expression2

[mamour]

I've just listened the last lesson expression 2.There is a french expession "etre tout ouie"which is similar to "to be all ears" I think

[Thomas]

What is the word "ouie" ? I've never seen it.

And you know, I'm always surprised at the large amount of expressions that seem to exist in several languages. I wonder if that means that those expressions are really old and come from an older language like Latin or something.

[Ben54]

That means "hearing" (sense).

[Thomas]

Oh, like the 5 senses? How exactly do you pronounce it? Is it like "oui" or is it like "ou-i" (deux syllables)

[Ben54]

You pronounce "ou-i". Is it easy for american people ?

[Thomas]

Well, actually, words that have two vowels in a row like that are usually pretty easy for Americans to pronounce, because in American English we have a ton of vowels like that.

One example, however, of one that is actually difficult, for me at least, is the word "aeroport" -- because the English word airport is just two syllables, I always mispronounce "aeroport" and don't separate the "a" and the "e"

[Ben54]

Every language has many difficult words to pronounce. When they're speaking English, a lot of french people can be embarassed by many words.

[Thomas]

Well hopefully I'm helping a little bit with that

[mamour]

in fact we write "ouie" ouïe 

[Thomas]

Ohhh, ok. That definitely makes it easier to know how to pronounc with the ï in there