>americans using french expressions >american trying to

say le vive, jean-mouloud

>tfw you speak french but force yourself to butcher the pronunciation of french names and places when speaking english because everyone will think you're a stuck up cunt if you say them right

>esl's making threads to alleviate their feelings of inferiority
Can this meme go away?

>what are you reading right now anon?
>oh it's the stranger by alberT camEus
>haha anon i think you mean albert camus

Someone please put an end to my suffering

It happens with German too.
>biledungsrowman
>waltanshayung

>>8862139
reminds me of this

https://youtu.be/5iRN8iJDi_I

>>8862087
>pas d'commentaire
nice bait. subtle.

mais tu ne me pourraient guere tricher moi avec la hon hon

>>8862087
>when a film casual calls it "no-are"

>>8863665
nice vid, altho idk anyone who calls it a 'vall-it'

i speak french but i anglicize every french word when im speaking english

same way i frenchify every english word when im speaking french

Lol what about americans using latin expressions and thinking it's actually english?

even worse

>>8863702
What about Americans not giving a fuck what you niggers think.

Scary..

>>8863665

Only the English have this problem. I've literally never heard anyone call a living room a "lounge" top kek

The only problem in America/Canada is regional differences, like people calling pop "soda"

>>8863744
>american anon
>"you niggers"
lol nice meme

>>8863744
You uncultured shit

>>8862087
What if you're fluent but just don't do the nasal thing, like Jean Seberg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssyyBP0LB7I

>>8863755
What's the point of being cultured if it turns you into a cock smoker?

>>8863761
It's a little disorienting to hear this.

>>8862087
I just wanted you guys to know I read the entirety of Les Miserables thinking Jean Valjean was pronounced like the pants, not John.

Frenchs talking makes my heart go full hnggg

>>8863761
i hate this

>>8863785
very much so

> jenny say qua

>french people
>never make an attempt to pronounce any other language in anything but french

disgusting

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>>8862087
>be american
>take 3 years of french in highschool because electives
>speak french but with the blunt american accent
>old female french teacher tells me I have the most beautiful american-french accent.
>go to france
>women love my accent
>mfw I fuck a french girl and she had a bf
>mfw I am the bull
>mfw OP is just salty that some american probably came and fucked his bitch

>>8863839
How can someone be salty when you fucked a dumb slut? Get real

Literally every language does this. You're a pretentious faggot if you don't

>>8863750
>calling soda "pop"
FTFY

>>8863839
>be me
>say something to girl in bar in Paris
>"WOW you have an accent"
>laughs
>no sex, but we made out
Mine isn't even attractive apparently, just kinda funny. What is your American accent like though?

>>8863903
>be me
Oh good, I was worrying that you were someone else.

>company sends me to Quebec for reasons
>"oh so this is what rednecks would sound like if they were French"

>>8862311
>Sartre is Sar-trey

>>8863877

Okay, I can live with soda. But please tell me that southerners don't actually call all pop "coke." I've never met a real live southerner to confirm this.

>>8862311
>lay-trun-zheyyyy

>>8863674
>tu ne me pourraient
Filthy anglos with their dumbed-down language cannot into conjugaisons.

>>8864046
never heard of it in my area, I know a guy from missouri who says they do it there though

t. southerner

>>8864046
All soda is coke. "Pop" is just disgusting. Coke was invented in Atlanta.

>>8862336
>Needchy

>>8863786
The pants? You mean Longjohns Vallongjohns?

Everyone in every language, who uses words and phrases adopted from other languages, is always an insufferable prick.

There's just a je nah say quoi that's just affreux when people parley in a foreign tongue

>>8863786
It is neuht phronounced like John, espèce d'espace, it is phronounced like Jean, nahssing more, nahssing less. I ayt eww filsy amehricains wizz your mondial domination. Your mohzzehrs ahve dirty uteruses and you are the unwished products of ass unions and ozzehr farm aeuhnimals.

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>Tfw you're from a part of the UK with a completely neutral/fluid accent that allows you to perfect foreign pronunciations with ease

>>8863689
That's what you did isn't it?

>>8864318
>neutral accent
No such thing, m8. Of course it sounds neutral--to you.

>>8863744
you made the baby angry

>>8863839
>i-i fucked a random girl somewhere in a random part of the world u mad bro???? u jelly???

no (yes)

>>8864318
record yourself saying "Camus"

>>8864400

It's objectively neutral.

>>8864422
No such thing.

