French People Try to Pronounce Difficult English Words
Vložit
- čas přidán 14. 08. 2019
- I make French people pronounce difficult English words! It's simple, the rule is they have to be 100% French to participate. Then, I show them a series of hard English words and they have to attempt to say them out-loud. Thats it!
Instagram-
stephanbalensi
/ stephanbalensi
Snapchat-
stephan_balensi
/ stephan_balensi
TikTok-
stephanbalensi
vm.tiktok.com/pdM8gV/ - Komedie
American : successful
French guy : sexy fool
Lol
@Christian Wague Sandjong stfu
The French who appeared on the video are hopeless cases
Il ne faut pas nous comparer avec les parisiens y'a pas seulement Paris en France
@Christian Wague Sandjong Ok pari.
@@jaimelabouffe4565 yep. They're hopeless. There's many other cities and villages in France where there's poeple that are good in English (by good, I mean, better than them :D)
French People Try to Pronounce Difficult English Words
9.2 million people: *interesting*
It is interesting tho😂
There’s still some English words i have a hard time pronouncing.
8.98m Now Lol
Those days I'm practising english 40 hours a day ^^
@@samsamsoup its 9m now
As a native English speaker who has studied French, I think “choir” looks like a French word, and I can’t blame them for pronouncing it the way they did. I’m surprised they didn’t all comment on how the spellings of English words often seem to have no relation to their pronunciation. By the way, the last word is spelled wrong, at least on the screen. There is only one “h” in the word “psychotomimetic.”
Isn’t that what they call “false cognitive?”
@@morgandeclercque4608 do you mean false cognate?
@@oop1761 oops…….yes
"Choir" is also a french word but with a different meaning
It means leaving something behind
@@hidenname541 it also mean "to fall" ^^
As japanese, i get very nervous when i speak English because because the structure and pronunciation of English is completely different from that of Japanese. but i learned that nobody can speak their second language perfectly thanks to this video!
Just remember, in most native English-speaking cultures, it is considered extremely rude and ignorant to judge someone for making mistakes in English.
I've traveled a lot, and I really didn't like about 30% of French people I met in France as they would judge you harshly for not speaking French and extremely harshly for mispronouncing French. That being said, there were tons of kind/smart/friendly French people, many kinder/friendlier than most groups I have met. They just have a significantly large asshole population.
@@CharlesNauckOpposite of my experience
@@TurdBoi-tf5lf interesting where were you located and what’s your ethnicity?
Yes you are right 100%. Most people don't learn well because they are affraid of being ridiculous. When in fact most people are realy supportive dont give judgement and find it "cute" when you don't say words properly. So keep going !
The Japanese accent is so cute and the Japanese language always has a nice ring to it
English is my second language. Grammatically. It’s quite easy. Phonetically, it makes no fucking sense.
That's what happens when you put together multiple languages with wildly different ways to pronounce things.
That's what happens when you're too lazy to update your orthography.
@Siddharth Doshi yes. E in eye is I.
@@klounpound6945 bruh
As a native English speaker I can agree that English spelling makes absolutely no sense. Who thought it was a good idea to put a “c” that sounds like an “s” in city?
American: “focus”
French person: “f*ck us”
😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Laughing face
I-
😂💀
I have so much respect for the French people. As an American visiting overseas, I did my very best to learn, speak, and respect their beautiful language, but they would go above and beyond if I struggled (and genuinely politely, with no snarky backhandedness) usually help out by speaking with me in English afterwards, while still encouraging me in a positive way to continue learning French. I have nothing but nice things to say about the people I met there.🙂
I think they did a great job. They also have a great sense of humour.
"Hey can you pronounce 'choir'?"
French person: "Sure."
Well it’s like the word chat which means cat in French, and it’s pronounced as if an America person was saying “sha” their words that start with ch are pronounced shhh instead of ch. That’s why when they said choir they pronounced it like that if that makes any sense at all.
We would have pronounced sho-R
Yeah but in french "choir" means to fall si they just use the french word
@@P0pBitch Yes that's why it's true but also the french word for Choir is "Chœur" and it's almost pronounced the same way.
Lol I see what you did there haha
These obviously aren’t French people, as I have learned over the years, all real French people are mime chefs who love baguettes and wine and have taken in an extremely intelligent rat.
Hahahahaha, yoo haven't laughed so much in a long time. Thank you! :)))
rAtAtOilLe?
I think you watched too much Ratatouille.
all hail chef remy
I swear if someone gets r/whooshed here, they are the dumbest being on the planet
I have been to France many times and my good buddy lives in Lyon. The French are very friendly towards foreigners. I always enjoy my time there.
