If you pay attention English words are usually copied from French but their pronunciation is Germanic, basically English French words pronounced by Germanic/Celtic peoples instead of Latin/Celtic French

Our French language is actually not that hard that might think 🇫🇷

Yes. Some phrases I heard that don't translate well in English: Portuguese: Morto de fome Spanish: Muerto de hambre French: Mort de faim Italian: Morto di fame English: Dead of hunger (starved - as in you are hungry as fuck, or a straight up insult to point out someone for being too poor, and lowly, that he can't afford to have food in his plate). Portuguese: Mal-educado Spanish: Maleducado French: Mal éduqué Italian: Maleducato English: Badly educated (rude) Portuguese: Antes só do que mal-acompanhado Spanish: Mejor solo que mal acompañado French: Mieux vaut être seul que mal accompagné Italian: Meglio soli che male accompagnati English: Better alone than badly accompanied (or with bad company)

@@lissandrafreljord7913 wow, This is amazing! So "muerto de hambre" can be an insult in other languages?? Mindblown!!

In fact, English is more Fench than germanic

Exactly what I thought. I think it depends on where in Germany you live though. Like in the north they would probably say Fritten more often.

I‘m from northern Germany. It‘s common to say Pommes I guess.

The german pommes frites actually comes from very olden french days. Because the cooking process was actually used as the name, "Pommes de terre fritées", which translates in english to "fried potatoes". For the german name they just shortened it after a while to pommes frites which would literally mean "fried apples" but yeah potatoes are called in french literally "apples from earth". However in german if you were to translate the french one literally it would say "Erdäpfel", which is used to name a horses poop.

Oder "Pom Fritz"

@@saebelzahnseba In Austrian german (and Bavarian dialects) Erdapfel is potato, not horse poop 😅

Well, it's about time they brought someone from Italy 🟩⬜🟥. 🇪🇺🇫🇷🤝❤️🇮🇹🇪🇺

Guyana*

@@tammyb5607 it's "Guiana" cause of the spanish and portuguese , popular languages of South / Latin America

And Färöer🇫🇴

Donde tienen el mejor idioma del mundo :)

What if she actually hasn't been to Iceland you snow beer addict from iceland

I finally get why Lauren is not part of it cuz of Brexit. 🇬🇧❌🇪🇺🇨🇵🇩🇪🇮🇹 We Europeans look at the British differently these days

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 We should look at them like at a role model. Every European country should get rid of the EU. The EU is not Europa, they are just some criminals who nobody did vote for.

We French also say : "Vin" 🍷 "Fruit"🍓🍒🍎🍉 "Bicyclette ➡️🚲 Our languages are similar cuz they are based from Latin/Romances languages 🇪🇦🇨🇵🇮🇹

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 in spelling yes but in pronunciation no.

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 yes! Romances languages rule! Lol

@@MrZeev76 i know, very different pronunciation!

@@eduardovelazquez638 Those guys as well 🇵🇹🇦🇩🇲🇨🇸🇲🇻🇦🇷🇴🇲🇩

Bicicletta -> bici

Como en español 😪

@@irenecarrillo6750 in French, we say "bicyclette"➡️ 🚲

Actually it was bitchy but in a Spanish or Italian sounding accent, ja ja ja.

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 Bicyclette is a French word exported in the world (well is a French word invented by an Italian, but in French), it's the diminutive of Bicycle that is itself a French word (ok, maybe is an English word, I don't know, but was suerely invented by a French). Anyway in Italy we say Bicicletta, Biciclo and Velocipede (another French word) and its derived words (velodromo). So yes, bicycles are French stuff (but Giro d'Italia >>> Tour de France 😃).

Our French and Italian language are Romance (latin) Languages. Even the Spanish That's why they look similar. All thank of the Roman Empire. After im a neighbor of these two 🇪🇦🇫🇷🇮🇹

Québec ancestors French from France speak French logique

Is patates a potato? well it's kinda similar to our language. In Philippines we called it "Patatas" I guess it is some loan words in Spanish. I find it interesting btw and the Fruits we called it in Tagalog "Prutas"

@@sansenzekai8545 Yes, patate = potato. And Prutas sounds very much like 'fruits'. In French, it's pronounced ''Fru-i''. The T and the S (plurial marker) are silent. :)

Sure, but as you know, there are lots of romance loans in most germanic languages (except icelandic). Vice versa too actually, especially from the middle ages and earlier, although probably less well known.

