Masculine and feminine can be mastered slowly with few tricks and practice but understanding spoken French is the bane of my existence, please provide tips on how I can train my ears to spoken French, Merci!

My prof told me this way, you can only understand this rule by thinking about the Medieval Period. Who reads the book at that time? Mens , that bcs “le livre “🥹 who stay in the house? Womens, that bcs “la maison”😢

@Debansipoddar

Жыл бұрын

Samee

@YanaWanderlust.

Жыл бұрын

Haha lol. A very patriarchal way to learn french😂

@gozde_mutlu

Жыл бұрын

@@YanaWanderlust. Also he added that “french is the most sexist language” lol 🥹

@msmith3024

Жыл бұрын

I think all the gendered languages have this sexist issue. Spanish and Italian play the same game. My teacher told us that they tried to change it in france recently and the board of languages (or what ever the title is) said no... :(

@kaylablock1425

Жыл бұрын

I memorize the masc or fem when i memorize the word.

Thank you I HAVE MY FRENCH EXAM TOMMOROW✅

@parvathij5260

2 ай бұрын

Good luck

@bobaayla

2 ай бұрын

Sameeeee

@Rab-ranger

2 ай бұрын

Same

@rinatmustafin5630

25 күн бұрын

Same

@Marmoora-vd8ev

20 күн бұрын

Sammmmmeeeee bc today i was ABsent today😍😍😍😍

Thank you so much for your hard work💕✨

your better than my HSC french course

Your videos are succinct and enjoyable! Everything falls into place for me❤

this is so helpful thank you very much alexa

So helpful, especially Tip #4! Thanks!

I am a beginner here, and I think this video helped me a lot. Thank so much.🌹

you really make things easy.

Merci! Super helpful!

Loving that you used malarkey!

Thank you so much! I have a French test today and I think you helped me a lot!

@abitofgameplay2900

2 ай бұрын

How was the test

The post-it note tip is great! I'm going to cover my whole house with them right now!

I was watching Emily in Paris, and I was learning how the word vagina in French is actually a masculine word, despite being a female thing, and mustaches are a male thing, but it's a female word in French. I can't make sense of that.

@michaelkac9158

5 ай бұрын

The reason for your bewilderment is that, like many generations of students of French before you, you’ve been woefully mistaught. Outside the realm of reference in a sex-specific way to animate beings, such as men and women, bulls and cows, stallions and mares (etc.) the use of the terms ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ to refer to the genders of French is the result of a confusion that has been around for so long there seems to be no way of correcting it. If you want to learn the truth about what’s really going on in French, and the other languages that behave similarly in this regard, I strongly urge you to study linguistics up to the level at which you can read Greville Corbett’s Gender (Cambridge University Press) and G.R. Tucker, W.A. Lambert and A. Rigault’s The French Speaker’s Skill with Grammatical Gender (Mouton & Co.). The scales will fall from your eyes and you’ll realize the extent to which you and millions of others, past and present, have been completely bamboozled about this subject. In the meantime, though it doesn’t go far enough, this video does a passable job of scooping up at least some of the bullshit.

thanks to god no problem avec le or la i saw your previous videos about them & i understand them so much ...merci infiniment...... 🌹Pro Alexa🌹 pour tous leçons vous fait dan votre lovely châine 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼

Merci beaucoup alexa

Very helpful ❤

Bonjour Madame very useful for your channel you are very good teacher

Merci beaucoup!!

thank you so much i have a midterm tomowrow

Bonjour madame Alexa J'ai passé 5 ans avec vous et en suivant 😮merci madame

You are great madam. I love you so much . Your lessons are also very much useful and make all my doubts clear💋💋🥰🥰😍❤️❤❤

Merci beaucoup. C'est interessante

Merci, mes élèves étaient toujours curieux du pourquoi des genres.

Thank you for addressing this. Who cares why languages are gendered!?! People overthink way too much. It’s exhausting.

merciii

Merci

Merci ❤

Merci beaucoup ❤️

@hasanjedo1574

Жыл бұрын

Hello

Thank you Alexa from somalia

Watching from Zambia❤❤❤

Thanks so much mam

Merci. Quand on utilise à de en avec les verbes, et comment ils changent de sens.

Bonsoir Alexa, je dirai autre fois que je doive rentre à l'école pour apprendre encore une fois la langue de français - mais avant que je peux le fair il faut que je finisse mes étudies espagnols. C'est plus que quarante ans depuis je l'ai appris parler d'une petite-amie ancienne et même-si j'ai oublié beaucoup je crois que je peux toujours le faire. Je dois me rentre à l'école , non?.

