October 14, 2018

Hello Video Lovers,

English is a tough language. Sure, Chinese is hard, but in what other language can the same letters have 8 different sounds?

So what if we tried to pronounce the letters consistently? Suddenly you get a language that sounds a lot like French. Or maybe Flemish. Whatever it is, it sounds awfully weird.

And funny.

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How to Turn English into French

What If English Were Phonetically Consistent? Keeping the same pronunciation for all of the vowels bizarrely makes English sound a lot like French. Weird.

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