>>8864435

>Being this pleb

I wonder why americans are taught to pronounce words like the following in such a stupid manner:

Per se - Per say
José - Josay
Passé - Passay

>>8864448

>Per se - Per say
>Passé - Passay

These are right though.

>>8864189
coke is a specific brand u fucking knuckledragger

>>8864461
No.

>>8864463
No, Coca-Cola is.

>>8864473

Yes.

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>>8864476

>>8864481
Mate, look it up. Latin is never pronounced like that. Also ask a frenchman for words like passé, don't be obtuse.

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>>8864476
>>8864482

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>>8864476
>>8864482
>>8864487

>>8863786
>John

lel sure. and jacques is pronounced jack, right?

>>8863702
well that just how uncultured they can be.
but the language just shows that they are uncultured per se.

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>be in france
>studying french with people from all over the world
>everyone is speaking in french, no matter how broken (we are all trying to learn, right?)
>american beetch speaks in english to everyone outside the classroom
>mfw

I am an American and I usually try to pronounce something correctly and if I get it wrong I look it up or get one of my [that language] friends to help me.

Apparently I usually do okay though and either get it right or get it close. I like different languages but I am too lazy to learn another one. Plus, I am too undecided on which one I would like to learn.

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>>8864542

>Tfw you make your language too accent/dialect-dependant (due to the retarded Académie française wanting everyone to speak like the aristocrats they all killed during the Revolution), allowing English to overtake it as the lingua franca

Suck it up, Pierre.

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>>8864542
more:

>gather in central square to do something
>we decide to eat something first
>bitch wants to go to mcdonalds

>be in house party
>everyones just chillin
>suddenly american fag gathers attention and makes everyone play 'beer pong'
>hes proud of it

at least he explained it in french tho.

>>8864563
>implying we want our language to be a 'lingua franca'.
>implying we want to actually unify and not just illustrate unification so faggots waste their time trying something that is actually humanly impossible.

keep tryin'. please.

>>8864448
They are not "taught". They lack the phoneme that is represented by the letter e in your language and so they approximate. It's normal.

>>8864572
>Implying you talk for all France.

>>8863939
It's a comvention of the form. Lurk moar or return to reddit

I honestly think Americans are the most stupid people on earth

>>8864463
>>8864476
Coca-Cola is a brand of soft drink
Coke is white powder you rub on your gums or snort
Pop is something you do with your booty while on coke

>>8865104
that mite be true, but at least they are people.

>>8864564
Was this about 2013? If so,that may have been me. A lot of people had fun, don't be a spoilsport.

>>8864564
>not enjoying beer pong
How pretentious can you be?

>>8864563

When the French language is unpoliced, what you end up with is Quebecois (which is clipped as fuck) and other mutually unintelligible dialects.

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Get out of my country

It does sound pretentious as fuck though. I speak Russian and German and I anglicise my pronunciation of Russian and German words when I'm speaking English. It seems it's mostly French speakers who think it's okay to keep pronouncing things in the native way when they're speaking English.

>dawn quick sote
I wish I never learned Spanish. I get looks whenever I pronounce it correctly.

>>8865205
>those electrical sockets
>America
Nice try bro

What the fuck is wrong with you turbo autists literally every language changes foreign sounds to be more native sounding because it rolls off the tongue easier. For instance I'm Cuban and when speaking English I don't pronounce every Spanish word with my accent and I don't call Havana Habana you goddamn mongrels I know when French people speak French they don't pronounce English words with a perfect English accent. Fuck I hate the French

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>tfw frenchies also include some english words in their everyday talk
>tfw that huge irony and smoothly disguised disdain
>tfw americans think they are being praised

>>8865224
Who would have thought that a native French speaker would speak French words with a French accent. What is the world coming to?

>>8864486
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/per-se

>>8865328
>http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/per-se
Those are just the Anglicisation of pronouciation of foreign words. It's still not an English sentence. We might as well say that calling Jesus just that is correct when that is obviously not a name he would have recognised.

>>8865245
>I don't pronounce every Spanish word with my accent and I don't call Havana Habana

Then, you're not a real Cuban. You're a third or fourth generation loser.

>>8865339
>calling Jesus just that
calling Jesus just that
hypocrite

My professor read Goethe as Gerta instead of Go-eth. I was like "Who the fuck is Gerta?" and it took me several days to figure out what was going on.

It wasn't until several years later when I started studying some German that I understood it.

>>8865726
>gerta
So he didn't anglicize the pronunciation and still butchered it?
Wew lad