French Words Used in English | Meaning and Pronunciation

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1. useful and pretty

2. thanks for sharing. as a Chinese who is really interested in the French words used in English.

3. garage

4. I am happy to
   have discovered your channel. With your winning way and charming manner of educating us about the nuances of your beautiful native language,
   you should go far
   in life. I hesitate to mention one matter because it is such
   a petite issue, and
   it is not worth the
   effort to correct any of your excellent videos,
   which I have only
   seen two of so far,
   but paradoxically,
   you are mispronouncing the word pronunciation as"
   proNOUNciation
   rather than:
   proNUNciation.
   This is a common error I notice in
   other videos and
   hear in daily conversation. So
   please know not
   to be embarrassed or offended. I bow before your highly advanced intellect and fluency in several languages, whereas I have only mastered my
   own. Also, in English the word TOUCHE particularly is used when a rebuttal is so sharp, clever, and decisive that it destroys one's
   opponent's will to
   continue the argument, and he
   or she, out of
   admiration, utters: "TOUCHE!"
   It is remarkable how we English will borrow words
   from French and
   invest them with
   a much stronger
   negative connotation. For
   example, if we detest something,
   we hate it with a
   fierce passion. But
   in French, déteste
   expresses a mild
   dislike. If in France
   your coffee is not
   hot enough, you
   would say: I déteste this coffee. Please bring me another
   cup." I am probably not stating anything you don't
   already know infinitely better than I! Since we have borrowed a
   whopping 52% of
   the words we use
   from French, we are halfway speaking French
   without even realizing it! We
   just pronounce most of the words
   incorrectly.

   Respectfully Peace.?

5. So may people speak English better then we do..I mean you can hear a accent but their English pronunciation is better.I understand them more.

6. you look very pretty madmuazel ?!

7. In England we wouldn't really use touché for that reason, it's more when someone jokingly insults you but you come back at them with an even better one, it's like, yeah okay you've got me there ?

8. Thx Marine, I learned 2 new vocabs, cul-de-sac and touche. And the pronuncuation of other words too.

9. You're making a fundamental schoolboy error here. These words/phrases may have originated in French but have now become English so need to be pronounced in a British way.

10. William the bastard (his real name lol) 1066, him and his mates came over and spoke French when they beat us at Hastings 🙂

11. Theres me a English guy moan how the yanks ruin English and forget how we have ruined the french words we use sorry

12. Do you know that the very first word you use when greeting someone is actually Norse in origin. It is Hello, or Hola in Spain. Why do you say the English use rend in rendezvous? It is rond, that the English use not rend!!!

13. Genre in English is more like Joner not jonre. You missed piqued, as in French meaning to be stung: my interest was piqued by (whatever).

14. You have a voice like a chainsaw.

15. Your 3rd example, is famous to the older generation, spoken by Maggie Smith in the film the Pride of Miss Jean Brodie, she is a school teacher in Edinburgh, and that's why you will hear it spoken with a Scottish accent. "All my gals are the 'Creme de la Creme"

16. after destroying the ammo dump we shall split up, take your group along the coast path, we will rendezvous back at the dock at 0800.- who knew all those war films were actually gay romances.
    Also a cul-de-sac isn't just simply a road that goes nowhere. it is also a road that curves in the shape of 'the bottom of a bag'

17. English is a language that hides in a dark alley ready to mug another language of it's best words……

18. Marine what about en suite when referring to a bedroom with a bathroom attached?

19. Frensh language is amazing .. I wish i have time 2 learn it ^^…

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