In my native Russian we have 3 genders. So I have no problem with understanding why the gender is Necessary in French 😂 My issue is that the same word in Russian may have different gender in French. It’s always confusing. Par exemple, “a table” in Russian it’s masculine, but in French it’s feminine and so om 😅

@katerinasofie6879

Жыл бұрын

Yes, same in Czech! I find this very difficult about French :(

@user-qh8zi2gq3p

Жыл бұрын

@@katerinasofie6879 most words have different genders than those in French?

@katerinasofie6879

Жыл бұрын

@@user-qh8zi2gq3p some are the same, but many are different :/

After 35 years of learning and 25 years of teaching French, I still slow down when matching up the right verbs in complex sentences, such as J'irais s'il y était and J'irai s'il y est. It's not that it's hard, but I always have to stop and think about it.

Very helpful tips about the word ending. I am a native English speaker trying to learn French using an online language program. I know some German and Spanish and, of course, they have genders also. Merci beaucoup!

@kendasall9910

Жыл бұрын

Hi @Steve, i hope you're fine, i speak french fluently and i'm looking for someone to help me to improve my english and i help him back in french. if you're interrest answer me please.

I enjoy it.

Bonjour Madame Alexa. I hope you are having a good day. Where can I find your grammer vids? I'm struggling in grammer 😭

Je pense que les matières la plus difficile en Français est la conjugaison des verbes et les temps 🤷🏼‍♀️

@paulfaulkner6299

Жыл бұрын

You should try Spanish

@milagiganticurchod6138

Жыл бұрын

@@paulfaulkner6299 Spanish is actually the easiest language to learn. No funny pronunciations to start with. Plenty of regular verbs. Finally, Spanish is the 2nd most widely spoken language in the world. 1st is Mandarian and 3rd English. Voila!

I struggle the most with the various French accent symbols! To be honest, since I only want to learn enough to understand spoken french and to be understood, I simply ignore the accent marks! As long as someone understands what I mean, I’m happy.

your videos help me learn french so much!! thank you :)

How will we be able to put an definite article in front of a word which is given? Identify feminine and masculine for this scenario plz help

I have studied French language at the University as main department My classmate didn't want to learn french after seeing gender at words because our native language don't have any gander (Turkish) so French grammer is so different for Turkish but some words are so same because French gave so many words to Turkish but substantially I have understood the mentally of French it's wrong what I do before making sentences in french thinking English but currently with thinking English I make many sentences in French it's not good so much but it's fine

@BloodyAristocrat.

Жыл бұрын

@@daciasanderoguys1801 Yeah I got it cause I took Italian course a little so I understand what you mean "o" for men "a" for woman like Brava for woman bravo for man

Alexa do you stream in twitch?

I find it trickiest dealing with words that start with vowels. For example, l'orange, l'oreille, l'ete, l'hotel, would it be feminine if it was ending with "E" or masucline?

@YanaWanderlust.

Жыл бұрын

l’hotel it’s masculine as well as l’ete (all the weather seasons are masculine)

@Damzified

Жыл бұрын

It's easier if you use the indefinite article as there's no elision: une orange, une oreille, un été, un hôtel.

Speakers of English get confused by nouns having genders, but many other languages, such as Japanese, have no gender associated with their nouns either. Probably the best way to learn these is to use them in the progression of recognition: listen => speak=> read => write. Always learn the nouns with the definite article "le" or "la" and practice them with adjectives, until it becomes second nature.

@cubic3282

10 ай бұрын

when did i ask???

@cubic3282

10 ай бұрын

exactly i didnt lmao

Question. in modern-day engineering is masculine or feminine still used? example Pump, Valve or Motor - Pompe, Vanne, Moteur

@r.r5495

Жыл бұрын

La pompe, la vanne, le moteur

Bonjour Alexa,

I have problems knowing when to use a or au or en, and de or du. I know that it's gender related but I often get it wrong.

Please 🙏 I have so many problems with the third group verb.....

In german all the seasons and days of the week are masculine too

When do u use des?

merci beacoup

Alexander, How can I begin with your courses?

@learnfrenchwithalexa

Жыл бұрын

All courses are on my website at learnfrench.com :)

Iam found difficult to differentiate between masculine and female

Merci beaucoup pour cette nouvelle vocabulaire et leçon de la semaine et du mercredi pour pouvoir comprendre et apprendre plus la belle langue française

@emilyondari919

8 ай бұрын

Bravo!

I find the agreement with verbs, adjectives and pronouns very difficult to understand, e.g J'ai mangé une pomme puis je l'ai jetée, The verb "to eat" does not agree with the apple but the verb "to throw" must because of the pronoun la (l').

How do I sign up for beginner classes ??

@learnfrenchwithalexa

Жыл бұрын

All courses are on my website: learnfrench.com :)

What abut coffe?

