Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages

A link to my sources document, also linked in the description: docs.google.com/document/d/1lo0bvzhli24783Ox5_THM3… After months of creating and recreating this anim, I'm still unsure what to think. I hope you enjoy. Thank you for watching!

I always thought of French as the most germanicized romance language, while English would be the most romanized germanic language.

Spanish: Everything is pronounce as written German: Everything is pronounce as written, but with some extra rules French: Everything is pronounce as written, but with one thousand of rules and exceptions

I've always wondered why Spanish and Italian sound so similar while there is simultaneously an entire france between them.

Although French is often considered a nightmare for foreign speakers, I think it must be a real pleasure for linguists who can clearly see all the evolutions and the remains of old versions of the language.

I'm convinced french people will just be communicating with short exasperated whistles by the end of this century.

I'm so glad I was born french. Otherwise I would never have the patience to learn that crazy shit.

I am a French person who studied old French and the origins of French and I must say I am FLABBERGASTED at your PERFECT accentuation and pronunciation of old French (like "lait, cerise, etc")

French is called the language of love because just like love relationships it strived to make itself nice and comfortable but ended up to be too complicated

Let’s just appreciate how water in French is written with 3 vowels, but it doesn’t sound like any of those 3 vowels EAU = O

Let's be honest here, the French just change their language every time they feel like too many foreigners can understand them. "Quick Jean-Pierre, the peasants are figuring out we are mocking them again. Release a bunch of new letters with funny little hats and let's stop pronouncing five old ones."

Quebecer here. Yes, we do have a lot of old archaic French words from late Middle French and Renaissance French. The reason why our French did not continue evolving much is because of the British conquest of 1759.

Man it is incredible how languages evolve over time. It seems like an impossible task and yet it just happens

French in 2500: Every single word is just a diphthong and a hissing sound.

French : Here is the rule. World : Ok ... French : And here are the exceptions to the rule (1/6558809)

Thanks for incorporating other french countries' promunciations also. Born and raised in Québec, I've grown in a culture with the false belief that our "joual" was a "bastardization" of France's french. Then I found out that we actually often use more ancient promunciations and vocabulary. All languages are equaly good and there is no such thing as talking without an accent. I love the diversity of language, I love the mamy regional accents of Québec, l'Acadie, and everywhere else (although I think the french spoken on Les Îles de la Madeleine's Havre au maisons may be my favorite way to have french sound.

For those who don’t know, linguistic researchers claims that 41% (25,000 words) of the english words come from the old Norman-French language. During the medieval age, since the invasion of England by Guillaume Le Conquérant (William The Conqueror) in 1066, the Norman-French was imposed at the court of England and all its institutions. Then for 300 years, England was ruled by the French house of Plantagenet coming from Anjou in France. Therefore, French became the official language of England. However because of the tough rivalry between France and England, the latter has always refused to admit this heritage especially after loosing the One Hundred Years war. If you still have doubt just read what is written on the symbol of the England monarchy « Dieu et mon Droit » which is in French. It is obvious that there are many English words that come from French because they don’t exist in any other languages and adopt the same spelling. Example: « table » in french is « table », « village » in french is « village », « lion » in french is « lion », “centre” in french is “centre” “immense” comes from the french word “immense”, “monumental” from the french word “monumental”, “budget” from “budget” in french. Then you have some words originated from French which were a bit transformed in English because they are difficult to pronounce. Usually English just reversed the last 2 letters, removed the accents or replaced a letter « mute » comes from « muet » in french, theatre » from « théâtre » in French, “people” comes from the french word “peuple”… to that you maybe know “carte blanche”, “rendez-vous”, “cliché”… It’s not surprising as France and England are neighbors and have a common history.

Alternate title for this video: “Why I took 4 years of Spanish classes, but quit French after 1 semester.”

I'm convinced no one in France actually knows what anyone is saying, and the entire society happens entirely by accident.

As a French speaker who's learning Spanish, this is super interesting. I'm so happy I don't remember learning French because I would have given up.