Native French speaker. I like to learn new words both in French and English to extend my vocabulary.
I learned English mainly by playing video games. I remember playing Super Mario Bros. in English while still learning to read French.
Yes you’re right, I bet the French “u” is strange for an anglophone!
The sound I have the most trouble with in English is “th”. When I try it it kind of defaults to a “d”. In France they usually pronounce it like a “z” instead.
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I’m told “écureuil” is an infamously hard word for non-natives. It’s funny that one of the hardest words to pronounce in English in my opinion is “squirrel”. At least for a beginner.
To answer your question, I was thinking about words with nasal vowels, which are non-existent in English.
“Enfant”, “informatique”, “un brin brun”
My own first name has a nasal vowel and in my experience talking to native English speakers, it’s seems like a challenge to them.
Great argument.
I don’t think English has any nasal vowels.
It’s a French name pronounced the English way?
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
My name is unpronounceable for most non-native French speakers. I tell them to not even try, as there are sounds in French that don’t exist in English. Instead, I introduce myself by butchering my own name, or by using the English equivalent to my name.
So, no, I don’t think people should use an accent of the origin language of a name. You can try, and I’ll even rate you on a scale of 10, but I don’t expect you to not butcher my name anyway.
C’est déjà bien! Faut pas se décourager :)
You know, I only learned the basics of English at school. I became bilingual through exposition to the language, which admittedly is far easier for English than French in my opinion, but still.
🖕🏻 (respectfully) /s
Québécois here. I have never understood when people tell me I am not French. I don’t understand what you’re trying to say.
Of course we’re not French, we haven’t been for centuries! We share a language and an ancestry.
I think most Québécois would agree with me that your statement is just confusing. You’re just stating something like we’re not aware of it.
With your help, this one
It was not nearly the worst place on the web!!!
I code in English by habit, comments included. I sometines write comments in French when writing code just for me, but code I write that is meant to be used by others is in English.
Je dis “capaciteur” parfois mais je suis pas mal certain que c’est un anglicisme effectivement
C’est de l’occitan?