Mate, French is hard as nails but I don't regret learning it. I love it, I'd love to go one day to both Québec and France. Cheers. Hugs for all Frech-speakers out there.

@lavelycrow9805

5 жыл бұрын

When you come to Quebec, go out Montreal :) It's kind of an international city and there's so much more to see outside of it, like Quebec City and all the countryside regions full of awesome landscape and lovely villages.

@kingkylie9655

4 жыл бұрын

Why not visit the one of many African countries that France invaded and colonized :))) u can speak french there too

@ziggy1603

4 жыл бұрын

Verbale Mondo have u heard of chinese?c est un casse couille很难！

@nivuc3199

4 жыл бұрын

Thx for the motivation

@lest6590

4 жыл бұрын

@@lavelycrow9805 Montreal is a beautiful city isn't it? It's full of color and old fashion design!

Je suis philippine et j'adore la langue française. Et je l'étudie depuis 1 an et 10 mois. Ça me plaît beaucoup! Selon moi, c'est la plus belle langue du monde ❤

@kemitvaudou8264

4 жыл бұрын

Bonjour! Vous parlez très bien le Français,et bonne continuation.

@sugiii9616

4 жыл бұрын

Bonjour ! Si tu as besoin d'aide pour des devoirs (homeworks) ou autre je suis disposé à t'aider (I can help you). Discord : Sugiii#3188 Twitter: @The_Sugi_

@ohsayitditto378

4 жыл бұрын

J’ai l’étudie depuis 4 années!

@czas4

4 жыл бұрын

@@ohsayitditto378 I have studied for only 2 months. I'm confused tho, why l'étudie and not étudié in your sentence? EDIT: I now understand what the l', la, le, les mean in front verbs i.e. Him/her, her, him, they

@marymckinney4472

4 жыл бұрын

lonnelharrislive2

I love the French language - so poetic. Learnt French for 6 years at school in Australia. It really helped me understand grammar rules. Thank you ladies for this great vlog.

@hafizhazara12124

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah of course it's so nice launguege. I'm form Afghanistan 🇦🇫 but I'm Speak 5 launguege my mom laungueg is Persien English German French pesto. I'm learning Spanish and Italian and Arabic like

Je parle français ! I love learning French so much. Even I have no relation to it (I'm from Indonesia). It's complex. It's beautiful. It's beautifully complex. 💜 I won't stop learning French even though it's difficult. It's so challenging ! 😁

@Kanal7Indonesia

5 жыл бұрын

Btw I love Genie and Florence so much. 😁

@ismaeldependance3994

5 жыл бұрын

@@Kanal7Indonesia continue et bon courage pour la suite ^^

@Kanal7Indonesia

5 жыл бұрын

@@ismaeldependance3994 merci beaucoup pour ton souhait.😊💖

what linguist has ever denied that French isn't a HUGE part of English!? lol. Anyone that knows anything about English knows that a third or half of the vocab is French. What makes it still a Germanic language is when you strip it down to its bare parts, that's when you notice that it's really just a Germanic language with a ton of borrowed morphology and phonology

@JulietteTsvigun

5 жыл бұрын

also English is a Germanic language because it is a synthetic language, however French is analytical. In English you don't change the endings of a word (except for verbs), but in French you must do so. Especially, if you have nouns and adjectives - they all change. In English, it simply doesn't happen. However, in German it happens. So now I am totally confused. Thankfully, I love them all and accept them the way they are :D

@aadisinghtherajputboy1871

5 жыл бұрын

Bonjour Émilie ça va ?

@oliveranderson7264

4 жыл бұрын

Emilie Coats What has English borrowed from French phonology ?

@dresdi

4 жыл бұрын

@@oliveranderson7264 almost nothing - French phonology and English phonology are very different

4 жыл бұрын

French used to be very Germanic, in fact it is this old, Frankish French that influenced English. Songs like ''Chevalier, Mult Estes Guariz'' shows that French used to have sounds like ''Ace'' in the English ''Pace'', ''ist'' in the English word '' fist'' and the German ''eis''.

Man I wish I would’ve continued with my French teacher Madame Warren. She was so elegant and efficient with what and how she taught.

French is my fourth language and I love French as if it’s my first one

@michaelg3463

4 жыл бұрын

More languages you speak less the level unless used on frequent basis I speak 4 can admit to this.

@Shanvi_Reddy

3 жыл бұрын

How did you learn?

@adityarathi8803

3 жыл бұрын

Oh really! It's my fifth language and I'm in love with the process of learning it.

@seybertooth9282

3 жыл бұрын

Le mien aussi. C'est merveilleux.

@deoranjed8118

3 жыл бұрын

I bet you can count to ten in all your other languages, well done kid:)

Je suis soudanais, mais je suis immigrants en France, quand j'étais en France rien pour parler le langue française, mais maintenant mieux parler français et j'adore le langue française cette grâce pour tous professeurs français dans france,mais Motivation très importante pour quelqu'un personne apprendre le langue française ou noter le langue, le langue française très différente comme le langue anglaise.merci beaucoup pour tous et France 24 TV aussi.

