Explain why Ratio and Patio aren't pronounced the same...
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@gearheadgregwi Жыл бұрын
The only English rule to remember is "it depends".
@hermie9737 Жыл бұрын
"There is always an exception."
@bethanybouley2990 Жыл бұрын
Amen
@e_s.0848 Жыл бұрын
Jesus loves you
@FreakyFriday4Phaggs Жыл бұрын
Is the S* sound an S or C?
@maxanimator9547 Жыл бұрын
@@hermie9737 "Bah it depends POLE"
@samschellhase8831 Жыл бұрын
French: extra letters that confuse people English: not enough letters…that confuse people
@julienl.3327 Жыл бұрын
While 2/3 of the english vocabulary comes from the french.
@Colester2653 Жыл бұрын
@@julienl.3327where’d you get that number?
@julienl.3327 Жыл бұрын
@@Colester2653 linguists.
@xiaogem7369 Жыл бұрын
@@julienl.3327 Lol. No.
@xiabug4047 Жыл бұрын
@@julienl.3327 what? It’s not even half.
@Camrynnn_217 ай бұрын
French: Many strict rules English: No rules. Just chaos.
@strellettes85115 ай бұрын
French is just as bad as english. Where as French pretends it has rules, english jsut accepts that there are no rules.
@collinkastl86945 ай бұрын
132 likes and no comments? Lemme change dat 🎉
@wayzz89685 ай бұрын
Yes but french rules have no sense and a lot of exception.
@Frisk7185 ай бұрын
yes
@dhruvchackravarthi89605 ай бұрын
French rules are not strict at all. As a person who has done 12 years of french the only unbroken rule in french is that all rules have exceptions
@elijahadeyeye98345 ай бұрын
The "AM I GOING CRAZY" was from the bottomless bottom of his heart 😂😂😂
@123haninhk Жыл бұрын
The difference is that English mocks French for saying it wrong. While French usually is just happy while correcting English.
@Undomaranel Жыл бұрын
Yup. Personality difference. And imhe as a native English speaker, not at all correct. We all joke about how terrible our cobbled together, half germanic half romantic language is, but no one is malicious about it like English is depicted here.
@123haninhk Жыл бұрын
@@Undomaranel Obviously, I wasn't talking about the English people. But "English" the character.
@Undomaranel Жыл бұрын
@@123haninhk These characters are built around cultural stereotypes. I was just giving my experience fam.
@bibitch Жыл бұрын
Be nicer to French, English! He's a cinnamon bun and he's still learning! 🥺
@yuki_musha Жыл бұрын
Don't forget about the time when English stole French's toast and just laughed about it! xD
@HeadsFullOfEyeballs Жыл бұрын
There's also "lead", which rhymes with "read" but not with "lead". Unlike "lead", which rhymes with "read" but not with "lead".
@megmarie2153 Жыл бұрын
Led and red rhyme with lead and read but not with lead and read
@dahyunbunny9782 Жыл бұрын
Alright what the hap is fuckening here
@fitriani4501 Жыл бұрын
... Am I going crazy?
@danielardan6008 Жыл бұрын
...Yeah... I'm definitely going crazy
@upstander1233 Жыл бұрын
For non native speakers that don’t understand the “lead” and “lead” thing: first ‘lead’ is as in “He leads the boys ahead” or “He is the romantic lead.” Second “lead” is as in the metal or the gray thing in pencils. This also rhymes with “led” which is the past tense of “lead.”
@x_skyy_9 ай бұрын
French and English texting be like- English- I read a book! French- what page are you on? English- no I read it already….? French- huh? English- it’s so simple!! Don’t you get it? French- … AND YOU TOLD ME I WAS CONFUSING!?
@kemalyaren40665 ай бұрын
Underrated comment
@skylerlightning46203 ай бұрын
Reading would be the more accurate term though so simple saying read would make anyone assume your done reading something.
@GogakuOtakuАй бұрын
@@skylerlightning4620exactly; no one uses the simple present tense in English to actually convey the simple present tense. It’s actually used to indicate habitual actions.
