Watch to the end to find out my score for Helen. What's yours out of 20? Get my workbook for more consistent French progress and speaking confidence: bit.ly/3qMPU7L

@abdelhakimelamin3073

2 жыл бұрын

#French in Plain Sight : merci beaucoup monsieur le youtuber pour hôster Helen Mirren, more d'elle please, because i admire her very much(^_^)

@abdelhakimelamin3073

2 жыл бұрын

Hajimé monsieur le youtuber Thanks pour assurer her comfort(^_^)

@abdelhakimelamin3073

2 жыл бұрын

21/20 pour la louvine intellegente (^_^)

@marirreid8588

2 жыл бұрын

It's hard for a English native speaker to learn french but I won't give up as I am Scottish

@oliverqueen5883

2 жыл бұрын

20, if only that was my moyenne générale too 🤣🤣

she makes mistakes but it is very charming for us french people , i actually find it charming and i must add it doesn´t matter if one makes some mistakes while speaking french what matters is trying ! her french is good

@heronimousbrapson863

2 жыл бұрын

That's OK. Many francophone politicians here in Canada make mistakes when speaking English as well.

@ares6953

2 жыл бұрын

@@heronimousbrapson863 yes that´s right . we all do and that´s fine !

@Clelia16

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree

@davidasoule4361

2 жыл бұрын

I rate her a 12. I sense she is translating in her head before speaking.

@ares6953

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidasoule4361 Yes you are probably right ! 12 is a good score but i will give her an above average score like a 15 or 16 for trying and not being intimidated by a french interviewer

The fact that she's made the effort to speak French gives her extra points.

As a French native speaker, I must say that she’s very good. I would love to speak english as she speaks French.

As a French native speaker I would rate her 17 (Jodie Foster being 20 or close). She makes a few errors here and there, and her accent is perfectible, but one can tell she acquired the language. As you pointed out, her pronounciation is quite great and the "liaisons" are respected (or deliberately let down sometimes, which tells even more about her ease at speaking french). As of the gendered nouns, it is rather a petty mistake since it regards an illogical trait of our crazy language and requires rote learning from a very young age to me mastered, really.

@manueladocef9781

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree

@magic_hotel

2 жыл бұрын

Two more comparisons would be Charlotte Rampling and Kristin Scott Thomas. Both fluent, but I've no idea how they would rate.

@corystajduhar

2 жыл бұрын

17 and 20. What's the scale?

@ennediend2865

2 жыл бұрын

No "crazy language" at all ... 🙄

@Nekoala

2 жыл бұрын

@@corystajduhar Oh yeah my bad, we're used to it in France but not so much anywhere else I guess... the scale I had in mind is a 20.

Helen Mirren is a treasure. Not just in the UK but the acting community and the world. She carries herself with such style, class, grace and dignity. She's also very intelligent, talented and charismatic. I've yet to see her being interested where I thought she didn't do well. This may be the 3rd video of yours that I've watched today. You have such a great amount of insight and give plenty of good advice

I learnt French for 4 years when I was in colleague which is 40 years ago. Today I still can remember some French words and more importantly, my love and my sentiment for French never faded. Now, I decided to pick up my French by following your program on regular basis and practice, speaking on daily basis. Thank you for your program which is very helpful and encouraged me to get started my French learning journey happily.

On la comprend à 100% et son accent est savoureux. Elle n'a pas à être parfaite. J'adore Helen Mirren. Love from Montréal.

French native here and I can give her a solid 17/20. so little mistakes and the accent is great.

I have lived in France for almost 20 years, since the age of 18.. I would honestly say I speak French to the same level as Helen Mirram.. I speak fluidly and make some mistakes in conjugaison and fem/masc but I honestly don't care.. I'm not an academic and have never had formal lessons, just learnt from speaking to people and friends and diving in.. But what I hear constantly from French people is that they don't want me to perfect my French.. They say they find it adorable when I slip up,.. So I guess it depends on whether you want to be a perfectionist or not..

