To answer one of your questions : yes the people living in all these overseas regions, collectivities or territories are French citizens, they have the same identity cards or passports as Metropolitan French people ( I'm Metropolitan French ) so they can travel or work anywhere in the European Union, just like I could ...
@@nicolasherman6487 Are you sure ? It is true that it is complicated with the shengen zone, but although they don't come from a "shengen space" they are French citizens so why would they need a passport ? I will have to have a closer look at this ( when I have time 😀😀
Indeed. Actually there are more french words in the English language than English words. Depending on how you count, French words amount to 50-60% of the overall dictionary, against 30-40% of words from old English. Clemenceau once famously said: “The English language? It’s just poorly pronounced french!”.
As usual..it’s the habitual French bashing..but the French were right not to get into that war & of course it turned out to be the best decision..of course, Americans did not congratulate the French afterwards 😂
New Caledonia is still a French collectivity, after ... three referendums on independence in about four years : the one mentioned by the author of the video ( in 2018 ) and two following ones, in 2020 and 2021
Indeed. These three referenda are the result of the 1998 Accords de Nouméa (Noumea agreements), which followed and completed the 1988 Accords de Matignon and aimed at bringing peace to the island. This 30-years process is now over after the three planned referenda returned a clear No to independence. Now starts another phase to adapt the governance, with both parties (pro and anti-independence) involved.
@@tixien Yes I remember the Nouméa agreements ( accords de Nouméa ) and there will be a new referendum, this time not on independence, but on the new status of New Caledonia
🟦⬜🟥 I'am a french native and I love to see some videos about my country. I'am proud to be french. We are lucky too! we have so much good things. Champaign, wines, meals....we have nice differents landscapes, mountains and seas...fields, and vineyards....old castles! old monuments....delicious food...nice fashion...so much things to visit! We have beatiful words too *Je t'aime* *Bon appétit* *Champagne!* I 'am definetly happy to live in this part of the world. Thank you for this nice moment I spend!
That amazing how strangers see some power in the Academy when in fact they have none or may be just the power to say this word could be add in french dictionary this one not
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Native French and naturalized Canadian here. Snails are not regularly consumed in France AND snails are not insects! 🤨 At 27:29, the issue is that the vast majority of USAnians (yes, I like to call them this way) doesn't know that fries actually comes from Belgium. Finally, regarding the TAAF (Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises), I highly suggest the documentary "La possibilité d'une île" from Florian Bailly. It's in French of course and subtitles are not available, but I believe that you can understand. And, after all, you live in Canada, which have both French and English as official languages 😉 ua-cam.com/video/Ccn8NmdWMHc/v-deo.html
It was only at the end of the First World War that this expression took off in the United States, when American soldiers who had tasted fries in northern France or Belgium returned to their country. Since the language spoken in these areas was French, they would simply have called them "French fries".
Actually french fries are french, in spite of the massive cultural appropriation attempted by Belgium. They first appeared in Paris around the French Revolution, and were sold by ladies on the Pont Neuf (a bridge in central Paris), hence their original name “Pommes Pont-Neuf”. The Belgian claim was based on the affirmation from a Belgian historian that he had a document mentioning fries in Belgium 100 years earlier (so in the late 17th). This document was never found and to this day no one has ever been able to put forward any reliable source backing the Belgian claim. So no, from an historical, scientific point of view, French fries are very much french, and definitely not Belgian.
We absolutely do (I’m a French person). We just argue about who has the best cheese or the best wine (don’t worry it is just a light-hearted dispute most of the times). Also since our second national sport after protesting is arguing, we just do that. Dw though I like Italy :))
The joke is that italy is better at making them (craftmanship) but France is better at selling them (marketing). Together we would be a powerhouse but everytime we unite we just fight about who has the best whatever and stay mad at each other for a few generation until the cycle begins again...
You don’t really drive under the Chanel. You load your car on a train (Eurotunnel, le shuttle), you stay in your car except if you want to go to the toilet, it take around 40min (25 under the sea, you feel it (ear pain can happen), but you don’t sea it (it’s not like in an aquarium 😉)), longer during the busy season and also now because of the Brexit (they stop you to check quickly your car) and you need to be ready “mentally” to change your driving habits because 2 minutes after leaving the check point you can be on the highway.
Efforts have recently been made in France to allow these local languages to be preserved a little longer, thanks to measures such as creating schools in these regions where lessons are taught in the language of these. Or by publishing the local or regional information we regularly receive in our mailboxes in both languages.
Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed your perspectives. Right now, I'm tracking family tree. Everyone were from Quebec. And yes, involved with the Acadian situation. In France, it looks like a good portion came from Normandy area. But, scattered all over the northern portion of France.
Hello, amazing video, and i love the context you had cause i’d have a lot to add to this video too, but as a french I agree that we see Quebec as the uk would see the usa, this is very true in the mindset
Even in France there have been different accents for centuries, especially in the South versus the North, where the Occitan language was spoken (very popular in the Middle Ages in European courts with the troubadours, but much less spoken today). But even in the Northern France, a Norman, a Picard or a Burgundian did not speak like a Parisian for example. So, the standard French internationally remains very recent, especially in the "Bourgeois" world. It is this world that has influenced the French spoken today. Suddenly, there is nothing to reproach to the Franco-Canadians ^^ given the accents were already rich in France for a long time. Even today, if you talk to a French the countryside, or small towns. Overall, the French still have a very cordial understanding with Quebec. The proximity of the language is still there. Beyond "kind teasing", it is also a form of curiosity, but without meanness, because precisely, they speak a French "older" than that of today, whether in the vocabulary, as in the accents. And overall, it's even rather appreciated.
je suis d'origine bretonne régions située dans le nord ouest de la France . lors de la première guerre mondiale 75% des bretons ne parlaient pas le français , et il y avait énormément de problèmes de compréhensions entres les différents dialectes . après la première guerre mondiale le français à été imposer sur tout le territoire français métropole et outre-mer
Hey, it is very interesting to have an English Canadian take on France and Québec. As a French that travelled through Québec and Ontario here is my view : - Even though the Québécois have a distinct accent it is still perfectly understandable, we even have harsher accents in France haha. - I find their identity very strange and unique, on one hand they would call themselves "French Canadians", on the other hands, to me at least Québec is overall like the rest of Canada but at the difference that everything is French. The differences I remarked : Québec has a better city planning and older cities, secularism seems to be more like in France. And thank you for explaining the Canadian music law, that explain the Canadian radio I found it so funny but cool because there is a lot of local music. :)
les étatsuniens savent ils ou ce situe Le continent Antarctique 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣autrement ils auraient demander à leurs gouvernement de s'emparer de ce contient de façons a faire des stations balnéaires
as of now, new caledonia is still french despite 2 or 3 referendum since 2017. futhermore, the time when we were the 2nd biggest empire was during the beginning of the 20th century and not during the napoleonic war. understandable mistake though. great video overall
oh buddy quebec and france french is not the same depending on the regions. people close to newfoundland speak a weird ass french that even i someone from the centre of quebec can't understand at all
For what it’s worth, this video would have been way better without so many interruptions cutting off the flow… For the record, you would be surprised by the number of “new words” entering the yearly edition of the official dictionary in France… France’s academy of language is way more “Roch’n Roll” than the Quebec’s one (which is governed by its own rules and depending on their own opinions and specifications). But despite its own issues and regional aspirations, don’t be mistaken : joual and others colloquial languages in Canada (there are french speakers in Manitoba, Ontario or New-Brunswick too) are street vocables, not the official french language (despite slight fitting differences in vocabulary) taught the same way and going by the same rules whatever the french speaking area… As English taught in Canada, USA, UK, NZ, etc… is the same by the book. There are some of the new entries in the dictionaries for 2022 and 2023 (the 2 mainstream brands being Larousse and Petit Robert) : - Wokisme - NFT - Chick list - covidé (a new french adjective for a person sick with Covid) - écoanxiété (anxiety due to ecology falling) But also others words like konjac (japanese plant), or kakapo (New-Zealander parrot specie) are also concerned. As you can see the 3 first words are purely from English language. The others foreign words are just what they are : namely things you can’t change. The Academie Française is just an institution whose purpose is to advise and suggest others “more french” words if these things already exist in some obscure historical references which is sometimes impossible (mainly in the new technologies domain) but they are not in capacity to forbidding any use of these words.
Let’s be very clear about that: the only purpose and job of the Académie Française is to maintain a dictionary. Nothing less, nothing more. They don’t have any power whatsoever, and don’t pretend they have. Their members, called Académiciens, are elected for life by their peers, and come from various fields of academics and intellectual life: writers, scientists, historians… And they basically do their job for free, as they earn around €100 a month. Being a member of such a prestigious institution is pay enough.
c'est quoi cette mode de piquer une vidéo d'un autre de la diffuser et de faire juste un " je réagis à une vidéo " et de se faire une vidéo tranquille a l'as sans se fatiguer ?