@realmehuhn943711 ай бұрын
What I love from spanish is that you pronounce exactly as you spell
@hgus11 ай бұрын
Como _guerra_ y _gerente_ o _guiso_ y _giro_
@Aurinkohirvi11 ай бұрын
Same in Finnish. One often hears an English speaker ask "how to pronounce" a word/name. Or that "I don't know how to say that word/name". That doesn't happen in languages where letters always are said the same way: we all say it the same way. There is no hesitation how to say unknown words. (Of course we say it different than the people whose language the unknown word/name is). Actually in Finnish one rather rare sound though doesn't have a letter: it is written with two letters.
@isaiaholaru501311 ай бұрын
@@AurinkohirviSounds beautiful
@Shannon-tn2vm11 ай бұрын
A lot of languages are phonetic. Makes it so much easier
@honmidr474210 ай бұрын
Indonesian too Aku cinta kamu
@ToasterOvenYT Жыл бұрын
“Am I going crazy?” Had me dying
@icarusbinns3156 Жыл бұрын
And… yes. English will make anyone go crazy
@UnshavenStatue Жыл бұрын
"Am I going cʁazy ?"
@elsajones2619 Жыл бұрын
Me too m8
@Schnittertm1 Жыл бұрын
Who's going to tell him that he already is crazy.
@icarusbinns3156 Жыл бұрын
@@Schnittertm1there’s four steps to that!
@Ainonn Жыл бұрын
French: To mess with the Americans English: To mess with the French
@yammie4705 Жыл бұрын
The French and English saga pt.2
@GaussianEntity Жыл бұрын
As is tradition
@Journey22405 Жыл бұрын
No it’s French: To mess with the ENGLISH English: to mess with the French.
@dontage815 Жыл бұрын
English: to mess with literally everyone who doesnt speak English
@melody._.325111 ай бұрын
The rivalry
@nidamujawar35629 ай бұрын
The "obviously OK?" Always Gets me rolling on the floor🤣
@Ga1axyCooki311 ай бұрын
English: PURE MEMORY French: Actually has rules
@hannahkhin4938 Жыл бұрын
French reaction is literally me studying English .
@ChuckD99 Жыл бұрын
Wait until it changes from "ratio" to "ration" lmao
@brianhsu_hsu Жыл бұрын
And also change to radio...
@mysticxiiii Жыл бұрын
His reaction is also native English speakers learning French so it all balances out.
@the1nf3r10rone Жыл бұрын
@@mysticxiiii as a native english speaker learning french, can confirm
@Mikustan39 Жыл бұрын
@@brianhsu_hsu I was literally thinking the same thing!
@mswolfy811 Жыл бұрын
It's confirmed, English is just the gaslight of languages
@destinysrave5155 Жыл бұрын
English is not a language, but 3 languages in a trench coat pretending to be one. -Wise person on the internet
@masterjunko Жыл бұрын
@@destinysrave5155 Is that wise person The Click?
@sweetaplle7 ай бұрын
For all language learning people who don’t know this yet: “Live” has two meanings. One is *to* live, which rhymes with “give”. The other is to be active, which rhymes with “dive”. “Read” also has two meanings. The first is *to* read, and rhymes with “need”. The second is the past tense of “to read”, and rhymes with “head”. (It’s also said the same as “red”.)
@Racierbacon_real10 ай бұрын
At this point I just remember every word individually. That's why I don't have space in my brain to remember your name if I saw you a month ago.
@ealykira30576 ай бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love you man you're crazyyyy
@TheSeptet4 ай бұрын
Is that not how language works normally?
@codylgarcia Жыл бұрын
Dude gave French the “L + Ratio”
@perescangi2341 Жыл бұрын
Lol so true
@mihikakishan927 Жыл бұрын
lmafo .
@gavinherrig1105 Жыл бұрын
Such an underrated comment
@chefcircuit5392 Жыл бұрын
Clever
@melkor9121 Жыл бұрын
Epic😂
@Doodledrawsstuff Жыл бұрын
This man makes me rethink my entire English vocabulary….