@benjobenjo407

4 жыл бұрын

Bienvenue et bon courage à toi 👍

I love French language. l am learning it. From India

@leesteal4458

4 жыл бұрын

Learn Sanskrit also.

@georgeilynch2303

4 жыл бұрын

@@leesteal4458 lol

@prithivikrishna15

3 жыл бұрын

It is unwanted to learn Sanskrit

@free_soul9154

3 жыл бұрын

@@leesteal4458 sanskrit is a legendary language...not any ordinary person can learn it

@leesteal4458

3 жыл бұрын

@@free_soul9154 How do you know that that person is ordinary, dear.

Passable French isn’t that difficult to learn - but if you’re non native, you’ll be an outcast for ~15 years.

@osquigene

4 жыл бұрын

15 years? How? You will have an accent for your whole life (unless you really work hard to get rid of it). But you won't be an outcast because you have an accent … People making jokes about accent/grammar errors are just ignorants who never learned a foreign language, just ignore them and look for decent human beings. Everyone makes mistakes, everyone is ignorant of some rules. For example, french is my 1st language and I had no idea what the "tréma" really was, I knew how to read words containing them just because I had heard these words. Vocabulary is the most important thing, if you know how to express ideas/feelings, you'll not be an outcast, this doesn't require 15 years if you really use french every day.

@chriscaskey6627

4 жыл бұрын

​@@osquigene 15 years is a hyperbole to make a point - but I was referring to things like sarcasm, cultural context, shared experiences, absence of shared history, patriotism etc etc. Same for any country move / new language but my experience is French culture is particularly opposed to foreigners joining the club thus diluting "french", especially so in our ever-globalising world

@osquigene

4 жыл бұрын

​@@chriscaskey6627 I agree that cultural differences can be an obstacle to mixing with natives. I think it's more or less the only real risk for not being accepted. But that's unrelated to France and mainly a direct relation to how big the cultural difference is. For example, it would be very hard for an american to blend in with french because we think social relations in diametrically opposed ways. For example it's considered a quality to be extremely friendly with everyone in the US, while in france it would be considered fake and therefore very rude. To be more concrete on this example, "very nice to meet you" is something a french person only say because they know americans usually say that when they first meet someone. (almost) No french person would ever say "ravi de faire votre connaissance" to another french, practical case where you can hear that is when a friend introduces his best friend to you (he told you countless stories about the guy so you really are very happy to finally meet him). Same could go with parents or very close relatives. But you wouldn't say that in any other cases, that would look super odd (unless you are american, in which case people will say "oh, he doesn't really mean it, it's just his way to say hello"). On the other hand I feel it's quite easy for spanish/italian/and many other european people to blend in with french people because we only differ on frivolous things. Basically : we use the same codes and rules even if we don't interact the exact same way with them.

@user-en7dl2et4s

4 жыл бұрын

@@osquigene fyi, when I first meet an unknown french native person or an unknown french speaker from the whole earth, I will say "ravi de faire votre connaissance" or "enchanté", so the equivalent to "nice/pleased to meet you". It works the same way that english speaker introduce themselves to each other.

@osquigene

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-en7dl2et4s YOU can say what you want, but when you say that to a French (note that I don't say french speaker) you will sound odd, even if you accent is perfect. In France, people very rarely say "enchanté" except maybe old people. And I think I never heard someone say "ravi de faire votre connaissance" (even though you are right, it would be the right phrase to say).

When I first started learning French, I found it quite difficult. Then my teacher advised me to learn Italian first and try again later. I tried and it solved every thing but pronunciation. For example, when it comes to vocabulary similarity and grammatical construction, Italian and French share a lot in common. The key difference remains their phonology.

@ExotiqBeautii

5 жыл бұрын

Spanish as well!

@Kanal7Indonesia

5 жыл бұрын

Me too ! Finally verb changes make sense to me because i learn a bit of italian : Mangio - mangi - mangia

@karlblume9419

5 жыл бұрын

My experience was Helen Keller-ish. With total immersion, we parroted phrases associated with uncaptioned photos. We saw no written work for the first year. My 'wawa' moment came with the phrase ' Monsieur Thibeau est ingenieur.' (please excuse the missing accent aigu). With him seated at his drafting table, it just clicked. After that, it was a joy and a breeze.

@simochau132

Жыл бұрын

Cher 😂 Cheap

Wow, Jeannie was so honest about not understanding French when she was learning and spoken to. It comes so fast to the ears, as distinction gets lost when the words flow together continuously, melting over each other in a mishmash. I usually try to identify some words then the context: the top of the sentence and the bottom, forget the middle!

French reporter interviewing a french writer... In english 😂 That was funny to see ahah

@bobbbxxx

4 жыл бұрын

Fun Rush Well, it is an English speaking video we are watching,

@msshay421

3 жыл бұрын

Well if it was don’t in French some of us wouldn’t have been informed!

@atengku9660

3 жыл бұрын

The author speaks perfect English!

