American, French, Italian, German Pronunciation Differences !! Part.2
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For someone who speak italian or french is more hard because both idioms are romantic like spanish and portuguese , english is more germanic like the german and dutch
If you pay attention English words are usually copied from French but their pronunciation is Germanic, basically English French words pronounced by Germanic/Celtic peoples instead of Latin/Celtic French
Our French language is actually not that hard that might think 🇫🇷
Yes. Some phrases I heard that don't translate well in English:
Portuguese: Morto de fome
Spanish: Muerto de hambre
French: Mort de faim
Italian: Morto di fame
English: Dead of hunger (starved - as in you are hungry as fuck, or a straight up insult to point out someone for being too poor, and lowly, that he can't afford to have food in his plate).
Portuguese: Mal-educado
Spanish: Maleducado
French: Mal éduqué
Italian: Maleducato
English: Badly educated (rude)
Portuguese:
Antes só do que mal-acompanhado
Spanish: Mejor solo que mal acompañado
French: Mieux vaut être seul que mal accompagné
Italian: Meglio soli che male accompagnati
English: Better alone than badly accompanied (or with bad company)
@@lissandrafreljord7913 wow, This is amazing! So "muerto de hambre" can be an insult in other languages?? Mindblown!!
In fact, English is more Fench than germanic
In German you can say either Pommes or Fritten. They are both fairly common.
Exactly what I thought. I think it depends on where in Germany you live though. Like in the north they would probably say Fritten more often.
I‘m from northern Germany. It‘s common to say Pommes I guess.
The german pommes frites actually comes from very olden french days. Because the cooking process was actually used as the name, "Pommes de terre fritées", which translates in english to "fried potatoes". For the german name they just shortened it after a while to pommes frites which would literally mean "fried apples" but yeah potatoes are called in french literally "apples from earth". However in german if you were to translate the french one literally it would say "Erdäpfel", which is used to name a horses poop.
Oder "Pom Fritz"
@@saebelzahnseba In Austrian german (and Bavarian dialects) Erdapfel is potato, not horse poop 😅
It's so good to have some Italian representation! And all the other girls are so funny, too 🇮🇹
Well, it's about time they brought someone from Italy 🟩⬜🟥.
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German "Pommes" actually comes from the French "pommes frites". A Potato in French is "pomme de terre", and in German there is the same meaning as "Erdapfel", but it's an old word everybody knows and nobody uses in everday language. Literal translation of "Erdapfel" is "earth apple", so it's closer to the English language, but closer to the French meaning.
Germans living in the South-Western part of the country are more likely to use "Fritten", she's probably from somewhere else. I've also been a couple times to the German-speaking parts of Belgium, noone there knows what "Pommes" is, but they're damn proud of their "Fritten";
I've been loving these videos with these four ladies , Callie is kind of my 3° favorite member of the channel after Christina and Lauren
I finally get why Lauren is not part of it cuz of Brexit. 🇬🇧❌🇪🇺🇨🇵🇩🇪🇮🇹
We Europeans look at the British differently these days
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We should look at them like at a role model.
Every European country should get rid of the EU.
The EU is not Europa, they are just some criminals who nobody did vote for.
So Callie has been in Nordic countries Denmark 🇩🇰 , Norway 🇳🇴, Finland 🇫🇮 , Sweden 🇸🇪...but one is missing , the Iceland 🇮🇸
And Färöer🇫🇴
Donde tienen el mejor idioma del mundo :)
What if she actually hasn't been to Iceland you snow beer addict from iceland
I've never been to Europe , just in Latin America and South America countries Venezuela 🇻🇪, Colombia 🇨🇴, Peru 🇵🇪 , Brazil 🇧🇷 and Guiana 🇬🇾 , but i hope one day to go to Europe
Guyana*
@@tammyb5607 it's "Guiana" cause of the spanish and portuguese , popular languages of South / Latin America
Vino & vino, fruta & frutta, bicicleta & bicicletta, and we also say "bici" for short version but with an "s" sound! (Spanish & italian, almost the same!! ) :D
We French also say :
"Vin" 🍷
"Fruit"🍓🍒🍎🍉
"Bicyclette ➡️🚲
Our languages are similar cuz they are based from Latin/Romances languages
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@@christophermichaelclarence6003 in spelling yes but in pronunciation no.