When the young lady said “we’ll they remove syllables” she was on point lol
French: how do you say bonjour
American: *banjo*
@ Tetorin
loooooooooooooooool
Banjo in my language means toilet 🤣🤣
@@ness-a29 😂😂😂😭😭 wasn't ready for that one
@@ness-a29 what is your language
@@nikamiruashvili1571 Albanian
To be fair, most Americans can’t even say brewery
Edit: I was being facetious, everyone. I know that people can say the word brewery, it’s just a difficult word to say for some of us
Edit 2: I can guarantee that half of the people who see this comment will think they can say brewery only to actually say brurri (I was one of them)
Better, learn Russian, it is the most accurate and emotional. You will never get confused. It sounds great how to write. It contains English, Dutch, French, German, Turkic words (Arabs and others)
@@phedack_0074 one step ahead of you...
i can but i have a scottish accent😁
To be honest you sound stupid
@@Thelegendmia *gasp* oh no
As someone who has spoken French and English their whole life i am proud
So many of them were so nervous, and I just wish that I could have been there to cheer them on. Most of them were so close! Really great attempts, and obviously way better than most Americans trying to speak French
When does America have anything to do with this, lots of countries speak English dude (Sorry for replying after a year)
@@SpaceotterwithaMustache They were talking about the other video in this channel dude
@@XDLR Sorry, wrote the comment before I saw the channel lol
🤓
Him: *asks French people to pronounce words in English*
Bilingual people: *God mode intensifies*
Eat your cereal
Eat your cereal.
Lmao
@@antiair6185 did i miss a reference there?
It depends on the language
“squirrel” doesn’t even sound like a word anymore
I see squirrels everywhere in the park and I'm like SQUIRRELS so I've an expert at saying it
@@lianaflow3146 I rarely saw a squirrel here
any word that is multiple wont sound like word always
@@swovswod what? Really?!? That's madness!
Ikr
I think the most difficult part of learning French is the fact that a lot of the letters or words are silent, which happens in English just not as much😅French is so much fun to learn though! I imagine learning English to suck
As a bilingual that speaks both french and english, I found this video extremely funny, and slightly relatable.
nobody:
paper: Scissors
french guy: Jesus
😂😂😂
Lmfao true
Jesus is always the answer
Agree
When, which guy?
They're so cute like-
: _"Brewrewree"_
: _"Shwoah/Shior/Crier"_
: _"Seizures"_
: _"Sister/Sexster/Seck"_
: _"Twenggud/Throughhoo/Throughgoat"_
: _"Yushaotamimetic"_
: _"Paugwa"_
: _"Sauce"_
you forgot paugwa
thank you for adding paugwa. i appreciate it :)
F*ck us
I hear pagur 😂
Twenggud was so funny
I also enjoyed watching the reactions of the couple sitting on the ground to the left of the screen. They got a kick out of the mangled attempts as well. And everyone was so good natured.
My gosh. Even when they fumble, it's sounds so fabulous.
I like how these people can actually speak English but they just can’t say these words
I was born and raised in France and I’m also fluent English but the words are very hard to prononce :(
As another french guy i have to admit that my fellow french people are not the best at speaking english
@@Kuroihu I am also a French guy but when I speak English you wouldn't know i am French
Yeah I’m American and can’t say these words 🤦♂️😭😭
@@Kuroihu Same here, French boi with fluent english
TIL:
1. The French cannot pronounce “Squirrel.”
2. I love the French.
what mean TIL
@@chanluvkpop Today I learned
3. Can't pronounce choir either.
4. They are very entertaining.
square friend
Fuckis
They all do a great job. I wish that I could pronounce even easy French words as well as they do difficult English words.
Learn this at 9:11 _"anticonstitutionnellement"_
It's known as the longest word in french. If you can pronounce it, even brokenly, just knowing it, any French person will instantly congratulate you.
(its long but not thant hard, just split it : anti | constitution | nelle | ment
and you can pronounce the first 2 parts with a completely English accent)
Not gonna lie, they did WAY better than I expected for trying to pronounce words in a language _that they don't understand._
Also, the girl at 2:28 HAS to have had some experience with American English. She pronounced that perfectly, with no hesitation, with an almost complete American accent. That, or she's just amazing.
"Squirrel"
French people: "Squarer" "Skwiworl" "skerer" that's cute dO nOt aRgUe wiTh mE
''Écureuil'' in french ! ;)
Respecte moi
sQuIwAr
“Skiroll”
*reseperte boiy*
"Choir" feels like a French word to me.
