounce most words I saw. My English is pretty advanced now but whenever I see a new word in English I have to make my online dictionary pronounce it for me.
Flush Gorgon Agreed.
Imagine a foreigner to each language seeing a native speaker write out these really difficult sentences and then hear the native speaker pronounce them in either of the languages:
Could you thoroughly confirm that the water is at roughly the right level of purity for the next manufacturing process, please?
Qu'est-ce qu'ils donnent à l'autre groupe, des rapports de recherche sur quoi que ce soit dans l'histoire ou quelque chose des sciences naturelles?
(Apologize if there is a mistake in this one I'm not advanced in French)
Quite. Two languages thriving on exceptions.
I think French is slightly easier to read out loud though, because its vowels are consistent, unlike in English. On the other hand, French seems impossible to write correctly.
As someone who learnt French for 5 years at school, I find this extremely funny.
Brunette clearly speaks some French
@Elyenid Acevedo ouais, ils sont
@Tasha Zalinski Yeah some of us are taught Spanish I'm American and my first language is Spanish.
@Firetech You realize most Americans are European decent....right??
@Firetech down bad
The beautiful brunette is probably fluent in french, there s no way she can pronounce french words that well, her accent is damn too good, or else she took loads of french classes. She had me at saying inébranlablement, she nailed it like a native (I am one). Plus this is a word that french ppl never use in their daily lives, how could she pronounce it so perfeclty. Well, overall, she should become a teacher, its a sign of fate. On a last note, I read a comment where someone said she was showing off, this is utterly stupid, if she is good at french and gets asked questions why would she pretend being bad at it? People and ego issues are real.
French has a number of Germanic vowel-sounds because of its history. When the Roman Empire collapsed, different dialects of Vulgar Latin developed in different areas. In the northwestern area, Gaul, the Gallo-Romans were taken over by the Franks, a Germanic tribe. For a time Frankish was a prestige language, and so the ordinary people started to pronounce Latin words with Germanic vowels. Those vowels are now spelled œ (German ö), eu (also German ö but pronounced like Norwegian ø), and u (German ü). For example the Latin word pura (POO-rah) became in French pure (pronounced "püR").
@Dracopol oh ok
@Erik Eriks English doesn't have these 3 Germanic vowels at all. Nor does it have four nasal vowels found in the French phrase "un bon vin blanc." The sounds are difficult for English-speakers to learn. In fact the sounds aren't found in the other Romance-languages either. But Portuguese has two of the nasal vowels.
How can i learn these things more? Any website or book? Thanks a Lot!
gottfer true
I believe the English did the same thing but I might be wrong
Although I've only been learning French for about eight months, I could pronounce must of the words. Thank you to my French teacher 😁
I remember how my French teacher made me over and over pronounce words till I got it right. So thankful because when I went to France it was nice to communicate with locals 🤗
I'm Canadian and my grandparents are basically native french speakers and most of these Americans are doing better than I would have here
That man did NOT just say that he'd love to live in a frog.
Would you not want to live in wartwood?
whats wrong with frogs mate
Well it does look/spelled quite similar to Grenoble, a famous French city.
To be fair, in the US (NYC specifically) there is a very famous French restaurant called La Grenouille
LMAO
I only took two french classes in highschool and watching this made me realize I paid more attention than I thought.
It's so funny how when you become fluent in French you kind of become able to tell what thing you should or shouldn't be pronouncing even if you don't know the word (: French is one of my favourite Languages but it really is so annoying ! I remember as a kid i cried for a half an hour when my mum told me that in Longtemps you don't pronounce the G, the T, the P and the S and both the N and M are nasal sounds and not actually prounounced (: i thought it would be impossible to read anything in it especially that my native language *arabic* is a language where you just read what is written, except for 5 words maximum
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.
C'est vraiment drôle à entendre 😂
i think that one woman who kept on pronouncing them right probably spoke a language really similar to french, maybe spanish or something idk
as a person who also speaks french (though not completely fluently bc it's not my first language), i found this very funny
French: L'oeil
The lady: LOL
@Hazel Anderson Only some of us do but I'm American and my first language is Spanish.
Honestly? accurate
L’-o-e(i)l
HAHAHAHA
Eloel XD
As an Irish person I found this entertaining as german and french are key languages here 🤣🤣
I’m American, and I tried to pronounce all the words the way I would think they’d be pronounced before I heard them, and it’s so different. My mouth did acrobatics to try and pronounce them. It’s almost like there’s something stuck it your through when you try and spit out the words. But it still sounds so cool when you get it right, it really is a beautiful language.
