Is English just badly pronounced French?

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Isn't French just poorly pronounced Latin?

everything is just badly pronounced caveman grunts

For those who enjoyed this video, you would probably also enjoy the much more detailed and still surprisingly interesting series on ITV in the 2000’s called “The Adventure of English”.

I don't know why, but people tend to think French people are proud of being French. As a French person, I think most of us are really pessimistic and not that proud. We think every country hates us, and our government insults us every now and then, saying we're lazy, stupid, bad in English, and so on. It's a relief to know French and English are more connected than they want us to believe. Our countries have a lot in common, and yet we always hear that the French despise the English and vice versa. Thank you for this video.

I also noticed that a majority of the words ending by « tion » Are the same in English and in French Obligation Formation Alliteration Aviation Civilisation Transformation Abolition Mécanisation Accélération Condition Fabrication Fonction Inscription Interdiction Invention Innovation Traduction Solution Émotion Discrétion …

Fun fact: American Sign Language is more similar to French Sign Language than spoken English, because it was directly derived from French Sign Language. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (yes the guy Gallaudet University is named after) went to Europe to learn to teach deaf students. He actually went to a school in England first, but left because they wanted him to stay for a while. That was important, because they taught deaf people to speak and speechread and not sign. He visited other nations and eventually ended up in France. They used sign language. Eager to get back, he brought back a teacher named Laurent Clerc and they established the first permanent school for the deaf in the US. It has changed names and locations a few times, but still exists. They bought over French Sign Language, which has obviously been altered and is the basis for ASL. His son, Edward Miner Gallaudet, was the first president of what we know today as Gallaudet University.

Why am I not seeing this chap in his own tv series on language? Guy deserves more recognition for his informative and, most importantly, interesting style

Congrats on the great video. Let us not forget the many Norman but also generally French names and surnames that also flourished in England ( Robert, William, Richard etc..) and surnames like Fitzgerald, Fitzpatrick but also Montgomery, Gervais etc. And above all , let us take a look at the noble crest " Dieu et mon droit". Another interesting thing that i heard in this great video is the deep sound and use of "h" in places like Scotland. It is interesting that the H is similarily being pronounced heavily in the deep South of the U.S. Scots Irish, maybe??? Once again, bien fait!!

Peu importe le langage, qu'il est plaisant d'écouter des propos lorsqu'ils sont exprimés avec autant de clarté et d'intelligence ! Félicitations

A Frenchman saying the English should be grateful to France for English's popularity is one of the most French things I have heard in a while.

As a Frenchman, I love the English language so much. After all, it’s a bit ours too!

As french people borrowed back some french words they gave to the brits, I happily discovered that french book in your english video. It was very interesting, merci beaucoup !

Never knew 'chapman' meant 'merchant', but you can see the link to the German 'Kaufmann' there

“The flesh-monger” sounds like some secret boss from a fantasy game, not someone you buy your lunch meat from.

Fashion is "façon" and it means "in the style of..." in french.

English recently added katsu, a Japanese word to the dictionary and it refers to a cutlet (katsu curry = cutlet curry). The irony is both the word katsu AND the dish itself were given to the Japanese by the British. Katsu, aka カツ was originally katsuretsu/ カツレツ from the English "cutlet". The curry dish itself was introduced by our sailors to the Japanese who took it and made it a local cuisine. It's no wonder katsu curry rose in popularity in the UK so fast over the last decade. So just like the French reimporting their old words from English we have done that with Japanese once, and given how distant the two languages and places are I find it more interesting.

As a french, I have always noticed that french people who are struggling with english very often use those english words with french origin, instead of the more english sounding words (sometimes even inventing words that in my opinion could have existed in english honhonhon 😂) Et merci pour la vidéo ❤

That was an absolutely brilliant video, just for the sheer amount of sourced details. I will send this around to everyone I know. What a great video.

Maybe la meilleure video I've seen so far qui parle de ce sujet !