@IntrovertedGoose10 ай бұрын
😶🌫️
@mervingcamille883410 ай бұрын
I for two
@cncrim19 ай бұрын
me 3
@hugokana64256 ай бұрын
I'm French and yes grammar in french can be WTF, but English pronunciation is WTF++++++ No rules.. No putain of rules.. We need to memorize the pronunciation of each word. WHY? Why not decide A is A and not another A.. Why english dont use A as French, Spanish, Italian, German etc.. A as bAnAnA .. In English A can be the sound É in french or A in french... WHY??? With that, English uses 60% of French/Latin vocabulary. This means that in the English language, there are 60% of words that are also in French. (So, already... why are English speakers bad at French when there are 60% of words that we share), but especially a lot of French words... You don't use the pronunciation of the English alphabet. An example: 'Decapitation'. In French, we say: 'Décapitation'. Why in English does the 'E' which is pronounced like the French 'i'... Why do you pronounce it like the French 'É'? Sometimes I think that English is a bastard language that started with a Germanic base and then continued with French, and therefore there is no logic in this language.
@k-cuts160110 ай бұрын
From someone who has spoken English as a first language their whole life, I had no clue what “Ratio” was supposed to say. Like complete blank, ‘maybe it’s like radio but with a t?’
@fobinc8 ай бұрын
"Don't worry about any rules, there are none. Just memorize it."
@katharina... Жыл бұрын
This is exactly how we feel, French, when you put little hats on people. On letters, I mean.
@TheLastEgg08 Жыл бұрын
The little hats just mean that there was an s after the letter with the hat: Forest is forêt. Hospital is hôpital, quite simple. It also doesn’t change the pronunciation of the words.
@Electrostatic_Fusion Жыл бұрын
@@TheLastEgg08thanks
@oakpope Жыл бұрын
@@TheLastEgg08 And it's useful because we get hospitalier, forestier, etc.
@corajeanmcnulty2238 Жыл бұрын
@@TheLastEgg08 French doesn't like s, got it
@kuroohana Жыл бұрын
you just need to know that little hat is useless and that's it, you speak french.
@Paper_Goose Жыл бұрын
For everyone trying to learn english, just remember this rule, “read” is said like “lead” and “read” is said like “lead”. Hope this helps.
@tanmoyghosh32479 ай бұрын
Thank you for your help... you made it easy to learn
@sherrimaynard2769 ай бұрын
I just read (no pun intended), your comment, and been laughing every since. It gets funnier with each read.
@alleycat721039 ай бұрын
This makes me want to become illiterate
@thefool8769 ай бұрын
I can't see the different 😭
@wolfella57939 ай бұрын
It would be easier to understand if it was spelled “read” and “lead” or “red” and “led” but they are all spelled read or lead lol I can’t with English
@Batty8911 ай бұрын
Most people say, English is the easiest but right now he’s making it look so hard….
@KingoftheJuice184 ай бұрын
The grammar is pretty easy, the spelling is a nightmare.
@not_mason6911 ай бұрын
i remember we were practicing our words as a kid and the teacher showed the word “live” and asked us to say the word. i said live (like alive) and i was marked wrong for it ✋😭
@hunterthevampire1313 Жыл бұрын
For ages I was telling my French Canadian ex that French makes no sense… I need to apologise😳… NAH
@naxmax5634 Жыл бұрын
Do it now or Michel will come to you.
@RoScFan Жыл бұрын
neither make any sense. They are etymological languages, languages where spellings is a result of the etymological history of the words. Majority of the world's languages are phonetic, meaning they are written as they are pronounced and pronounced as they are written. Which is NORMAL! French and english both SUCK!
@MashuSlyferiux Жыл бұрын
You weren't wrong, it's just that neither does English
@pepelapiu2004 Жыл бұрын
And when you get a chance, you should also explain to your partner why you should park on a driveway and drive on a parkway.
@chiepah2 Жыл бұрын
Just because English makes no sense doesn't mean French can't also make no sense.
@MedaTyvn Жыл бұрын
No french, this is a really rare moment when you actually aren't the one who's going crazy. This time, it's english. As someone who's learning both french and english as a second and third language I feel this on every possible level.
@Vilbot Жыл бұрын
Me too
@stauker.1960 Жыл бұрын
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
@livedandletdie Жыл бұрын
It could be worse it could be time again for more soft bread... all you ever heard the last years was about soft bread. Pain de mie this pain de mie that... pain to me ears to be frank.
@d0tS... Жыл бұрын
whats ur first language?
@MedaTyvn Жыл бұрын
@@d0tS... I'm hungarian!