The girl with leather jacket literary knows how to speak French😌🖤💗
As a french person I find them so cute! I love their accents when they try to pronounce words (even when the just speak english...)
I'm happy that French is mandatory in England up to a certain age because it makes understanding pronunciation simple haha
It also Makes English easier to learn, as about 1/4 of the words in English originate from French.
"There's 6 letters in that word and you made 3 noises" that pretty much sums up the entire french language
Even more so English
ahem Do mi no
Hpw terrible is americans school system if people in ur class pronounce Literally one of the most used words like quest cay ce. Then what do ya'll see in these lessons like really nothing
Considering the word only has 2 syllables in it, it also pretty much sums up some that guys ability to count :D
I thought I wouldn’t be able to pronounce these words, but after hearing them it was really easy. Spanish is my 2nd language so that helped.
Still would never be able to learn french without someone speaking to me
Love this!!! It's hilarious!!! Great lesson
Because I'm a French native speaker I can't help laughing🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂
Lol I studied French for two semesters in college and now I can barely put a sentence together in French. I prefer Spanish because words sound like how they're written.
Spanish anyway is much more important as second language than french in the US
Grivois Guy I totally agree with you
As a french, it's funny to see all people saying '' it's hard to speak, '' '' it helps me to learn Spanish... '', i learned spanish and it's easier to learn Spanish than German for example, i have some problems with english, but i think i'm good,
Just so you guys know, Romanian sounds exactly as you write it. Sure, there are some groups of letters that are spelled differently, but they are pretty common so you'll get used to it relatively easy. The grammar is the most horrible thing in Romanian.
@mathis boudras fam I speak lunar language 😤😤😤😤💯
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
The lady in the leather jacket totally knows at least *some* french. Her pronunciation was decent and she seemed to know some of the words already.
GWAH
@Kirsty Diaz People who are going on about the spelling are people who learned French in school, according to foreign language teaching systems that have it all wrong. Learning a language involves two steps, neither of which is spelling: listen and repeat. You know how I know this? Because every single one of us has done it successfully at least once. We all had five years of successful language training leading to a high degree of fluency before we ever gave a single thought to how words were spelled.
Every person reading this has learned a foreign language to a very high degree indeed.
And if you want to do it again, that's clearly the best way to go about it.
@Who's Who But the pronunciation rules are all about how you leave logic behind and go down some other route. Of course, once you've learned the rules it's relatively easy, but the rules themselves are immensely complex. Don't tell me 'grenouille' is a logical spelliing.
If you want simple rules, go to Spanish or to slightly lesser extent Italian. My Spanish is basic, but you could show me any word in Spanish and I could pronounce it right away. French is very much not in that category.
@Kirsty Diaz The only word she stumbled over, inébranlablement, is by no means a common word. That was the only time she was caught off guard. Some people are suggesting a native French speaker would have no problem. I invite them to watch a French TV news show to see how people pronouce perfectly simple French words, let alone more difficult ones.
@Sara I'm going for biiingual, American father, French mother. Her first language is EN but she can do FR convincingly although she may now speak FR rarely. Inébranlablement is not a common word and would make most French speakers hesitate, and they kept than in the edit. She may not even know what it means, but her upbringing allows her to figure out how it must be said.
Seeing this as a french person, this was so funny 😂
As a french, I can say that this is absolutely hilarious !
I barely known any French but hearing the way it's pronounced here and hearing the way I approach it, I somehow still managed to develop a French Canadian accent. 😅
As a French that was so funny😂😂
The lady that pronounced everything properly is so pretty
@Random Videos Well, you did comment two years ago so that is to be expected 😂
@Slurmophidal Fellatrosk ? i think you @ the wrong person as I have no clue what your talking about and do not remember the content in the video. Not to be rude but im not bothered to find my comment and watch the video again as it is of no importance to me anymore. Have a nice day
Qff Qff Wbhjob Thank you so much for saying that! I was thinking the same way!!
I hate it its so stupid that someone would think that complimenting someone's looks going make them feel happier then complimenting their personalitie, they were born this way so what are you complementing them for? They did nothing to get their faces (except if they like did a surgery).
As a Canadian who has learned some French this is hilarious
2:30 she comes up with the most creative ways to pronounce these words
I’m learning German, a language where you pronounce *everything* that you see in a word, and I died inside from watching this video.
I laughed so hard when they tried to say Oeil xD
You should have asked: Ecureuil, which means Squirrel
Woman in black jacket knows French very well.
Je parle Françis et c’est mal
@fyodor’s fluffy white hat mar myg it depends on how your definition of common is. But I do use almost all of them. Maybe not "inébranlablement" ...
@Person Info j'ai pas compris
Je ne peux pas parle français bien :(
She looks french!
