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  • BenVimes@lemmy.catoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Languages
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    2 months ago

    Yes, I know some of those are technically pronounced differently, but the average English speaker can’t tell.

    But honestly, as someone who learned French as an adult, the biggest hurdle is knowing which combinations of letters make which sounds. Many are completely illogical - the 3rd person plural verb conjugations are particularly weird - but there is less inconsistentcy than English. The harder part is actually trying to get your English tongue to say words like “aéroport” or “heureux” or “accueillir” properly.

    There are always some outliers, like “oeuf” (egg) being pronounced “uhf” while the plural “oeufs” being pronounced “oo”, but you get used to those.



  • BenVimes@lemmy.catoGaming@lemmy.zip•I'm tired of GTA
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    4 months ago

    I’ll go one further: I’ve never liked GTA.

    Most of that is a mismatch of the series to my tastes in games. It just takes a lot for me to like open-world games, and GTA has never hit the mark.

    The other small part is just my preteen self being resentful that GTA3 was the game that brought all my classmates into the hobby, instead of a game that I actually liked.