Alexa has by far the most entertaining, interesting and fun KZread French channel on KZread! I use her channel with all my middle and high school students and they love it!

@tocj

8 ай бұрын

Lol my teacher did the same I had to find her channel

@user-cn2mb7zs7d

2 ай бұрын

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My Dad was telling me about this and his point was that it explains why Quebec French sounds so different from Paris French 🇨🇦

Language is such an interesting thing!! In English we still use formidable as scary or terrible or if you’re going up against someone in a duel/battle, you often hear “formidable foe”. This describes how large or seemingly impossible, etc. The word accost in English is a harsher description of someone approaching/to be approached, we use it to mean: someone getting in someone’s face, or it can even mean: to attack someone. Thanks for the awesome video!! Love it!💖💖💖

This cracked me up so hard🤣🤣🤣i love crachat the most

This is fascinating. Please consider doing more videos like this! The word crachat exists in Portuguese and they must have gotten it from the French. Um crachá is also a badge, one that you would need as identification for certain places of employment. I've been studying Portuguese for sometime now and there are many words that come from French. Semer la zizanie is a new one for me. The other words, I knew but not their old meaning. I learned French in Quebec in there are many old terms that are no longer used in France. Language is intriguing!

I am so happy I have found you !!

Super intéressant, et l'histoire du crachat est tellement surprenante, je vais creuser un peu l'étymologie pour essayer d'en savoir plus sur ce changement de sens à 360°. Merci beaucoup, et chapeau à Monseigneur Alex, il est craquant !

In English, a bouffant hairdo is one in which the hair has been puffed up, such as with backcombing and a Lot of hairspray.

En portugais on utilise le mot crachá (crachat) à l'ancienne, c'est à dire, a badge.

Great video! It's also interesting how in English "terrific" was the same thing as "horrific," but now it means "amazing" LOL

Hello Alexa, I've been watching your videos for over a year now and it really helps me a lot. I am in my A1.2 level now but this new teacher don't explain things in the class and just read and speak in French without explaining anything in English. As a beginner I think the teacher should translate some in English and explain, she will give us a test from book without giving a one minute to think and read all.

This is very interesting. In English formidable also has un soupçon de scary when it is used in the phrase “a formidable foe”.

@Tzienzibarinzi

11 ай бұрын

Hi...in the old old days Spanish as well, I read a chronicle from XVII "un formidable tremblenent de terre"

@user-xe7oh6fu1s

9 ай бұрын

"Terrible" is another example of reversal in meaning, which developed an opposite meaning in French similar to that of "terrific" in English after WWII, which remains to this day in "pas terrible" ("not so great").

Words cannot express how thankful I am to you and your videos - I am married to a Frenchman and your videos has helped me a lot converse with my husbands family. They were impressed with me and I told them I learnt it from Alexa. Thank you so much!!!!

That was a great video! Thank you

Excited for this ... I had to sign up for a French classic literature course instead of a normal French course this coming year because of time difficulties and I am NOT ready, so this will be helpful. Thank you, Alexa!

Just amazing!

Love this one and your channel ❤

I have fun listening to you. I remember when I was 8 and heard the words mon petit Rouge, on TV, and said what was that. In college I did take French 1, and 2, and held on to some of the words, and I remember repeating it to one of my clients, and he said very good. Now, I have to focus, and practice more. ❤

C'était génial! Je pense que "bouffer" est encore utilisé pour signifier gonfler les joues (puff up the cheeks, en anglais). Just different cheeks. Caveat emptor: I have never used this expression. :)

I just watched one of your 8 year old video. And now I am seeing this. You have changed a lot. Like editing, and age. Je viens de regarder une de vos vidéos vieille de 8 ans. Et maintenant je vois ça. Vous avez beaucoup changé. Comme le montage et l'âge.