@sananton2821

2 жыл бұрын

Helen who?

@BellaFirenze

2 жыл бұрын

@@sananton2821 Keller.

@heididewhirst

2 жыл бұрын

This is so true, I have had a similar experience. I want to perfect my French for my own satisfaction but I appreciate that my current level with all its 'Jane Birkin-esque' mistakes is perfectly acceptable :)

@paulortiz2035

2 жыл бұрын

"It depends on whether you want you be a perfectionist or not". But it also depends on with whom you are speaking! Academic or not, there are those who will not suffer through anything less than perfect grammar, diction or pronunciation! I lived in France for approx 4 years. I could never hear the regional accents to save my life. It all sounded the same to me! But I also do not like music---- after a few minutes it is just a bunch of noise! Mozart, Pucinni, jazz, whatever kind of music, it gets very irritating, very quickly!And I want to switch it off! I have to switch it off!!!!! I prefer silence! Had my hearing tested a few years ago and I hear outside of the normal range--- on both ends of the scale so it isn't that there is a auditory problem. Weird, I know! And I try very hard to speak French 'correctly', accent wise, but often miss by a mile on some words but not on others. Some of the letter combinations are just not easy for me to master. While the final constanent is usually dropped there is often the faintest hint of it still there--- as with the final r,n,t, etc, which is usually dropped but it is still there, slightly. Or the word "rote" with an accent grave. That 'r' sound is just not in English. And it is difficult for most English speakers to get it--- exactly right! And I, miss it by a mile! Or is it, I miss by a kilometer?!! Perhaps what I really need to do is get a tongue transplant!!! (Do they even do tongue transplants???) In my mind I speak French like Jodie Foster or Sen John Kerry, accent wise. In reality I might sound more like 'Topjaw' on KZread! But with a really strong American accent rather than his guy's 'Scottish!' French one! Which is quite interesting to listen to! They did a '48 hours in Paris' video, if you want to hear what that accent combo sounds like! Very Interesting! And pleasant but I'm not sure how the French feel about it. But as i said, interesting!!! I suddenly wonder what a Dutch person speaking French would sound like!!???? What with the deep, throaty, gargling sounds they do when speaking Dutch. It would be very interesting to hear 10 or 20 different nationalities say the same exact sentence with their normal, basic native accent! I hope someone will do that as an illustration!!! I think it would be so be interesting to hear this. For example: a Laplander, an Inuit, a Massi, someone from Greenland, a Catalan, a person from Namibia, Nepal, Tibet, a First Nation Australian, a Korean, a Ukrainian, etc, etc. And then each person might say the same phrase in their language with everyone trying to repeat that set of sounds! Wouldn't that be fascinating? I think it would be!

@cameliap1146

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulortiz2035 tooo long.

This gives me so much hope! It’s nice to see someone who seems so confident. The one thing about learning French that I have struggled with is the cringe when I get something wrong. Sometimes you are your own worst critic. Also, the bloody French “R” is my nemesis!

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

We are **most often** our own worst critic Tony. It's both what helps us to keep going and what brings us down!

@isabellenicaud3725

2 жыл бұрын

The bloody french R 😂😂 as a french I struggle with the double spanish R

@gloipsdegalerf2104

2 жыл бұрын

A tip to pronounce the french R: - the english R is pronounced deep in the throat - the french R is prononced closer to the mouth

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

@@gloipsdegalerf2104 other way around :)

@gloipsdegalerf2104

2 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight Wow ! When I test it myself, I do feel that the english R is very deep in the throat, and the french one is almost in the mouth... Weird.

As a French teacher in academic context, I would say 20/20 to my colleague Alex from French in Plain Sight. It's exactely the way I do teaching French as a Foreign Language by picking up what right is, or well done, or even lovely accent, instead of focusing on mistake. That's a excellent way to give motivation to beginners or false beginners who are frustrated after the French learning at school.

