Americans Try to Pronounce French Words

“That’s so many vowels together!” 😂🇺🇸🇫🇷
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[@TriangIe]

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.

[@terminatroll-_-3269]

They're two sides of a coin

[@samalander88]

Plus, that dude was hilarious.

[@isbeb507]

theres a very notable french city called grenoble! it kinda sounds like that

[@guillaumesora5385]

Every French person should know Sonic The Hedgehog come on ! Running around at the speed of sound Got places to go gotta follow my rainbow !

[@chrisez3188]

there’s a famous French restaurant in New York by the same name it’s not a city but La Grenouille is a place

[@delia.c]

Basically they're trying to speak in the most exaggerated French accent while still speaking in an American accent

[@Mayflower-xo8ew]

Delia it’s so embarrassing it hurts to watch 💀

[@hunterurban5465]

There's videos of French people trying to pronounce English words and they're just as bad so

[@Brianahz]

Idk if you know this but it's hard to speak a language you've never learned.

[@amfbolton]

Potato Landz well they’re not from France and movies over exaggerate French accents so can u blame them?

[@jenkennedy3484]

Potato Landz so I guess you do understand

[@katsukibakugou5349]

"There's 6 letters in that word and you made 3 noises" that pretty much sums up the entire french language

[@AlanHope2013]

That's why the word that sounds like 'thuru' is spelled thorough. Thru-out is throughout. Yeah let's discuss superfluous letters.

[@MarkZickefoose]

@@AlanHope2013 You don't even need the second half of the word 'though', and only the first letter of 'queue'...

[@AlanHope2013]

@@MarkZickefoose Quite.

[@brimcd]

*Qu'est-ce que has entered the chat*

[@noellebagel6645]

@@brimcd ahaha I get so triggered when people in my French class pronounce it like “quest cay cue”

[@aflons8893]

"I made it way more complicated than it needs to be" -Creator of French

[@gigiatlas2364]

😂😂😂

[@uneotarieseul9584]

Okay there put an h. And you're gonna pronounce it right ? .... Right ?

[@mish375]

God: So, do you want tonnes of vowels and consonants that aren't pronounced, along with changing vowel combinations based on the word just to confuse the hell out of everyone else? The French: Yes. God: How many? The French: All of them.

[@dzl8596]

That would be Napoleon.

[@svitac1693]

It's funny that 85% of France doesn't speek any an i do mean A N Y other language, so when they come to a restaurant where i work they speak only french. And even if they ate all and i get 'SUPEEEEERBBBB' at the end, they leave bad review because i don't speak french. And they usually never leave a tip. I speek 5 languages, english is one of them, non of them fluent, and work in a tourist type of restaurant, french for me is mission impossible.

[@nh2880]

The one girl in the purple adding -wha or hwa to the end of the words

[@narata1541]

@That1art A I agree she is pretty!

[@sinkmagg0t]

I'm more interested in finding out WHY she does it to be honest

[@coldleftoverspaghetti]

hang on i need to know how many of you actually see her wearing PURPLE instead of white. if we're talking about the one with the black truck in the back??

[@reinal7896]

Ashy -san It’s not that serious .. she really just had no clue

[@MrBlastZone3000]

@@coldleftoverspaghetti don't you mean the green truck in the back????

[@Eldrich4291]

French: L'oeil The lady: LOL

[@Shadow_Watch]

Lol

[@inayahk8129]

LMAOO💀

[@iceteal0ver135]

AHAHHAHAH YES

[@Blackoutfor10days]

LoeiL

[@raw0045]

Sounds very accurate to me.

[@damondominique]

Language Gods: How many vowels and unpronounced letters do you want? French: Yes.

[@Chococat3646]

Language Gods: How many unpronounced consonants do you want? English: Yes.

[@anonymousperson1952]

As an french a laugh at what u said cause its True

[@santiagosuarez3584]

idk but I love your channel.

[@Linguages2024]

English and French have the same stupid problem about spelling. By the way, half of the English vocabulary comes from French or Latin so we are in the same boat...

[@alf3071]

Why do they use the letters if they're not needed lol

[@behemoth1158]

I loved when the dude said "is that like a masseuse" when masseuse is literally the french word for it

[@justinschicker8424]

Coming to this after all the “French people trying to say English words” is some of the most enlightening shit

[@sextupledvanillabeans559]

most of them know some english, not the other way around lol

[@stevehangzo7159]

@@sextupledvanillabeans559 true. Main reason why English speaking peeps shouldn't consider others "lower" just because they don't speak the language. Like dude, we weren't born/raised speaking English 😂.

[@estherthebester]

same 😂

[@szentz5392]

i swear i just did this after watching “french ppl trying to say english words”

[@derekcaler3285]

Steve Hangzo well learning English is important (not saying French isn’t). It’s just that it’s the most common language. U don’t need to take French like u do with English.

[@user-oh9ui7oz2r]

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.

[@fatenbouassaf4803]

Itsmeh Bluewolf yeah she surely does, i soeak french fluently and u can tell when someone knows the language

[@vampirina9305]

she is most likely to be French just by her looks (I used to live there) not saying I can assume anything by looks but she definitely has some French in her.