❤merci

@learnfrenchwithalexa

4 күн бұрын

❤️

Dans ma langues il y a 3 genders m f et n

I think la or une can sound nicer with certain words than the other but I kinda wish French would ditch the feminine and just go with le and un.

For me the biggest problem is conjugation.

3:40

langue is feminine but most languages (belong in les langues) are masculine?

@learnfrenchwithalexa

Жыл бұрын

Indeed!

Bonjour

Meats and cheeses are confusing. Diary, like milk and cheese would seem feminine, as cow is, but are masculine. The word meat is feminine but various meat are masculine. Le porc, le canard, le poulet. Do you know of a source or book explaining the evolution of French words and why a word was considered masculine or feminine, way back when?

@michaelkac9158

5 ай бұрын

The reason for your bewilderment is that, like many generations of students of French before you, you’ve been woefully mistaught. Outside the realm of reference in a sex-specific way to animate beings, such as men and women, bulls and cows, stallions and mares (etc.) the use of the terms ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ to refer to the genders of French is the result of a confusion that has been around for so long there seems to be no way of correcting it. If you want to learn the truth about what’s really going on in French, and the other languages that behave similarly in this regard, I strongly urge you to study linguistics up to the level at which you can read Greville Corbett’s Gender (Cambridge University Press) and G.R. Tucker, W.A. Lambert and A. Rigault’s The French Speaker’s Skill with Grammatical Gender (Mouton & Co.). The scales will fall from your eyes and you’ll realize the extent to which you and millions of others, past and present, have been completely bamboozled about this subject. In the meantime, though it doesn’t go far enough, this video does a passable job of scooping up at least some of the bullshit.

I find most of French grammar easy to understand. Granted, i learned Japanese first 😅

@Debansipoddar

Жыл бұрын

Cool

4:00

🥰

❤❤❤😊😊

Those Proto-Indo-European (not really very European actually) people sure could have saved us a lot of work if they had gone 'nah, this gender business is too hard, let's drop it". But I guess it was easy to remember genders when you only talked about goats.

Macsi

English (believe it or not ) has genders too. Blond (masc) and blonde (femi) is one of a very few examples. The rest are all neutral. 😊

@drazzytime9353

Жыл бұрын

Omfg This may be completely lost on you but you’ve just made me realise something about Frank Ocean. There was huge debate on whether his album was called Blonde or Blond and he probably did it on purpose because he’s bisexual!

Why is the French language pronouns different from the written French? I feel need to write down how it sounds a lot. eg: qu’est ce (kes ker)

@Gary-pe4ce

Жыл бұрын

How so? Is it about speaking vs writting?

@scarlettrhettforever

Жыл бұрын

No. Just wonder why the language has a lot words that are pronounced different to how it is written.

@Gary-pe4ce

Жыл бұрын

@@scarlettrhettforever ah, you are right on that, to be frank apart from the various accents for some letters french is more a nasal language I've noticed. Also some letter makes different sounds depending on who it is next to Example: C next to a, o, or u makes a Kuh sound but when next to any consonant, i, or e it makes a suh sound. Qu'est-ce que (kessuh kuh)

ça fait long temps

I used post-it notes all over my house. It works.

@learnfrenchwithalexa

Жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@TheSaltydog07

Жыл бұрын

@@learnfrenchwithalexa You are.

Like 977 & subscriber new salam kenal dari kawan baru

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Oddly, the word "masculine" in french is feminine...

@bazzad81

2 ай бұрын

'Masculine' is indeed feminine. But it also exists in masculine without the 'e'... Just like feminine exists as feminin ... Depending on the surrounding words any of the four can be appropriate, bon courage 😂

LE OU LA ? CELA REND LE FRANÇAIS TRÈS INTÉRESSANT

Alexa are you married? 😍

What if the word is non binary? Will these romance languages be deemed offensive,bigoted, and transphobic?

Do you do any videos only in French? It doesn't help me to listen to you speaking English.

Women be shopping

Haa why do emotions have gender😂

Please go slow alexa

2030, french will have 230 gender's if not 0.😂😂

You become old omg !! But still gorgeous

how many genders are there??

yin is feminine, is blue. yang is masculine. is red. learn it, understand it. live it. not pink for girls. or little boy blue.

@scarletblack3182

Жыл бұрын

I use blue for feminine and brown for masculine, sick of the pink for girls and blue for boys

@hrxy1

Жыл бұрын

@@scarletblack3182 yes it's close enough as brown is next to red in the spectrum. the main point is to identify polarity. as in the human body, yin on the left, yang on the right. she said it was the Indo-European origins. its endemic in Eastern countries. its also very useful in meditation to isolate the left-right brain.

pov . me liking every comment so someone can like mine!