That's a verb in french so yeah.
@@anelkia27 Isn't that "Croire" ?
There is the French word "Chœur" which means Choir.
@@plutothetutor1660 no we actually have a verb that's called "choir", it means "to fall" but it's not really part of the spoken language it's quite outdated
@@plutothetutor1660 in french ir is croire who is like believe and choire who is like fall
Bc It was a french word and then americans start using it
I only took 2 years of French in high school, but I can see how and why many French people would try to pronounce these words the way they did.
i think the french comprehended psychotomimetic faster than me
Even the way they gasp is so french
I mean they're french
@@chipsalancienne3080 thanks for reminding me
And proud 😂🇨🇵
I am aware and I hate it :')
✨ le gasp ✨
Teacher: Everybody FOCUS on studies
French Student: Fock us
D NB t'abuse là
Marianne what
Vraiment on en est pas là 😂😂
@@milkatzu2586 just give up lmao, I don't even know how I could translate it to you even tho I speak French 😂
:( are you saying french are dumb ?
It’s always fun to see which English words are hardest for others
Lol these volunteers are so great
American: sixth
French: sister
James Charles has entered the chat
lol
😂
Yasss
I love this comment
Yes
Nobody:
That one black guy: **CHOMP** **CHOMP** **CHOMP**
Oh Hello CHOMP CHOMP
Fr
C'est koba il a pas fait anglais euro mdrrr
*quire chomp shaw ah quier tay hejhens “ajai..I uh shaima de doria?” * *nods* * ok.*
Bri Elizondo how lmao cuz he said black?
I’m not even French, but every time I hear somebody call a croissant a “cra saunt”, I die a little inside
I’m sorry how was it supposed to be pronounced cause I always say it like that😂
@@lilyjohnson7507 You say it like “cwuoh saunt”
@@lilyjohnson7507 The best way to know how it’s pronounced is by typing it in a French translation then hearing the voice
41% of English is French, so this is quite fascinating.
Literally nobody:
"CHOIR"
French: S U R E
Non choir nous on le lis chouare
that's bc in french people don't pronounce the h in words
Xypress Labarda that because ch is pronounced sh and oi -> wa and the R I think you know how french pronounce this
Xypress Labarda because if we didn’t pronounce the h we will say kwar and no shware
Xypress Labarda With the word choir the h is silent anyway so no. For words like chocolate, chips, chicken, chat then yeah the h is pronounced as a ch sound is used but with the word choir it is pronounced qu-i-er so with a qu sound not ch sound
Nobody:
Paper: squirrel
French guy: skrillex
Dj snake *pardon my french
Lollllllll
@@neckashi6971 cursed names
Squirtle
imma try it out
I love this sooo much. tres bien!❤
It's funny to see how for them some words are just as hard as it is for us to pronounce some french words
THAT GUY EATING THE WHOLE TIME IS AN ENTIRE MOOD.
Your profile pic is an entire mood.
Fr
🤨
Yes
YES
Successful: *Appears*
French people: *“Six-seex-foorl.”*
We actually pronounce success the same way, so successful is really easy for us. For me that's just some ignorant people.
•Latte •
What do you expect lol, they’re not native English speakers XD
Also, you really don’t need to put them down like that. Honestly, if I was one of these people in the video, I would be extremely offended. Could you please think before you type something like this?
Nice Hinata picture.
Im french wnd its very très très difficile
my friend says Sexyfull
I am impressed actually. Some of them do very well.
Definitely he had to stand near Eiffel tower so that we don't doubt him. 😂
Everyone: Trying to pronounce word
Guy: Eating throughout the entire thing and falling over every time
HE'S FUNNY LMAOOA
Niggas be wildin
KonS G hey don’t say that
@@carlotabas3846 is a meme
@@777gnom niggas in Paris
I bet they accidentally summoned a demon trying to pronounce these words.
e
**demon noises intensifies**
Like on Supernatural
Sofia Hause lol. Love supernatural
*Why do I hear boss music*
After a year of French people telling me I had lazy lips, this video warms my lazy American heart.
"I'm walking throughout the park" Is a lot better than my "there are assassins throughout the crowd"
NOW LET'S WATCH AMERICANS BUTCHER THE FRENCH LANGUAGE.
wow cant let us have any fun :(
hors d’oeuvre
that happens every day in French class
i wanna try! 😂😭🥺🥺
at the end
Don’t worry French people, we can’t say “rural” either
VAYNE & KAISA ONLY honestly brewery is weird too
I struggled reading that...