She speaks in a natural way, her british accent is adorable and the mistakes with "une petite film" are charming (we don't care because we understand perfectly what she's telling us) Bravo to HM 👍

You are totally right about the wird "cité". I am French and it's really great to see native English speakers enjoying speaking French. You are right: Helen Mirren speaks French very well and in a lovely manner.

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, Florent!

My dad is English and he’s been speaking French for maybe 20-30 years and he still makes gender errors. So I don’t think it’s a big deal. If you can understand what she wants to say I think it’s fine.

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you completely! Improve them if you wish, otherwise, communicating effectively is the main goal. Thanks for your comment Elliot!

@heronimousbrapson863

2 жыл бұрын

Considering that nouns in English don't have grammatical gender, that's understandable.

@professeurtournesol

2 жыл бұрын

On ne s'attend pas à ce que vous les sachiez tous! De plus, les mots récents (courriel, vidéo), il faut choisir leur genre !

@6thorb367

2 жыл бұрын

I'm french and I make gender errors ;-;

16/20 , mainly because she has the courage to freestyle , which is a big thing for the French. They really admire people , especially famous ones of course , that speak that level of French even though she makes subtle errors . I tend to cringe a bit when see pronounces letters that are not be pronounced but that is ok. The way she said budget was posh and really funny .

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

She is pretty posh!

I had no idea that Helen spoke French or that she spoke it so well. And yes, learners really shouldn't worry too much about gender. Getting the gender wrong hardly ever makes a difference as far as the meaning is concerned. I have an (English) aunt who's lived most of her (long) life in France, and she still gets the gender of the odd word wrong, but she's 100% fluent.

@lisalu910

2 жыл бұрын

I have a French friend who has an English sister-in-law. My friend sometimes rants and raves about the mistakes the SIL continues to make in French even after being married for 20 years or more. She STILL makes gender mistakes, my friend sniffs, and not only that, this wretched woman has the nerve to tutoie her very proper, elderly mother-in-law. Quelle horreur!

Hello. Le mot budget vient du Français "bougette", petite bourse où l'on mettait ses pièces. Ce terme a été ensuite emprunté par les Anglais, avec une prononciation "boudgette", qui devint "budget". Les Français le réimportèrent de nouveau avec la prononciation "budgÉ" (budget). Voilou 😊

@da96103

2 жыл бұрын

So like ping pong, back and forth.

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

Waouh. Qu'est-ce qui t'a amené à apprendre l'étymologie du mot budget ? Fascinant :)

@clairejonas6125

2 жыл бұрын

Oui, 70% du lexique anglais est d'origine française (coach, toast, management, bacon, caterpillar, entreprise, entrepreneur, etc.etc.etc. )

@crissandra58

2 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight ce sont des choses que je lis, et que je retiens. Ça me sert seulement quand je joue à des jeux de culture générale, ou sur KZread apparemment 😄😄😄

@richardblackburn1576

2 жыл бұрын

merci, Sandra - merci d'avoir résolu ce mystère, j'étais très intéressé par l'origine de ce mot car il ne ressemble pas à un mot français (par son orthographe) mais il sonne comme un mot français!

She speaks very well, natural flow indeed, and her accent and even her tiny mistakes are adorable. It's Mrs Mirren, the epitome of British-ness the way we love it. (Yes, I'm French !)

J'adore Helen Mirren! Jaimerais parler le français aussi bien qu'elle. Merci...ces vidéos m'inspire.

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

C'est l'effet désiré! *ces vidéos m'inspirent

@Clelia16

2 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight ou bien : toutes ces vidéos, ça m'inspire. 😉

@andrewfletcher1341

Жыл бұрын

Are you british ?

Son français mérite la note de 17! Elle n’est pas dans un exercice de littérature mais de conversation courante dans lequel elle fait preuve d’une grande aisance. Elle est merveilleuse !

Helen Mirren is such an extraordinary french speaking woman ! Her accent is brilliant and her french is wonderful.

