Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages

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

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

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

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")

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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."

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

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

Both entertaining and educational. As a second generation Italian-Canadian, who speaks Italian, I always struggled learning French in elementary school. Later in life, I learned enough conversational Spanish to communicate. It was far easier learning Spanish than French. 🇮🇹🇨🇦

You just answered almost all of the questions I had about why french the way is that it is.

I'm actually impressed at how this man is able to pronounce so many different phonetics that sound so similar, and tell the difference

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.