2:22 "French is so hard to learn..." Well, so does any other language I guess? Especially when it's so different from your mother tongue. For instance, my 1st language is Portuguese so at least we share the same alphabet (both even have cedillas!) which is HUGELY convenient. Now when I moved to Japan in 1996 and started to learn their language and didn't know any single character, mec c'était tres difficile!

@liberteespoir5679

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@gogowshagenai6139

4 жыл бұрын

it's because like french your language have latin's origin

@sugiii9616

4 жыл бұрын

Mec, c'était très difficile !* :P

@lopezloubis6406

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@heronimousbrapson863

3 жыл бұрын

If you think French is difficult to learn, try German. It has 3 genders (not 2) and four grammatical cases.

In Paris given how multicultural it is there are many accents and some are hard for me to understand. In one day I heard french with an Arabic accent, then french with a Russian accent and the french with a Chinese accent among many , many others. It is a beautiful language indeed, but can be a challenge for an American that only speaks english. I grew up speaking Spanish so its a bit easier for me to pronounce, but I still struggle.

I live in Montreal, a place always fighting language wars. The problem is, native speakers don’t understand just how hard it is to learn a language that unlike say Spanish, the writing and pronunciation a totally different. Since french words have so much spelling that is altered when speaking, or outright omitted, then regular day to day interactions help much less than in other languages. Then they accuse people of not wanting to learn french but it’s not that, it’s just really hard to learn as an adult when you have a career and family and simply deal in English all day for work. Lost my native speakers in the language wars is how hard it is to learn as an adult...😳😳

@TheReverses78

Жыл бұрын

Cuz you are mentally lazy.....

Grève - strike 😂😂😂 Strike is so important in France !!

@kiranp5611

4 жыл бұрын

@Finn MickCool Okay but I have mostly heard with strikes so associated with it !

@mathewvanostin7118

4 жыл бұрын

Well its better having a nation that stands and fight for their freedom and rights Instead of being a nation who let politicians & big industries tacking advantage of them. And continue on as if nothing happen

I can't tell whether the woman in blue is actually native French or English. I suppose she's French because of her French sounding name, but she's really mastered her English accent!

@fredericchopin8583

4 жыл бұрын

She's french and yes her english is absolutely astonishing. I wish I could speak as she does.

@TheIsraelMendoza

4 жыл бұрын

Millions of children of Latino people in the US will speak perfect English and Spanish... I've seen that firsthand. I guess that's not uncommon in Europe either... I don't see how that's astonishing.

@fredericchopin8583

4 жыл бұрын

Do they look like children of British/American people? No I don't think so. It's very difficult to master a language as they do if you haven't been educated in a bilingual family or at least attended a bilingual school. However it seems that both have two nationalities which would explain that...

@huskydogable

4 жыл бұрын

She's Franco-American according to France24.

I come from the projects of Eastern Ontario, Canada. There is a lot of French in this part of the province and I have taken French Immersion back in school from JK to Gr12. My dad is actually French by nature but is perfectly bilingual and my mom only speaks English. Together, they decided to raise me and my siblings in English. My mom wanted us to have more French than she does and my dad would sometimes say little words and phrases in French. Me personally, I can understand it and speak some of it but I am not fluent. Lately, I have been trying to retain the French I have lost after finishing school.

@robertgraham7274

3 жыл бұрын

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Omg so glad I found this video! It’s the best primer for beginner French learners, the history helps me so much!! Please keep making more like this, I love this series 😍

J`adore la langue Francaise, elle est Magnifique !! Merci beaucoup pour cette bonne report.

I find its easier to speak in English with fewer words to get your point across: french requires more words

@ashagerhard8906

6 жыл бұрын

Emma not always ... you use many prepositions while we don't for example ...

@pascalemercier5921

4 жыл бұрын

Emma you are right when writing as well because French is not flexible why it has been the diplomatic language for so long because it is very precise and you have to follow rules. The French Academy has also limited the number of words coming from local languages also choosing the best among a few, the one which was the more relevant. Merci

@jean-claudefrigon3404

4 жыл бұрын

Parce que la langue française est plus précise et pointilleuse alors que l'anglais est pratique et conviviale mais porte à une certaine confusion. Alors qu'un français ''branche une fiche dans la prise (électrique)'' un anglais ''plug a plus in a plug''.

She masters both equally english and french, nice job!

@michaelfatigati8947

2 жыл бұрын

She's French and American.

I am a native english speaker in french immersion since kindergarten and we had dictations (dictée) and we did not enjoy them.

@sadrarahmani6246

5 жыл бұрын

Duncan WIlson hey, here in Iran we also have it in our primary schools, and it exactly pronounced as dictée, and yes, it’s not enjoyable

@sugiii9616

4 жыл бұрын

@@sadrarahmani6246 i love it so much (French speaker)

@wguid

3 жыл бұрын

Dictée was my favourite thing in primary school. Maybe I have a masochistic streak in me idk

@StudioNetcom

3 жыл бұрын

I hated them so much. L'enseignant(e) parle toujours, soit trop vite ou soit trop lentement.

Thank you for this video. In Spanish we apply “vos, tu o usted” in the same way that “tu or vous” in French

@brrrbrumbrrr

4 жыл бұрын

She forgot to mention that vous is also "all of you".

