• Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Me speaking to a French guy last week -

    “We’ve just been the the musée de l’automobile in Mulhouse”

    “Sorry, where?”

    “Mulhouse”

    “Where?”

    “Mulhouse”

    "Aaaaaah I see! It’s pronounced [pronounces Mulhouse *exactly the same FUCKING way I just pronounced it]

    😂 Happens very regularly

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      7 months ago

      No offense intended since I’m fully incapable of pronouncing tons of English words properly (fuck “squirrel” specifically), but as a Frenchman who has lived near Mulhouse for a few years and interacted with a lot of foreign students, what you said probably wasn’t close to being the exact same as that guy

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        7 months ago

        For all languages I have learned so far ‘squirrel’ is really hard to pronounce for non-native speakers.

        English: squirrel

        French: écureuil

        And the germans kill it with: Eichhörnchen