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 yes! Romances languages rule! Lol
@@MrZeev76 i know, very different pronunciation!
@@eduardovelazquez638 Those guys as well
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French girl is so lovely !
It's "Pommes" in German or "Fritten" in some regions, even though the official word would be Pommes Frites, like the French one :) 🇩🇪
Yes. I'm from Munich and we would call them Pommes Frittes (pronounced "pomm fritt").
The German language is actually very diverse locally, with different vocabulary in different regions. I remember seeing a video on UA-cam made by an American couple who asked followers from Germany to send them videos or audios with how they would say certain words and phrases in their region and they made a video with all those examples from all over the German speaking area in Europe. Was really interesting.
Yes i studied in germany and i always used Pommes frites !
In Bavaria we say "Pommes frites" and pronounce it like "pomm fritz", at least my generation (50+) 😉
@@tommoses6557 I think that has changed, I grew up in Bavaria as well, and I've never heard anyone call them "Pommes Frites" here, we always called them Pommes.
In England they are chips, as in "fish and chips", though those chip would be much more chunky (thicker).. In Scotland that's called "fish supper". In both places these are bought from a "chip shop" or "fish and chip shop" or "chippy".
In Québec, we also call French fries "patates frites". Very similar to patatine fritte in Italian.
Our French and Italian language are Romance (latin) Languages. Even the Spanish That's why they look similar. All thank of the Roman Empire.
After im a neighbor of these two
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Québec ancestors French from France speak French logique
Is patates a potato? well it's kinda similar to our language. In Philippines we called it "Patatas" I guess it is some loan words in Spanish. I find it interesting btw and the Fruits we called it in Tagalog "Prutas"
@@sansenzekai8545 Yes, patate = potato. And Prutas sounds very much like 'fruits'. In French, it's pronounced ''Fru-i''. The T and the S (plurial marker) are silent. :)
For fruits you can also say " obst " in German.
I`m german and I also sometimes say velo. Probably depends on the region though
I think Pommes Frites is also pretty common in Germany which is similar to the french frites. Some also say Fritten.
“To vino I say nie no”- words to live by haha thanks Nele for teaching me this expression 😆❤️ - Callie 🇺🇸
It’s actually „zu vino sag ich nie no“
"Short version of "bike" in Italy 🇮🇹 is "bitch" oh boy , i think i'm gonna remember this one 😂
Bicicletta -> bici
Como en español 😪
@@irenecarrillo6750 in French, we say "bicyclette"➡️ 🚲
Actually it was bitchy but in a Spanish or Italian sounding accent, ja ja ja.
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 Bicyclette is a French word exported in the world (well is a French word invented by an Italian, but in French), it's the diminutive of Bicycle that is itself a French word (ok, maybe is an English word, I don't know, but was suerely invented by a French). Anyway in Italy we say Bicicletta, Biciclo and Velocipede (another French word) and its derived words (velodromo). So yes, bicycles are French stuff (but Giro d'Italia >>> Tour de France 😃).
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The Italian and German languages are more similar than I thought (considering that they have two different linguistic roots).
Sure, but as you know, there are lots of romance loans in most germanic languages (except icelandic). Vice versa too actually, especially from the middle ages and earlier, although probably less well known.
The Italian woman is so beautiful and sweet. Really like the new grouping.
People have to remember English is a mix of Germanic and Romance language so at times are words would sounds in between some words newer words ya no
7:57 well actually you can say "Fritten" that's quite similar, that's what me and my Family say always
"Velo" is the short version of "velocipede"
pommes in French is apple pomme de Terre is earth apple because potatoes come from under the earth
so ...
German worth pommes frites is come from French ........apple pieces! but they mean potatoes pieces
she has to know that
in switzerland we speak French to but some French wort come from France to Swiss-german language !