It’s actually „zu vino sag ich nie no“

Yes. I'm from Munich and we would call them Pommes Frittes (pronounced "pomm fritt"). The German language is actually very diverse locally, with different vocabulary in different regions. I remember seeing a video on KZfaq made by an American couple who asked followers from Germany to send them videos or audios with how they would say certain words and phrases in their region and they made a video with all those examples from all over the German speaking area in Europe. Was really interesting.

Yes i studied in germany and i always used Pommes frites !

In Bavaria we say "Pommes frites" and pronounce it like "pomm fritz", at least my generation (50+) 😉

@@tommoses6557 I think that has changed, I grew up in Bavaria as well, and I've never heard anyone call them "Pommes Frites" here, we always called them Pommes.

In England they are chips, as in "fish and chips", though those chip would be much more chunky (thicker).. In Scotland that's called "fish supper". In both places these are bought from a "chip shop" or "fish and chip shop" or "chippy".

We are the Big 3 of Europe powerful economically 💪🇪🇺🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹👊

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 I think I can agree with that! Definitely the top 3 that pops into my mind within the EU.

@@nathanspeed9683 UK was used to be part of it but with Brexit....it changed everything. Nowaydays, we Europeans look at the British differently. 🇬🇧🤦🏻 As French speaker, prefer getting along with the germans. 🇨🇵❤️🇩🇪 By the way, we didn't come up the French Fries, it was actually our neighbor's Belgium 🇧🇪. It says French Fries cuz it's fancy and sounds right

My French wine bottles always say château Rothschild ;)

It's strange that the french lady didn't know that. She also didn't make the link with bicyclette. Frankly, it doesn't feel like her french knowledge is very good.

Oh and learning numbers in French past sixty makes my head swirl. My teacher really had to get after me. 😂

Yup .. it's always «mon amie» even though it's a lady friend .. 😄

@@JosephOccenoBFH I keep getting that wrong on Duo lingo because I forget 😢

I actually...had a French friend saying that Spanish is difficult :P I guess every language is difficult if learned as a second language, As a person who studied both Spanish and French as a foreign language, Spanish grammar does get more complicated with excessive usage of imperfect subjunctives. (Quisiera - is a imperfect subjunctive). French doesn't use imperfect subjunctive at all, so one less grammar to learn there. But, I'm not saying French grammar is easier, they are both equally complicated if learned at the same time.

@@cjkim2147 I think you are right about whatever you learn first between Spanish and French seems easier. Portuguese is a lot easier to understand than French. Like I have been able to hold a conversation with a Portuguese speaker speaking Portuguese and me speaking Spanish and we understood each other. I cram studied Italian for a month and knew enough to get by when I went to Italy. I’m really trying not to become discouraged with French and give up.

Yeah! And maybe in spain they will say "patatas fritas" which is even more similar to italian "patatine fritte" :)

@@eduardovelazquez638 The original word for potato is batata and it comes from indigenous Taino language,

@@eduardovelazquez638 Yea i use patatas more than Papas but since people uses the word Papas more for potatoes I sometime say both lol

@@anndeecosita3586 In Argentina we use "batata" for sweet potatoe and "papa" for potatoe.

@@anndeecosita3586 i didnt knew that! Thank you :)

I think the French word "Pommes frites" went to Germany, and as a slang they decided to just say "Pommes", without realizing that in french it means apple, and also creates a false cognate. And also, because it's pronounced so differently, it's natural not to identify it immediately without looking at the spelling.

@@cjkim2147 the official word in german is Pommes frites (or Pommes Fritz), but some say just Pommes and other say just Fritten.

@@12tanuha21 I noticed a lot of French words went to German and got eingedeutscht.

Yeah, the French girl said she was surprised that the German word for fries wasn't more similar to the French word, and I was just thinking, uh, the German word comes directly from French! How much closer do you want it to get? "Pommes" = "pommes de terre"

Germany and France share a large border so I can understand the crossover effect of language happening there.

Which creates a false cognate with french "pomme" (Apfel).

Germany short for 🍟 is also Fritten

"Pommes" (with a pronounced ending in German: POM-MEZ) is short for "Pommes Frites" (this one affectionately pronounced POMM-FRITZ) which is loaned from the French "pommes (de terre) frites" (lit. "apples of earth fried" where "apples of earth" equates to "potatoes") meaning "French fries" (AE) and "chips" (BE), respectively.

