It’s because your mouth isn’t soft enough. French requires you to release the tension in your mouth and tongue, it’s weird but it really works
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teft@piefed.social 1 month ago
The t is silent. The end sound is a nasal n so more like kwah–sahn with the final n being very nasal and soft.
I actually find the french r to be super difficult though. Way the hell back in the throat where letters aren’t supposed to be formed.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s especially hard because the harder you try, the more tense your mouth is, so you are less likely to do it.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 month ago
It is pronounced croissant actually
UpperBroccoli@feddit.org 1 month ago
No no no no no.
It’s croissant.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 month ago
Same in parts of germany. Though we also have tongue-r regions so you can choose
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 month ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
There is absolutely no way to spell French phonetically, so we should all just give it up now
And just when you think you understand how to spell in french they throw some other weird rule at you.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
It’s almost as bad as English in that regard…