About "French Fries". they are actually.. Belgian.. Everybody in France knows that belgian owns the best way to cook fries... About Irak: REmemebr when French prime minister said: "listen to an old country" when arguing against invasion... And English representant said: "as a country created by frenchs 800 years ago, etc..."
To answer one of your questions : yes the people living in all these overseas regions, collectivities or territories are French citizens, they have the same identity cards or passports as Metropolitan French people ( I'm Metropolitan French ) so they can travel or work anywhere in the European Union, just like I could ...
not exactly cause they aren't part of shengen space so they need a passport and not only id card to come to Europe but no visa
@@nicolasherman6487 Are you sure ? It is true that it is complicated with the shengen zone, but although they don't come from a "shengen space" they are French citizens so why would they need a passport ? I will have to have a closer look at this ( when I have time 😀😀
There are more French words in the English language than the English word in the French language
Yes it's true! About 40% of English words come from French :-)
@@antibash691 Yes because Guillaume le Conquérant invaded England
Indeed. Actually there are more french words in the English language than English words. Depending on how you count, French words amount to 50-60% of the overall dictionary, against 30-40% of words from old English.
Clemenceau once famously said: “The English language? It’s just poorly pronounced french!”.
@@EnzoRossi-g4v And then his ancestors invaded France. Traitors.
There are no english words in classical french and even english words used today in French are for most part the english version of french words.
In fact, even Germany and Russia did not invade Irak too, but Americans launched all their rage on France ^^
As usual..it’s the habitual French bashing..but the French were right not to get into that war & of course it turned out to be the best decision..of course, Americans did not congratulate the French afterwards 😂
New Caledonia is still a French collectivity, after ... three referendums on independence in about four years : the one mentioned by the author of the video ( in 2018 ) and two following ones, in 2020 and 2021
Indeed. These three referenda are the result of the 1998 Accords de Nouméa (Noumea agreements), which followed and completed the 1988 Accords de Matignon and aimed at bringing peace to the island. This 30-years process is now over after the three planned referenda returned a clear No to independence. Now starts another phase to adapt the governance, with both parties (pro and anti-independence) involved.
@@tixien Yes I remember the Nouméa agreements ( accords de Nouméa ) and there will be a new referendum, this time not on independence, but on the new status of New Caledonia
🟦⬜🟥 I'am a french native and I love to see some videos about my country. I'am proud to be french. We are lucky too! we have so much good things. Champaign, wines, meals....we have nice differents landscapes, mountains and seas...fields, and vineyards....old castles! old monuments....delicious food...nice fashion...so much things to visit! We have beatiful words too *Je t'aime* *Bon appétit* *Champagne!* I 'am definetly happy to live in this part of the world. Thank you for this nice moment I spend!
l'academie français can recommend a good use of the french language. They can't impose anything. They don't have a power or an army
That amazing how strangers see some power in the Academy when in fact they have none or may be just the power to say this word could be add in french dictionary this one not
Native French and naturalized Canadian here. Snails are not regularly consumed in France AND snails are not insects! 🤨
At 27:29, the issue is that the vast majority of USAnians (yes, I like to call them this way) doesn't know that fries actually comes from Belgium.
Finally, regarding the TAAF (Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises), I highly suggest the documentary "La possibilité d'une île" from Florian Bailly. It's in French of course and subtitles are not available, but I believe that you can understand. And, after all, you live in Canada, which have both French and English as official languages 😉
ua-cam.com/video/Ccn8NmdWMHc/v-deo.html
As a Canadian, I eat snails and have no trouble finding them, every major groceries have snails.
It was only at the end of the First World War that this expression took off in the United States, when American soldiers who had tasted fries in northern France or Belgium returned to their country. Since the language spoken in these areas was French, they would simply have called them "French fries".
Actually french fries are french, in spite of the massive cultural appropriation attempted by Belgium. They first appeared in Paris around the French Revolution, and were sold by ladies on the Pont Neuf (a bridge in central Paris), hence their original name “Pommes Pont-Neuf”.