She has a pleasant unpretentious way of speaking, and communicates really well and confidently.

Cheers Alex for this video. Dame Helen Mirren definitely is a national treasure: she's talented, pretty, witty, sharp and her French is beautiful and the little errors she makes can definitely be forgiven. You are quite right about 'cité'. As for 'budget', I read somewhere that in the Middle Ages, people carried a small purse in which they placed their coins and, if I remember correctly, it was called a 'bougette'. William the Conqueror took the word across the Channel - along with many other things - where it took on a new pronunciation before it travelled back to France with a new meaning - though still relating to money. Loved that video with her (and your) charming accents (by the way, you definitely are an expert in French!). But why the spelling mistake at 10'23 (neighbourhood looks so much nicer)? And loved the Occitan flag on your wall! Best from another (French) Alex (who happens to be a certified ENFR translator).

I love her use if Frenchlish, and how the interviewer never cringes at Helen's mistakes.

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

Overall, she makes very mistakes. The interviewer seems happy. Frenchlish. Not head that one before! Franglais ou franglish. But hey, they're all made up words! Je parle frenchlish aussi !

@fv1291

2 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight Ah yes, right up there with Spanglish :)

@jeanrose1627

2 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight I think your french is very good. The biggest issue is probably your "english speaker" accent which is totally fine to me as a frenchman.

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeanrose1627 Merci ! I don't consider it a negative anymore. If I'm understood, and once it a while, someone thinks I'm French, I'm happy.

@Dabhach1

2 жыл бұрын

@Jean Rose "YOUR French", not "YOU'RE French".

Her French is pretty good. Not native level obviously, but flows naturally.

When I moved to Paris to go to French school my only 'friend"(?) there told me to "NEVER SPEAK FRENCH TO ME!!!" Guess my accent was quite horrible or something. Not that his English was so hot but c'est la vie! The more I thought about it the more angry I became. Some 'friend'!

New (french) subscriber here. Thanks for these videos 👍🏻

La classe des acteurs anglais est inégalable !! Bravo Mme Mirren👏🖐️

Loved this! Just subscribed 😄

Only started, but this particular video, really good!

I appreciate how you went through each phrase. I will continue watching your channel. Merci!

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😃

You're totally right for Cité !!!

This is a great channel. Very helpful, very clear. Just subscribed!

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

love it mate

I litteraly have no idea why your video came to my suggestions, as a french person who never watched any language video in my life. But it was really pleasant to hear you speaking french so well. In my opinion, Helen Mirren speaks amazingly well. Despite the minor mistakes here and there that you point with empathy and pedagogy, Helen Mirren expresses herself with fluidity. She manages to make every of her idea really clear. That would be an 18 for me.

I love this channel

She is brilliant, never mind the few mistakes, she sounds natural and the sentences are flowing, she ain’t pausing or thinking too much, that’s already a great achievement. Toujours aussi charmante ! But the points you highlight are correct. Je lui donnerais un 16 cause she’s such a star 😀

Thank you so much. I think I will watch this several times more to get it into my head. Je suis en accord avec ton score pour Helen. Merci merci bien.

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! Are you in France "When in France....."? :) *Je suis d'accord

after Helen referred to her city of origin as cité she then said that her city didn't have a lot of cinemas "qui avait pas beaucoup de cinémas", so I am inclined to believe that she is using cité correctly as in the 2nd definition and she lived in an impoverished city as a child. I love Helen's french and I can understand her completely.

@hcm5467

2 жыл бұрын

it's definitely a mistake, she meant to say "ville" and not city

@elviracorella7473

2 жыл бұрын

I agree

@susie2251

2 жыл бұрын

No, she grew up in a small, out of the way seaside village so that’s what she meant by no cinemas. I don’t think that would qualify as a cite.

I'm french and i give her 15/20 as well. She does some mistakes but i think that is because she did not speak french for a while . But she's very fluid which means she has a lot of confidence. Very good PS: sorry for my english 😅

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

Never apologise for your English. Besides, what you wrote is really great. The only thing I'd change in order to be native-like is "does some mistakes" -> "makes some mistakes". Mais c'est tout !