@francislelievre517210 ай бұрын
Germanic descendant languages have vowel modifications for tenses & some conjugations
@ak56592 ай бұрын
Exactly. Pretty much any English word around in 1066 will follow that and the attendant spelling conventions. Anything post-1066 will follow French conventions. But French influence also muddled the distinction between strong and weak verbs, giving us things like dive, dove, dived
@axolotlanimates16879 ай бұрын
This is why I’m glad that English is my first language
@ari_valentine Жыл бұрын
I’ve been speaking English my whole life and I still have the same reaction as French. I’ve encountered many people whose first language isn’t English, and I’m just so patient with them because I know how weird and challenging this language is.
@peebothuhlu7186 Жыл бұрын
I only now realised the "Patio/Ratio" thing after having it pointed out.... *Whistles innocently*
@mnArqal93 Жыл бұрын
I'm English and I occasionally get something wrong. There's some really odd choices in English, but then, I imagine you could say that about every language.
@rivergreen1727 Жыл бұрын
Spanish is my second language, and when I speak it with patients, often they're embarrassed that they've lived in the states for so long and still can't speak it. Of course it's easier to learn Spanish as an English speaker than the other way around! There's a reason we so rarely see Spanish causing shit on this channel!
@adrianaherrera7202 Жыл бұрын
@@rivergreen1727 in which world is spanish easier than english…. English has almost no grammar. The only really difficult thing is Pronunciation.
@pancito3108 Жыл бұрын
@@mnArqal93 in spanish, each letter is pronunced a specific way. There's like 4 or 5 very simple exceptions and every letter affects pronunciation
@AndyFarnham Жыл бұрын
I love the description of English being three languages standing on each others shoulders wearing a long trench coat pretending to be an adult.
@pulaski1 Жыл бұрын
And the pockets of the trench coat are filled with words that English has stolen from languages around the world! 😆😅🤣😆
@irenemiller9958 Жыл бұрын
LMAO! 😂
@kimarna Жыл бұрын
It mugs other languages in dark alleyways and rifles through their pockets for loose vocab
@BattleSpew Жыл бұрын
I describe English as that young language orphan that was raised by a neighbourhood of other languages, and never had a proper teacher.
@mysmirandam.6618 Жыл бұрын
😅
@Roeskva_theFox11 ай бұрын
The last part- his face- "am I going crazy?" AHHH IT WAS PERFECT💀💀💀😭😭
@strangerthings.s9 ай бұрын
I saw someone on a tv show call a patio a "bird cage" 💀
@roberttfoley Жыл бұрын
My favorite is the good ol slaughter / laughter distinction
@@StarlingKnightDon't forget the slightly different but similar "thought".
@StarlingKnight Жыл бұрын
@@AkaiAzul Of course, but I picked only words with -ough ending on purpose
@Joe-po8rx Жыл бұрын
And the best place in England, Loughborough
@marcomobson Жыл бұрын
What's wrong with slofter?
@RyanKusuma Жыл бұрын
French is getting a taste of his own medicine 😂
@Soken50 Жыл бұрын
Do we have words in French that are spelled the same but are pronounced differently ? I can't think of any, there are a lot of complicated rules in French but at least the sound of a group of letters is consistent I feel (although half of them are silent).
@math9172 Жыл бұрын
As the other guy said, french pronunciation is very consistent. If you encounter a word you've never heard before you can absolutely pronounce it perfectly if you follow the rules. However in english *every single word* is an exception, and the only way to truely become fluent in oral English is to KNOW by experience the pronunciation of these words.
@arta.xshaca Жыл бұрын
French is like the adopted father and teacher of English. Well, Old French probably. So modern French is a foster brother
@RyanKusuma Жыл бұрын
I said this because it’s a running joke in this channel that French loves giving English and Universal Language a hard time lmaoo
@dragonlordgon6806 Жыл бұрын
@@math9172 because englis was adaptated so many times over the year to make it simplier for everyone, it got confusing. ( Also fun fact: the rich pepole in england used to talk French ( kings, nobles, etc... ) and the poor talked english) Also the fact that they had to accept queens as leaders come from the fact that otherwise France would have taken over since every king in england was from french descent
@uhhhhrandompersoniguess55678 ай бұрын
"in what world is this ratio?" *a logical world.*
@KingoftheJuice184 ай бұрын
Oooh, so close!!...."A rational world."
