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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...
Spanish people pronounce French the old, ultra-traditional way! #vindicated
Voila qui me rappelle mes années de versification... :-) Une grande difficulté du français vient de ce que le genre des substantifs est "arbitraire", sans justification apparente, ex. "une chaise", "un fauteuil" ...
I’ve always wondered: Do French speakers know these conjugations exist before learning to read? Is it something that trips schoolchildren up?
that never bothered me. What really is mind-boggling is things like: *le/la/les/l'* = *the* in English, but they also mean *him/her/them*... yet, lui/elle/eux/elles also mean him/her/them!! And really, why do I have to say four-twenty-ten-nine, when all I want to say is 99?!
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