@kkandsims4612

2 жыл бұрын

I mean idk Isabel Hubert is French and they sound pretty dam similar to me but hey I am legit an American from utah do my accent game is like below parrr unless it’s very very sharp I’ll generalize the area your from but I am not as stupid as people In Idaho to think Scottish and Irish sound the same

@ochrechap

2 жыл бұрын

I am South African, and speak English as a first language / mother tongue. You HAVE expressed that well! That was good! However, I would have written this sentence as follows: She does MAKE some mistakes, but that is probably because she HAS NOT SPOKEN French in a while. Or She MAKES some mistakes..... 😄

Hi, you are excellent, please go on like this ! (greetings from Belgium)

C'est la 1ère fois que je l'entends parler français. Bravo à elle. I'm impress.

She speaks better French than most French young generations

@lordlucan7655

Жыл бұрын

Wesh …

@maryconnor6173

10 ай бұрын

😂

Yes you are soo right , good for you for giving the gift of confidence 👍 Make mistakes it ok go for it

Votre analyse du français est très juste et précise. Vous me faite réaliser à quel point le français est une belle langue. Merci pour cette vidéo.

très beau travail intéressant et instructif, même pour les francais, bravo !

As a french native i can tell that she is pretty good and we don't really care about these small mistakes right and left. Some French native speakers do worth than her :) I was also impressed by Yul Brynner who spoke a pretty classy French.

I have watched the whole video as a French native speaker, even if I obviously I didn't need it. That's how your video is great ! Bravo :)

It's quite clear by the accent, pronunciation and gender that it's a British talking French, but it's understandable and very eloquent so that's great. Helen Mirren is a (still) beautiful and great lady.

Guys! Guys! Don't sweat the gender. We understand you very well don't worry. Just talk french! Merci !

@paulortiz2035

2 жыл бұрын

From my experience of living in Paris ( et Bordeaux), if you have won a Noble Prize, a Pulitzer, and had won a World Series in the 9th inning of the 7th game---- with a Grand Slam home run! AND had found a cure for Covid--- if you do not speak grammatically correct French with a proper accent for the region you are in, you are most certainly in uneducated idiot! And not to be suffered, esp not a second time! But that is only my impression. My friend in Parid told me to never speak to him in French, it was just too horrible for his tender ears! Not that his English was so easy on mine, but I would have never said such a thing, to anyone, even him!!! (But I might reconsider making an exception for Marc!)

17/20! Je suis français et je trouve qu'elle a un très bon accent. Elle utilise des expressions de la vie courante, très naturelles. Elle fait quelques erreurs mais qui n'empêchent absolument pas de la comprendre. I'm french and I think she has a good accent. She uses very natural everyday life expressions. She makes a few mistakes that don't disturb the understanding.

Thank you so much for this refreshing video. I must salute your mastery of the French R , U and Eu that came first on my wow list . As a native French speaker, I would definitely grant Helen a big fat 18/20. Well, yeah! I know! Us natives (of any language) always tend to be more easily bewildered by non-native speakers' performance. And by the way, please, forgive my mistakes, ah ah ! With much love. N.

Her conversation is very good despite some errors here and there.

Thank you very much. The video is so useful.

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

After all the work, it helps me a lot to read comments like this Frank.

As a french native speaker, i think she has quite a good french and she has a better mastery of this language than many french . What is funny is that she has learned a Paris-like accent. It strikes me as a french living near the german frontier ^^ And it might be me but i've never heard anybody using the "holala" except in a exasperated groan. Even boomer barely use this expression. But seing that people give her grades, i'd give her a good 17.5/20 wich is good. Personnally, depending on to whom you speak, many french would be beetween 7 or 13 (mostly on a low socio economic level) or 15-18 ( high middle or high class citizen). 20 would be for language teacher on academic level.