@uhhhhrandompersoniguess55674 ай бұрын
@@KingoftheJuice18 lol
@user-rz5qj8vp9m10 күн бұрын
The word "Obviously".. gets me each time 😂😂😂
@misseli1 Жыл бұрын
French might have an absurd amount of silent letters in their words, but at least their pronunciations are consistent
@calvindibartolo268611 ай бұрын
... eggs.
@ausoleil826911 ай бұрын
@@calvindibartolo2686 that would be oeufs. do you propose circumstances where it can have alternatives pronunciations ?
@calvindibartolo268611 ай бұрын
@@ausoleil8269 So glad you asked kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXXGYpqYhq6eeLM
@realmehuhn943711 ай бұрын
He might mean the F becoming silent in œufs (pluriel), vs the F acctualy making sound in œuf (singulier)
@ausoleil826911 ай бұрын
@@realmehuhn9437 Probably not, those are two different letter combinations each with its own consistent pronunciation.
@jacktease27 Жыл бұрын
In English we have both "Reed" and "Red", and yet we need to have "Read" which can be ethier of the other 2 depending
@benjaminsmith3625 Жыл бұрын
And Reid as a surname
@TraianNitu Жыл бұрын
@@benjaminsmith3625 a man of culture, I see
@shannondelacruz452 Жыл бұрын
Analogous to us having s and k, but yet needing to also have c which can sound like both of those but not having a sound of its own
@jacktease27 Жыл бұрын
@@benjaminsmith3625 I can't believe I forgot about Reid, I had a teacher with that surname and I completely forgot
@mynuttyme Жыл бұрын
I study English as a foreign language at University, I knew immediately what Reed means but I was literally thinking what Red means for like 5 seconds lol I need help...
@exyun339 ай бұрын
Student :Am I going crazy.. Teacher : Obviously...
@shubhamkumar68967 күн бұрын
French: Am I going crazy? English: Obviously
@utkarshg.bharti9714 Жыл бұрын
I love the way Loïc explains the French perspective. They find English as weird as English speakers find French.
@PeelyPeeler Жыл бұрын
“French, you are going crazy. But English has beaten you there”
@KaitlynMilliken7 ай бұрын
Lol, btw I know a bit of Greek so I use that to confuse people
@aryamanaggarwal4246 ай бұрын
French: Am i going crazy? Me: Welcome to english class
@apjtv2540 Жыл бұрын
Recipe for English: Add Old English, Norse, Danish, French, Latin, Chinese, Greek, Dutch and Spanish Leave to boil for 1000 years.
@rhov-anion Жыл бұрын
I remember being 8, struggling with these words, and telling me mother, "I don't even NEED to learn how to read because none of it makes sense!" (I now work in social media and read/write ALL DAY LONG! Still doesn't make sense sometimes.)
@ginnyjollykidd Жыл бұрын
This is what comes of a language (English) that doesn't borrow from other languages but follows them down dark, dead-end alleys and beats them up for their loose change.
@candacel3305 Жыл бұрын
Are you saying English words aren't borrowed from other languages? I don't think there are many, if any, that aren't derived from other languages. About 80 percent of the entries in any English dictionary are borrowed, mainly from Latin.
@iRicardoTM Жыл бұрын
Patio comes from the Spanish word Patio which means yard. There are a ton of words in English that are borrowed from other languages.
@gamistry2947 Жыл бұрын
Bros didn't get the joke
@iRicardoTM Жыл бұрын
@@gamistry2947 meh, it's difficult to know when somebody is joking (at least for me since English is not my first language), but there's a lot of people that are very serious about what they say on the internet and the problem is that they are just spreading misinformation. If the joke is not clear, then is pure misinformation, and I know at least half of the people that liked the main comment actually believe what he wrote.
@gamistry2947 Жыл бұрын
@@iRicardoTM "follows them down dark, dead-end alleys and beats them up for loose change" idk man, doesn't sound very serious to me, but I get your point
@Dgfy.11 күн бұрын
if you are confused, here is what to do: for example, when you get confused between live and live, you should write the emphasized syllable, live and l𝐢ve
@danielumoru397511 ай бұрын
"Am I going crazy " really got 😂
@scottmsg Жыл бұрын
English: Hey French, remember when you decided to give every noun a gender. French: Oui, I got drunk one night and, you know, things happen. English: I know and I’ve spent the last thousand years preparing my revenge. Behold, the language that can only be understood through tough thorough thought, where you can read or be read, lead or be lead, and Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. English storms off laughing. French: It’s a good thing I didn’t tell him about all the silent letters I’m using.
