the difference, though, is that french spelling rules are regular : specific letter combinations (almost) always produce the same sound, no matter the word. you just have to know how it works. whereas with english, our spelling/pronunciation really is all over the place, and you often have to know the specific word to pronounce it correctly, as opposed to there being a hard-and-fast rule. for example, rough/cough/through/bought/drought all have different pronunciations of the same letter combination : "ough".

That would be fun😂😂

Yea you can tell she's enjoying herself.

That’s why it’s so much harder 😂 they’re used to saying it the french/correct(?) way

@@serenity6010it’s not the “correct” way. If you are changing languages, that doesn’t make the language of origin for the specific word more correct.

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Colonel est un mot d’Italie

@@anndeecosita3586 colonel est un mot français qui étymologiquement vient de "colonnello" (mot italien) mais la grande différence c'est que le français a fait évoluer le mot (on pourrait dire "franciser" : l'orthographe n'est plus du tout la même) alors que l'anglais a pris le mot du français sans rien changer. On pourrait dire la même chose de sorbet (mot venant de l'arabe passé par le persan, puis le turc et enfin l'italien) qui a été repris tel quel en anglais.

@@anndeecosita3586 It was borrowed via Middle French "coronnel" which was borrowed from Old Italian "colonnello" which is from Latin "columna".

Oui :) Et ici c’est de l’anglais américain. L’anglais britannique est différent.

@@indostan38Désolé, je ne parle pas bien le français. Soy una persona que le gusta estudiar idiomas y el origen de las palabras. En mi opinión si una lengua usa una palabra de otra esa palabra sigue con raises del otro idioma original aunque la manera de escribir or pronunciar no sea exactamente lo mismo. Entonces sorbet es una palabra de origen Arabe. En inglés por ejemplo usamos la palabra okra que viene de un idioma africano que se llama Igbo. en Igbo la palabra se llama okuru pero no es decir que okra no es una palabra de Africa. Esto es mi opinión. Entiendo que otros no estarán de acuerdo

Definitely not the only one 😂

Both languages underwent a Great vowel shift amongst other changes. English took it a step further though and added consonants onto some words that were never supposed to be there like with: debt and island.

Especially with "subtle" while the "b" in the French word "subtil" is pronounced as a "p" 😅

​​@@thevannmannAre you dumb? "Debt" comes from Latin "debitum" and "Island" comes from Latin "insula". The English language literally didn't add silent "consonants that were never supposed to be there". The B in debt and the S in island were *literally* always there.

@@LennyBarre I pronounce the b of subtil like a b, not a p (I'm French), but yeah, the difference can be very... subtle ! and when you speak fast, it is definitely like a p.

Really? What region is that? I don’t recall hearing brewery as two syllables but I have heard many pronunciations of words that are new to me since I moved to the Midwest.

@anndeecosita3586 I definitely hear it in the Midwest. Some of it is arguable whether you are hearing two or three. The middle syllable kind of gets smashed together from both sides and is sort of half there. If it gets said fast, it disappears into the other two.

@@PrometheanRisingOk. Makes sense. A lot of Midwest people have a way of pronouncing many words differently than what I typically hear. Sometimes I only understand some words they say based on the context of the sentence. Like their roof sounds like rough to me. They also say coyote as two syllables which I hadn’t heard before moving here. Center sounds like sinner to me. I have some friends from Louisiana whose room sounds like rum.

@anndeecosita3586 I posted a video for you that appears to have been removed with a Brew-master at the Anheuser Busch brewery in St. Louis pronouncing it as I described while the person interviewing him pronounced it as in this video.

@@PrometheanRisingI will look for it. This channel gets their panties in a bunch about posting links especially to other videos.

They did that in the past. 4 Americans trying to pronounce words in French and a French girl with the hammer

The French borrowed this word from Italian and altered it. The word has its origin in the Italian word “colonnello,” which means “column.”

Is that what it is? I just assumed we gradually started slurring it because when we try to say "colonel" phonetically, it sounds like we are having a go at a French accent and failing miserably.

@@EddieReischl yeah and French in turn borrowed it from Old Italian, which ultimately came from Latin.