Mistake or no mistake..... with charm you can make yourself understood ! That's the way to learn a language. With the time progres will come by listening. Who needs perfection when it comes from the Heart? ♥️

I am a French speaker. I am a French teacher. Why am I watching your videos until the end? 😂 keep up the very good work!! 🥰

If I could get my ease, my comfortability of speaking like hers, I'd be very pleased. I've watched videos with Jodie Foster, Bradley Cooper, and now Helen Mirren....they are great. So I'm watching your videos in anticipation of traveling to Paris....after a long time.

Hi! I'm Catalan, and I don't speak French yet but I will eventually, for now I speak: Catalan (my mother tongue), Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese. So, even if I don't speak the language, I can manage to understand it a bit. By the way, what you said about getting the gender of the words wrong, it doesn't just happen to English and other speakers that doesn't use it, but it also happens to other Romance languages's speakers, because the gender changes between languages. For instance, "milk" in Catalan is called "llet", in Spanish "leche" in Italian "late" and in Portuguese "leite". Both in Catalan and Spanish, "milk" is a feminine word and both in Italian and Portuguese is a masculine word. That's why it gets so confusing even for us. Nice video! Best regards from Barcelona!

@Ahmed-ob6ec

2 жыл бұрын

And milk in French is "lait" which is masculine, all the best with learning French!

@judna1

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ahmed-ob6ec Thanks😊👍🏽

Class😍😍😍

I love your videos because it makes me reflect on my own language (French). It’s true I never use « Ce sont » which sounds very formal to my ears. And about « que », it made me remember how difficult it was to avoid putting « that » everywhere when I learned English.

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for confirming!

I love this actress❤️ She's so full of talent... and she also speaks French! 😮 One of the films in which I've seen her is The Tempest. In this film, she performed the female version of Prosper and Ben Whishaw performed Ariel. I'm also a great fan of Ben Whishaw. It'd be wonderful to see him in an interview speaking French❤️ When by chance I hear him saying some French words in one of his films, I'm always fascinated by his very good pronunciation 🙂👍 On peut toujours rêver 😊😉

I love Helen !! elle parle un français presque parfait. J'aime qu'il lui reste ce petit accent britanique qui fait toute la dlffèrence, et donne du charme à son discours.

Very nice lesson.

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Catherine.

Helen est charmante dans cet entretien. Obviously she is thinking in English and just translating the English words with French words.

Elle est excellente en français, bravo Helen!

Merci! I’m going to have to review this video again

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

Go for it!

Génial ! I'm going to share this with my English speaking friends who are learning French. Don't forget the accent on your written word "défavorisée", I know those bloody É are a pain, but they can change everything... PS: I apologize for my own mistakes in this comment!😉

Celà mérite un bon 17 ! Puisque votre chaîne est dédiée aux Anglophones désirant apprendre où se perfectionner en Français, autant leur donner un peu de lecture 😄😄. Sa voix est très douce et "euphonique", c'est à dire agréable à l'oreille, la douceur des mots et du phrasé est un élément essentiel en Français. De plus elle n'exagère pas sur les liaisons entre les mots, c'est souvent le cas chez les Anglais. Il est évident qu'elle a dépassé depuis longtemps le stade où l'on recherche les mots dans sa tête avant de les prononcer. Durant l'apprentissage d'une langue il y a toujours un moment où l'on se dit "Tiens les mots sont venus sans que j'y pense avant !" c'est une très belle récompense pour tout le travail fourni durant l'étude. Bon courage à tous 👍

I love her

Trop drôle. You got it. Yes, to speak French is "un art du négligé" in which you can say the most trivial non-sensical non logically combined sequences of words but with the good spirit of cordiality and "salon".