[@TheMacdeluxe]

Her pronunciation is very good i'm french ^^. Sorry for my english.

[@shaoshao8157]

Cloudii kiss oh, vraiment? C’est bien! Où en France?

[@shaoshao8157]

Cloudii kiss oh, Lyon est si beau! J'étais à Marseille.

[@lunabrights4073]

That man did NOT just say that he'd love to live in a frog.

[@Nat_the_Chicken]

I mean, one of the French speakers said they thought Hedgehog was a city, so...

[@AnyoneAnywhere82]

He's into a lot of different stuff.

[@muhammadn.cheema998]

i wanna be inside a frog wait

[@ohno7590]

tbh i would want to live in a frog

[@noaime6173]

Peta would be pissed of

[@Boba_Fett_Bounty_Hunter]

“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

[@atharvapangarkar1410]

This should have atleast 1k likes

[@gay-flower]

lol i was thinking the same thing XD

[@Nome0412]

Ok that made me laugh

[@PBurns-ng3gw]

Me: "Moule garçon! Venez ici!" French waiter: "I'm gonna spit in this guy's food."

[@inconnu4961]

@@PBurns-ng3gw Non, non, he will met (put) the moisisure en the repas (meal)! LOL You ask for moisisure, you get the moisisure!

[@dianabrewer8832]

The woman who adds "wha" to the end of EVERY WORD...

[@christopherrivera9827]

It's almost like she doesn't speak french?

[@Harmxn]

@@christopherrivera9827 Fam there's no 'Wha' at the end of some of those words. French write 17 lettres but only pronounce 4, why would she add some pronounciation to the word. Atleast you can try, you know

[@Harmxn]

2:26 Vendanges It ends on a *ES* which you don't pronounce "Wha'

[@02ladydamned]

@@Harmxn which she wouldn't know if she doesn't speak French...

[@swag12576]

Harmxn dude ... she doesn’t even speak French like how would she know tht? I was raised in America basically my whole life but born in my home country so I speak another language besides English and y’all can’t blame them. Ofc they should try and it’s clear she rlly isn’t trying to mock but genuinely try. I don’t get mad if ppl can’t pronounce my language well or whtv. And if anything the way they say it was how I thgt too so it’s learning experience for all. Don’t blame them if they don’t know the language or expect the rules of French or whtv. Lmao.

[@Filipeeno]

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.

[@AlanHope2013]

Nailed it. Joey speaking French, exactly.

[@charlotteparadis4754]

EXACTEMENT. Je m’appelle Jean-Claude : ja Veda fa loufff.

[@joezeinaty]

0:42 JUAN!!!

[@TangerineTux]

At least, the sounds are quite convincingly French. All that’s left is to arrange them properly. It is, non-ironically, a nice start!

[@ultraboombean]

@@TangerineTux yeah she was trying lol

[@chloepaul3826]

Me who’s taken French for three years: Gets extremely excited when seeing the word grenouille

[@dogloverj7]

Same lol. I’m in grade 10 and have been learning since grade 4. Grenouille has always been a funny word to me.

[@FlowerTower]

I don’t get it, lmfaooo. I’ve taken French for years and I’m not excited.

[@snowriver4724]

I am enjoying those comments since I'm French 😂😂😂

[@karnakua8054]

"Gren-wee" "Gren-ouuil" "Granule" "Gren-oil" Americans ukno😭😭

[@ZedaZ80]

It's right up there with papillon

[@Maple_Tachibana]

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.

[@darthmath1071]

As a frenchman I have to say her pronunciation is on point. Especially the "R"s which are notoriously hard for English native speakers to get. My guess is that she's got french-speaking family or she's studied french for a decent amount of time.

[@zaqareemalcolm]

probably learned it a long time ago and just forgot or something but might recall with a bit of effort, it happens

[@STNeish]

Ya, she's clearly studied French at some point.

[@mee6211]

She's probably french or she's from Quebec

[@neynahnehnah1485]

I can understand French but I can't speak it. I can read almost perfect German but I cannot understand it. I can read arabic and guess what it will be in English...and I am a Persian who learned English from watching animation. It is a weird thing that I do, I am the same with using my left hand and right hand... But you are right, you can't tell one word's meaning out of the content.

[@hettiem-c1229]

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"

[@mariama1735]

amazing

[@lilia8500]

LMAOOO I JUST CAME FROM THAT VIDEO HAHA

[@JadetheGoober]

😂😂😂 Underrated comment

[@hcll707]

I'm DYING JAJAHDHDHSS OMG

[@tiramiisu0]

wonderful

[@tutdunsthemouse]

"Oh I made it more complicated than it needed to be" The French language in one sentence.

[@ferrarolareine2166]

Literally tho ^

[@aalex1675]

So accurate.

[@CDTranslate]

izzy startin actually it’s the other way around, a lot of letters or syllables are reduced to make it easier to pronounce like a flow in the river, but I’m not talking about grammar etc

[@tutdunsthemouse]

@@CDTranslate I was talking about how pronunciation is confusing for non native speakers because there are a lot of vowels. But I agree in many ways French is easier than English.

