Start each word and then decide it's not worth the effort and trail off
"Eh you got the gist, let's move on to the next word"
They begin to pronounce words, then suddenly go on strike.
It’s really weird for me as a spanish speaker. I can nearly read french since a lot of the words are cognates but when i hear it spoken i might understand one word in twenty. Their pronunciations are fucked.
The woes of a rather conservative orthography and an aggressively evolved phonology.
French phonology was heavily influenced by Germanic languages, unlike Spanish and Italian.
For better or for worse, the orthography (writing system) did not really keep up with the changes.
So instead of French being half way between Italian and Spanish, like you might expect, it's really it's own thing when it comes to pronunciation.
I don't know how big this effect really is but French changed their orthography during the renaissance to make it more Latin like
And Portuguese is a mix of French and Spanish, but if it was mixed together by drunk who didn't know either of those languages
I'm struggling learning Portuguese is what I'm trying to say
I usua'y joke that it's like Ita'ian but whẽ' you just woke up ã'd your tõ'gue did not, so you prõ'õu'ce thĩ's mostly the sã' except for a few missĩ' cõsõ'ãts.
[I usually joke that it's like Italian but when you just woke up and your tongue did not, so you pronounce things mostly the same except for a few missing consonants.]
Serious now. If you want some help feel free to ask. I'm a native speaker.
Portuguese is my native language and I struggle with it. Hell, I have an easier time with english. German tho, is impossible to learn in one lifetime
German here. Can confirm.
Portuguese is like catalan which is like occitan (southern French). If you know one of the Latin languages, Portuguese shouldn't be too hard, really.
"Le chateau" is French for "the chateau."
It looks impossibly dainty written down, but when spoken, is just a stream of subtly articulated grunts
I learned french in the late nineties, years were hell.
Kids these days have it good, not needing to count past 25.
"you got peanut butter in your mouth or something?"
you have 11 letters. You pronounce 4 of them
The remaining letters are recycled into English. Pronunciation is still based off the same 4 letters you used in French, except you don't have access to them anymore.
The last one. The french writing system in its roots.
ils schtroumpfent
It's Italian with a mouth full of shit.
I usually say "Spanish with a mouthful of pudding," but it amounts to the same thing
And Danish is Swedish but with a hot potato in your mouth.
French is what you get when your Spanish skills are so good that you speak it in fractals.
Le wee wee