The short form fries comes from the catering industry because everything has to go quickly when ordering. However, the word french fries is also understood.
Add Nordic Countries on the channel 🇮🇸🇩🇰🇫🇮🇸🇪🇳🇴
I speak and English and Spanish. I find French grammar hard AF. I can kind of understand when I read it. But I have to remember where to combine two words because the second begin with vowels or when not to use the masculine possessive because the word beings with a vowel although it’s feminine. But when I hear French it usually doesn’t sound like what I’m reading. I have a friend whose first language is Lousiana Creole and she told me most people who speak French and French derived languages don’t talk like some of what is taught in these language courses. I can hear the difference between il and elle but not between il and ils so I have to pray I have a conjugated I can understand behind it to know if the person is saying he or they. Plus that back of the throat sound I can’t make. And German sounds harsh to me and I can’t emulate a lot of those sounds either. I can see why people find English difficult although it’s my first spoken language.
Oh and learning numbers in French past sixty makes my head swirl. My teacher really had to get after me. 😂
Yup .. it's always «mon amie» even though it's a lady friend .. 😄
@@JosephOccenoBFH I keep getting that wrong on Duo lingo because I forget 😢
I actually...had a French friend saying that Spanish is difficult :P
I guess every language is difficult if learned as a second language,
As a person who studied both Spanish and French as a foreign language, Spanish grammar does get more complicated with excessive usage of imperfect subjunctives. (Quisiera - is a imperfect subjunctive). French doesn't use imperfect subjunctive at all, so one less grammar to learn there. But, I'm not saying French grammar is easier, they are both equally complicated if learned at the same time.
@@cjkim2147 I think you are right about whatever you learn first between Spanish and French seems easier. Portuguese is a lot easier to understand than French. Like I have been able to hold a conversation with a Portuguese speaker speaking Portuguese and me speaking Spanish and we understood each other. I cram studied Italian for a month and knew enough to get by when I went to Italy. I’m really trying not to become discouraged with French and give up.
I happen to have a bottle of french wine here and it does say "vin rosé" on it
Oh and the full term is indeed "pommes frites" but nobody really says it. You'll find it on the menu, but nobody would really use the full thing. Or "fritten"
My French wine bottles always say château Rothschild ;)
Velo is actually short for velocipede.
So happy to see Italian ! I took this language when I was in middleschool and highschool and I have fond memories of this class. 🥰
The way Italian girl is saying is really cute. Very innocent sounding!
In Germany we say "Pommes", but as far as I know we just took the French word "pomme de terre" which means potato. And that's because you need potatoes to make "pommes"/fries.
Yeah, the French girl said she was surprised that the German word for fries wasn't more similar to the French word, and I was just thinking, uh, the German word comes directly from French! How much closer do you want it to get? "Pommes" = "pommes de terre"
Germany and France share a large border so I can understand the crossover effect of language happening there.
Which creates a false cognate with french "pomme" (Apfel).
Germany short for 🍟 is also
Fritten
"Pommes" (with a pronounced ending in German: POM-MEZ) is short for "Pommes Frites" (this one affectionately pronounced POMM-FRITZ) which is loaned from the French "pommes (de terre) frites" (lit. "apples of earth fried" where "apples of earth" equates to "potatoes") meaning "French fries" (AE) and "chips" (BE), respectively.
All 3 European participants English is extremely good! The German word for fries 🍟 Pommes, there is an Australian potato product called pommes, a small ball shaped potato rather than the traditional long chip or French fry. I believe the popular brand of those are manufactured and imported from Belgium.
We are the Big 3 of Europe powerful economically
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@@christophermichaelclarence6003 I think I can agree with that! Definitely the top 3 that pops into my mind within the EU.
@@nathanspeed9683 UK was used to be part of it but with Brexit....it changed everything.