[@47halide]

ehhhh, i know english and french, (english is my first) et je pourrais dire sans aucun doute que l’anglais est plus difficile que le français

[@aliciarobadey1425]

the girl in the hat is ceo of adding an unnecessary “wa” at the end

[@mbs0710]

She herself even agreed she made it more complicated

[@meghanainturi6768]

I think she is an Israelite

[@Hypie582]

@@meghanainturi6768 why?

[@ethankoetsier]

@@meghanainturi6768 Nobody is an Israelite anymore. Ðat's a term from antiquity. Someone from Israel today is called an Israeli.

[@charlotte4496]

she kinda looks like greta thunberg

[@Shadowsea443]

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

[@thepixelatedpie]

Knowing multiple languages really helps you tie links between past cultures. So many words have somehow exchanged in between languages, hundreds of years ago, to become used words in today’s official tongues.

[@caroqt]

I am very lucky my first language is Spanish and I'm fluent in English cause I have to learn French since my boyfriend is from Quebec 💕

[@RinceCochon]

If you can understand french, there's a very good channel on KZbin about linguistic named "Linguisticae". it's interesting and entertaining, while dealing with sometimes complex subjects. Obviously there's subtitles if needed.

[@Ssoorreenn]

French is like 80% latin and not « romantic »

[@ParlonsAstronomie]

Thank you !

[@tashazalinski5250]

Brunette clearly speaks some French

[@paulbismuth10]

Yes. She must have learn it in school she succeded to say inébranlablement wich is hard to say even sometimes for a french person when speaking rapidly. The others were 👎but they are not exposed to french as english is the lingua franca (As french used to be in the 17th and 18th century, next it might be mandarin or hindi, who knows?).

[@oliviadaly4795]

@@paulbismuth10 she could be a bilingual Québecoise?

[@AlanHope2013]

@@oliviadaly4795 She doesn't have even a trace of a French-Canadian accent.

[@philo_eveeve1664]

She does. Her accent is perfect

[@happytraveller2122]

More than abit

[@MuhammadRaiyan135]

The lady that pronounced everything properly is so pretty

[@kaushikyamineni494]

She knows a lot of french. Maybe studied it in school

[@duftendergorilla]

She looks so french imo

[@yrnzeek7997]

Muhammad Raiyan simp

[@ИванДжамбов-о3н]

the dumb one is cuter imo

[@ngwolf4025]

@@ИванДжамбов-о3н yea

[@codedecode878]

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"

[@rumblefish9]

If you lived in NYC that last bit would be a legit sentence because there is a famous French restaurant in NYC called La Grenouille

[@Rumpael]

@@rumblefish9 and of course it's a restauraunt

[@uzualice9824]

HAHHAHAHZHHZA OUI

[@AugustAdvice]

There probably is a town somewhere in America called Hedgehog lol

[@FarhadHakimov]

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.

[@MarkOhlsson]

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.

[@vickypedias]

I can do it: In a bran label ment!

[@inconnu4961]

Thank you SO much for these words of encouragement! We SO often hear that francophones can be very tough judges of students of the French language. My ex-wife wa an immersion student in Canada, and was often scolded in Montreal. It can be discouraging. These are the words we need to hear!

[@MarkOhlsson]

@ Nope, the syllable "ble" in "-lable" is not pronunced as the same way as "label" in english (or frenchà. "-la-BLE" et "label" sound very different in french.

[@MarkOhlsson]

@ No problem-studying languages is always challenging, and I completely understand. Regarding what you're saying, I'm not sure if it's just a stereotype or if French people are generally rude and lacking in patience. Personally, I’ve never been shocked or annoyed when foreigners speak French imperfectly. Honestly, as long as we can understand what they mean in everyday life, we couldn't care less. That said, if this stereotype is true, French people wouldn’t exactly be in a position to judge others, especially when you consider the average level of English proficiency in France-particularly the accent. In any case, I can only encourage you to keep going! best luck with that.

[@suziemenard5317]

I speak French in I am sure tha the women with the short hair speak french,she sounds like it.

[@kv297]

Bihan BrittanyForEver 👀

[@elyungito8205]

Not at all

[@elyungito8205]

She has an accent

[@tensazangetsu-rapbattle4347]

@@elyungito8205 hm, nop

[@Sofia-in2ht]

Same, she does have an accent on certain words but I am French and I believe she’s not a beginner behinnzr

[@fednerfaustin9209]

Woman in black jacket knows French very well.

[@sissyrayself7508]

She's so special. Sooooooooo special.

[@kerokero9458]

@@sissyrayself7508 You're one jealous person

[@clapkys420content]

you mean basic french...

[@fednerfaustin9209]

@@clapkys420content je ne sais pas. c'est a toi de me dire.

[@clapkys420content]

Fedner Faustin elle sait à peine parler fr

[@gorniklecznaman3414]

::.. Girl in black jacket must be Canadian spy 😃 ::..

[@beigestallion2929]

Gornik LecznaMan she has a mainland French accent

[@ailawil89]

Matori Shiro Yeah, but if you’re not French Canadian and simply studied French in school, you’re just as likely to end up with a more metropolitan French accent.