I like her French. She's able to make herself very understandable to a French audience. But I'm pretty sure that she meant city, une ville, and not une cité, cause it sounds really weird to even have a cinema in a cité. I would like to see more French actors being able to hold a conversation in English. The gender is not much of an issue, it's just funny to French, but cute as well. Jodie Foster sounds really amazing in comparison. But like you said: speak with no shame, just be confident. Making yourself understandable is the most important. The accent is not that of an issue, cause there's a lot of different French accents as well. So you might sounds more French some people from certain places. Your French sounds really nice, I can tell you had a lot of practice. But I will not give a grade to Madame Mirren. it's the first time I hear her speaking in my native tongue and I appreciate, because I know it is such a complicated language. Well…written anyways. You got my props. Karim

She he’s so charming Elle est parfaite son style est tellement élégant 🥰

delicious accent, we understand her. that's the point

I'm French, my English is better than her French is, but I Love her confidence, her fluency in the conversation and it would be easy to have a conversation with her. She speaks very good French.

The Dame has spoken! (and very bien! :-)

The Parlé français with an English accent 😍 guys I really love English people when they speak French 😁👌👍

I am presently learning Italian and they also have masculin and féminin in that language. My mother tongue French and learned English in school but living in a bilingual area, it was easy to learn. I so wish to learn Italian fast. Loved this;

Bonjour. Je donne la note de 17. Oui, ce n'est pas parfait mais elle parle sans efforts, les mots et expressions lui viennent aisément et sont justes. Les quelques erreurs lui coûtent 3 points. J'aimerais parler Anglais comme elle parle Français. Cordialement.

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

Ça commence par des petites actions régulières Stéphane, par exemple laisser les commentaires KZread dans ta langue cible... ;). Chaque fois est une occasion. Ok, c'est pas à l'oral mais tout contribue et aide à être plus à l'aise quand l'on se retrouve face à une conversation.

Im still learning and live in France with my French partner (they are not that patient with teaching me!) but I really liked how Helen talked, I could just about understand her, I liked your interpretations..and the breakdown of certain elements. Ive noticed the QUE bit in the language but don;t always remember! Very good, have you rated Davina McCall? She speaks French...is half French I believe...Thanks a lot!

Helen Mirren is a great woman She speaks also a very good Italian

Thanks!

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your donation Mike!

I was amazed at her performance in 2010. She played a Russian woman and her pronunciation was perfect. Amazing!

When Helen Mirren said, "la film", I thought she said "la firme" which made sense since she'd just talked about L'oréal. As for ce sont, no one here would complain about it. You would hear c'est more but we wouldn't even think of thinking it's weird. Kudos for the great job. And so happy to know Helen Mirren speaks French! 17/20!!!

J'aime beaucoup Helen Mirren 🎩😎 Une grande actrice ! Elle parle en effet très bien le français

Of course She does!

It’s great to know American actress who speaks good french contrary to french actors and french in general who don’t want to speak french! Like Jody foster.. those people are excellent. I adore those actresses. Little mistakes are normal cos french is complicated so it doesn’t tick us much , in general the more you speak a language the less people get annoyed they love when you can speak. Funny a non french teaching french lol

I think, when a person is making an effort in speaking a language, which is not their native language (mother tongue), as long that we understand each other, it is just perfect for me. My mother tongue is créole (I'm an islander from a past french and British colony), and I do speak both French and English. But have to admit, French is pretty much difficult, with all the grammar and the gender defining. But, hey, as long as we understand each other, for me, it doesn't matter😉

Ses française c'est très bien! Je pense qu'elle est une des meilleurs célébrités vous avez revu, elle est confiant et est naturel à parler. Merci Alex pour cette revoir!

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

Merci à toi Dan et je suis fier de toi pour continuer à écrire tes commentaires en français. Ça c'est une habitude très importante. J'ai compris tout ce que tu as dit, donc ça c'est le premier objectif ! Permets-moi de corriger les fautes ? Juste pour t'aider. *Son français, c'est très bien. "Je pense qu'elle est une des meilleurs célébrités vous avez revu" = Cette partie est quasiment (virtually) parfaite ! *Elle est confiante et naturelle. *Cette revue

@Dan-pv3ln

2 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight Merci à toi pour l'aide, tout est très utile!