Nowaydays, we Europeans look at the British differently. 🇬🇧🤦🏻
As French speaker, prefer getting along with the germans. 🇨🇵❤️🇩🇪
By the way, we didn't come up the French Fries, it was actually our neighbor's Belgium 🇧🇪. It says French Fries cuz it's fancy and sounds right
This group is nice for showing some variety of words. in French pomme is apple, or singer. In botany, a pome is a type of fruit produced by flowering plants, like apples. So there is probably a link in there somewhere, connecting to the German word.
I think the French word "Pommes frites" went to Germany, and as a slang they decided to just say "Pommes", without realizing that in french it means apple, and also creates a false cognate.
And also, because it's pronounced so differently, it's natural not to identify it immediately without looking at the spelling.
@@cjkim2147 the official word in german is Pommes frites (or Pommes Fritz), but some say just Pommes and other say just Fritten.
@@12tanuha21 I noticed a lot of French words went to German and got eingedeutscht.
in canada when we speak frech we say bicyclette
I think i remember learning that when french fries were first in germany, they were "pommes de terre frites" since they learned about them from france (pomme de terre is potato, or literally "apple of the earth", right?). Then it shortened to "pommes frites" and then "pommes". So the word for fries is germany is a german pronounciation of the french word for apple! Languages are wild
It's strange that the french lady didn't know that. She also didn't make the link with bicyclette. Frankly, it doesn't feel like her french knowledge is very good.
German is always shining like a diamond 💎♥️
In French « Vélo » is the short version of « Bicyclette ».
Fun fact you can also say "pommes frites" in France, for fries, but it's more of an outdated term 😌
7:30 --- in French we can say bicyclette !
German: pommes
French: pommes frites
Bosnian: pomfrit
And that's so funny to me 😂
In French we can also say for the following:
-bicycle = bicyclette
-Fries = frites
-potatoes = pomme de terre/ patate
si je me trompe pas, c'est surtout au Québec qu'on entendrait le mot "bicyclette"
J'avoue que le mot bicyclette est moins utilisé. En Afrique francophone, on utilise le mot vélo plus fréquemment
Italian is so like Spanish same family language in Spanish for fruit we would call it Fruta as well and wine is Vino and for French fries it would be Papas Fritas.
Yeah! And maybe in spain they will say "patatas fritas" which is even more similar to italian "patatine fritte" :)
@@eduardovelazquez638 The original word for potato is batata and it comes from indigenous Taino language,
@@eduardovelazquez638 Yea i use patatas more than Papas but since people uses the word Papas more for potatoes I sometime say both lol
@@anndeecosita3586 In Argentina we use "batata" for sweet potatoe and "papa" for potatoe.
@@anndeecosita3586 i didnt knew that! Thank you :)
Italian and Spanish is so similar that a Spanish speaker and an Italian speaker can hold conversation without much of an issue.
I just think it's kinda funny that they had the French and American together across from the Italian and the German
I feel like with things like this Canadians are always forgotten, it’s always Americans or British, people kinda just forget we’re an entirely separate country from the US and we wanna be involved too!
My favorite word is “patatine fritte”.
Because It is very rhythmic!!
When I heard “pommes”, I thought “apple” in French.
well it's because the german took the french word "pommes frites"
As a language nerd, if you wanna know more about it here you go.
Patatine would be the shorter version (that's what you'd hear from children's tantrums).
Patatine is an alterate noun, whose qualities are altered by a suffix. Since "patatine fritte" actually means fried little potatoes, that -ino (-ina, -ini and -ine to make the feminine singular, masculine plural and feminine plural) is a diminutive suffix. Even spaghetti (sing.: spaghetto) literally means small string.
Another curious category is the endearing one, suffixes that "cutify" the nouns. Often they are the same diminutive suffixes.
The remaining two categories of suffixes are the accrescitive (-one) and pejorative (-accio, -astro).
Italian nouns (even personal or place names) often get these suffixes, they allow you to pack in 2 syllables a meaning that would require a separate adjective and applies even to places and personal names. A nice little town in Central Italy that became infamous for 2016 earthquake is named Castelluccio di Norcia, literally "little castle of Norcia". Gino derives from Luigino, little Luigi, while a kitten (or kitty) is a "gattino" or "micetto" (from gatto and micio, both meaning cat but the latter being more affectionate). A bad boy becomes a "ragazzaccio", from ragazzo, boy, a little princess "principessina", from principessa, and so on. Italian is full of these and while it may seem quirky and even complex, in reality it's all about playing with the language.
