Language Overview: French

Links: NativLang video about the evolution of French phonology: https://youtu.be/a2TWBBxwhbU Lawless French page about when not to do liaison: https://www.lawlessfrench.com/pronunciation/forbidden-liaisons/ Lawless French page about silent letters: https://www.lawlessfrench.com/pronunciation/silent-letters/ Stromae - Papaoutai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj0Z_Xnjc Maître Gims - J’me tire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_rEHfLgdcY Translations: 0:03: (Water) This language - (Scubadiver) Us 0:14: Don’t worry - This video isn’t replacing a French language overview 2:39: “What the hell is this?” (Elephant) Morphology - (Penguin) Phonology - (Penguephant) Morphophonology 4:34: Quit writing silent letters - They’re useless 4:38: Me, ignoring silent letters - Liaison 4:51: (Trumpeter) Liaison - (Girl) The silent letters that don’t do it 7:03: (Bridge) This video - (Truck) The part about C and G 7:33: Me right now 7:37: You thought we’d finished it 7:58: After French writing 8:33: (Hands) Le/la/les - (Left-side bicep) Pronoun - (Right-side bicep) Article 10:39: (Henry Cavill in front) Us - (Jason Momoa in back) Liaison 11:13: One does not simply go to someone’s house to ransack the fridge 12:31: When people start talking about the tens in French “I think we all know where this is going” 12:53: When they say they make better cheese and chocolate but you remember that they need a calculator just to say ordinary numbers *laughs in Belgian and Swiss* 12:56: People who know how to count in French 14:13: When it’s time to talk about verbs in whatever language “Ahh shit, here we go again” 14:21: (Homer in the tub) Competence at conjugation - (Bart with the chair) Irregular verbs 15:32: Doubt 15:42: The example verbs will be… 16:20: Letters -ent at the end of a word: *exist* - Verbs: 17:25: When you’d spent a good amount of time with the composed past and you learn that there are verbs that don’t take avoir 19:15: “Corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture.” - “They’re the same picture.” 20:09: Don’t breathe too much 20:27: (Water) French irregular verbs - (Fred with the mop) Me during this video 20:56: where destination 20:58: When you leave out the destination from a French sentence “WHERE IS IT?!” 21:53: Mentions elision - Never addresses it 22:04: Us: *about to do something with an initial vowel* - H aspiré: ABSOLUTELY F*CKING NOT 22:09: One uses elision when they need to in writing. 22:11: I use elision in speech wh’n’I feel like’t’s appropriate 22:14: Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?