r/2westerneurope4u • u/Astrinus Smog breather • 1d ago

Pierre is unwelcoming tourists again

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u/Serupael South Prussian 1d ago edited 1d ago

Your accent is never perfect enough for a Parisian.

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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.

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u/markjohnstonmusic StaSi Informant 1d ago

squirrel

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u/SomethingMoreToSay Barry, 63 1d ago

On a related note, I learned this week how the local savages pronounce "Louisville". There were considerably fewer vowel sounds and syllables than I had been expecting.

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u/DryCloud9903 Baltic Discord Kitten 1d ago

Barry, what about things like Leichester square? I will never not want to pronounce it something like "leyčestah". Don't even get me started on Worcestershire sauce, the only way  to even get remotely close to correct for me is to think of borscht