[@beigestallion2929]

@@ailawil89 sadly, yes I think we can both agree she's not french canadian though

[@james64ibm]

Yeah ... she's hot, impeccably dressed, not fat and pronounces French words correctly, that's 400% proof that she ain't American.

[@ailawil89]

Matori Shiro Ah, yes, she’s definitely not French Canadian.

[@christy2252]

The girl with the cap wasn’t even reading the words at that point. She was just making up the endings adding letters when unnecessary 😭

[@bozo5773]

Two people in this video pissed me off, -The girl who added “wha” to the end of everything -The guy who was talking too much/ trying to be funny Edit: To be more specific: -The woman pissed me off cause it seemed like she had been purposely mispronouncing the words. -The man didn’t piss me off, he was just annoying/cringey. Pardon My French

[@jamesleiber]

BoZo YES!!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@T7d534]

Lmaoo

[@sissyrayself7508]

That's funny because you're so easily pissed off 😂

[@samanthafisher3308]

Sissy Ray Self yeah, that’s hilarious....

[@Backsoon35]

This pissed me off too

[@yeahh8]

*That brunette girl speaks French* *Im 100% sure*

[@crash2082]

No im french and .... comment dire ... c'est pas tres ouf ouf

[@bLaKeAnThOnY0]

crash 208 ouais mais c’est pas mal non plus

[@ced_kyokushin3531]

Je pense que elle est française, elle prononce trop bien certains mots, sans accent

[@yeahh8]

@@ced_kyokushin3531 ou elle a vécu dans un pays qui parle français pendant longtemps

[@ced_kyokushin3531]

@@yeahh8 oue mais pour, connaître des gens qui vivent en France depuis ses 10ene d'années, ils ont pas un aussi bon accent.. Ma tu comprend que c'est automatique naturel,

[@madelief641]

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)

[@real_lampcap]

Yeah she defs took French in school of some sort

[@coconuuut9641]

@@real_lampcap yeah pretty much

[@mannajacobc.2269]

She sounds French too....?

[@justafish9618]

Because she's probably not guessing anything at all. She knows

[@GiustinoColameo]

@@mannajacobc.2269 She doesn't lol, more than the others but still sounds very english

[@Wyzalt]

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)

[@GrievousDu38]

C'est le mildiou quoi

[@Wyzalt]

@@GrievousDu38 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).

[@OoJh14oO]

plotwist : girl in black jacket is actually french :OOO

[@arytonnn34458]

Non, mais l'a étudiée

[@CleopatraTelevision]

I think so. And I’m French.

[@gorniklecznaman3414]

Or Canadian

[@BoFlght]

@@gorniklecznaman3414 no she does not sound Canadian.. She s got the French accent not the Canadian one...

[@BoFlght]

@@CleopatraTelevision dingue.. Cette fille a à peine un accent quand elle parle français 🤔très bizarre..

[@JasmineRodriguez-yc3lc]

Why does the blond girl add “wa” at the end of everything💀🤦🏻‍♀️

[@ninasayers9863]

She doesn’t know french and that’s normal. What were you expecting 😂

[@elagmae]

Idk but it's kinda cute... and funny😂😂

[@sofus47]

Blond?

[@jannfietearp4439]

french stereotype, gargles, wa, and nasal

[@MilkyWhite1]

You're going to get it right at least once. LOL!

[@Flippityflap]

that dude in glasses is trying way too hard to be funny Edit: People asking which dude i mean; there's only 1 dude trying to be funny thanks for all the likes btw!

[@Cippii]

Which one? Lol

[@jakep1979]

His mom thinks he is hilarious.

[@rihannawhyt3384]

@@Cippii 1:42 this one

[@fryderyk.chopin]

what dude there are so many

[@MatthewMcRowan]

reminded me of Jonah Hill

[@SylvieLePain]

I saw the French version of this when I first started learning French and it was so refreshing to see others also having struggles in my language, I’m about to be an English teaching assistant, can’t wait to show my French students learning English this video!!!

[@meylaang2333]

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

[@iHerc]

Meyla Ang which is very pretentious to say as an anglophone, at least French has pronunciation rules, however crazy they might be compared to other romance languages. English on the other hand....

[@arunsreenivasan2074]

@@iHerc completely agree

[@Sxd212]

We call people like him in French: Une tête à claque.

[@meylaang2333]

Saad Douieb which means?

[@tromick]

lmao

[@adelrare5555]

please tell they guy with the glasses that he's funny so he can stop

[@juliaf7656]

APLUS!! アデル they all wear glasses but we all know who you mean

[@adelrare5555]

@@juliaf7656 I know u know 😏

[@Dvoid107]

Lol You'd just make it worse

[@rachaelnwaoha3543]

APLUS!! アデル lmao I can’t stand him 🤦🏾‍♀️🙄

[@brightbluesummer3981]

Dvoid Have you heard that people love my jokes? I’m thinking about becoming a stand-up comedian

[@sourdough6653]

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

[@inconnu4961]

Keep practicing, its a great language and you will meet people who know it, so it can be a bridge language.

[@sourdough6653]

@@inconnu4961 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.