@NosstheBoss Жыл бұрын
Me: **Looks left and right** Do I tell 'em? Sure. Also Me: "AYE!" (A).
@oenrn Жыл бұрын
@@NosstheBoss I raise you queue, which could just be spelled q and pronounced the same.
@NosstheBoss Жыл бұрын
@@oenrn MEANWHILE at the pool table. I am clearly holding my Cue.
@LycanFerret Жыл бұрын
@@oenrn We stole queue from France.
@gemstorm16 Жыл бұрын
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@OvercomingPOTS Жыл бұрын
The best rule to remember about English is there are no rules 😂
@juggernaut31610 ай бұрын
Precisely
@TOBAPNW_10 ай бұрын
oh, there are rules (i before e), but what's crazier is that, for every rule, there's at least one exception (i.e. except after c)
@MmeIncroyable8 ай бұрын
*The best rule to remember about English is there are crazy rules.
@gabrielreed80397 ай бұрын
@@TOBAPNW_There's dozens of exceptions to every rule in English, there's literally no point in any of the rules.
@TOBAPNW_7 ай бұрын
@@gabrielreed8039 I'd call them soft suggestions.
@iiiihhhhi9 ай бұрын
a true teacher doesn't mock their students Remember that English
@mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmwm10 ай бұрын
Universal: “Alright what does this spell?” *LIVE* Me: “Leeve.” Universal: “N-no that’s live.”
@SimBol1216 Жыл бұрын
You should have added an "n" to "ratio" and asked French to pronounce "ration" 😂
@LloydVerner Жыл бұрын
The funny part is that ration and ratio mean two different things, but as soon as you add an "a-l" to the end, the words suddenly become linked again. Rational and Ratio Gotta love English
@Soken50 Жыл бұрын
@@LloydVerner I'm pretty sure the word ration is derived from ratio though, it's a quantity being distributed in shares dependent on supply, generally referring to food and general goods in times of war or famine.
@Zachyshows Жыл бұрын
Then replace the r with an n
@kimarna Жыл бұрын
@@Zachyshows natio isn't a word :P
@Zachyshows Жыл бұрын
@@kimarna I mean replace the r in ration with an n
@mushroom_cow_ Жыл бұрын
And since this moment, French made the decision to make their language as difficult als possible to annoy the English
@MajronStudios9 ай бұрын
No French you’re not going crazy, that’s just the English language.
@EatYourCookies5 ай бұрын
Lemme Explain: Example- " She Read The Story Book About Wolves " v.s " She Reads The Story Book About Wolves Sometimes "
@carlycharlesworth1497 Жыл бұрын
I am British by birth and I have to say that as far as I can tell, the English language was put together by a sadistic monster!! Lol. God bless you and all those you love. Thank you for these accurate and yet really funny shorts. You are a really funny guy and I love your videos!
@Julia-lk8jn10 ай бұрын
Wrong. The English language was actually put together by Norman soldiers trying to chat up Saxon bar maids. (And as language, it's about as legitimate as all other results of those encounters ...)
@funnyusername8635 Жыл бұрын
There's a store in my town called Reread Books. I have no idea how to pronounce it.
@georgelaxton Жыл бұрын
Reread books, obviously 🙄 😆
@TheFeldhamster Жыл бұрын
You sure there isn't just a "p" missing from the sign? That fell off or something? "Preread" books would make so much sense for a used book store and also solve the pronunciation ambiguity. With a single letter :)
@funnyusername8635 Жыл бұрын
@@TheFeldhamster It's on their social media too, so probably not. A P would help immensely!
@sbbboys Жыл бұрын
That is epic!
@S_WxIxLxLxIxAxMxS Жыл бұрын
Well, do they only sell *used* books?
@TheThingsDude5 ай бұрын
Innocent people trying to learn English: *exists* English: Let the chaos begin.
@humayunazad5820Ай бұрын
"Am I going Crazy?" No, you have just started to learn English!
@NikolaHoward Жыл бұрын
Ah, context is king. And English is a memory game, breaks all of its own rules... It's a total rebel in its language tree.