@brrrbrumbrrr

4 жыл бұрын

In Romanian it's: tu, voi, dumneavoastra. The latter is the formal version of you.

Je suis anglais et je trouve que le français est assez facile d'apprendre. Ça c'est un peu étrange parce que l'espagnol devrait plus facile pour un anglais que le français et je comprends pourquoi. Cependant, à mon avis, l'espagnol est plus difficle car je ne le parle pas souvent (je ne l'apprends que je suis au college) mais j'ai la chance de parler le français tous les jours avec ma mère mauricienne (ils parlent le français là-bas). Je pense que le français est une langue vraiment belle et je suis très heureux que je pourrai parler plus d'une langue

@VerbaleMondo

5 жыл бұрын

🇫🇷❤️🇨🇦❤️🇧🇪❤️🇨🇭 *J'adore la Francophonie* ( I didn't include all the FR. Speaking countries)

@clawdz.7879

5 жыл бұрын

Vous ne pensez pas que le français est un peu plus facile pour vous d’apprendre parce que vous avez une mère qui parle français ? Je suis anglaise aussi et je pense que la langue est tellement difficile 🙃.

@Furiousmiget

5 жыл бұрын

c'est bien! Tu parles super bien déjà, continue de faire des efforts et d'apprendre! One love!

@1rayfox1

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. But can you say that in English?

@banador8982

5 жыл бұрын

Et bizarrement étant français, je trouve l'espagnol plus facile à apprendre que l'anglais !

I love this so much! Je l'aime! Merci!

@fredericgadoury6610

5 жыл бұрын

** j’aime ça. Je l’aime means I love him or her

Spanish is easy language to learn than French that's why people tend to learn Spanish instead of French

@seybertooth9282

3 жыл бұрын

It depends on what your native language is, obviously.

@ErableBleu

3 жыл бұрын

Onlyin the USA. Outside of Spain and Latin America, Spanish is a useless language.

11:40- Actually, there are rules to help us (French language learners) remember whether an object is masculine or feminine. It depends on how the word ends. Like Bicyclette ends in -ette and most things that end in -ette are feminine. Another example, most things that end in -tion are feminine (une fraction, la solution). Masculine/feminine still gets me, and it's been over 3 years of living in France for me hahaha

@remi147852du59

4 жыл бұрын

Useful tips!

very interesting!!!

Merci beaucoup, mes amies.

I've always hated how people seem to brag and complaining on how difficult French is... Language difficulty will always depend on the language you already know. I want to see these girls figuring out tones in Mandarin or motion verbs and the declension system in Russian.

@unusualsuspect1262

4 жыл бұрын

French language has more than 20 tenses it's really difficult to speak/write it well even for a french speaker

@TheIsraelMendoza

4 жыл бұрын

@@unusualsuspect1262 Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese have that amount of verb tenses... and they use subjunctive in a heavier way than French... I'm telling you, I speak Spanish, French, and Portuguese... I know what I'm talking about.

2:10 and i oop ???

@lennsson834

4 жыл бұрын

Laura M lmao

@valentinerollin542

4 жыл бұрын

"Allô" XD

The correct description ...it's not phonetic

awesome video!!

Quite interesting and odd to this person from the US. I always wish to respect the rules of appropriate behavior in my interactions with others but I have never been affluent enough to travel abroad. Therefore there are many behavioral rules that I am unlikely to ever “need to know about “. In my 70’s, and lacking any formal education since the age of 14 I have learned mostly from reading. Proper etiquette was not something that was a major focus in my desire for knowledge. History, geography, art, writing and scientific inquiry have long been important to me but I believe that I would be thought of as polite and courteous generally. I certainly hope so!

@barnbersonol

5 жыл бұрын

You've been keen reader since you were fourteen and STILL don't know that it's 70s, not 70's?

@jamesbinns8528

5 жыл бұрын

@@barnbersonol Knock it off.

@jbak87

4 жыл бұрын

"I believe that I would be thought of as polite and courteous generally. I certainly hope so!" You certainly do to me! Have a nice day!

Please note that the circonflexe doesn’t only mean disappearance of the s, but can be of other letters too as in âge (aage), dû (deu), or just for unknown historical reasons trône. In older texts it can also mean a repeated letter is omitted (for space), so there would be a circonflexe accent above the consonnant com̂e (comme)

@sion8

3 жыл бұрын

*+*

About to go to Lyon soon for a french language and culture course, looking forward to learning more about it.

It is a very beautiful language. I loved literally every second of the 3 French classes I took in college, so much so that professor pulled me aside one day to her office, and I thought I was in trouble and she talked to me for 30 minutes about how I should consider changing my major, (I was a music performance major) and gave me books on careers that I could pursue as a French major 😂😂😂 Regrettably, I still haven't had a chance to really visit and explore France, although I was in Nice for about 6 hours for a layover and I was like there is NO WAY IN HELL that I'm not leaving this this airport and exploring the town for a couple hours.

