Why Shakespeare Could Never Have Been French

Apologies to French folks; this was tough!

Swans are never surprisingly aggressive, they are always as aggressive as expected

Tom: There will be jump cuts. Also Tom: Single take, no jump cuts.

IMO the most important reason why Shakespeare could never have been French is because he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England

I'm fluent in English and French and you've blown my mind. I'm well aware of lexical stress in English but it never crossed my mind about how it doesn't exist in French

“Stress isn’t normally something you have to consider when writing” A million stressed writers disagree

In an alternate universe: Why Chèquespire Could Never Have Been English

As an English speaker, this video made me realize that Haiku can pack infinitely more meaning in Japanese than English ever can.

It took me years to realize how fundamentally different a perception of sound English speakers have, compared to us native French speaker. I had the impression that I was perfectly pronouncing English words (I wasn't, but honestly it wasn't that bad), and to my English-speaking colleagues I might as well have been speaking Mandarin. Meanwhile, they would mumble something and because they just pronounced right the stressed syllable, a Welshman, an American, an Australian and a Scotswoman would have no trouble whatsoever understanding each other. The other eye opener was when I realized that beyond the obvious complexity of prononciation as taught to us at school was another layer and that there were much more subtle nuances of sounds - which natives were very much aware of.

Alternate title: How Shakespeare ensured the French could never fully appreciate his plays

Me as a French : "I can't stress enough." -: "You can't stress what ?" -:" ..... I just can't."

You made me understand why, as a native french speaker, I find english poetry so eerie yet so pleasant. Thank you !

As a German, it never occurred to me that there are languages without lexical stress, despite me knowing French and Spanish. You really learn something new every day! Thank you!

“Surprisingly aggressive swans” Also known as swans

As a French who had to learn English on the fly, I can confirm that the stress is everywhere.

I'm French and I had never heard someone sounding so French while speaking normal English

J'adore entendre un Anglais parler de la langue française, ça me fait remarquer toutes nos bizarreries linguistiques .

Me, a Frenchman trying to test what's demonstrated here: Suddenly, brain can no longer think in French.

This will be full of jump cuts. Not a single jump cut. Bravo!

As a native Russian speaker I find it funny that our poetry is also syllabo-tonic, just like English or German so it's easier to translate those languages properly but our authors mostly translated French poems, because it was much more culturally significant back in XVIII-XIX centuries