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Artist Hilariously Illustrates The Differences Between Different Countries And Languages In 30 Comics
Traveling is the perfect medium for experiencing different cultures complete with all sorts of art, music, crafts, and traditions. But visiting other countries is usually not just all roses.
With cultural differences in mind, artist Malachi Ray Rempen decided to share his traveling experience and situations in the form of funny comics dubbed "Itchy Feet Comic". This weekly cartoon drawings chronicle is mostly about travel, language jokes that happen while learning, and life as an ex-pat. It's just about any bizarre situation you can imagine yourself in while traveling.
"Itchy Feet Comic deals with two very specific areas: language learning and traveling. One of the things I love about these webcomics is the minute observations on the experiences that are so universal that you cannot help but say “That is so true!” - says the artist.
So scroll the page and have a quick walk around the world with the help of these funny drawings!
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Ah now that explains Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Ahh yes,I recognize thi place, its the the maginificent city of Romeberlinathensparis!
Yup sounds about right. Having an american best friend is very eye-opening for both of us! They drive outside their state about once a year, out familytravels often means car and going through 7ish countries to get to our destination
As a native French, I honestly admire people learning french : this langage is hard ! Therefore I would never make fun or faking not to understand just because is is not perfect. This comic shows a very parisian reaction you would probably not know somewhere else in France...
The people of Montpellier were incredibly patient and kind with me. I think Parisians who are tired of tourists give the entire country a bad reputation. (Seeing the behavior of tourists around the world, it's hard to blame them.)
Load More Replies...Not true :( First we do speak english (yes, yes) and we understand foreign accents because of all the people from the entire world who come to visit us all the time, please come to France to see by yourself...
Yep, it's mad! I gave up my Duolingo French course, because no matter how I repeated the word, it wasn't accepted by the program. Wrong pronunciation? French had too many letters, written to not be pronounced, while imaginary ones are being spelled. I need more sense to a language.
Henry Higgins was right, eh? "The French never care what they say, as long as they pronounce it properly"
as a french speaker (native language is english), and having heard the plethora of ways different nationalities pronounce certain french words, I can fully understand why the french have difficulty understanding. The challenge is, just like english, french is not a phonetic language ie it doesn't look like it sounds. (eg "language" = "lang-widge". "phonetic" could be read as "phone-tic" or "p-hon-e-tic", whereas it is pronounced as "fon-et-ic". Same challenges with french)
so true! they don't tolerate imperfection in pronouncing every word. One time, a bus driver made me count 1 - 10 before finally took my payment and allowed me in the bus
As a French native speaker, I genuinely think most people would not do this on purpose but simply don't understand. A friend of mine was telling me a story of her trying to order water in a restaurant and pronouncing 'leuu' (as in 'le'=the) instead of 'l'eau' (l'o) with no success. She thought it was a tiny difference in pronounciation, but I think the waiter was waiting for the word coming after 'le' {the what??).
This is utterly not what I experienced anywhere in France. I only speak a little French, but even in Paris nearly everyone was very warm and friendly.
"Well the French don't care what they do, actually, so long as they pronounce it correctly." my-fair-la...d4817f.jpg
Parisians simply like to be jerks to tourists. I know; I’ve experienced it many times.
I was in Boulogne sur mer and people were incredibly kind and patient with my crappy French. A waitress even spoke a bit German!
I was JUST talking about this earlier! I could not make a single server in France understand me when I asked for water.
Yeah ok. Just yesterday there was that friend of mine said to me “ Je voudrais des LU” (a biscuit brand (Lefebvre-Utile), of which I have some products at home), so I give him a pack and he said “no, des LU”, “it’s written on the pack in fat letters: LU” What he wanted was water: de l’eau. Pronunciation is important in French...
Pedant alert: the "be" is missing in the last picture. He needs to say "Bonjour!" first and why doesn't he say "please"?
I asked for a flan in a bakery in Paris and was laughed at heartily for not pronouncing it correctly. I kept trying, they kept laughing. Part of the fun. I got my flan in the end, that's the important thing.
I cannot pronounce French probably because I have a Midwest accent and we love constanents
Go to Northern France, those from there have an accent that I feel has some similarities to yours.
Load More Replies...random story: last time i was in france and i asked the waiter for a fork in french and they didn't understand, but when i said it in english they were like, "Oh! Yes! I'll get you one!" tbh this probably happened because my french is literal c**p but i thought it was suitable here
French has a lot of consonant words. Getting the pronounciation right isn’t a small thing. Now say someone pronounces « public » with a U that sounds like « Pubic », wouldn’t you laugh out ? ;)
Load More Replies...This is where Quebec gets fun: 'joual' (or 'Franglais') is mostly improvised on the spot, depending entirely on what words the speakers can remember at that moment and syntax goes straight out the window.
It's where Quebec gets fun: joual seems to be mostly improvised on the spot, depending entirely on what words (or sound-alikes) the speakers can remember at that moment.
Americans are chronically sleep deprived. We need a constant infusion of coffee.
Translation: There's a nice cottage in the small valley just past the farm by the edge of the lake.
This is so great! The person who made these clearly knows what he's talking about. Both amusing and interesting.
True. Seems to me the author, instead of merely taking general stereotypes as the base for the jokes, they actually combine these with the jokes they probably heard the natives say themselves. I recognised many of the internal jokes for some of these.
Load More Replies...Come to Greece! You'll have a really nice time. Bonus: Here, people will laugh when you introduce yourself :)
Maybe this is not his entire cartoon collection OR maybe still to come, EH? ;-)
Load More Replies...These are all really insightful and all very original. Some of the best cartoons I’ve seen for ages. Loved them.
This illustrator has definitely traveled the world. I was accurate for every place that I have traveled (and very amusing)
My old German teacher who moved away had some of these comics printed out around the room and when I was reading these it made me cry because it reminded me.
Well. Some of them are unrelated, but this one kinda is, but why videos in the first place?
Load More Replies...I feel like this article was a way for people to talk about where they live lol 🇬🇧
This is so great! The person who made these clearly knows what he's talking about. Both amusing and interesting.
True. Seems to me the author, instead of merely taking general stereotypes as the base for the jokes, they actually combine these with the jokes they probably heard the natives say themselves. I recognised many of the internal jokes for some of these.
Load More Replies...Come to Greece! You'll have a really nice time. Bonus: Here, people will laugh when you introduce yourself :)
Maybe this is not his entire cartoon collection OR maybe still to come, EH? ;-)
Load More Replies...These are all really insightful and all very original. Some of the best cartoons I’ve seen for ages. Loved them.
This illustrator has definitely traveled the world. I was accurate for every place that I have traveled (and very amusing)
My old German teacher who moved away had some of these comics printed out around the room and when I was reading these it made me cry because it reminded me.
Well. Some of them are unrelated, but this one kinda is, but why videos in the first place?
Load More Replies...I feel like this article was a way for people to talk about where they live lol 🇬🇧