@leilaparis1338

3 жыл бұрын

Try not to forget it! I had a good level in German, but didn't speak at all after leaving highschool so I forgot everything :( I hope you are still listening some French videos and that you can talk with some French friends :)

French is NOT the native language of 300 million people as the video says. It's only the native language of about 75 million who come from Europe, Canada, and upper-class homes in West African cities. Only about 300 million people speak french worldwide but this includes second-language speakers who are far more prevalent than native speakers

for spanish speakers is easy to learn French , for an English is hard !!

@ExotiqBeautii

5 жыл бұрын

Not for Laoshu50500 haha

@tomaud

5 жыл бұрын

Europe is now bigger than that. There are Estonians and Bulgarians etc.

@sharahyoung5227

5 жыл бұрын

@@ExotiqBeautii YESSSS he is incredible

@anthonyrobertson7062

4 жыл бұрын

simisimi9 Well not according to the FSI, which put languages into groups of different levels of difficulty with hours it takes to learn a language in each group. Both French and Spanish are in group one, the group that takes the least amount of hours to learn for an English speaker. Something like Korean and Chinesse are in groups 4 and 5, which take the most hours to learn. It's something like group one takes 500 hours, while group 5 takes 1200 hours, can't remember exactly off the top of my head right now. I would say that learning French for both English and Spanish speakers is about the same, since French Spanish and English all have words and structures that are similar between them.

@bobbbxxx

4 жыл бұрын

simisimi9 Well, spoken French is less similar to Spanish than Portuguese, and I would not call it "easy" to learn. Certainly easier to read it, however. One difficulty when you are Spanish learning French is changing your native accent and adopting the new French one. Thus speaking it without a strong Spanish accent is quite difficult.

The dislikes are from Anglophone people who don't want to thank French for its loanwords 😀

@brianl6128

10 ай бұрын

En anglais « anglophones » va mieux. « Anglophone people » est trop encombrant. « English speakers » ou même juste « Americans and Brits » vont le mieux.

I know Spanish and English but i want to learn more French, pick up from what I learned in high school

I love it how people that haven't even thought about studying a non indoeuropean language (or whithout going that far, a slavic language) say that French is hard 😂, it's actually a really easy language.

@IRosamelia

4 жыл бұрын

I guess learnibg any language is hard. As a native Spanish and English speaker I must say it's pretty obvious germanic and romance languages are easier to learn. I would never try my luck with Japanese of Chinese for instance 😅

I am French and I have been Learning English since January 2018. I can't help laughing at strangers whom try to read up difficult French words. You made me realize how much French is difficult to learn. Thanks a lot. I am going to read this book .

I don't understand why people find so difficult to pronounce the French words. I'm not a native French-speaker but I can pronounce every word properly.

@gogowshagenai6139

4 жыл бұрын

probably bcs your language have latin's origins

@dorakanizsai2297

4 жыл бұрын

@@gogowshagenai6139 No, I am Hungarian.

@amolsheshbhare5069

4 жыл бұрын

Pronunciation practices make perfect

Great information.

@Daniel-nt5gh

5 жыл бұрын

Not so great, they give a lot of bad information. Spanish is the second most learned languaje in the world, not French.

@kevinbertet3220

5 жыл бұрын

@@Daniel-nt5gh You should google it, French really is the second most learned language in the WORLD, Spanish is the 2nd in the US though. :)

J'adore le français. 😍😍 Merci beaucoup masmadame 🙏🏻🇮🇳

I Love Flo and Genie!

High standard of video, très bien 👍🏻

Most spoken language in the world 1. Chinese Mandarin 2. Spanish 3. English.

@user-hx3lv5dk8u

5 жыл бұрын

How much french and spanish speaks around the world that much have the local languages are in every state in india. Burglaring is not the proud history .i request you to checkout the root of almost all language of the world comes from sanskrit world.mother and father of all languages ..in fact mostly spoken language is chinese ,hindi ,english ,spanish ,french ,arabic,and indonesien .

@amolsheshbhare5069

4 жыл бұрын

Totally disagree English is first then Spanish

@mathisrenier

4 жыл бұрын

@@amolsheshbhare5069 Well there are 1.2 billion native Mandarin chinese speakers so they are definitely first. In comparison there are "only" about 550 millions spanish speakers

@remi147852du59

4 жыл бұрын

They're talking about learning it not being a native speaker

@faithlesshound5621

3 жыл бұрын

Are we counting all subjects of the Chinese Empire as Mandarin speakers? Like everyone in the Congo speaks French, and the Amazon dwellers all speak Portuguese?

This is fascinating from a historical and phonetic standpoint...thank you. However the presentation comes across like an informercial on late night cable.

Those who think French is so hard to learn, wait until you learn Russian.

@jackjackthompson5771

3 жыл бұрын

Nobody cares about russian, keep it

I'm french and i watch this kind of video for learn english ahah :) if you learn french go comment a sentence in french and I say if it s correct ;)

@fukpoeslaw3613

3 жыл бұрын

Tu veux apprendre anglais et moi, je veux apprendre français. Je ne suis pas sure de le truc "moi, je" comme en "moi, je veux apprendre etc...." J'ai l'apprendre il y a beaucoup de années à l'école, mais, maintenant ? aujourd'hui ? je ne trouve pas ce combination ? des mots dans l'apps que j'utilise pour apprendre français (Duolingo et Memrise) peut-être c'est "old-fashioned" (archaïque ?) Do you understand my French?