[@mish375]

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! 😄

[@sourdough6653]

@@mish375 I don’t think any one dialect is “right”, maybe it’s kind of beautiful to have a mix

[@sourdough6653]

@@mish375 but yeah I totally understand

[@itsglby]

Narrator: “vondozh” That guy: *VON-DANGLES*

[@awsomemodels]

That one was hilarious 😂

[@FlagshipHistory]

The one talkative guy pissed me off

[@soimn6321]

Mohamed Mohamed hate those people

[@sissyrayself7508]

The one talkative guy made me laugh and he made my day.

[@bingqianli6666]

@Rebekka inia Looooool I just noticed his kippa

[@bingqianli6666]

@Rebekka inia but he's funny, I like to be friends with him

[@choso7479]

@@sissyrayself7508 you've been replying with that in here. Be honest, you were that guy on the green shirt, aren't you?

[@Ahmet7641]

2:30 she is obsessed with "gwa" letters. She tried to put it in every word.

[@Maki-00]

It’s so weird since her pronunciation of “monsieur” was pretty on point, even though it wasn’t the correct word!

[@mindworms5181]

Gwa is fun to say

[@easyybreezeyy]

Ravens make that sound, she reminded me of a raven

[@parsonbrown3907]

she's too obsessed with chinese or sum shit lmao

[@Geniuschad]

Aynen

[@aceroro21]

bro that guy asked if moisissure was masseuse in french...masseuse is literally french

[@inconnu4961]

BUT remember the faux amis (false friends)! Not all words are DIRECTLY translatable!

[@cypherusuh]

The editing are so good, it felt like "random dialogue / interview" segment in a parody-comedy movie

[@elianekeller8504]

2:49 "Oof, way too many syllables in it" *Laughs in German*

[@emery_is_silly]

bruh I’m French and I’m learning German at school, *why do the German words have to be that long-*

[@elianekeller8504]

@@emery_is_silly Meanwhile I'm a German learning French at school and I'm like *what's up with the French pronunciation and why the heck does the Subjonctif still exist*

[@emery_is_silly]

Eliane Keller Hahaha even french people themselves don’t know why the hell subjonctif exists, like nobody use it-

[@helloZ]

Dutch

[@miketheduck626]

KAKERLAKEN

[@pumitajacobi5928]

1:26 HIS "HUH" IS SO AMAZING AND I LOVE IT

[@punsiella]

fr its so cute

[@bms7935]

The perfect HUH

[@MeowCockadoodledoo]

ikr

[@russetvelvet]

"My throat is going to be sore after this."

[@ryanjones7681]

That's not the first time and it wont be the last time she said that.

[@silentgamer2434]

Stop copying my jokes I’m gonna trademark them

[@karanaima]

Famous last words

[@aisha2352]

Title of your sextape (Only B99 fans will know)

[@zackgrimstone3524]

*proceeds to get every single word right*

[@queenof_imk9970]

Although I've only been learning French for about eight months, I could pronounce must of the words. Thank you to my French teacher 😁

[@zarlg]

The brunette is clearly French and just pretending to be American.

[@MRuby-qb9bd]

So, like, Canadian?

[@sonicxis4ever]

She could have taken French and studies it really well

[@caleighoverton4394]

@@MRuby-qb9bd HAHAHA

[@behemoth8399]

No way. For a french native or very fluent french speaker, inébranlablement is quite easy.

[@GoToMan]

@@behemoth8399 Oui ! Iné-branlablement. La clé est de diviser le mot.

[@__dane__]

As an American, the loud guy didn’t try at all

[@austintc369]

@@bozoeren6451 I don't see how that is disrespectful and ignorant. Not many Americans need to know French compared to Spanish or Chinese in certain areas

[@Buttsceatcgee]

Andrew Cohan he’s just annoying and cringey.

[@marthamaywhovier5962]

Ben Garcia it speaks volumes when people still try using virgin as an insult....

[@cobrafn2682]

Ben Garcia That’s not even an insult. It tells people a lot about you though. 😂

[@strm8496]

@Ben Garcia huh. Seems odd that you come in here attacking people and calling them offended but they all seem calm and collected. Maybe you are the one who is a little self concious.

[@broodjekaas820]

1:03 it's french not chinese

[@erikeriks]

🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱😩😩

[@Mayflower-xo8ew]

I’m wheezing 😂💀 she was so annoying

[@sissyrayself7508]

Chinese is better than French though.

[@ok-sp9xf]

Sissy Ray Self Really?? Do you rather travel to France or China?? Hahahahahah lmao jk

[@broodjekaas820]

@@sissyrayself7508 agreed

[@The_holly_and_the_holy]

The girl with the cap and the white jacket is so cute. How with every guess she looks so hopeful like "I finally got it, right?!" 😂

[@phoebusapollo8365]

How do you see words that end with “ourt” “lle” or “ure” or “enge” and say *”WaAaH”?*

[@tibo6749]

The words that actually are said with - waah don't even look like they're supposed to be pronounced that way. French is extremely weird for people who have never studied it.

