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So, do you read this letter? Well...yes, but actually no

@JohnSmith-pg9ns

3 жыл бұрын

....Unless it's an exception which in this case it's not but it could be....

to people getting discouraged by this: once you speak it casually, you'll pick it up quickly. till then, don't worry! people will still understand you if you pronounce plus in the wrong scenario, it's not too important

@saritapunia3720

2 жыл бұрын

are u a marian messaging after a year

@wolfthequarrelsome504

Жыл бұрын

Isnt that all that matters, to be understood?

@soha5318

Жыл бұрын

@@saritapunia3720 yup i speak french fluently

@soha5318

Жыл бұрын

@@wolfthequarrelsome504 no, pronunciation is necessary to master any language and be taken seriousy, especially to speak it anywhere else like in casual conversation, for example academically

@saritapunia3720

Жыл бұрын

@@soha5318 ohk !!!!!!

I’m am so motivated to learn french but all these exceptions, silent pronunciation, tiny rules, and seemingly multiple variations to say the same thing.... I don’t know how I’m going to learn how to speak french :(

@Goku17yen

4 жыл бұрын

did you make any progress :)

@JaswinderKaur-jz2if

4 жыл бұрын

Same , exactly same is happening to me.I don't know now what to do ??

@ersimn

4 жыл бұрын

@@JaswinderKaur-jz2if if it's any help, the more you listen to native speakers, the more you get used to the words and how they are pronounced and you don´t have to think about the pronunciation rules as much

@Mewnzz

3 жыл бұрын

Same, I have many troubles with pronunciation and I wish I decided to learn Spanish instead, considering I know a little bit of Spanish already

@mareenshah3868

3 жыл бұрын

Listen to movies so then you can get the sound of the language and it become instinctual😁

Pierre's content and delivery cuts straight to the essence of linguistic concepts in an interesting and engaging way. His logical and straightforward explanations have helped to slowly de-mystify the French language for me. Nicely done and much appreciated. Merci.

@howiefillion8438

Жыл бұрын

I could have say it better. He’s a teacher.

French will eventually evolve to be silent 😄

@josereino779

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha!

@videoaudio7669

4 жыл бұрын

Body language

@JanexConfetti

3 жыл бұрын

HAHA, I agree! French will become silent one day LOL

@thelmaspalace

3 жыл бұрын

lmaoo

@Theroadneverending

3 жыл бұрын

Not with their attitudes 🤣🥲

It's a good explanation for silent words in french

Even better memo : Learning French gives me PTSD

@lurklingX

4 жыл бұрын

SCOUNDREL Hahaa FANTASTIC!

@justlottie

3 жыл бұрын

This is the best!! Hahah

I like the way he teaches. Makes it seem so easy but the truth is French is one language with way too many grammatical rules 😭 hope I get it though

@moisesramirez861

Жыл бұрын

Did you??

It's a good lesson. Just that the words on the board are too small to see.

The best video about French pronunciation. Thanks a lot!

Then why do u have those letters??

Awesome! I took 4 years of french and this video explained it best lol

@pinkandgreen7681

3 жыл бұрын

I took 3 yrs of french in hs and 1 yr in college and I did not learn that much even though i was very focused and did all homework and were very into it

For English speakers who think silent letters and syllables in French are ridiculous, you obviously haven’t been paying attention to your own language. I think it is fair to say that French actually has more consistent rules (including consistent exceptions) than does English. Unlike French, which is a Latinate Romance language, English is the result of a confluence of many languages. English originnated as a Germanic language (technically an Indo-Germanic language) and was heavily influenced by Saxons, Angles, Jutes and Scandinavian Old Norse thanks to the Viking invasions. All of this is well before we even get to modern English which was created upon the injection of _(Voila!)_ French - approximately 25% of English words are of French origin - due almost entirely to the French Norman conquest of England in 1066, which made French the new “it” language.. By the late Middle Ages, the English we speak today was largely established, though obviosly, it continues to evolve. The English colonization of, well, the world added thousands of new words to the English language from places as far flung as India and China: pajama, veranda, avatar, bangle, bandana, chit, dungaree, cash, catsup/ketchup, brainwash, gung-ho, mandarin, paper tiger, etc. Point being, English, unlike French, is a melange* of at least a dozen disparare languages, including even Persian and Arabic. (*See what I did there?) In brief (or should I say _"En bref"_ ? - since it is literally a borrowed phrase), English is a "Frankenstein's monster" language with parts sewn together over many centuries. Consequently, it is far too much a mish-mash (that's a technical linguistic term 😉) of many different languages to have clear, consistent and obvious rules about spelling and pronunciation. Like all languages, its grammar has a structural logic, but spelling, including which letters to pronounce and when, is not one of them. There was a turn of the centurry attempt to simplify American English by Melvil Dewey (1851-1931; creator of the Dewey Decimal library cataloging system), but obviously it wasn’t much of a success - or would that be _sukses_ ?