Ural
How is rural hard to say?
Fucking pronouncing words that have too many R's or R in the middle
I think it's cute when non-native English speakers try to pronounce English words 😆
I think they all did better on that last one than I would have.
PLOt twists: *the guy just had horrible hand writing*
OMG YEA💀💀
lmaaooo 😂
O My Gosh!!!!😂😂That was funny.
Lmaoo😹😹
100th likes!
I like the guy who eating and then answering, like the food is giving mans his power💀
😂😂😂
It gives his white pants the power to repel grass stains
THE POWER OF THE FOOOOOOD
You really made me laugh
He really couldn't put that food aside for just 2mins to do this 😂😂😂 wtf 😂
Funny how all the actual French could say “successful” but the invader could not 😂.
Dude with the food saw "throughout" and had a mental reboot 😂😂
The french people did alot better than American trying french words
@mozarella10 :0
@mozarella10 it's not even close
english is the most basic language so it makes sense
@@Kingethan1OO not sure if I'd say it's the most basic. But it's the most used internationally and the American media is so very available. Probably why
not paris hilton English is one of the hardest languages to learn due to the fact that it steals from like 7 languages
Nobody: ...
English guy: sixth
French guy: sIstęř
Aiven Valdes hI sIsTeRs
@@josiahmonroe932 AHHHH!
Roux Money THATS WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY!
Hiii sisters
Aiven Valdes 😂
Let's be honest, no one can pronounce "brewery" in a coherent way.
So good! Would've loved to see them try worcestershire!
No one:
Paper: scissors
That guy: S-s-ci-SO-SOFT S-SOIL
Lmao
Zuley Roesly 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Zuley Roesly *rock* Paper: Scissors
@@spongebobfunnyy *Shut* the fuck up
He looks like Lil Yachti lmao
American: “ Brewery “
French person: “ where are we? “
baby bear lmao
I heard blueberry
LOL I CANT STOP LAUGHING
Burberry
I hear it as “where were we”
I am in love with the french accent it's so cute. it makes me smile everytime they speak english🥴😁
I am french btw
Speaking English with a French accent is very shameful: between French people.
It's quite surprising to read comments from English speakers who say they appreciate it.
American: "Focus"
British: "Foecis"
French: "F*ck dis"
Copycat someones comment 20% different tho
@@lgnd280 Oof what- I didn’t see any comment like mine D:
@@Dark-lq1yx Vysulo's comment that is literally 1 week ago half same as you
@@Dark-lq1yx dont worry when people call you a copycat. They just cant take your humour
@@lgnd280
Chill, roblox kid, it's just a comment lol
I'd like to see Americans try to speak baguette.
Ayo
Why much of the Americans say "speak baguette" ? x)
I find it's funny ^^
@@zeni2177 That's exactly why we say that: because it's funny. It's meant to be a joke. :)
@@fwemp Oh, that cool ^^
It's funny to see burgers trying to speak french.
"Successful" when the third guy just looks at it and is like "nah" and walks away lol
"Squee-Roll"
Perfection.
when the girl said successful she just lost the accent
Maybe switch 😳😂 i like there accent regardless
Yeah
@Brooke Lefort 😏
As a Russian person who learned English
English spelling makes no sense
facts
I mean, Russian grammar isn’t much better
As an Indian person who learned English
I agree
I’m an English person who learned Spanish, that language is a God Send in comparison
Yeaa... we pretty much just threw random letters together and made it words
Being a mashed up bundle of languages, yes.
This is motivating
Honestly they did pretty good with squirrel because a lot of them just pronounced it out how it’s spelled 😂 it does look like it should have an extra syllable
Never knew that the word “focus” could sound so dirty.
*sighs*
...................
@@muna3196 something wrong?
@meira stan fuck us
Fuck ass hhhhh
_maybe_ fuck us
french people struggling to pronounce ‘squirrel’ makes me feel better about being physically unable to say ‘écureuil’
Eh coo rei?