[@alanlight7740]

How do words end with "ot" or "os" or "eau" or "eaux" or "aux" plus a dozen other things all end up being pronounced with the same "o" sound? And how do "et" or "êt" or "es" or "ée" plus a dozen other things all end up being pronounced with the say "a" sound?

[@phoebusapollo8365]

@@alanlight7740 because the t and s is silent, and “eau” is meant to be pronounced that way, so any variation of that ends up pronounced similarly, plus, how do you except to pronounce it? Try it, is it better to just pronounce “eau” as o, or to find some other impossible way to pronounce them together?

[@alanlight7740]

@@phoebusapollo8365 - you say that as if it is perfectly natural for the t and s to be silent. Hint: in Quebecois, they often are pronounced. Point is: French is as bad as English when it comes to the spelling matching the pronunciation, possibly even worse - and that's a pretty high bar. Given this fact, Americans who are unfamiliar with the language will just try to make generic "French" sounds while trying to pronounce the words.

[@karlpoppins]

@@alanlight7740 Unlike English, French is very consistent when it comes to pronouncing written language. Of course it's very inconsistent the other way round, just like English. The participants in this video were asked to do the former, not the latter, so had they known some basic French pronunciation rules they would have easily gotten pronunciation decently close to the real deal.

[@eigen1255]

The lady in the cap was hilarious! Every other word ended with a "-ouah" sound. LOL.

[@12SPASTIC12]

Genuinely that seems to be the one thing she knows about French

[@mohanadbakain282]

"the word has six letters but you only pronounced 3 sounds" french in a nutshell

[@FlushGorgon]

Though...

[@lionberryofskyclan]

Thorough Ther-ro 8 letters, 2 sounds.

[@gabrielle8292]

Et oh le respect s’il vous plait

[@tp230]

@@ehaitem know, knife, lamb, plumber, psychiatrist, pseudonym, Wednesday (that’s a whole syllable that’s not pronounced), Gloucester (again, a full syllable gone), ... There are countless silent letters in English. But the most difficult thing is the inconsistency in how vowels are pronounced (know / now ; yes / eyes = you add one letter in a word and it changed how a vowel in a different syllable is pronounced) without any systematic rule. At least in French when you read a word and know the rules of pronunciation, you know how to pronounce 99% of the words.

[@ZiRR0]

I don't get why he said that lmao, English has words with six letters and three sounds. Like family, Africa, eleven, animal, and more...

[@henrymerkel1385]

Props to whoever was in charge of subtitles. These are hilarious.

[@teddy5481]

everyone: "bonjour!" me: *"bOnE JaW!"*

[@seraby7151]

Cant blame us, french people have a habit of not reading the last consonants for some reason.

[@saxx9088]

seraby it’s not a habit it’s how the words are pronounced Like how Americans take u’s out of things Differences

[@stevehangzo7159]

@@seraby7151 dude it's their language. How the F can you call a language "habit"? Guess you're one of those typical ignorant stereotypic American guys lmao.

[@knight.2049]

*bone apple tea*

[@ann-gaelleon3859]

@@knight.2049 you mean “bon appétit” ?

[@dennisstrizheus7816]

1:24 SHE SAID “L O L” haha

[@fab_jon]

Geroy RL WHY DID THIS MAKE ME LAUGH SO HARD

[@Kazavop]

_lol_

[@katelynvcm6185]

The Great Dalek Exterminator *_lol_*

[@Owen-px4iz]

That hit me so hard lolol

[@natelicious_money170]

Fab Jon WTF SAME 😂😂😂

[@Onitsuka01]

I came here after a video of French people trying to pronounce English words Looks like a revenge to Americans lol

[@Exokris]

I'm not french but english speakers (not just americans) can't mimic french's syllables somehow

[@brettk9316]

That's because English is perfect :p

[@Melanie-sd8bq]

@Luboman411 I'm French, and I didn't know my language had diphthongs 😅

[@rikotakashi2541]

@@Melanie-sd8bq pareille. Je sais mm pas à quoi c sert

[@iciinq6305]

i also came from that video

[@NoopyP]

"I works live to have a house in Grenouille" As a French person, I died 🤣

[@幻彩小羽毛]

Word: moisissure Person: that's like how you would call someone at a resturant Hey mold!

[@brize3452]

I searched for this comment xD

[@brado1912]

The guy in the green with glasses is so annoying and ignorant. “You can’t pronounce Os like G”. It’s a different language with different pronounciation. Edit: I’m not expecting him to know how to pronounce it, just don’t claim that they’re pronouncing it wrong

[@jadrachad6832]

Indeed

[@itsnotatoober]

🖕

[@ginkgo4310]

That guy wearing green white and orange is so annoying and tactless too.

[@cyan789]

Let's see you be in front of a TV camera and asked to pronounce words from a language you don't have a lot of experience with. At least he's lively and he's trying, so chill tf out.

[@Klara0014]

Irevision triggered

[@jessboo173]

French: yaourt Hat woman: yahweh? yehuwa? JEHOVAH!!!!

