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- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 1 week ago:
Yes you’re right, I bet the French “u” is strange for an anglophone!
The sound I have the most trouble with in English is “th”. When I try it it kind of defaults to a “d”. In France they usually pronounce it like a “z” instead.
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 1 week ago:
I’m told “écureuil” is an infamously hard word for non-natives. It’s funny that one of the hardest words to pronounce in English in my opinion is “squirrel”. At least for a beginner.
To answer your question, I was thinking about words with nasal vowels, which are non-existent in English.
“Enfant”, “informatique”, “un brin brun”
My own first name has a nasal vowel and in my experience talking to native English speakers, it’s seems like a challenge to them.
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 1 week ago:
Great argument.
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 1 week ago:
It’s a French name pronounced the English way?
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 1 week ago:
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 1 week ago:
My name is unpronounceable for most non-native French speakers. I tell them to not even try, as there are sounds in French that don’t exist in English. Instead, I introduce myself by butchering my own name, or by using the English equivalent to my name.
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- Comment on Not for me, tho 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 months ago:
But you have to walk there
- Comment on This speaks for itself 6 months ago:
Misandry or misanthropy?
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 11 months ago:
I misunderstood