10 FRENCH CITIES YOU MIGHT BE MISPRONOUNCING

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10 French cities you're likely mispronouncing. Do you mispronounce any of these French cities? Were you surprised by the way some of them are pronounced? Are there any other French villages, towns or cities you're not sure how to pronounce? Let me know in the comments below! This is a French pronunciation lesson sponsored by italki.
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Bonjour ! I'm Cindy, a native French speaker. I moved to the UK in 2005, am now bilingual in French and English, have a degree in modern languages (English and Spanish) and a passion for teaching French. I wish you good luck on your French learning journey, and if you ever have any doubts or questions regarding a particular aspect of the language, give me a shout! I'm always happy to help!
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[@VerbaleMondo]

I am surprised I knew how to pronounce an 80% of these words. I am glad for that. You're an excellent teacher. Cheers xx.

[@scottmccrea1873]

You my friend get the golf clap of the day. Did you grow up around French speakers? I grew up in San Diego where there weren't a lot. So I had no idea how to pronounce for example Quimper.

[@wallykaspars9700]

Thank you very much. Your videos always inspire me to stop being lazy and learn more French instead. The only one I knew well is Metz. I've often taken the train from Frankfurt, Germany, to Paris, and at Metz the locomotives are switched from German railroad (DB) to SNCF, and on the return trip the opposite.

[@raykent3211]

Am I right it guessing that the Germans pronounce it as the English "bets", but with an M instead of a B? I got that one wrong!

[@wallykaspars9700]

@@raykent3211 The Germans pronounce it like New York Mets.

[@raykent3211]

@@wallykaspars9700 d'âne schnaps, or fighting the auto correct, danke schön.

[@StudioCreations]

Thank you for this quick lesson in Difficult City Pronunciation. I learned a lot in a very short amount of time. I came for the city of Caen, and stayed for the rest because of your easy to follow pedagogy. :)

[@jenniferwightwick5158]

A great video Cindy! It's funny that all these places are in the north of France! Metz and Mulhouse were a surprise to me.

[@debbiedawkins6284]

I'm a beginner french student. I've always wanted to learn French because I know I will be visiting Paris/ France one of these days. In addition, I just want to learn a new language. I think you are an excellent teacher, I don't know the alphabet and I always prefer knowing that before learning a language. However, when you introduce the words and explain why they are pronounced that way I have a better appreciation of the language. Merci beaucoup. AU REVOIR.

[@doreenchristian6532]

I love this video thank you so much because I could never ever pronounce Caen correctly. In fact, all of the nasal sounds took a long time for me to learn. So you can imagine my surprise when I actually pronounced saint imagine my surprise when I actually knew how to pronounce Saint Quentin! All nasals!

[@informaticienmason7419]

Thank you so much for the video! I I hope you , your child and your husband are doing great ! Again, thank you so very much and many blessings ! Burlington , Ontario Canada

[@Wrz2e]

Is Quimper in the Cornouaille region of Brittany? I was always told by my Cornish grandmother that the Bretons were our cousins haha.

[@vickjr98]

Reims is definitely tricky. Caught me by surprise

[@StevePhillips]

Beautiful Cindy, I didn't know most of these pronunciations, only got Rouen correct. But I do know you have such lovely sense of humour. "Anger, I swear everybody that lives there is not angry." hahaha so funny. I also like repeat! But managed to pronounce them all with you at the end. XX

[@pufulita]

The same☺️

[@wannabeactuary01]

Number 5 is trois - comedy gold! :-)

[@hornkraft9438]

I wonder if some of those spellings/pronunciations are because it was a Celtic region. The German areas might have a secondary German name too, like Koln / Cologne. Interesting to hear about the less well-known French cities (not Cannes, Nice, Marseilles, etc.) :-)

[@susie2251]

Excellent, merci!

[@klhornr]

wow - very informative. Thank you! ( I wish you would have included Aix.)

[@frankknight9697]

Excellent again. Thanks

[@raykent3211]

You're from Brittany! An English expat lived in Guer. Gay? Gooay? He pronounced it as in English "girl", leaving the L off. I said I thought it was more like the English "air" with a hard g on the front. He didn't change, nice guy but very little local contact. If I could add one to your list, it's Aix, as in Aix-en-provence, which my french neighbour pronounced like the English "ex". It seems to break every rule. Locally we have Sixt-sur-aff, where the six is not pronounced see or cease, but seeks. With a T on the end. Nice video, keep up the good work!