@pulaski1 Жыл бұрын
English has rules? 🤭
@M0M3NT0_M0R1 Жыл бұрын
This made me realise how important context is
@INFINITY-hp6bk10 күн бұрын
"Am I going crazy?" The answer is ... between
@Stillkun10 ай бұрын
I would love to see him do the many meanings of "fine" based on use and inflection: 1. I'm fine (okay) 2. it's fine (three possible meanings! that's okay, very thin or fragile/petite, or of high quality) 3. a fine (penalty, typically monetary), 4. she's fine (hot). 5. Fine! (To give up) That was hell when teaching English.
@superturtlesvideos2935 Жыл бұрын
As a person who has english as a 3rd language, that is indeed how I feel
@zephyrerazortail547811 ай бұрын
Same
@mich513111 ай бұрын
As a person learning French, I am crying from all the irregular verbs and from memorizing the genders
@Stephen-Fox8 ай бұрын
Hey, don't worry too much about it. I'm a native speaker and while I _know_ how hearth is meant to be pronounced whenever I wind up needing to say it I always wind up pronouncing it to rhyme with earth. English _does that_ to everyone.
@itzfritz365 Жыл бұрын
As a French myself, this is completely relatable.
@Frozenfrog183 ай бұрын
This feels like my english teacher. Always tells you what you did wrong without explaining why. After class I was like "what happened?"
@user-ou6fz6jz9q4 ай бұрын
Am I going cRazy" got me 😂
@samueliwelumo Жыл бұрын
I actually agree with this one , why don’t we have accent marks or diacritics
@zacharychavez3482 Жыл бұрын
Because that would WAY too complicated, pfft, obviously so we made it easier and just did away with them altogether. :)
@lydialukes522 Жыл бұрын
English is an amalgamation of several tribe languages (think Anglo Saxon), German, French, with enough Latin and Greek to make it extra spicy. So in making a language that everyone could understand they did away with most verb conjugations and accent marks so that everyone could learn to read and understand one language. If you look at true old English it looks and sounds Germanic when spoken. Over time I think with the two nations fighting and conquering each other the two languages got a little closer together... But mostly to make their own more confusing.
@LycanFerret Жыл бұрын
@@lydialukes522German actually sounds a lot like English. To be able to translate German, I just close my eyes and listen. Even if the German word looks like some insane crazy unpronouncable bullshit, it somehow sounds like an English word. And it means said English word. Magic.
@blackkittenthegreat3784 Жыл бұрын
i love how english calls french's language so complicated without taking a look at their own😂😂
@yuki97kira7 күн бұрын
My favourite will always be scale, scale, scale The skin of a fish, instrument of weighing and verb of climbing a slope of a mountain apparently came from different origin, but spelled similarly
@jasonbell851510 ай бұрын
So, on the last one, French got… RATIOED I’ll see myself out
@lindenpeters2601 Жыл бұрын
Oh dear Lord, this is reason 237 why I am grateful to be a native English speaker! Much respect to anyone who learns our language!
@cristoantiking7668 Жыл бұрын
English could be the easiest language to learn, there’s no grammatical rules like other languages so basically you have to learn each word separately because they makes no sense… and also that’s the reason to native English speakers can’t learn another language… ✌️
@ceciliamata9957 Жыл бұрын
Try Spanish and then we talk LOL.
@attractivegd9531 Жыл бұрын
@@ceciliamata9957 :D
@ruthredding3749 Жыл бұрын
The more I watch these the more I'm confused by my own language
@leowastakenwastaken10 ай бұрын
French: Too many rules English: No rules
@retrofedora706111 ай бұрын
From Patio with "T" as in Tea , to Ratio with "T" as "s" as in "soup". Yeah, that's really rational.
@sweetlioness3735 Жыл бұрын
I love how in the first videos English was buzzled and embarassed by French addressing weird stuff of English... And now he's just like no the problem is not me, is you. 😂😂
@SpringRobin15 Жыл бұрын
The English language is our revenge for the Norman conquest 😂
@GogakuOtakuАй бұрын
Context usually helps a lot with these pairs. “Read” (reed) and “read” (red) are distinguished based on tense, and “live” (liv) is a verb while “live” (laiv) is an adjective.
@karlgustov964815 күн бұрын
I could actually tell the first was "live" and the second was "live."
