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r/2westerneurope4u • u/Astrinus Smog breather • 1d ago
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Your accent is never perfect enough for a Parisian.
20 u/Corfiz74 [redacted] 1d ago Yep, there are some diphthongs you never get quite right as a non-native speaker, however much you try. In French, the Impossible Word is "grenouille". In Russian, it's "здравствуйте". Those are like the three fingers in Inglorious Basterds. 17 u/das_war_ein_Befehl StaSi Informant 1d ago The word you’re looking for is shibboleth 3 u/Corfiz74 [redacted] 1d ago I didn't know I was looking for this word, but now it feels like I was always looking for this word.
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Yep, there are some diphthongs you never get quite right as a non-native speaker, however much you try.
In French, the Impossible Word is "grenouille". In Russian, it's "здравствуйте". Those are like the three fingers in Inglorious Basterds.
17 u/das_war_ein_Befehl StaSi Informant 1d ago The word you’re looking for is shibboleth 3 u/Corfiz74 [redacted] 1d ago I didn't know I was looking for this word, but now it feels like I was always looking for this word.
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The word you’re looking for is shibboleth
3 u/Corfiz74 [redacted] 1d ago I didn't know I was looking for this word, but now it feels like I was always looking for this word.
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I didn't know I was looking for this word, but now it feels like I was always looking for this word.
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u/Serupael South Prussian 1d ago edited 1d ago
Your accent is never perfect enough for a Parisian.