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Everyone trying to learn French hates the fact that it's spelled in seemingly absurd ways, with fancy word endings that are usually silent. Fun fact: French is actually spelled phonetically - according to how it was pronounced hundreds of years ago. For example, take conjugations
e.g. "(j')aime / (tu) aimes / (il) aime (nous) aimons / (vous) aimez / (ils) aiment" -- pronounced "aime/aime/aime/aimon/aimé". ~600 years ago, you'd have pronounced it like you spelled it, making it sound quite close to the original latin amo/amas/amat/amamus/amatis/amant
Think about it whenever you find yourself cursing silent word endings -- they weren't always silent. All of these oddities are there for a reason. Still, at this point it would make a lot of sense to reform French spelling...
Oh I'm completely fine with the spelling, it's the listening and the guttural R that I'm struggling to overcome
English: hold my beer. I’ve got this.
This is true of all languages with only semi-phonetic spelling, I always assumed. Keeping spelling phonetic requires effort. Entropy and all that.
Sounds like you'd really enjoy the book Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson :)
That is true for most languages that had some kind of a phonetic system. Even a lot of pronunciations in English that have slowly altered since old english used to be more faithful to the spelling. Guy Deutscher's book has some great examples.
I wish French orthography would undergo some high-pressure water cleanup and simplification. But the poesy of its useless terminal appendages has taken a life on its own and would be missed by many.
the good thing about french pronunciation is: if you know the rules you can easily pronounce unknown words. Not the case for english or german.
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