Oui oui let's pronounce our words completely arbitrarily hon hon hon

>oui oui let's pronounce our words completely arbitrarily hon hon hon

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>not even 'mariage homosexuel'
wew

The English are worse

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>have hfnhf in your language unironically

French spelling is a mess but at least they are consistent with their autism. For example "Aux" will always have the same sound regardless of the word it is in.
It more consistent than english where for example try is pronounced one way but in "entry" is another way. Or stuff like steak and streak

>though
>hvo

>no
>now

>nose
>nowse

It's not that arbitrary, actually.

Sure, they have a fuckton of silent letters that stem from archaic spellings but in a way it's consistent and not that hard if you can memorize the 25 or so rules which will allow you to read 99% of all words. Then you only have to deal with shit like "h muet/aspiré".

English is way worse.

>arbitrarily

'no'

french language were made to be pleasent to speak without any logic behind it. It's fair to say it's difficult because it unironically is.

I wish German was the lingua franca desu

only losers complain about English spelling. It's aesthetic, late medieval chic

>It's aesthetic
any romance countries laugh at you

German is not as forgiving(This is true for every inflective language.
) as English for non-natives due to English having experienced creolization, rendering it more analytical.

This happened after the Norman conquest and then during Danelaw era.

English is a great lingua franca since it draws from Europe's two most dominant language branches and by extension the language branches of the most influencial colonial powers.

>there their they're

false
even Dutch looks better than French

isn't it English spelling that's incredibly arbitrary?

laughing at you deluded monolingual speaker

are you implying the Norse domination of Northern England occurred post-Norman conquest?

Even the Dutch would disagree, the nicest to me is Italian.

Btw, the EU should switch back to French as our lingua franca(like it used to be before the UK joined the EC) since we need to distiguish ourselves from the Anglo-American block that proved to be unreliable and downright hostile to our union. Most EU staff and diplomats do speak French anyway, since most EU institutions are based in francophone cities. So why not.

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hello where are the frog lesbians :DDD

this, since english is linga franca world became shit and unstable as fuck

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De Gaulle was fucking right.

at least we're now out of their cancerous influence and we can keep using their language for retards to easily communicate between us, of course we'll skip to french or german when conversations will need higher precision.

Patterns are weirds, but very systematic. Once you know them you're OK in almost every cases.
English is massively worse on this matter.

Just an example:

though
tough
cough
hiccough
plough
through
lough
borough
hough

none of those words rime with each others, and you have no fucking to way to know how they're pronounced other than just memorizing each of them

Is French poetry/literature worth reading for reasons beyond language practice? I love English literature, and am afraid I am missing a whole new world.

this

De Gaulle was a hack.
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>Lindybeige as source
top fucking kek

learn middle high german
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He uses actual sources in his videos, brainlet. He reads directly from them.

>ProfASAr
Can't take him seriously after his video where he butchered Faroese
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Dutch speaker here, our language is way uglier than French

As a second language speaker of both languages, yes. French is actually quite logical in that regard. The only problem is that it's very counterintuitive going in from most other languages, but once you get the hang of it it makes sense and you can pronounce every word you come across. Conversely try to ask an American to pronounce "Gloucester" or "Thames". It's not Glow-kes-tur and Thames (as in, rhymes with James) but Gl-ow-ster and Thems. Never had that with French.

>Sure, they have a fuckton of silent letters that stem from archaic spellings but in a way it's consistent and not that hard if you can memorize the 25 or so rules which will allow you to read 99% of all words.
This pretty much.

Yeah, everything about our country is nice except the weather and the language.

>Lindybeige
You mean the guy who unironically thinks England won the Hundred Years War?

Can you tell us the rules? I'm thinking of learning French too.

t. Johnny van Dyke

Wow, it's impressive how retarded he is. England was shed of Normandy, Anjou and Aquitaine, which they had won through marriages, and which spanned almost half of France.

The English argument of "hehe we conquered then got kicked out so not reallt a loss xD" is retarded that way since what they lost they hadn't conquered initally.

And De Gaulle was a "hack" because he made a (necessary) speech following the liberation of Paris? Or do you believe he was dumb enough to think that France could have done anything without the allies?

You can probably find a lot of guides online, but I think the biggest problem is (as the German user elaborated on) silent letters. For example, an e at the end of a sentence is always silent, but if that e is followed by for example an s the e is pronounced but the s is silent. Yet if the s is at the end of a sentence but not preceded by an e it's not silent.

For example:
Fille (girl) has a silent e
Filles (girls) has a pronounced e but a silent s.
Fils (son) has all letters pronounced.

But now it gets fun. Let's say that a word like filles (with a silent s) is followed by a word that starts with a vowel. An example of such a sentence would be "les filles ont achetées des fruits" (the girls have bought fruit). Then "officially" the s in filles would still be silent, but in common parlance there's a "liason" where the two words are drawn together [this exists in classical latin as well], so in practical terms you pronounce it as "les fillesont" as one word (but with a silent t at the end).

My rule of thumb when Lindybeige is talking about something:
>Is he talking about something unrelated to history?
He's talking out of his ass
>Is he talking about England and/or France?
He's talking out of his ass
>Is he talking about history unrelated to either France or England (usually classical stuff)?
He may have a point.

Look at his videos on D&D for example. Everything about it screams that he'd be a horrible GM because he just doesn't understand how the game works. He understands the rule, but he doesn't understand that everyone's sitting at the table to have fun. For fucks sake, he complained about not being able to take an action on someone else's turn. He doesn't even understand the abstraction of taking turns as a means to keep things fair, something that has been around since fucking chess.

He's what I imagine the average Sup Forums Brit stereotype would be like incarnated into a single pile of autism.

This. Reading is easy, that's spelling which is a pain in the ass.