13 Jokes for Anyone Who Speaks French

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13 Jokes for Anyone Who Speaks French

13 Jokes for Anyone Who Speaks French - Frenchly

If you speak French and love a good joke, you've come to the right place. Test your French language skills and laugh at the best French puns out there.

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[CanuckTravlr]

I'm a native English-speaker who has studied a few languages myself, including French, and had conversations with many who are learning English. Modern English is a bit of a polyglot of languages. If you think French has funny expressions and complicated grammar, you should hear what many non-English-speakers have to say about the multiple inconsistencies and seemingly nonsensical rules and exceptions in English spelling, pronunciation, and grammar!!

 

[Brett]

Je ne parle pas français
Mais je comprends la blague

 

[CanuckTravlr]

Je ne parle pas français
Mais je comprends la blague

C'est bien!

 

[youppi]

I'm a native English-speaker who has studied a few languages myself, including French, and had conversations with many who are learning English. Modern English is a bit of a polyglot of languages. If you think French has funny expressions and complicated grammar, you should hear what many non-English-speakers have to say about the multiple inconsistencies and seemingly nonsensical rules and exceptions in English spelling, pronunciation, and grammar!!

Writing and speaking in English is like two different languages sometime.
Some examples:
Why the 'o' in 'do' and 'go' doesn't pronounce the same (not the same sound) ?
Why the 'oes' in 'does' and 'goes' doesn't pronounce the same (not the same sound) ?
Why the 'ough' in 'dough', 'cough', 'through', ... doesn't pronounce the same (not the same sound) ?
Why the past and present of 'read' doesn't pronounce the same when they are written the same (read and read) ?

In French, it's may be more consistent in term of sound for a letter or group of letters but they created too many groups of letters with the same sound like:
'au' = 'eau' = 'o'.
The English word 'car' is 'auto' in French. So, why it's written 'auto' and not just 'oto' ?
The English word 'boat' is 'bateau' in French . So, why it's written 'bateau' and not just 'bato' ?

Also, in French there is a lot of stupid silence letter added at the end of many words like the word 'beaucoup' (the 'p' is silence in this word. you don't pronounce it). Why not just written it bocou ?
The group of letter 'ou' in French sounds like the 'ou' in the English word 'you'. The French word 'beaucoup' is 'a lot' or 'many' or 'much' in English.

Overall, French is more complicated to learn than English but French is a more beautiful language than English

 

[PcflEZFlng]

Overall, French is more complicated to learn than English but French is a more beautiful language than English

Seriously! French really is a beautiful language.

 

[Glenn2]

Unlike English and perhaps French, the pronunciation of vowels in Spanish is consistently the same. For example an A or an O in any Spanish word has only one pronunciation.

The one exception to that occurs when two vowels occur next to each other in a word, it will change the pronunciation. The u sound in gusto is not the u sound in Camaguey. But even then the ue sound change is the same in all words containing ue together.

 

[LannyPC]

The one exception to that occurs when two vowels occur next to each other in a word, it will change the pronunciation. The u sound in gusto is not the u sound in Camaguey. But even then the ue sound change is the same in all words containing ue together.

The reason for that is a consistency in Spanish that's an inconsistency in English. The G in Spanish, like English, is pronounced a hard G like in grow, go, or gap. But when it is placed before an E or I, it is a soft G like the letter J (in both languages). The reason for the (silent) U after the G in Spanish is to make the G hard before an E or I instead of soft. English has a couple of words like this such as guitar and guess. However, it seems to skip the silent U in many other words where the G is actually hard immediately before an E or I such as girl or get.

 

[LannyPC]

If you think French has funny expressions and complicated grammar, you should hear what many non-English-speakers have to say about the multiple inconsistencies and seemingly nonsensical rules and exceptions in English spelling, pronunciation, and grammar!!

Heck, even native English speakers can't explain or understand the many inconsistencies and nonsensical rules in English.