When English Speakers Attempt to Read French (With NO previous study!)

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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!

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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