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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malk" data-source="post: 1341814" data-attributes="member: 15730">(Malk's fiance responding) I agree with Gez. I've known French for about eight years so I've some fluency, and reading the second passage was considerably more easy. It's mainly because those who learn a second language usually learn it through text and writing. I'm more familiar with written french. If I were to read each passage out loud they would sound similar, but I wouldn't recognize every word unless I saw it written well. For example with the "u" in the first passage and "eu" in the second. I would pronounce both virtually the same, but didn't recognize "u" as the french word for had until I saw it spelled correctly. That's just one example.Oh yeah, and the they're their there mix-up that seems to get most people drives me absolutely insane as a native English speaker.</blockquote>