[@fieryfalcon7321]

very yoosefool vidayo

[@famatavakolian6423]

Great Thanks to Cindy! No I did not know how to pronounce any of them.I totally was surprised, Bijou Bijou

[@Tubekeny1]

Very helpful. Thanks!

[@MrMarkusmulder]

Merci pour votre vidéo

[@scottmccrea1873]

The spelling of these places says a lot about their history. And some of these places are very old indeed. I've read many of these names for decades, but some of them i had no idea how to pronounce. Especially given the vagaries of French orthography; which is, if possible, even goofier than that of English.

[@doreenchristian6532]

Metz was a surprise, and I did not pronounce the r in Quimper!

[@jorgeshimada6934]

I like so muxh your way to teach!

[@wannabeactuary01]

Lots of surprises - the ones I would have got are Rouen, Angers and Saint-Quentin -

[@kimzeck9827]

Merci Cindy🌻

[@laydownlays]

My wife's surname was Percy, the same as the town in Normandy where her ancesters came from... Percy in English , as most know, is a soft word with a ceee sound, not in Normandy, oh no. The r in Percy is very strong and the cy sounding like a strong ...say. The Pe sounding more like Pear... So together it sounds like ............Pear rrr Say..... lol

[@ikhwaanudiinno-size3761]

Thnks teacher i refuse before but know clear Angers is my town salute from ANGERS

[@Ebaristo.Pineda]

Good day, Miss Cindy. Could you please make up some lessons on deferent mouth "positions," tempos, motion (moves), and sounds, such as the tongue, nasal (and type of nasal motion), lips along with vowel and consonant sounds separated. For instance, for me, the U & E sound the same, but I know they do not sound alike; or maybe how to make the french R due to the fact that for people whose first language is Spanish, Russian, or even Italian, R sounds VERY different. Basically, what I am trying to imply is that for you, native speaker, can make those "weird" sounds easy and effortlessly, but for foreigners is NOT that easy at all. lol. I do really need to work on the following sounds: 1) Voyelles orales (i as in lit, e as in dé, a as in sac, o as in château, u as in moulin, ə premier, ø as in feu, ɛ as in chaise, ɑ as in pâtes, ɔ as in soleil, y as in autobus, œ as in fluer) 2) voyelles nasales (ɑ̃ as in gant, ɛ̃ as in lapin, ɔ̃ as in ballon, œ̃ as in parfum), 3) semi-voyelles semi-consonnes, & consonnes ( wa as in oiseau, we as in tramway, wi as in sweat, wɛ̃ as in point & ɥi as in biscuit & je as in pied, ɛj as in abeille, œj as feuille, ɑj as in paille, uj as in grenuille). 4) Consonnes (4.1. sonores [b,d,g,v,z,ʒ]. 4.2. sourdes [p,t,k,f,s,ʃ] 4.3. nasales [m,n,ŋ,ɲ]. 4.4. liquides [r,l]). I do thank you for your wonderful videos and I am blissful due to the fact that you are cheerfull to help me out with my French. PD: you ought to come to my Colombia to teach French and practice Spanish.

[@MrMarkusmulder]

There are a few things more... Thanks for the tip

[@mariabrierly1273]

Great

[@deniseragans7615]

Thank you

[@utkarshsingh170]

Hello cindy you are so beautiful I'm trying to learning french seeing your videos

[@03757]

Montpellier I think I say it right?

[@desirebunisard8623]

Auxerre(ossair)

[@RicardoCastillo-oh4ie]

I need a map now

[@denisebonner889]

content de te voir!

[@kellypreston1549]

Merci!

[@barrythomas1336]

Thanks. For the first time I can pronounce Reims correctly, and I first went there more than 60 years ago.

[@Frencheezi]

How had you been pronouncing it? ☺️

[@barrythomas1336]

@@Frencheezi Reems

[@tulliusagrippa5752]

How is the name of the opera “les Troyens” pronounced?

[@martinconrad9260]

Ypres?