[@bravobear1844]

Jess Boo, he is the answer to most things.. but not this one 😂

[@yulyalonso7895]

😂😂😂😂IM DEAD BAHAHAHA

[@AnxiousHearts]

@@bravobear1844 yahweh is a villain name

[@AnxiousHearts]

@Student of the Bible ugly name, more likely the name of an alien reptilian entity than God

[@bennywilliam5422]

Jehovah witnesses

[@jovibaby]

i’ve been stuck at French A2 for a while and have lost some confidence but this helped haha bless them

[@alexabirdwing]

Word: L'oeil Girl: L..OL?

[@Apoz]

Now do a: "Americans trying to speak English"

[@juliemccrea5481]

I thought it was hilarious. Touche!

[@NathanClingan]

Arjuna you total piece of shit, I'm in

[@anushka8210]

@EconphileTheAI its a really old joke that's just floating in public domain since forever so nobody stole it , infact I have heard it in some very old American show itself

[@juliaj7939]

There are different dialects of English in America dummy

[@Apoz]

@@juliaj7939 You call them English dialects, we call them American dialects.

[@vyrge]

I died at "I would love to have a place in Grenule.'' HAHAHHA

[@tookawaii9765]

Looooooooool

[@TheSpecialJ11]

I mean, my immediate thought when they said it sounded like a place was "Grenoble".

[@aya-chan4784]

We don't have any Grenule but you can have Grenoble if you want. But we have To show you Mon Cul before!

[@vyrge]

@@aya-chan4784 hahahaha I know but it sounded like Grenule to me

[@Alexandre.Moonwell]

I love this, the subtitles have the pronounciation mistakes included

[@booli8542]

Imagine the guy with glasses reading the comments. Poor guy :(

[@hellothere-dv5me]

Yeah,everyone is just straight up attacking him.

[@diegoescobar4268]

Which guy? All three guys have glasses!

[@alexyoutube5659]

@@diegoescobar4268 omg 😂

[@Delicate_Disaster]

......they all had glasses. Which one? The green shirt, grey shirt, or blue jacket?

[@tinaw.6178]

He knows what he's doing

[@hiimme3672]

Yes, everyone loves to have a place in grenouille

[@mrsb09]

Grenouille me an frog guys QWQ (im french)

[@GreatCdn59]

In Canada, there is a town called Crapaud ("Toad") . lol

[@sqgo3133]

I've never seen someone try to be so funny and yet be so unfunny

[@mennakhaled3161]

SQG O3 RRIGHTT, ON GOD, THAT BLOKE WAS ANNOYING AFFF JUST SHUT UP

[@yulyalonso7895]

@@mennakhaled3161 oyy mAte ow are ya. Am doowin jus fine sow no need ta aysk. I Iy agree on da ole bloke being annoyin ting ya jus said

[@etienne7930]

And it is you

[@hogarthmcmallian7369]

ever heard of Amy Schumer?

[@neoplante]

dude in the green shirt right. that guy was so annoying

[@charliemayfilms1550]

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.

[@marukchozt6744]

Guy: "I'm not unshakeable, I'm sh..sh..shaken" We get it dude, we get it..

[@leobozkir5425]

Maruk Chozt I just heard it when I heard your comment lollll

[@jianiRAAAAGH]

*Me, a canadian, who has to go to a french emersion school* "sTeP aSidE, PunY mORtaLs!"

[@kristamarsh7212]

I was in Immersion growing up and I barely speak it now. However, I will frequently have dreams that are full on in French. 😊

[@alex-ej7ki]

Same

[@hbowman108]

So, you'd end up pronouncing these words in a way that is entirely correct for Canadians?

[@kristamarsh7212]

@@hbowman108 To our French Immersion ability, yes.

[@jianiRAAAAGH]

@@hbowman108 y e s b u t n o I kinda suck at french

[@naiyomiii]

“that would be too easy” LMAO

[@gijose83]

love their confidence lol

[@EnsoTB]

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 👏🏻

[@somebodyuknow2507]

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.

[@bourbon2242]

Last Irish spelling reform was around 700 years ago and look how they pronounce their words.

[@drummersnare6276]

French is consistent😂😂😂 they don’t even pronounce 90% of the letters in the words lol

[@qraee]

1:27 that “huh” 💀

[@kazuhitoshi9701]

I died 💀💀💀

[@AbsoluteAbsurd]

Lmao

[@noorykorky5056]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@yasmine9046]

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 :)

[@-untcuchable.mp4268]

she's probably canadian french or something.

[@russedangereux3682]

@@-untcuchable.mp4268 I don't think so, she would has a Quebec accent.

[@LeviKaplanSkolnik]

I found the video very amusing as well, especially being a native French speaker and American as well

[@eigen1255]

round?

[@juliaj7939]

@@-untcuchable.mp4268 She's probably from Louisiana where French is highly spoken there or she learned it in school.

[@desertasmr5804]

Polyglots be watching this, eating pop corn and smirking

[@ruthie1562]

“L’OEIL” , the girl adding wha or hwa - “L O L?” 😂😂😂😂

[@pierreraton1723]

I like the guy with the glasses. He’s genuinely made me laugh, in a positive way.