Fruit in Spanish means frutas so it’s similar
7:54 pommes de terre frites maybe?
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Coq au vin is delicious. A chicken wine stew. How could it get better?
allies vs axis forces.
I’m more of a auf Deutsch Person when it comes to pronouncing anything easy german words which means something in english
Well technically Vèlo is the short version of vélocipède. And in Italian bycicle is "bicicletta", "bici" or (in the traffic laws) "velocipede".
And in Italian fruits could be "frutta" that indicated a group of fruits in a general way but could be also "frutti" that indicates a group of fruit in a specific way. For example: "you must eat some fruits" in Italian is "devi mangiare della frutta". But "apples and bananas are fruits" is "mele e banane sono frutti". Or "I bought some fruits in that market" is "ho comprato della frutta in quel negozio", but "I ate 3 fruits" is "ho mangiato 3 frutti".
Italian is like spanish but it got some word differences that just we latins can understand
"Fritten" is another german word for french fries 😉
FML French is so pretty
i love nele’s outfitttt!!!
Bicyclette is the long version for French
Well technically you can say Pommes, pomm fritt, fritten or Pommes frit ... Or fritten Pommes/frit pommes
Ich habe auch gehört wie man statt Chips Crisps und Fritas sagt.
I am in love with German language😩
I really like these girls!
❤️ from Italy
"Vélo" is already short for "vélocipède". I hate it when people don't look stuff up and end up delivering false/wrong information. Also, German "pommes" is not all the way off. It obviously comes from the French word for "potatoes", which is - you guessed it! - "pommes"!
In Swiss german:
Wii (like the Nintendo console)
Europa (like in standard German, just that we roll the r)
Pommes (similar to Standard German, but the „e“ is pronounced a little different) or Pommes Frites (pronounced similar to how the american pronounced it, when she said she heard pommes frites before)
Frucht (like in Standard German, just that we roll the r)
Velo (like in French)
Em schwäbischa is dr Wai.
she said volvo as REEEAL country volvo fan bou :D
Here is Serbia we would say...
Wine - Vino
Europe - Evropa
French Fries - Pomfrit
Fruits - Voće
Bicycle - Bicikla
Nice video as always 🤗
Víno
Evropa
Hranolky
Ovoce
Bicykl, jízdní kolo , kolo, velocipéd :)
umm i study english and French at school and german out of school but my country in the past was occupied by the Italians so we speak all the words she said
I guess Pommes Frites in german comes from pommes de terre frites? And then we got lost in translation and now just pronounce pommes (which is apple in french) in a german way even though we talk about fries 😅🙈
That dramatic sound effect after she said bici was great editing lol.
Like boom, what 😂
We say *_pommes frites_* in my part of the world too. Kind of surprised that a young French girl didn't seem to know that name of the dish. It means fried "earth apples" (=potatoes) in French after all (even though it's belived to stem from French speaking Belgium).
Fun fact: Wine/Vin/Vino/Wein origin word from Latin, spelled as "VINVM" and pronounced as Uinum or Winum. In some languages the V that used to be an U, changed the phonology to a β sound, and for the German with the W as well.
And the Latin word vinum has the same Mediterranean origin as the Greek word οἶ. The latin word is a union between vir and vis (respectively man and strength), so wine was basically seen as the strength of man
We forget us 🇫🇷. Our French language is also part of it. It's the Romance Languages you're talking about
Not wide away from my german village is the small town ,Owen' , the name is spoken ,Auen' . This causes still today confusion, that you can read in some maps : Owen (Auen).
in german you also can say "fritten"
It’s interesting nele says her name with an English accent instead of the German pronunciation
Vino like spanish.
From trench warfare to giggles.
Nice socks!