That dark headed guy cracked me up! He was so funny! I had tears!
As an english and french speaker this is real funny
Now I want to learn french, it's beautiful
My native language is Spanish, and that's exactly what I feel when I try to pronounce some words in English, GOD nothing seems to be pronounced the way I think. Though even that, French is tougher to pronounce.
Being french, this does bring a smile to my face
*That brunette girl speaks French*
*Im 100% sure*
Elle a juste du apprendre à parler français, donc pas besoin de nous compliquer la vie à deviner si elle est française ou non.
@Lizzie je pense qu'elle essaye de dissimuler qu'elle est française ! Et puis elle est mignonne comme une française 🤣
@Edgar Ce que je me disais aussi, ou juste qu'elle a un ou des parents francais ou de la famille.
@crash 208 abuse pas c’est des mots vraiment relous et elle s’en sort archi bien
@Lizzie she has yes. It's stronger when she says "chanter le yahourt". Even if she is not a native french, she has spent a lot of years there to take our accent.
This is hilarious 😂 u sud make much more american speak french. They are so funny!
1:00 I love how this person perfectly summarised it
"That would be too easy."
As a student learning French, I have to share this sentiment.
I am laughing harder than I should lmao
Once you learn the rules of French or almost any other European language pronunciation, you can pretty much read any word because the rules are regularized. Writing those words accurately can sometimes be a little harder even for the natives because there are a lot of silent letters. Learning English pronunciation correctly is much harder for students of English because the rules are fluid and there is a lot of irregularity.
Now do a: "Americans trying to speak English"
"Americans" are all people who live in the American continent, not just in the United States.
IM CRYING AT THIS
@Lars of the Mohicans
Americans: Bridish
LMFAOOO
LMAO
Guy with the glasses and denim jacket is my spirit guide omg i laughed too hard at him
As an english man who speaks french fluently. this was HELLA funny to watch XD
I didn’t know it was complicated to prononce, I was thinking only french, like me, have difficulties to prononce english. 😂 very funny video
C'était amusant en tant que britannique parlant couramment le français, je trouve ça drôle
Translation:That was entertaining As a British girl who speaks French I find this very funny
lol, they are still doing great !!! I won't be finding fault with their pronunciations and accents because as far as I am concerned I keep struggling to correctly pronounce.
The woman who adds "wha" to the end of EVERY WORD...
Its because most Americans know its not the same phonetics as English but she doesn’t know how its different so she uses something that “sounds french” to us
@Lala LeeLah
And that's why it's funny
@Harmxn yeah
She s pretty funny and thinks that french is Welsh ..
@Scaph_ Okay, you're not seeing the point.
🤣 So many vowels and consonants in just one word.. crazyy.. on my way to learn it 🏃🏻♂️
I took one year of French in high school- 1979. Very pleased that I got them all, even when I didn’t know the word.
0:57 I feel like she's going to fly every time she pronounces the word
Je me sens moins stupide avec mon accent francophone quand j'essaye de parler anglais suite à ce vidéo ! haha!
I had to learn both languages lol! Been fun watching this
everyone: *tries pronouncing words*
guy in green shirt: SEE THERES SO MANY SYLLABLES IN THIS WORD WE DONT NEED IT
edit: thanks for 1k likes french person date me please i promise i’m not like the guy in the green shirt
I was like: then explain to us "queue* bitch, explain how is that different from us
Id love that, where do I pick u up ?
@Saad pas toi hein
@Saad un emmerdeur meme
You know, everyone in the world sounds the same and has the same reaction when pronouncing a different language word 😂
That’s how you know we are all equal
I live in Canada, so I speak both English, and French, and it’s just hilarious seeing these people fail 😂
They did way better than I could have
I'm Canadian and I have to learn French at school and watching this is hilarious
it truly is amazing how far spoken english has diverged from its french and german origins.
plotwist : girl in black jacket is actually french :OOO
She's probably from Louisiana where French is highly spoken there or she learned it in school.
it wouldn't surprise me if she's french
@sg English Canadian who learn French don't have a Quebecois accent.
She's probably Canadian lol
SG * I think she Canadian and studied French all four years of high school
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)
@Grievo 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).
C'est le mildiou quoi
Ah, oui, J'ADOREE á
prononcer mots en française comme un américain. Pari je pouvais prononcer cette toute phrase, définitivement.
3:09 j'étais pas prêt, c'est parfaitement prononcé 👏😂
As an American who is currently taking French you eventually get used to the pronunciation of the words but it takes time I got some of these wrong the first try or so
Obviously that one girl took french classes or studied in France. She nailed almost every pronunciation and knew what they meant.