@Bello9848

2 жыл бұрын

Good write up

@hrn8935

3 ай бұрын

no, practically 50% of french word are silents while in english there aren't nearly as many. I get it, english is a chimeral abomination of many languages its like 25% french, 25% greek, 25% latin and 25% god knows what else, but its better than being 100% french

Very helpful. Merci.

outstanding lesson. before this lesson reading french was impossible, now its only hard. 😅

My mouth for whole time trying to read the TRAINING : 😗

This was really great! Your explanations were very helpful and well organized. 😃

Magnifique explication.

Merci beaucoup Pierre!! c'est un trés bonne votre vídeo!! vous m'aidez beaucoup 😘

Thank you so much, Pierre!

Learning french is very challenging!! I started it with greetings and it took a weeks to memorize every sound, pronunciation and intonations. Make me nutty but am trying to continue to learn coz I find it interesting to learn new language. Thanks for sharing your video. It adds to my progression to keep me learning esp.this period of quarantine. It's very useful to me.

Extremely helpful

Merci beaucoup pour l'explanation🙏🙏🙏

Merci beaucoup, monsieur... ☺️☺️

Thanks for teaching me !!

Very helpful, thank you merci

There is a category named P T S D I'm scarred to learn rn

@vminmotivationalcurve88yea64

3 жыл бұрын

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?

@TheJayWay101

3 жыл бұрын

@@vminmotivationalcurve88yea64 On the board but the words are jumbled

@indimay7339

2 жыл бұрын

At our school we call it the STD rule

Super useful. Thankssss.

Great summary!

merci beaucoup

Learned a lot. Merci!

thank you so much! This lesson has been extra useful

THANK U MY FRIEND, U WERE SO CLEAR!!!

This is so helpful! Great instructor

A very helpful video. Sirr. Clear my most of the doughts.. thanks a lot

even though it was really confusing...but it was also formidable!! and help full so thanks a lot...merci

This video is SO helpful! Wonderful! Thanks a lot! Subscribed and looking to enroll in frenchpod101

Quick general rule (many exceptions, of course): If a consonant is followed by a vowel, wither within a word or at the beginning of the next word, the consonant is pronounced. Otherwise it is silent. (Again, a quick trick/generalization; there are lots of exceptions).

Boa apresentação. Je suis brésilien et j'aime la langue française. Au bientôt

Thank you very helpful

Thank you so much!

very useful indeed

Excellent video that what I have been searching for to learn French.

Excellent teacher.

Good lesson thank you

Merci beaucoup pour votre cours de prononciation!

Thanks. It is informative

merci beaucoup! I learned so many things from you guyss!!

merci beaucoup. vous etes un bon professeur.

Merci Beaucoup

Very good job in explaining, I don't find French stupid , I just find it very hard as in difficult! Merci beaucoup pour de lesson !

Excellent Clarity

The STPD --> Stupid connection really helps to remember!

Thank you

Forgot everything- the teacher is cute😍

Thank you. :)

I found it very helpful. Subscribed

Good job Pierre.

Very good!

Me when l’m trying so hard to read a word in French : French is stupid 😂😂😂

@etienne7930

4 жыл бұрын

Haha, just like the first time I learnt english.. Now it's easy peasy

@SaxandRelax

3 жыл бұрын

Oh

@vminmotivationalcurve88yea64

3 жыл бұрын

@@etienne7930 since your native languahe is french, do you translate from french to english in your mind? Or you just think directly in English?

Très bon vidéo

nice video! solved my problems

Great video about what not to pronounce in French!

Magnifique information pour apprendre a lire et comprendre sur le theme des mots et phrases en francais et pour apprendre a ecrire questions francaises, thanks you very much for this wonderful information on the theme of french pronunciation for understand more on the french grammar and french vocabulary

Très agréable explaination

@inkyguy

2 жыл бұрын

Un _explication_ très agréable, mais un mot meilleure que « agréable » serait « utile ».

There are 92739183923810890670986986979086978798798607980796796978969768978787696989782828473894787858376489748289386483889587547878347878784857856 exceptions altogether in french... (TRUE FACT)

Good explanation .

@inkyguy

2 жыл бұрын

@cartabs03, _Une bonne explication._

I am attempting to learn French after I gave up on Japanese, and i feel like this I WAAAY easier, I'd rather silent leters than kanji...😵 And plus Google translate with Japanese is like ''wAkAranAi😄" But w/ French is like " Oui oui 😉"

thank you babe

I think it'd be easier to cure every cancer known to man, than to master the french language....

