French People Try to Pronounce Difficult English Words!

I want to see Americans pronounce difficult French words. Like, squirrel is tricky for non-Americans. Ecureuil is hard for non francophones to say.

As an Englishman, I found the pronounciation of the words just fine, for example "turtle". I feel the lady was looking for a specific regional American accent, which is obviously not the sole correct way to say the word in question, as there are many variations. The French subjects all clearly had a great grasp of the English language, so it seemed a bit of a non event, in my opinion.

Funniest thing is that most of these words are french originally and were imported into english langage like theatre, paradigm, temperature etc. 😅

I've never seen so many people from France on World Friends before , loved them , especially the guy

It would have been interesting to hear both the full french pronounciation of these words, as well as their french equivalent.

Watching her hit these people when they're pronouncing it right is r/mildly infuriating.

I think Jazz was way too harsh with this, at one point it was even difficult to watch. They pronounced the words just fine.

I don't believe anyone mispronounced the words. Jazz didn't take into account that everyone pronounces words differently even in the U.S. She just wanted them to speak like Where's she from.

The thing that makes it difficult here is that most of the words are actually very similar in french : Yacht is also yacht Temperature is température Movie theatre is cinéma but we've got théâtre for theatre Otorhinolaryngologist is otorhinolaryngologiste and Paradigm is paradigme

This judge is bad. I’m not even through everyone trying to pronounce “thorough” and it’s already evident. Most people have pronounced it the same exact way during the first round and she is only bonking some of them. The second round is an improvement and she’s still penalizing them.

Just wanna say that all the French guests were very intelligible for me as an English speaker, like I can understand them 100%. And they're accents are so cute!! And just wanted to add to, so many people study English that it comes in so many accents, and for the most part, we pretty much understand most of it, and it's not really a big deal. So if you're feeling insecure about your accent, don't worry too much and just speak it to the best of your ability and most English speakers will try to understand you :)

I'm French (born and raised in France later moving to an English speaking country) and they said most of the words correctly and I feel like they got a bonk on the head for no apparent reason which made me mad I remember having an accent but ppl still understood me but she bonked their heads bcs they didn't have an American accent that's unfair imo

J'ai l'impression qu'ils prononcent correctement les mots et que je ferais totalement pas mieux X). Mais quand elle dit le mot en anglais je vois pas de différence :face-red-droopy-eyes:

I couldn't pronounce French properly no matter how hard I tried. These people are doing a fine job AFAIC

I was getting confused at first because some of them that sounded wrong to her actually sounded right to me but now I see what this is about it's not pronouncing difficult English words it's pronouncing difficult English words the way Americans pronounce them.

I fell like they should've had someone who teaches English to non-English speakers, because they were saying some of these words correctly and she still marked it as incorrect. . .

I went to school with Jazz!! She's an amazing person!!

honestly the lady was looking for a very specific american accent and it’s very unfair

I think she was often arbitrary about what she would pass or reject. I would say she was being pedantic, but her explanations were often simply wrong and didn't even describe her own speech. Most of the contestants had rather thick French accents, but even when their pronunciation of the word was perfectly fine, she often rejected it. Trying to please her couldn't have been much fun for the contestants.

Jazz must be fired!