Yes, English and Dutch are two sister languages anyway ! 😀

I think "sorbay" is more common

Sorbet is sor-bay. Sherbert is sher-bert or shuh-buht depending on where you live. She's clearly no linguist as she pronounces pronunciation as pronounciation, a common error. She also says "Americans make too much jokes" as opposed to "too many jokes".

Shannon and Sophia are two different people from different states. Many Pronunciations are not universal across my country or amongst English speakers. I personally have never heard an American pronounce sorbet as sherbet other than Shannon . 😂 Also this word is spelled sherbet but some people pronounce it like there is a second R. Sherbet and sorbet aren’t the same things.

@@thevannmannSome of her grammatical mistakes sound to me like they could be as a result of living around a lot of non-English speakers or English learners for an extended time. When I lived in another country for a summer and barely spoke English I started to forget words in English although it’s my first spoken language. Sometimes people will also start adopting another accent without realizing it.

@@anndeecosita3586 Yeah, we say "sor bay" in Wisconsin too. I feel like sorbet is a dessert that a chef might make for you when you're dining out, and sherbet is just another frozen treat similar to ice cream (more ice, less cream) that comes in a 1 gallon pail or a box at the grocery store.

All borrowed from French in some capacity.

Yeah, I wonder how many more times are they going to repeat the theme...

Yeah, it is some kind of scam 😂

Me too .

They should have one where all of the "English" words are loanwords from French, just to mess with the French-speakers. They may have done that before, but they should do it again.

I mean, it technically is borrowed from French in this form. It ultimately traces back to Arabic via Ottoman Turkish and Old Italian, but it was borrowed via French.

Seems like a lot of people only acknowledge the final “theft” when it comes to “stolen” words. 😂

@@anndeecosita3586 what? I'm lost.

hum actually there is a big misconception about french, all the letters in a word have their use : -First, French works with combination of letters to produce sounds that don't exist in the average other european languages. -Second, french is a mix between latin and franconian languages ; in franconian languages like dutch there is the concept of short and long vowel and depending if the syllabel end with a consonnant or not change the vowel to a short or a long vowel, for exemple in the word Vent (wind), the vowel sound "en" is nazalised because it is closed with the consonnant "t". Thirdly, the last consonnant of a word is used to do the liaison between two words, you should pronounce the consonnant when the second word that follows begin with a vowel. This is why french appear to be smooth when spoken correctly. Fourth, the letter "e" at the end of a lot of words is used to indicate that you have to pronounce the consonnant that precedes but you also have the choice to pronounce the letter "e" or not, it is common in music.

Also, the reason the b is there is that English loves to preserve older spellings. It was borrowed from Old French where it had 2 spellings, one of which preserved the b.

It's the nationality

@@upsill - Firstly, the title says "French Speaking Countries", not "French Speakers", and secondly, France and Belgium are not nationalities.

Yes, because we do not feel like we are placing any accent (or at least myself) ! That's the problem... Honestly for a long time I was convinced that French had no accent at all ! Except for intonations to express interrogation or exclamation of course.

She does it on purpose

Yeah I was wondering if it was on purpose so they understand her clearly because most Americans don’t speak that slow unless they are high 😂. She also speaks very softly so it’s hard to hear an accent . Maybe she is from Maryland ,Delaware or Pennsylvania.

@@ElMatador386 She's from the South but has worked on dropping the southern twang/drawl.

I agree so much! But still it was fun to see the differences between English words and French words :)

Well, that's just the point : in your exemple, using the rules of French pronunciation, you should always say "ver". If you follow the rules, a French will understand you (even if there are some exceptions to the rules, especially the proper nouns like the cities...). But in English, it is like there are no rules ! You have to learn each word for itself. The "ou" sound can be pronounced by so many ways ! But honestly I smiled too when the girl said that so innocently ! 😄

Arabic > Ottoman Turkish > Old Italian > Middle French > English.

Sorbete in spanish.

We use sorbet in French but they assumed the Americans pronounce the final "t", unlike in French !

How do you say in your native language? (I know you speak multiple languages though)

@@Ssandayo I say "Suisse" (I'm from the French-speaking part of Switzerland).

@@Ssandayo I think it's "der Schweiz" in the German speaking part? I'd be tempted to say "Schweizerland", but I'd probably be wrong.

@@SsandayoWe say “Roger Federer’s country”