{"id":6929,"date":"2022-07-27T09:05:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T16:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6929"},"modified":"2022-07-27T09:05:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T16:05:36","slug":"reading-french-for-english-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6929","title":{"rendered":"Reading French for English speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Latin based languages share a massive amount of common and overlapping words. RobWords offers these 3 tricks for English speakers to scuttle through the French language. I find these kinds of tips super helpful for a casual traveler. As always, these are not hard and fast and some require some lateral thinking to make the connections &#8211; but it&#8217;s good enough to really improve your muddling through the French language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>French words that start with an &#8216;\u00c9&#8217; can often be replaced with an &#8216;S&#8217;. Examples:<br>\u00e9pice -> spice<br>\u00e9tranger -> stranger<br>\u00e9pouse -> spouse<br>\u00e9ponge -> sponge<br><\/li><li>Vowels with a caret &#8216;\u00e2\u00ea\u00ee\u00f4\u00fb&#8217; &#8211; remove the hat and add a &#8216;s&#8217;<br>For\u00eat -> Forest<br>Temp\u00eate -> Tempest(e)<br>Arr\u00eate -> arrest(e)<br>H\u00f4tesse -> Hostess(e)<br>H\u00f4tel -> Hostel<br>H\u00e2te -> Haste<br>P\u00e2te -> Paste<br>H\u00f4pital -> Hospital<br>Ma\u00eetre -> Maistre<br>C\u00f4te -> Co(a)st (the side\/coast)<br><\/li><li>Replace the &#8216;GU&#8217; that starts some words with &#8216;W&#8217;<br>Guerre -> Wuerre -> War<br>Guillaume -> Willaume (William)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Put them together and:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>L&#8217;<strong>\u00e9<\/strong>cureuil<strong> \u00e9<\/strong>tudie <strong>gu<\/strong>illaume le <strong>gu<\/strong>errier \u00e0 l&#8217;<strong>\u00e9<\/strong>cole dans la for<strong>\u00ea<\/strong>t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We translate as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>L&#8217; <strong>s<\/strong>cureuil <strong>s<\/strong>tudie <strong>w<\/strong>illaume le <strong>w<\/strong>errier \u00e0 l&#8217;<strong>s<\/strong>cole dans la forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>becomes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The squirrel studies william the warrior at school in the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3BGaA3PC9tQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latin based languages share a massive amount of common and overlapping words. RobWords offers these 3 tricks for English speakers to scuttle through the French language. I find these kinds of tips super helpful for a casual traveler. As always, these are not hard and fast and some require some lateral thinking to make the connections &#8211; but it&#8217;s good enough to really improve your muddling through the French language. French words that start with an &#8216;\u00c9&#8217; can often be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=6929\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-1NL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6930,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions\/6930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}