[@ediewall6360]

Yes, more of him , doing this please!, Give him a free trip to Fance if we can follow him around

[@aviejewel]

all the guys are wearing glasses 😭😭

[@jjeverson2269]

@@aviejewel i assume he meant the less annoying one

[@vanityparadiseofficial]

If you are talking about the short round one, absolutely not.

[@YHWHisEternal]

​@@jjeverson2269none of them were annoying they're just people trying

[@boardingurban]

0:23 Sorry but she's bilingual. The accent gives it away

[@MarkHogan994]

No, she is not. Her accent is pretty decent but it's far from perfect. I'm a native French and English speaker and I can tell that she doesn't master French pronunciation. Some of her enunciation is pretty clumsy. Nonetheless she's quite good compared to most English speakers.

[@viniciusalquerque]

@@MarkHogan994 but being bilingual does not mean you speak exactly like a native speaker. If she speaks french well (which she does) and it is understandable (which it also is), then she's good enough to be considered bilingual. Having a foreign accent is pretty normal when u learn a second language

[@tomthecat2477]

文修斯 well i can say i speak french way better than her and its my 4th language

[@somegrill7561]

BODYBUILDER HENK your point? 🧐🗣

[@boardingurban]

@@tomthecat2477 french is my second learned language but I speak it as if it was my native language. Accent and everything. It's fair for me to identify as French, especially because I live in a French town in CA. Same with her

[@Boba_Fett_Bounty_Hunter]

“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

[@bibbytenbillion]

As a Canadian I thought my French was bad but damn

[@ampmri2434]

Lol.

[@GlobalGaming101]

That’s because you guys have an entire Provence of French speakers. We can pronounce Spanish words for you, with a higher degree of accuracy 😅

[@GirlDo3]

@@GlobalGaming101 Don't generalize a lot of Americans can't speak spanish for shit

[@vikkil8804]

Fiona Marcotte America is mostly made of immigrants and some of that percentage is bound to be people from Spanish speaking countries, so if you think about it, a lot of Americans can.

[@GirlDo3]

@@vikkil8804 Yes but I'm talking about those from european descent or even black americans

[@samanthafisher3308]

The guy with the green shirt is getting on my NERVES!

[@comkioxd]

Shut up Karen

[@vice_santos]

Comkio make him

[@zorgo12]

@@comkioxd Bye, Felicia

[@faulker2p]

The guy in green is annoying af

[@sissyrayself7508]

The guy in green is the coolest dude in the world. I think he's hilarious.

[@samanthafisher3308]

Sissy Ray Self what r u his mom or something? Ur posting on every comment about him.

[@cxxxrose]

Samantha Fisher might actually be him ?

[@NoaSmithh]

I know

[@danielmanole4918]

Sissy Ray Self no life

[@RC-bv2pz]

I love the way whoever subtitled this lmao good job

[@Dracopol]

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").

[@erikeriks]

I believe the English did the same thing but I might be wrong

french is actually closer to latin and English is closer to german fyi

[@nielsfreese15]

gottfer true

[@tromick]

How can i learn these things more? Any website or book? Thanks a Lot!

[@Dracopol]

@@erikeriks 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.

[@Raisonnance.]

Vivre dans une ville qui s'appellerait grenouille 😭😭

[@arytonnn34458]

Et ...

[@Lucky-fc2ci]

Il y’a bien montcuq en France ...

[@MaitreObi-WanKenobi]

Alors, il existe bien une ville en France qui s'appelle Rennes-en-Grenouilles. Voilà voilà...

[@thetooginator153]

France éternelle - Je pense que l'homme pensait à Grenoble.

[@WealdsOfGold]

Oui, beaucoup

[@JakeLProductions]

fool said he wants to have a house in frog hahah

[@T7d534]

Whaha

[@Tony56000]

00:22 I'm frnch, she pronounced PERFECTLY (like a french woman)

[@dundy96]

2:29 she started of so strong. Then it got worse and worse.

[@Austin_2600]

1:24 When someone tells me something funny

[@lenastoll5090]

Lol

[@adisaputra7690]

"I am not unshakeable, I have been shaken"

[@amodgawade4323]

he has been SHOOK

[@Nia.s.Care.]

Hahah

[@mkdesu]

HE'S SHOOK

[@Imamotherfreakingavocado]

I love that there was just one woman who kept adding "wa" to the end of literally everything

[@aaronsrok3422]

I only took two french classes in highschool and watching this made me realize I paid more attention than I thought.

[@lelechim]

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.

[@Prieta100]

Que bueno!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽☺️ lol

[@mathisboudras4300]

Yeah I understand but French is the most beautiful language, the language of Molière is a latin language with Germanic/celtic influence. It’s different and that what’s makes this language so beautiful

[@gisl9575]

A mi también me gusta el español, me encanta ❤ Pero, tengo que aprender english... ¡Saludos desde São Paulo - Brazil!

[@Prieta100]

@@gisl9575 Escribes muy bien el español ☺️ a mi me gustaría aprender portugués ❤

[@serendipityenthusiast7272]

Yea I agree

[@Imm23743]

2:29, I mean I'll probably be just as bad if not worst than him in pronouncing French words. But Vondangles!?

[@JRandaII]

That dude in the grey sweatshirt is adorable…