For example, if someone spoke in French, I wouldn't understand what they said. But if they spoke in English, I would.
I mean I understand that it has its use in naming desserts, but it's just not suited for day to day conversation.
Imagine this exchange:
Person: "L'eau est empoisonnée."
Me: "What the fuck are you talking about?" Takes a sip and fucking dies.
Compared to:
Person: "The water is poisoned."
Me: "Oh shit no thanks" Lives
See how confusing it is? It's just hard to relate to on a human level.
How do French people put up with this?
I don't see what the big deal with is with foreigners having to learn English. It's not that hard to learn. I've been speaking it all my life.
You don't need to "learn" English. It's just that intuitive. They only pretend not to understand out of jealousy.
Plus they say learning languages opens your mind to new ways of thinking. For foreigners, English introduces the concept of freedom.
I was able to learn english before I was 12 months old, you're telling me a full-grown adult can't learn it? smdh
They don't. French is a made up language to appeal to tourists who, like absolute fools, fall for it, thinking it sounds "romantic" and "sophisticated". They actually speak English when no one is watching.
This is the reason why France has lost all wars in history. The French soldiers can't understand the commands because French is such an unintelligible language. If Napoleon had spoken English like a normal person, we would all have been speaking French now ... if it haven't been for Napoleon having the sense to speak ordinary English.
Yeah there's that stupid painting that only exists to make me feel dumb. It's a darn picture of the pipe, but when I say "that's a pipe" they keep laughing at me. I thought it might be a gay thing or a homophobic thing, but I googled "gay french pipe" and nothing came up about the painting, I searched hours of videos. Finally I looked up the dern translation of the words on the painting and it translates to "this is not a pipe." The whole darn language doesn't make sense!
really good posting comrade, you are a champion, thank you for your efforts
It is! Before 1935 it was seen as an interjection, so you'd say something like: "Eau! L'oxyde d'hydrogène est empoisonné!" and, over time, and with French people's increasing natural resistance to all sorts of poisons, it became so normal to drink poison water that "eau", once used to express disgust at deadly drinks, became a shorthand for potable water. Crazy, huh?
I went to Spain once and everything was in a different language. I had to keep telling people "shut the fuck up you're making me mad just talk normal". They're antihuman nationalists who can't be arsed to integrate into wider society. When I went to England everything was written legibly and they were fine.
I find this man's description of the Retro Encabulator perfectly understandable and wonderfully concise. The same cannot be done with the Fr*nch language!
Mais pourqouis? En tant qu'humain, J'aime parler Français. Je pense que la compréhension de toutes les langues est importante!
I took a few years of study and learned a bit, but most of my getting to the point where I can construct unfamiliar sentences and understand spoken French has been from watching French movies and YT videos with subtitles. Definitely understand the intimidation of talking to actual French speakers though, particularly in Montreal.
One more tip for pronunciation, if you like, is to use the wikipedia pronunciation guides and learn what different terms for phonemes mean combined with samples. Also practice! Living in the US, I sometimes read warning labels and instructions in French out loud to see if I can get it.
That is absolutely true, that's why I teach it. It's not only for the cash, it's just that the time I spend speaking English during lessons is the only time when I approach human function. It's crazy how people all over the world live in such inhumane linguistic conditions.