This was very interesting. If I could just remember what was said about the accents.

@j-loosenfout67

4 жыл бұрын

In French "è" or "ê" = hey. But "é" is pronounced like you pronounce "e" in "educate" or in "terrific", the mouth is more closed. After it, you'll can learn to pronounce : "o", "ô" . Like this, you'll be able to make the difference between "votre" et "vôtre" in French language ... :)))

@fukpoeslaw3613

3 жыл бұрын

@@j-loosenfout67 no, it's the other way round! first e of educate is è, like the e in ten. é is a bit like ay in may, or ey in hey. Is there really a difference in the pronunciation of o and ô or a and â, or between any vowel with or without a circonflexe ? Never heard (of) it.

@j-loosenfout67

3 жыл бұрын

@@fukpoeslaw3613 Hello, The French "é" is really difficult to explain using a comparable word in English because ultimately there's none ... But I may have found a trick by using French terms used in English like "Déjà vu" or "rendez-vous". :) For the simple "o" and the "ô" with circumflex accent, yes there's a very noticeable pronunciation difference between "C'est votre voiture, ce n'est donc pas notre voiture" et "Cette voiture est la vôtre, pas la nôtre". The "o" in "votre voiture ou notre voiture" is pronounced a bit like a closed "a". Kind of a mixture of pronunciation between the "a" and the "e". To try to give an example we must think of the way in which the "ch'ti" (inhabitants of French north) pronounces the "a" as in "ché po moi" (Je ne sais pas moi - I don't know me). While the ô with a circumflex accent in "c'est la vôtre" or "c'est la nôtre" which the "ô" is pronounced like leters "e,a,u" in the French words "bateau", "château", "oiseau", etc. To make a comparison with English terms, one could for example oppose "know, no" with "now, none". You see what I mean? On the other hand, between "a", "â" and "à", the three in French are pronounced in the same way. :)

@fukpoeslaw3613

3 жыл бұрын

@@j-loosenfout67 I think you mean the difference between o and ô would be about the same as the difference between o and oo in the Dutch words nog and boot. you happen to speak or at least understand Dutch?

@j-loosenfout67

3 жыл бұрын

@@fukpoeslaw3613 No, I don't speak German. Only French (I'm French) and school English as a foreign language (college 8th grade). In English I can easily speak and express my ideas. But it is still difficult for me to really follow a conversation between 2 or 3 english people for example. :) But yes, I've make Google translation read with voice the two words and the difference is something close. You can try yourself in using Google translation voice with "notre" and "nôtre" to see the différence of pronunciation. ;) "Notre" is a possessive ADJECTIVE and can be easily replaced in the plural by "nos". "Nôtre" is a possessive PRONOUN. It is always preceded by a "le" or a "la". In the plural, it becomes "nôtres". In short, the easiest way is to put the sentence in the plural to know if it is notre or nôtre that must be used when it's time to write in French. ;)

Also interesting would be the non-verbals one should NOT use so as not to offend someone in a foreign country!

I live in France for quite some time and many many people started to use Tu even TV/radio presenters. Young kids use Tu to me and other adults, I could be their grandma! Except business like talking to clients then Vous must be used. And elderly people who are still very formal. I don't believe that there are more sophisticated or lesssophisticated languages especially in developed countries that are so complexed so many words had to be created along the line. Many French believe French is more difficult than English and Many Germans believe German is more difficult than English though hardly any non-English who speak English speak properly. They make so many mistakes even with everyday-life English. They are just too proud of their own languages, but they shouldn't be that arrogant to say their language is more sophisticated or more difficult than other languages.

@Becky_Cal

5 жыл бұрын

Saveurital - You’re absolutely right! I have friends who are French and their english is terrible with awful pronunciation, mistakes in grammar and present/past tense, etc. However, those of us who are Native American english speakers don’t say anything, we don’t correct people unless someone is searching for a word and can’t find it and we make the effort to understand what the non-native speaker is saying. However, the French are quick to correct me if I speak French and are incredibly judgmental of others who speak it and make mistakes. That’s what would be called “mal éduqué.”

@j-loosenfout67

4 жыл бұрын

@@Becky_Cal Vous faîtes erreur sur l'intention. Les français vous corrigent pour vous aider à progresser, plutôt que vous continuiez à mal parler. Nous avons aussi tendance à répéter le mot que l'on vient d'entendre mais en le prononçant en français pour être sûr que c'est bien le mot que la personne qui nous parle veut employer. Ce n'est donc pas un jugement de valeur ni un reproche. C'est vous qui l'interprétez comme tel. ;)

@fukpoeslaw3613

3 жыл бұрын

I don't agree with you, although English spelling is horrifically irregular and therefore difficult, the grammar is much less complex than French grammar, German (case) grammer though is the worst, and also completely redundant for instance if you say "two houses" in German, you'll make it plural three (3!) times: "Zwei Haüser" (Umlaut and an affix) in English you'll use plural just twice, and in French it depends whether you count the written form (twice like English) or only the spoken (just once, "deux"). In lots of languages it's like: one house, two house, three house etc. Turkish is an example. Anyways, the German case grammer isn't only particularly hard to learn, it's also unnecessary because of the strict word order and abundant prepositions. (I speak Dutch, which one could roughly describe as German without cases.)