@heleneg.2703

2 жыл бұрын

@@FrenchinPlainSight Sorry, but I can't help myself, I have to put "mon grain de sel". The second sentence should be: je pense qu'elle est une des meilleurEs (as she is a she) célébrités que vous ayez étudiées (or maybe "analysées"). "Revu" is a translation from review, we don't use it for a person). :-)

@auriabelmeliani965

2 жыл бұрын

@@heleneg.2703 Merci Helene pour la correction. J'allais le faire remarquer a Chris (la difference des genres)

Wonderful choice for the lesson. I came here expecting Ms. Mirren would excel at speaking french (mostly because the English have so much more opportunity to use it regularly and her profession would lend itself to many opportunities). I think you were slightly ungenerous in your score which I would put at around 17 and because I've always loved her anyway, I'd probably bump it up to an 18 (and I realize how unprofessional that is...lol). Thanks as always for a wonderful and informative video.

@Phagocytosis

2 жыл бұрын

I also thought she deserved a bit more than 15/20, and I thought for example her French R wasn't that bad, really, it was certainly not the H-like sound that Alex was making when repeating her pronunciation. But my French is probably below Helen Mirren's (or at least my level of comfort with the language certainly is), so I admit that it's very possible I'm just missing on more subtle things that were lacking.

🇫🇷. J’ai vu souvent Helen Mirren dans des Séries et particulièrement de très grands films où elle révéla toujours aussi une remarquable comédienne. 💖💖💖💖💖

UNE TRÈS BELLE FEMME. ,UNE IMMENSE ARTISTE AVEC ÉNORMÉMENT DE CLASSE !👌👌 I LOVE HER ! ❤️❤️

Actually, budget IS originally a french word, it designated a purse (gaulish origin, i believe). It went to England, was used to name the Exchequer bag that contained the Treasury and accounting documents, then to name the processus of balancing the Treasury. And then it came back to France.

I would give her a 14 / 20, just minor mistakes none of which interfere with communication, but there were enough of them that I marked down for that. I'm grading like a French prof, so that's a good grade. She obviously had no problem understanding the questions, so her comprehension is excellent, which is very important.

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

Fair, fair. Also, she's probably most familiar with the vocabulary from the context of film and TV which made her seem even better. I like that you explain your working. Workings? Been a while since I saw that on an exam paper.

@shauncummings2361

2 жыл бұрын

I would perhaps lean towards a 12 . I feel she had prepared for a long time regarding this interview, and still tripped many times . I would have done better, j’ai croire

@Dlo_Chess1_1

2 жыл бұрын

@@shauncummings2361 😂😂😂

@iparipaitegianiparipaitegi4643

2 жыл бұрын

14/20 in french exams gives the the mention ‘well’. With 16/20 you get ‘very well’.

@kathyg8510

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Alex. I really like these bits where you discuss the french skills of various celebrities.

Bravo à la présentatrice. Ici en France nous l’aimons beaucoup nous aimons ses itw❤️ Helen Mirren est superbe 💕

I didn’t know that she speaks French, but to me she speaks really well - Bravo Helen! I’d definitely give her 17 or even 18 - I know French “notes” are all much lower but isn’t this a channel for Brits? Thus UK marking standards. I think (that!!) the only reason “une” film jolted our sensibilities is because it’s her métier so actually she should really know it’s masculine… She’s a great example to learners of French!

Merci beaucoup !

@FrenchinPlainSight

2 жыл бұрын

De rien !

pretty good vid . i'm french btw . just one thing to correct . a "cité" is not necessarily a poor neighborhood . it's how projects are named . an assembly of buildings with parks and stores all in one . and all those cités have a different names . like "cité du bois fleuri " " cité des muguettes" etc . some are in poor neighborhoods and some are in better ones

For "cité" she might have meant "un village", a "town" or "little town", since she is saying movies came there 4 or 5 years after their release.