Very interesting video. I like finding out the root of words and expressions. Regarding "semer la zizanie", it comes from one of the parables of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Parable of the Weeds or Tares appears in Matthew 13:24-43. While the farmer was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds in his field of wheat. The original Greek word for "weed" is ζιζάνιον in the singular and ζιζάνια in the plural. The Latin word, zizanium / zizania was derived from the Greek. In Ecclesiastical Latin, it also developed in a metaphorically sense to mean vices such as gossip, jealousy and discord. In Modern Greek, it is used to describe a mischievous person or a naughty child.

I'm French but honeslty loving the lessons on word history. L'étymologie est un domaine passionant et la vidéo ludique et bien construite, merci !!

Bonjour madam, you've made me be so much better at French ❤

Merci beaucoup 🎉

C’est fabuleux!!!! Merci beaucoup!!!

Merci beaucoup et très splendide thème du jour

I Love You Alexa❤️❤️ i learned a lot of You❤ and You approach Very Friendly😊

Ce vidéo est formidable

Goooodd to see you again¡¡¡ : )

Merci madame pour cette information..Vous regardez absolument incroyable..😊

The natural language, in addition to being evolutionary, we do not control, this evolution is disruptive, it is not sequential, insignia in Catalan and Galician and even the badge in Portuguese means, identification, distinctive, this really comes from the old French crachat, today crachat in French and spit and escarrar, the word insignia and distinctive in French and English is badge. When we speak any language, whether planned or natural, we are obliged to use the current version of it and leave the anachronistic version behind. All national and international business languages ​​live this. Language reflects the collective being of a portion of humanity undergoing constant cultural change. Fun video, kisses Alexa, thanks.

Good combination of learning, entertainment and fun

"Quand le peuple forme un collectif en France, la nation et l’État sont nés ou le Léviathan" The changes of this word meaning carry a power dynamic with it. Some of what you shared shows that the meaning of French words changed due to the differences made between "Le gens, et le peuple" and "La Nation" both having ties to the French Revolution and its historic struggle but found new meaning in the motto "Liberté, égalité, fraternité".

Alexa thank you for your cultural videos 🤍 I do appreciate it

😮 In Brazilian Portuguese, a company ID card is called “crachá” 😅

J'adore la musctahe!

You're amazing mam. Keep up the good work❤

merci madame j' ai beaucoup cette leçon

En portugais les mots "bouffer" (bufar) et "crachat" (crachá) conservent toujours leur significations originales

Je l’adore !

Love it!❤

Interesting enough the two first keep the original meaning in Spanish...Et ce monsieur, ton nouveau personnage, je le aime!

Love your accent Alexa!!

Bonjour madame, je suis Nancy de l'Inde. Un très grand fan de toi juste à cause de toi mes compétences en français sont meilleures maintenant Un grand merci à toi. Aussi je veux acheter votre merch mais je semble être confus pour aller dans quelle section pour vos merches merci de me guider et encore un grand merci.

In English, enervate means to drain of energy. More like the original meaning.

Hello mam....You r amazing The way u teach

Alexei you're the funniest French teacher gnome video is that funnest

Drôle. Tres drôle!

Those old meanings actually make sense.(not really 😂) Love the costume and the acting as always tho. ❤

You are so funny! And interesting!

Accoste just looks like a côte.

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You are so funny 😂

'i come from the high military forces, here is my spit'

Some of those are silly. Like Formidable. It Obviously CAN mean scary. Anything that causes awe.

"ce mec m'a accostée" = should it not be "ce mec m'a accosté"?

@Gary-pe4ce

10 ай бұрын

COD or complément d'objet direct works differntly in the passé composé. Now you may know that past participles that takes être as its auxiliary verb requires the past participle to agree with the gender and/or plural of the subject. The remaining that take avoir however (as well as some that take être that are transitory can also take avoir) requires the past participle to agree with the COD's gender or plural, if there is one. This does not work with COI or Complément d'objet indirect.

Your English accent has become very much French😀

"Aupres de ma blonde", used to mean "in the company of my girlfriend", right? What does it mean currently?

Hilarious!!!!

we are saying her age is like being so long with her

My teacher i am teenager can you please hide your chest because of my feeling 🙏🙏

You make your lessons so entertaining Alexa. Your enactment of a spit is pure comic genius.