@isabellaulliac9126 Жыл бұрын
English: what does this spell? (Tear). French: Tear? 😢 English: Au mon dieu
@kimarna Жыл бұрын
Fun fact: shampoo says "no tears" but actually means "no tears"
@benjaminmorris4962 Жыл бұрын
No, French, you're not going crazy... English just "snapped" recently from all the weird bs he had to learn in French... This is his revenge...
@ariellai815 ай бұрын
Universal: “I’m guessing your doing this to…” English: “Confuse everyone but us”
@Cenn_Devel5 ай бұрын
Contrary to popular belief, English does have rules. The rule at the bottom of the list is just "Make exceptions for all of the above"
@Fladan Жыл бұрын
As a bilingual French person, I can confirm that this is true
@Megz1794 Жыл бұрын
@Fladan:because for English you just take out the verbs/conjugations and use the nouns to make it easier to learn/simplier to learn. We don’t use verbs/conjugations in English we use nouns.
@ginnyjollykidd Жыл бұрын
Yet we Americans pronounce "lieutenent" as "lyoo-ten-ent" while Brits say "lef - ten - ant" And when I first heard Brits say "left-ten-ant," I wondered why they never referred to a "right -ten-ant" It turns out that somewhere along the way, British "ieu" slid into the phonemes "ef." It was a peculiarity of phoneme evolution. "ye" is actually a rewriting of the Norse "the." It was written as thorn-e-that is, thorn that looked like a Greek lower case Sigma with a cross on the top curlicue. The thorn, if you look at it sideways, looks like a tiny "y" on top of a big, flourished "O" - like tail. When the printing press came about, there was no thorn, so printers used "y" for "th," and Norse "the" became "ye."
@instinctart2548 Жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, let's have an arc of these were french gets crazy 🤣
@PeytonPotter20125 ай бұрын
English: Now what does this spell? The iPad: Ratio French: You just said, ratio (ra-she-o) English: Nice try, it’s ratio (rate-e-o)
@ShutterbugVideo6713 ай бұрын
French has no room to complain. Because the answer to “am I going crazy?” Is “Oui”. Which is pronounced like “we “, and there is neither a W nor an E in oui!!
@ur.local.astrophile Жыл бұрын
I AM ETERNALLY SORRY TO ANY PEOPLE WHO ARE LEARNING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE!!😭😭
@molikeur Жыл бұрын
Honestly it is the easiest language in the world but prononciating words you never heard is where it gets tricky
@TwinFlameTreasures Жыл бұрын
English is one of the hardest languages to learn and all us English speakers over here crying trying to learn a different language. Then there’s all the bad butt mothers over here dominating English as their second language. Keep killing it my ESL speakers, y’all rock! ❤
@gilded_lady Жыл бұрын
I honestly wonder if English speakers have such a block on learning a second languahe because we have PTSD from learning our mother tongue.
@erwannthietart3602 Жыл бұрын
Its easier to learn written english than spoken english. Its easier to learn spoken french (because their prononciation once learn are actually consistant the vast majority of the time) and hellish to learn written french. Then theres German, the ones that decided to use a similar grammar system to latin ow
@H.u.m.a.n.10 ай бұрын
As someone who speaks English as their first language, I can confirm English just beat up three other languages in an alleyway and rifled through their pockets for spare words and loose vocabulary Pretty sure that's how most of the English language came to be
@DhruvBiswas179 ай бұрын
The word 'minute' also is equally tricky
@milesfreilich968 Жыл бұрын
"And people think I'm confusing" -French
@Avigail044 Жыл бұрын
LOL this guy is the absolute definition of relatable😆
@phoenixfeathers41284 ай бұрын
“Live a life you’d like to live” Hahahaha
@personalidontknow27265 ай бұрын
French: makes lots of rule and doesn't make sense English: doesn't make rule and still doesn't make sense
@ArianaTosado Жыл бұрын
I feel like English purposely picked words to screw with French and French is way too wholesome for this kind of treatment.😭
@evancombs515911 ай бұрын
The ironic thing about this is a lot of these weird spellings is due to French's influence on English
@Sigzyl Жыл бұрын
Bold of French to assume he's not crazy already
@shayelea Жыл бұрын
The entire reason English has a high-stakes contest where children try to remember how to spell correctly.
@familhagaudir85612 ай бұрын
''Are you going crazy? It might just be English.''