Hard English Words: Chauffeur | #booktube #English #englishspeaking

Why is English like this? Word of the day: Chauffeur

Words I find hard to pronounce either because I am an immigrant or because I only ever read them

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[nefelibata]

"How the hell you spell Chauffeur"
"Chauffeur"
"Oooh fancy pants rich McGee over here"

[Ezmerelda]

English is 3 languages in a trench coat. It makes very little sense

[salomestars]

As french : the way "chauffeur" is pronounced in english is actually pretty close to the french pronunciation
(And if it wasn't it wouldn't really matter because once a word is used in the english language as an english word then the way the word is pronounced is up to english speakers

[jamesalexander]

When it comes to the french words english changed them to better fit the language and to annouy the french for whatever reason they were waring that century

[larssjostrom]

Because english is a weird mix of german, danish, celtic, latin and french.

[elypses]

Say "Show-fur" you'll be understood everytime

[TwilightSagaCullen]

Never had trouble with this word actually 😂

[rayventhekrayven]

this was very philosophical religious and military oriented honey
his orders were to sail as the sun sets

"go to where the sun sets my son" <-- we get into unsolved discourse quickly actually
"go to where the sun dies"

^he was quite the warrior and sire (mage)

[rayventhekrayven]

theres a whole plot sub structure about a tireme that makes the journey to teotihuacán from egypt you could scribe a book circa

(he never makes his way back obviously
they had a spherical mindset of the planet yet thought the atlantic met india very quickly
he was in love and filled with a deep longing to return to egypt
so much that he even hiked to the pacific across mexico and knew he was finished

^quite the moment really)

[bookreader]

If you're ever worried about how you're pronouncing a French word in English, just find the nearest French person, and ask them to say "hot dog". You'll feel better

[Hollyberrystreats]

As I heard once "English is not one language. It's several language stacked together wearing a trenchcoat" 🤷

[salomeeserol]

As a French, this is maybe one of the only words you guys say right with entrepreneur 😂

[Lonely_Raven_]

No the black t shirt girl said it great! - a french
Tbh what really annoys us isn't that you dont have good pronunciation that's normal but that some people are really annoying about it and pedantic like "no its not Cwascent it's CwoSsAnTE" and neither of it is right, or when they act like our language makes no sense when they just werent paying attention in school to understand how it works

[Dominic-hesg]

It's "Šofer" in Croatian. So, also derived from French.

[filipemartinho]

Nothing pisses me off more than French people making fun of english pronounciations of french loan words because 1) They are loan words. Thus are no longer being used in the context of french but rather the context of english. So you cant say it like the french do because it sounds wrong to use two different languages (or more) to construct a sentence, and it's not intuitive because french has different rules for how groups of letters are said (oi is ua for example) and 2) THE FRENCH DO THE SAME THING! Because that's how language works! You adapt words to your language! Noone forces them to say brand names correctly, or english loan words correctly, so why are they so pressed when english people doing it? So say chauffeur like tchowfer or whatever else, it's how languages evolve anyway

[jenlyannegron-hernandez]

Do you ever read books in Spanish? I have been wanting to read some recent Hispanic literature but all the recommendations that I get are just translations. It would be beautiful if you could make some recommendations.

[rayventhekrayven]

the book is a difficult situation for the reader
this is very horror movie not horror movie where bee eye "run out the door!! go!! now!!"

^because he is going to run out of supplies basically 3 days past gibraltar

so buckle ♧up♧ somehow he perseveres
"theres no [iran] in mexico!! turn around!!"

^thats part of the experience by default

[shadowninja]

How about how "One" is pronounced the same as "Won" even though it has no W.

[clarem]

It's easy. Just go to a Target that has a Starbucks inside...

[flechedesneiges]

Black shirt got it right.
A french girl