KGB-B[lahhg] French-speak 101 Vol. XIII

French is so much fricking fun to speak. Here's your daily dose of Rosetta Stone lesson lovin'. Truly a sentence everyone should master, not necessarily because of it's practicality, but just because it's so much fun to try to say.

Le garçon ne peut pas parler parce qu'il est sous l'eau.

Talk about high speed plosive action. If you'd like to practice along at home, phonetically it would sound something like the sentence below. Because no one really reads IPA transcription I'll do my best to write out the sounds in a slightly more understandable fashion. Here goes...

Luh gairsohn nuh puuh pah pahrl parse keel ey soo loh.

Work on gaining some speed and I guarantee you at some point you'll get a good chuckle. And for the record the statement translates to, "The boy is not able to speak because he is under water." Why, yes, he is.