As a Polish person I was surprised to see how many our words sounded the same in Italian!
oh we took so many more words from them! they even have matura or maybe it's maturita but I was going to explain what matura is to an Italian guy at work and he said: no need, we have the same :D
@@olablc531 matura like prom or?
@@vanaibh9584 like a-levels - the exams at the end of high school, thanks to which you can apply to university
@@olablc531oh we also have that kind of matura, but we also use matura for prom
In italian they say vino in my language it is also vino , word for bike is almost the same
@@vanaibh9584 oh, that's interesting! where are you from?
I think German speakers from Switzerland say velo instead of fahrrad like the French.
Also elderly german people, especially in rural regions, still use many french words, but speak it a bit strange for french ears.
In french vélo is the short version. The full version is vélocipède, but everyone uses the shorter version which is vélo
in fact. frutta is the same as fruta.
In German it's Frucht (Singular) oder Früchte (Plural) but we usually say "Obst" (generic term) for all fruits in general.
Je veux un vent blond. Ah, un vin blanc!
I feel like the american girl is being too modest and humble to avoid getting the side eye europeans like giving americans. Girl keep shinning. dont dim your light for others. They are not doing it for you here clearly. But she seems to be the one interested in learning the most, while the others are more interested in showing off.
english: W is a double U and in german: W is a double V
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The reason the French word for wine was throwing everybody off was because it sounds like she is saying Vah but its spelled Vin which comes from the Latin word vino.
Will the channel ever make something with portuguese speakers?
In Germany we say "Pommes" or "Fritten".
If you want to order Fries in Germany you can actually say: Pommes or Fritten or Pomme Frites or Pommes Frites 😄👌
The „Pomme Frites“ is only about the pronounciation it’s actually also Pommes frites. But you can pronounce it german or French because especially in the west at the border to France we are heavily influenced by the french language:) another example is the word „Portemonnaie“ that we use for wallet but „Geldbörse“ or „Brieftasche“ are more German words for it. I would never use them to say wallet though. For me it’s always Portemonnaie😅 but it’s an official word too it’s not like a dialect or sth
I looked it up: Portemonnaie (french spelling) and Portmonee (the newer more german spelling that shows you how we pronounce it) are both right and in the German dictionary.
Canadian and French when ? i've been waiting for that, cause there's a lot of Canadians who speak in French language as well right? I wanted to know the differences
Moi aussi
Les québécois
Belguim ppls watching this when she says French fries 🤨
Das ist Europa für euch 😄🇪🇺🇩🇪
Por fin, Italianoooooo💜💜
They finally brought someone from Italy
Vivi Italia ! 🟩⬜🟥
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For the "french fries" In México (spanish speaking country) we also say "Papas a la francesa" something like "french way potatoes"
Oh, that's cool. I've always used the term "papas fritas" or "fried potatoes." Interestingly enough, that's actually pretty close to a variant of the German term: "Pommes frittes" or "fried potatoes."
If I'm not mistaken, the german word "Pomme" comes from the French word for apple, but specifically from this phrase "la pomme de terre" (literally "earth apple") which means potato.
@@ryanzarmbinski7446 i knew it! pomme sounded french to me, thank you, But yeah "papas a la francesa" and "papas fritas" are very common here :)
Mais je suis la seule à avoir remarquer qu’elles sont en chaussettes 🤣🤌
Good morning 🇺🇲 65,🇪🇺🇫🇷
Im german you can say "Fritten" too
For "bicycle" in french, instead of "velo" which is shorter, it has also a longer word for it, it's "bicyclette"
Vélo is actually a shortened form of vélocipède which is basically a bicycle with no pedals.
You use your feet pushing off from the ground to move.
German is Pommes Frites, shortened to Pommes.
Or shortened to Fritten
@@12tanuha21 But the we have nice Phrases for Pommes with Ketchup and Mayonnaise
Pommes rot weiß - Pommes Red and white
Pommes Schranke - Pommes railway barrier
Etc
Recycle from World of Dave ?
You should do one "Quebec French vs Metropolitan French"
Because "bicycle" is also called "bicyclette" or "bicyc" in Quebec French