@@mendaxus8514 é cu (u like in "universe") reuil (i can't explain how to pronounce this soud i think there's no equivalent in engish, sorry)
@@psychoredhot yeah that's closer to what I meant, I'm not good with phonetics
ay-ku-rey
@@LittleThings98 Yeah well it's more like "euuuil" you have to pronounce the end of "of": See ratatouille ? RatatouILLE it's almost the same same sound RatatouILLe, écurEUIL
I swear the guy wasn't holding anything but a wrapper but was constantly finishing a mouthful
Props to the dude eatting, he did try at least
level 1: *Squirell*
level 2: *Sqallel*
level 3: *Sxquri*
level 4: *Squidward*
evolution be like
*Kim -Jung Un czcams.com/video/uHF96sumCTo/video.html
Half the French people pronounced "Squirrel" better than the American with his "Skwirl" 😂
But "skwril" is the norm
@@nicholaskenneth113 I know, but it's interesting to see them testing other people on their English but by British English standards (as taught in Australia) you are both wrong to our ear.
It's one of the interesting quirks of the American English and British English variations. Add in the Australian dialects and it's a whole other conversation 😂
@@Astrologist man australian english is something else, they change entire sentences' meanings
It's normal cuz in France most of people learn the British pronounciation.
It's weird too that many Americans think "squirrel" is only one syllable. What some of the French folks in the vid said should have counted.
Interesting sidenote, the word "squirrel" has an old french origin.
This really goes to show that the bros act the same way in any country
As a person who has english in 2nd language i can confirm some word in english are really difficult to pronounce when you try to use the accent
english: squirrel.
french people: *”skwee wull”*
cheskypooo 😂😂😂
"*squid ward*"
Ewwo... im a Skeewull uWu~ nyah
Can you just try to say Œil ? Or Bouilloire ? 🤣
Squirrel is like the worst word in every language in French it's "écureuil" and I can't pronounce it to save my life
1 minute in, and squirrel doesn’t even sound like a word anymore
It is a word though.
ObliviousToTheJoke that’s not what they were sayin though 😂
@@salmonache1601 they said it does't sound like a word. But it dows because it is a word. Ugh.
ObliviousToTheJoke nice user name btw
And the funny part is that it's most probably because of phenomenon called Jamais Vu (and yes, this is also french ^^).
Choir had them all so stumped 😂
The sandwich guy was the best😂
the black guy eating entire of the video is so damn funny. i'm dying
of coronavirus? is your mom ok?
@@fraavezskyrim??
@@fraavezskyrim what...?
Fraavez what
He's a walking meme
I was low key hoping he’d have them try to pronounce “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”
Me2
Somehow we have the same word in french so 😅 But not sure if everyone saw Mary Poppins tho!
Antidisestablismentarianism
Part 2?
I was asked to spell that in a book quiz( I came second)
This was so enjoyable! The three guys that wouldn’t even try ‘successful’ killed me😂
A little bit of poetic irony there.
Homie did not stop eating and refused to speak without food in his mouth
Me, an American: says all the words as they pop up just in case
just to be safe
SAMENSJSHDU
Bro for real same haha
You can never be to safe
Same
When you think about it, English is actually a weird language
It’s a very stupid language 😂
Yes yes it is.
One question WHY TF IS IT CALLED A EGG PLANT IN AMERICA?????
Honestly like that sounds disgusting.
Hi queen angella lmaoo
@@amaya3270 hello, are you friends of Mara?
@@queenangella8558 YESS!😂😊
somehow my ad turned into the actual video. Like, a 49 second ad, turned into the video. A red progress bar, and at the end it just showed other videos to watch
Good to know it goes both ways
When you're french and watching this video : 👁️👄👁️
Same
@@callmesam.4502 pk tu reponds en anglais alors
@@leprof9326 Alors, premièrement, "same" est entré dans le vocabulaire français, va pas me dire que t'as jamais entendu un français dire "same"
Et deuxièmement, de base je suis pas très à l'aise avec le français, surtout qu'on est dans les commentaires d'une vidéo anglaise, pas française.
@@leprof9326 Tu peux pas juste répondre à un commentaire anglais en français-
@@callmesam.4502 dsl si je t’ai paru agressif, perso j’ai du entendre "same" en français une ou deux fois dans ma vie et j’ai du oublier donc je demandais simplement pourquoi tu répondais par "same"
paper: says 'throughout'
french girl: 𝘵 𝘩 𝘳 𝘰 𝘢 𝘵
thats what she saw on the internet ;)
She says what she heard mostly
She wants that lightsaber
Deep throat🤣😂😂😂😂
Choir
S H W A
The girl in this seemed very into trying to figure out the words & have fun doing so1 she has a fun energy! Someone I'd
want teaching me French for sure!
Not just French
Says a lot about English when even the native speaker misspells "psychotomimetic"
Okay, but "Brewery" is the worst word ever invented.
I can't even pronounce it normally xD
Bruri
I just say brewwry that way it doesn’t sound so weird😂
@@layla.a bru very
br u ery