@romain6275

3 жыл бұрын

@@fukpoeslaw3613 not true. Your conditional tenses are not easy and make absolutely no sense.

@fukpoeslaw3613

3 жыл бұрын

@@romain6275 my conditional tenses? you mean conditional tenses in English (I'm Dutch) I guess? you are French right? are you saying conditional tenses are more complicated in English than in French? if so, could you s'il te plaît give an example? can you gi

I like French so much because of its Intonation.

5:16 lmao he sounded like a seal

Great...I like French...from Indonesia...

it is interesting how europeans describe their language and refer to others as primitive and useless. quiet frankly all languages are creolized including french a creole version of other languages.

@RiverLewis

6 жыл бұрын

That's where the word "cruller" donut came from, it means "run over by a tractor".

@aeolia80

5 жыл бұрын

hahahhaha, yeah, it's such a colonial way of thinking, the superiority of many Europeans, lol. Though out here in Asia it's similar. Like the Japanese, big superiority complex, when they are a mish-mash themselves. Nowadays, in language as in culture as in genetics, no one if pure or superior of anything anymore, and haven't been for long time.

@CoolioXXX52

5 жыл бұрын

@@aeolia80 there are you just are an idiot

@leesteal4458

4 жыл бұрын

@@aeolia80 I heard there is alot of Sanskrit in Japanese.

@mathewvanostin7118

4 жыл бұрын

Its creepy to know but basicaly we are all speaking in a bad prounciation a mix of languages of some sucessfull caveman villages from 100 000 years ago 😂😂 Even latin is a creole language of something who was creole language of something who was also creole language of something etc 😂

Je me suis intéressé à apprendre le français dernièrement et j’ai déjà débuté depuis plusieurs mois peut-être quatre à peu près, principalement sur internet ou par la lecture. Cependant, je me sens intelligent ainsi que romantique en parlant cette langue 😛

I am french, and I can assert you that a lot of french people don't speak well this language, so I understand when you say it's hard to learn 😂

French is an interesting language, but it is by no means 2nd in importance worldwide. Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic are way way more influencial. Russian and German are probably ahead of French too. But French is really interesting as a language and culture so it's worth learning.

@benjobenjo407

4 жыл бұрын

German ahead ??? Please check your sources...

Where can I buy the book of Anthony Lacoudre ? It is not available on Amazon . Can you help me !

My teacher always used to say "En Francais sil vou plait"

@exos8855

4 жыл бұрын

En Français s'il vous plaît*

Je suis ravi que je sais un peu de français. Ça me donne l'opportunité de parler avec les gens natives du français dans plusieurs pays voisins. Comme je suis allemand et vis en Espagne, je suis certainement un double voisin. Bien, avec l'allemand, l'anglais, l'espagnol, le français et le neérlandais dans mon cas, on se débrouille bien internationalement.

Salut from Dubai. For the love of French.

Je suis français, atteindre un haut niveau dans la langue française est très difficile même pour des natifs.

@moonofblood7925

4 жыл бұрын

Tellement !

That does sound way complicated. Thanks.

Bonjour ça va ? Je veux que tu faire un vidéo pour les tens et plus grammaires

"and many countries in Africa" ... Kinshasa is the city with the largest number of French speakers in the world. I see you euro-centrism

@TheIsraelMendoza

4 жыл бұрын

They rather mention Canada, even though it is spoken in only one province , where a lot of people will also speak English...

@Leebpascal1

4 жыл бұрын

Nope, The DRC is the most populated francophone country, there is a nuance. But only half of its population speaks french, unlike 97 % of the french population. So no, the RDC is not (yet) the country with the most french speakers, even if it could become so in the future.

And that’s why as brothers we can’t stop fighting : England and France are tied together since 1066

@wguid

3 жыл бұрын

It's truer than you'd think. Many wars between France and England came from dynastic /succession struggles seeing as the British and French crowns were so close due to family ties

The word "enter" is also of the germanic origin (I mean the sign which had been taken as an example)

@sugiii9616

4 жыл бұрын

maybe but in french "Entrer" means "enter" and the word "interieur" means "indoor"... I think that's more from French

@sergiusspb

4 жыл бұрын

Well you're right, I was mistaken about this - "enter" is from French "entrer", the word for enter of germanic origin is "come in" )

@huskydogable

4 жыл бұрын

It comes from Latin, "intra".

i love french. i hope nigeria, ghana, liberia, sierra leone, guinea bissau, libya, egypt, sudan, kenya, tanzania, somalia, and uganda will speak french soon. and i hope quebec and guyana will get their independence 🤲🏻

J'aime beaucoup apprendre le français.

