English Speakers Attempting to Read French (▶With NO previous study◀)

Learn any language with professional tutors and native speakers on LiveXP & use these discounts: ▶Get your first $0.99 trial lesson by following the link: https://livexp.biz/langfocus99 ▶Add promocode LANGFOCUS at the checkout to get 30% off a monthly or quarterly subscription In this video I talk to native speakers of English and see how well they can read French - with absolutely no background in French. The results are quite interesting! I also made sure they had little or no background with Romance languages other than French, so we could really see how well they do based only on their knowledge of English. Special thanks to Cole, Luke, and Samuel for taking part in this video! And thanks to all of you patrons for making Langfocus possible: Aleksei Bogatov AmateurTextualCriticism Atlasino Fuyusaka Bennett Seacrist Bill Walderman Brian King Bruce C Chris Meredith Chuck Davis Claudia Ramos Fiona de Visser Georgina Toland Irina Bruce Italy Made Easy Jacob Madsen John Moffat Karl-Erik Wångstedt Kirk Kirkpatrick M. Aizat A. Rahman Michael Cuomo Michael J Synnott Mody Nobbi Lampe-Strang Rosalind Resnick Ruben Sanchez Jr ShadowCrossZero Ulf Hermjakob Vincent David Walter A Moore Wolfgang Egon Schroder Abdullah Al-Kazaz Adam Vanderpluym Aitona Al Alana Kalinowski Alex Tsigdinos Ali Muhammed Alshehri Alice Amittai Aviram Andrew Woods Anthony Peter Swallow Aous Mansouri Ashley Dierolf Bartosz Czarnotta Ben Benjamin Tipton Brent Warner Bruce Ian Danton Bruce Stark Carl Luca Hofmann chris brown Chris Shifman contumaciousCulimancer Cyrus Shahrivar Dan Haworth Darek David Golub Desmond Drew Diana Fulger Diane Young Dina Trageser Donald Tilley Doug Edward Wilson El Capitan Nico Elijah Double Eliza McCoole Emilia Bruns Eric Loewenthal fatimahl frederick shiels G Bot grace Gregory Ferree Grégoire Le Corre Guillaume Brodar Henrik Flyvbjerg Herr K Howard Clark Hugh AULT Ina Mwanda James and Amanda Soderling James Lillis JAMES ORR James Wraith Jay Bernard Jim McLaughlin JL Bumgarner John Gavin John Weiss Jonathan Hutchins Julie Sriken Kate Jensen Konrad Konstantin Bredyuk KW Laterunner Laura Morland Leah Meredith Lee Dedmon Leo Barudi Lissette Talledo Malandro Manuel Rosales Margaret Langendorf Mark Mark Judge Mark Kemp Martin Blackwell Merrick Bobb Merrick Bobb Michael Mersol-Barg Michael Regal MikAE Mike Frysinger Mohammed A. Abahussain Molly Fivian Nicholas Gentry Nicolas Elsishans Niro Oleksandr Ivanov Patriot Nurse Paul Shutler Peter Nikitin Peter Scollar Phil Franks piero Piri JAKAB VON SZENGELICE Ploshtinska polyudnica Raymond Thomas Roger Smith Roland Seuhs Ronald Brady Rosetta Stephens Scarecrow Repair Sebastian Bartels SJWS Stefan Reichenberger Taco de Jonge Tara Pride Theophagous Thomas Chapel Thomas Gijsbers tomas o dathail Tony DeSantis Trevor Helminski Vinicius Marchezini Warren McKenzie William MacKenzie William O Beeman Yagub Alserkal Yeshar Hadi Yuriy Vrublevskiy Yuval Filmus Éric Martin Creative Commons images in this video: Man of England under Norman rule https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_England_1086.png Author: XrysD License: CC BY SA 4.0 International license 00:00 - Introduction 01:56 - Informal sentence 1 03:10 - Informal sentence 2 04:24 - Video sponsor: LiveXP 06:09 - Informal sentence 3 08:07 - Informal sentence 4 09:48 - Informal sentence 5 11:14 - Informal sentence 6 12:13 - Formal sentence 1 13:50 - Formal sentence 2 15:43 - Formal sentence 3 17:14 - Formal sentence 4 18:47 - Final comments 19:41 - The Question of the Day