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28th July 2022, 17:47
Translate French 🇫🇷 Words Without Knowing French Using 3 Very Clever Tricks:
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The only language you need is English. Let me teach you how to read French words without already knowing any French. Watch and I'll explain. Massive Francophobe? You should watch anyway, because the reasons why these tricks work raise some fascinating facts about the history of the English language. By inserting an extra S here or there, some French words magically become much more like their English equivalents (or "cognates"). Also, the clever deployment of a W can render even the most Gallic of words easily recognizable.
00:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=0s) Intro
00:59 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=59s) Trick 01: Swapping É for "S"
03:50 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=230s) Why Trick 01 works
04:58 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=298s) Trick 02: French 🇫🇷 Letters with hats ^ ("S" was removed)
07:43 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=463s) Why Trick 02 works
08:17 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=497s) Trick 03: Swapping GU for W
08:57 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=537s) Why Trick 03 works
10:53 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=653s) Translating a sentence
11:52 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=712s) Goodbye
The Year 1066: William_the_Conqueror (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror)
disclaimer: tricks don't work every time... but when they do, it is enormously satisfying.
3BGaA3PC9tQ
The only language you need is English. Let me teach you how to read French words without already knowing any French. Watch and I'll explain. Massive Francophobe? You should watch anyway, because the reasons why these tricks work raise some fascinating facts about the history of the English language. By inserting an extra S here or there, some French words magically become much more like their English equivalents (or "cognates"). Also, the clever deployment of a W can render even the most Gallic of words easily recognizable.
00:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=0s) Intro
00:59 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=59s) Trick 01: Swapping É for "S"
03:50 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=230s) Why Trick 01 works
04:58 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=298s) Trick 02: French 🇫🇷 Letters with hats ^ ("S" was removed)
07:43 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=463s) Why Trick 02 works
08:17 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=497s) Trick 03: Swapping GU for W
08:57 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=537s) Why Trick 03 works
10:53 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=653s) Translating a sentence
11:52 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BGaA3PC9tQ&t=712s) Goodbye
The Year 1066: William_the_Conqueror (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror)
disclaimer: tricks don't work every time... but when they do, it is enormously satisfying.