@leilaparis1338

3 жыл бұрын

Tu as raison! Le français peut sembler difficile, mais il ne faut pas se décourager :)

I’ve been taking french for 4 years

Je suis trop content parce que récemment j'ai commencé a prendre Français langue. Maintenant j'ai a prendé beaucoup les phrases et je peux parler un petit Français.

The reason that gender words are difficult to learn is because they don't follow rules of any kind. Many were established by what “sounded” best or what had become “popular” in everyday vocabulary. Ç'est tout!

For me german language is more difficult than french.

@TaylorDDavis97

4 жыл бұрын

rafik bouaouni as an English speaker, personally I found learning German pretty manageable. Most words are similar or comparable

@gogowshagenai6139

4 жыл бұрын

it depends where you came from

@alikobeissi4198

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly French is common to english and closer to it too but German language is hella hard 😂😂😂

French sounds less aggressive than Spanish. But both have a great 👍 formation of pronunciation

@Kanal7Indonesia

5 жыл бұрын

spanish = aggressive lol i have to agree

@fukpoeslaw3613

3 жыл бұрын

I like both languages! They both sound great. but French, I had to learn to like it.

@oinhthien7183

3 жыл бұрын

@@fukpoeslaw3613 what do you think of German?

@fukpoeslaw3613

3 жыл бұрын

@@oinhthien7183 at school I hated, I loathed the grammar. For me German is easy to understand and use, speaking with Germans is easier even than reading German, that must be because I'm Dutch. German is generally considered an ugly language, or at least not a beautiful one. I learned to appreciate the sound of German through songs. Although my English is a lot better, German can sound more familiar.

@oinhthien7183

3 жыл бұрын

@@fukpoeslaw3613 😂 you think English is more beautiful than German?

I speak both english and Spanish and it’s less difficult for me learning french. A mon avis je pense que la langue français c’est le langue plus beau de tout le monde. Hope I said that right😅 Bonne journée!

@wyndhl9465

5 жыл бұрын

La langue est BELLE, mais Le langage est beau Masculine vs feminine... La langue francaisE Voila la Concordia como en el espanol: beau. bel. belle [ beaux... Le. l' la. les

In Puerto Rican Spanish we pronounce our r’s like the French

Actually its very easy to learn the language grammar,spelling etc .. mastering that's a whole game and might take years

Formidável.😀

To be fair, for English speakers, french is one of the easiest languages to learn. And although it is still influential in some world institutions, it would be more useful for people to learn Spanish or Mandarin.

I can imagine the level of depression when the people who learn French see the combinaison of E, A and U is prononced O 😂

Nobody in France pays much attention to the difference between "é", "è", "ê", and "ai" nowadays - and no, Anthony Lacoudre, Norman wasn't just "French with a strange accent"! It was, and still is, a distinct variety of Langue d'oïl which has contributed to the evolution of the French language. For instance, "Pieuvre" and "hérisson" are both Norman loanwords into Standard French.

Française est très génial et cool mais très difficile ! Mdr 😂

@alikobeissi4198

4 жыл бұрын

Mdr le français n'est pas difficile comme ça 😂

Very interesting i new that english and french were connected through time. They are also tied together through latin

Wait wait wait... You don’t have dictée in others countries ? I did not know that ! In France it’s so usual like it’s normal, and I love that ( not everyone like it ). I thought everyone was having spelling test, wow. Very interesting 🤔😉😅

3:46 Quand vous expliquez l'usage du tréma sur les i comme dans coïncidence, au moins n'oubliez pas d'écrire un point sur l' i suivant ...

I wish to learn French in Dubai if there is any free classes?

Ok but do we really need two moderators for this? I found the beginning really awkward haha

The woman in blue reminds me of robin off of how I met your mother, plus robin should understand a little French being she is Canadian ? 😂

Pourquoi est ce qu'il n'y a pas de sous titres français..?

What is the name of the restaurant in which they are speaking?

@cecybook4489

6 жыл бұрын

La Balle au Bond, = Paris i think

@bodega75011

6 жыл бұрын

le cafe du commerce on the 15 district

Lol if France French is hard enough come to Québec

@alikobeissi4198

4 жыл бұрын

Lol honestly votre accent est trop difficile mdr je préfère l'accent français de français lol dude it's like who speaks in American accent in Britain

@alikobeissi4198

4 жыл бұрын

But of course si t'es de Québec

@EB-yp1wu

4 жыл бұрын

@@alikobeissi4198 I'm american but I live in Québec and learned the Québec accent instead of the French one so I understand their slang and speech patterns etc. but France I find speaks too softly or too fast and it just makes understanding for me harder.

@alikobeissi4198

4 жыл бұрын

@@EB-yp1wu oh cool actually I'm learning French and yeah you are right about that French people speak softly and the sound smooth too not like Quebec accent but for me I can understand French people than Quebec people because honestly Quebec people speak in a different way

@alikobeissi4198

4 жыл бұрын

And also I would like to be friends if you want that lol 😂 but if you don't want it's fine : )

Yes French is very hard to learn. So difficile that many French people have problems speaking it.

French is a really hard language to master.

@sugiii9616

4 жыл бұрын

but so satisfactory when u do