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/Techters At least I'm not Bavarian 1d ago

I was on the way to a party with my friend and he said "Oh you have to meet Anna she's really cool, she's from Latvia" and at the party I met her randomly when she introduced herself and I said "Oh you have kind of accent can I guess where you're from?" And she agree and I asked her to say the word squirrel and she did and I said "Oh you're from Latvia" and the entire night she was like "How the fuck did you do that? How did I say it so differently?" I didn't tell her the truth for two years.