@stevebrown4486

4 жыл бұрын

Can relate

@samirandey4426

3 жыл бұрын

Heheh...true enough! ×∆×!

@inkyguy

2 жыл бұрын

@Nargis.M, évidement, ce n’est pas vrai pas du tout.

“It’s normal to fail” - the year 2020

Pierre, rather than saying that the _r_ is silent at the end of _-er_ verbs, I think it is easier for students to learn to pronounce _-er_ as a long _a_ (ā) , like the _a_ in the English word hay.

@ashutoshpai7411

Жыл бұрын

I do that all the time.

14:56. it sounded like he said a lest DUDU parc. he said DU twice really quickly

@letyvasquez2025

3 жыл бұрын

Les-t du you heard the pronunciation of t which is teh and then du TEHDU is what you really heard Although honestly I heard doodoo so I laughed

@MagicalMusic15

3 жыл бұрын

Nope he said "A l'est[e] du parc". We often add an "e" sound after a word that ends with a "d" or a "t" in a sentence to make the whole thing more fluid and to make it easier to pronounce. It's a pretty natural thing in everyday speech, especially when you are reading out loud. It makes everything more comprehensible, otherwise in that sentence you would have to go straight from a "t" sound ("esT") to a "d" sound ("Du") which is hard to pronounce and doesn't sound as good.

@letyvasquez2025

3 жыл бұрын

Is there a study into the addition of vowels to consonant-ending-words in French? The phonetic “e” sound is present in most languages; it’s interesting to know about modern interpretations of phonetic origins.

Next how not to pronounce English I volunteer to help this man

Out of 26 alphabets, 16 are silent and the remainings can be ad-hoc silent.

@inkyguy

2 жыл бұрын

A language typically has one alphabet which is composed of letters.

j'apprends beaucoup

helps me ALOT merci

@inkyguy

4 жыл бұрын

chingy888, a lot, not "alot."

@YourMom-km9ov

4 жыл бұрын

@@inkyguy you're not the police mate

@inkyguy

2 жыл бұрын

@@YourMom-km9ov , neither are you.

he's so cute

@inkyguy

4 жыл бұрын

Nic Z, he's VERY cute!

@samirandey4426

3 жыл бұрын

Legit...he is!!!

@user-zu7ok1mm1j

2 жыл бұрын

No baka!

sir plz increase volume of ur videos. but ur content is good

So the language got updated and developed but the scripture didn't?

Charisme :-)

Please teach preposition in french

When will you teach to pronounce in Canadian french?

Merci pour la classe. La pronounciación en français est plus difficile.

I always have problems when e is at the end of the word. Do you have a video for that?

Very helpful. Note that in English G is not pronounced J.

These exceptions are mind boggling 😵‍💫

Wow

My man looks like he is about to slay Voldemort. Great video anyways. Loved it and loved the teach's effort.

Je suis français et je suis en train de me dire que c'est juste impossible d'apprendre le français, ya aucune logique dans notre langue, les mot qui changent au pluriels, les lettres muettes qu'on prononce parfois sans savoir pourquoi, c'est un merdier !!! Bon courage a ceux qui se lance dans l'apprentissage du français !!! Le Français est tellement dur que même les natif Français n'arrivent pas a le parler correctement et l'écrit s'est pire, pour exemple se commentaire qui doit être bourré de fautes d'orthographe

@haloaxe6567

5 ай бұрын

There’s no logic in a lot of languages, like English is the worse and every word is different.

Som está baixo.

You should to make a zoom to there.

@squidcat11

5 жыл бұрын

you can set most devices to screen zoom with 3 taps.. the setting is in the hidden 'developers options' usually

Basically, all the letters are silent in French. lol ....It sounds difficult in the beginning, after sometime you get used to it though.

Why would I write so many letters and not pronounce half of them?! WTF????

11:20 What I still don't understand is why it sounds like the whole 'ent' in courent is silent instead of just the 't' on the end. So it sounds like 'coor' instead of 'coor on'. I feel like this happens a lot with a lot of verb conjugations. Edit: With the verb conjugations it always sounds like the entire second half of the word is dropped off. Since the second half is the part that makes it conjugated it makes it really hard to tell the difference.

Des tas de remerciements pour vos efforts très utiles ! J'adore qu'il vous fallait corriger une de vos propres phrases à cause d'un point de grammaire.

I am told, the letter 'G' at the end of the word is also, always silent. Is that true? If so...which are the common exceptions.

12:15 so is the entirety of "que les" silent ?

1:45 Is the H in CH only silent when it isn’t preceded by a E or I? In which case it’s like the Italian C

@magicrtrip5492

2 жыл бұрын

No because in "échapper" (to escape) is pronounced as in Cheval

@magicrtrip5492

2 жыл бұрын

Same for échouer (to fail) Or échelle (scale)