[@emmafle9952]

you could say like in the word " pain"

[@emmafle9952]

Ma chère collègue venez passer un week-end à Toulouse et nous en reparlerons .....

[@emmafle9952]

Je vais vous donner un exemple Ici , je veux dire de Bordeaux à Menton , nous prononçons le mot" lait "[ le ] nous savons que cela est un régionalisme donc nous enseignons à nos élèves que "ai" se prononce [ ɛ ] et non [ e ] . Nous aimerions simplement que les gens du nord de la France aient le même respect et qu'ils ne considèrent pas leurs régionalismes comme la norme parlée.

[@kingraiderr]

French is hella hard

[@ulizadune6773]

camper!

[@upsilonnolispu6958]

Pas tout à fait d'accord quand vous comparez le prononciation de Reims au chiffre un(1) - Reims se prononce IN comme les mots français pain/rein/lin/bain. le chiffre 1 (un) c'est plutôt comme dans Lundi (on ne prononce pas Lindi... la bouche est plus "ronde")

[@Frencheezi]

C'était vrai il y a longtemps, cependant la prononciation évolue constamment ! De nos jours, la plupart des gens ne font plus la distinction entre ces deux sons. De plus, mon but est de rendre mes cours accessibles aux débutants. Un débutant a beaucoup plus de chances de connaître le mot 'un' que 'rein' ou 'lin'...

[@emmafle9952]

J'avais pas vu que quelqu'un d'autre que moi avait déjà remarqué cela. Cyndi traverse la Loire et tu verras que les son œ̃ et ɜ̃ y sont vraiment très différents . Disons que pour les français du sud ( De Bordeaux à Menton ça fait quand même pas mal de monde ) c'est assez choquant voire énervant

[@emmafle9952]

Not really : im in Quimper is pronounced [ ɜ̃ ] whereas un is pronounced [ œ̃ ] well may be no more in Brittany but in the southern part of France still.

[@Frencheezi]

This is a debatable topic. It used to be true, but French, like many other languages, is evolving all the time. I come from Brittany and only know ONE person who still makes the distinction. Most people no longer do. After fairly extensive online research (being as I can't speak for the whole of France since I haven't been everywhere!) it would seem that the situation is the same in most places. The distinction seems to be disappearing everywhere. Hence why I choose not to teach it. I remember my English teacher, many moons ago, telling us that our goal while learning / speaking a foreign language, is not avoiding making ANY mistakes, but purely being able to make ourselves understood. That's the philosophy I choose to adopt myself. In my personal opinion, there's little point in teaching such tiny nuances, which are rarely used nowadays anyway, and certainly not even seen as a mistake. I don't believe most people learning French would benefit from learning to speak the language better than 99% of French people do, and even less so, if those rules are that of "purists" rather than the way the language is actually spoken by most people. Again to each their own, but that's the reasoning behind my choice.

[@Fyr35555]

"I am am good at pronouncing French cities" Gets to Metz 😭

[@noahnjenga4292]

Sounds like a tongue twister 😆😆😆😆😆

[@acalig26]

I would like to be in France.

[@samysmusicbox7084]

J'arrive pas a dire si tu es français ou native anglaise haha.. mais tu prononces trop bien les villes pour ne pas être française haha

[@susie2251]

Samy's Music Box She is French and moved to UK.

[@samysmusicbox7084]

@@susie2251 okay cool ! Thank you for your answer :)

[@acalig26]

İ xeyr

[@desirebunisard8623]

Metz(mess)

[@musicdrug5837]

Buoux???

[@jakeavis4170]

Rrrrraaaannssss Messsss Twerr Help me

[@ulizadune6773]

mess!

[@Ivartabrizi999]

Why do you French put all the alphabets in a word and then fail to pronounce half of them??

[@SaucyWench7]

This woman has an odd mix of sounding American Southern and British. Weird.

[@1Sweetsexyflava]

The names Reims and Caen were surprises for me. Maybe I'm hearing it wrong, but in Reims are you pronouncing it Renz (of course with the french r) ?

[@susie2251]

1Sweetsexyflava If you are trying to translate it to an English pronunciation, it’s more like “rance” with a French r. The last sound is an s sound, not z, and the vowel is the nasal vowel.

[@1Sweetsexyflava]

@@susie2251 Thank you so much because now I know I was hearing you correctly :)