Like boom, what 😂

si je me trompe pas, c'est surtout au Québec qu'on entendrait le mot "bicyclette"

J'avoue que le mot bicyclette est moins utilisé. En Afrique francophone, on utilise le mot vélo plus fréquemment

Em schwäbischa is dr Wai.

well it's because the german took the french word "pommes frites"

As a language nerd, if you wanna know more about it here you go. Patatine would be the shorter version (that's what you'd hear from children's tantrums). Patatine is an alterate noun, whose qualities are altered by a suffix. Since "patatine fritte" actually means fried little potatoes, that -ino (-ina, -ini and -ine to make the feminine singular, masculine plural and feminine plural) is a diminutive suffix. Even spaghetti (sing.: spaghetto) literally means small string. Another curious category is the endearing one, suffixes that "cutify" the nouns. Often they are the same diminutive suffixes. The remaining two categories of suffixes are the accrescitive (-one) and pejorative (-accio, -astro). Italian nouns (even personal or place names) often get these suffixes, they allow you to pack in 2 syllables a meaning that would require a separate adjective and applies even to places and personal names. A nice little town in Central Italy that became infamous for 2016 earthquake is named Castelluccio di Norcia, literally "little castle of Norcia". Gino derives from Luigino, little Luigi, while a kitten (or kitty) is a "gattino" or "micetto" (from gatto and micio, both meaning cat but the latter being more affectionate). A bad boy becomes a "ragazzaccio", from ragazzo, boy, a little princess "principessina", from principessa, and so on. Italian is full of these and while it may seem quirky and even complex, in reality it's all about playing with the language.

Also elderly german people, especially in rural regions, still use many french words, but speak it a bit strange for french ears.

oh we took so many more words from them! they even have matura or maybe it's maturita but I was going to explain what matura is to an Italian guy at work and he said: no need, we have the same :D

@@olablc531 matura like prom or?

@@vanaibh9584 like a-levels - the exams at the end of high school, thanks to which you can apply to university

@@olablc531oh we also have that kind of matura, but we also use matura for prom In italian they say vino in my language it is also vino , word for bike is almost the same

@@vanaibh9584 oh, that's interesting! where are you from?

Moi aussi

Les québécois

Oh, that's cool. I've always used the term "papas fritas" or "fried potatoes." Interestingly enough, that's actually pretty close to a variant of the German term: "Pommes frittes" or "fried potatoes." If I'm not mistaken, the german word "Pomme" comes from the French word for apple, but specifically from this phrase "la pomme de terre" (literally "earth apple") which means potato.

@@ryanzarmbinski7446 i knew it! pomme sounded french to me, thank you, But yeah "papas a la francesa" and "papas fritas" are very common here :)

The „Pomme Frites“ is only about the pronounciation it’s actually also Pommes frites. But you can pronounce it german or French because especially in the west at the border to France we are heavily influenced by the french language:) another example is the word „Portemonnaie“ that we use for wallet but „Geldbörse“ or „Brieftasche“ are more German words for it. I would never use them to say wallet though. For me it’s always Portemonnaie😅 but it’s an official word too it’s not like a dialect or sth

I looked it up: Portemonnaie (french spelling) and Portmonee (the newer more german spelling that shows you how we pronounce it) are both right and in the German dictionary.

Or shortened to Fritten

@@12tanuha21 But the we have nice Phrases for Pommes with Ketchup and Mayonnaise Pommes rot weiß - Pommes Red and white Pommes Schranke - Pommes railway barrier Etc

Not for everyone. German is easy to learn for Hungarians. But for Germans it is almost impossible to learn Hungarian.

I am german, speak german for 56 years now, and never noticed, that german is difficult?

@@brittakriep2938 Ja das merkt man natürlich nicht, wenn man damit aufgewachsen ist

@@leiciKeksfan : Mein Kommentar war nur als Scherz gedacht.

@@brittakriep2938 hm okey ich glaube aber das es kaum jemand als Scherz verstehen/wahrnehmen wird

I , Brittas boyfriend, am german and prefer beer, biere and birra :-)

And the Latin word vinum has the same Mediterranean origin as the Greek word οἶ. The latin word is a union between vir and vis (respectively man and strength), so wine was basically seen as the strength of man

We forget us 🇫🇷. Our French language is also part of it. It's the Romance Languages you're talking about

Not wide away from my german village is the small town ,Owen' , the name is spoken ,Auen' . This causes still today confusion, that you can read in some maps : Owen (Auen).