The Belgian claim was based on the affirmation from a Belgian historian that he had a document mentioning fries in Belgium 100 years earlier (so in the late 17th). This document was never found and to this day no one has ever been able to put forward any reliable source backing the Belgian claim.
So no, from an historical, scientific point of view, French fries are very much french, and definitely not Belgian.
Seems like Italy and France are competitors for every luxury industry. Wine, Food, Fashion, and cars.
We absolutely do (I’m a French person). We just argue about who has the best cheese or the best wine (don’t worry it is just a light-hearted dispute most of the times). Also since our second national sport after protesting is arguing, we just do that. Dw though I like Italy :))
The joke is that italy is better at making them (craftmanship) but France is better at selling them (marketing). Together we would be a powerhouse but everytime we unite we just fight about who has the best whatever and stay mad at each other for a few generation until the cycle begins again...
French People and quebecois people call each other "cousin" ( i am french)
Gotcha. I had thought that it was a pretty friendly relationship
pas vraiment, en fait
You don’t really drive under the Chanel.
You load your car on a train (Eurotunnel, le shuttle), you stay in your car except if you want to go to the toilet, it take around 40min (25 under the sea, you feel it (ear pain can happen), but you don’t sea it (it’s not like in an aquarium 😉)), longer during the busy season and also now because of the Brexit (they stop you to check quickly your car) and you need to be ready “mentally” to change your driving habits because 2 minutes after leaving the check point you can be on the highway.
Im french, quebec love us and i love them
just jubscribed to your channel thanks to the quality of your reaction as your level of culture, a pleasure... merci ;)
Efforts have recently been made in France to allow these local languages to be preserved a little longer, thanks to measures such as creating schools in these regions where lessons are taught in the language of these. Or by publishing the local or regional information we regularly receive in our mailboxes in both languages.
Fun fact, the current monarchy of Sweden is also from a French dynasty. Going back to one of Napoleons Marshals. Greetings from a French American!
Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed your perspectives. Right now, I'm tracking family tree. Everyone were from Quebec. And yes, involved with the Acadian situation. In France, it looks like a good portion came from Normandy area. But, scattered all over the northern portion of France.
I love France so much
Hello, amazing video, and i love the context you had cause i’d have a lot to add to this video too, but as a french I agree that we see Quebec as the uk would see the usa, this is very true in the mindset
Even in France there have been different accents for centuries, especially in the South versus the North, where the Occitan language was spoken (very popular in the Middle Ages in European courts with the troubadours, but much less spoken today).
But even in the Northern France, a Norman, a Picard or a Burgundian did not speak like a Parisian for example. So, the standard French internationally remains very recent, especially in the "Bourgeois" world. It is this world that has influenced the French spoken today. Suddenly, there is nothing to reproach to the Franco-Canadians ^^ given the accents were already rich in France for a long time. Even today, if you talk to a French the countryside, or small towns.
Overall, the French still have a very cordial understanding with Quebec. The proximity of the language is still there.
Beyond "kind teasing", it is also a form of curiosity, but without meanness, because precisely, they speak a French "older" than that of today, whether in the vocabulary, as in the accents. And overall, it's even rather appreciated.
je suis d'origine bretonne régions située dans le nord ouest de la France . lors de la première guerre mondiale 75% des bretons ne parlaient pas le français , et il y avait énormément de problèmes de compréhensions entres les différents dialectes . après la première guerre mondiale le français à été imposer sur tout le territoire français métropole et outre-mer
Depuis 1200 environ, la France a participé à 185 batailles et en a remporté 132.
When did snails become insects exactly ?
They are not insects but Gastropods
snails are gasteropods, a sub-class of molluscs like oysters or octopus.
you don't "drive" from england to france... you park your car in a train...
Hey, it is very interesting to have an English Canadian take on France and Québec. As a French that travelled through Québec and Ontario here is my view :
- Even though the Québécois have a distinct accent it is still perfectly understandable, we even have harsher accents in France haha.
- I find their identity very strange and unique, on one hand they would call themselves "French Canadians", on the other hands, to me at least Québec is overall like the rest of Canada but at the difference that everything is French. The differences I remarked : Québec has a better city planning and older cities, secularism seems to be more like in France.
And thank you for explaining the Canadian music law, that explain the Canadian radio I found it so funny but cool because there is a lot of local music. :)
Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway and UK claim parts of Antarctica. US does not.
because they don't know geography at all. >>>>>> ua-cam.com/video/umpalMtQE50/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
les étatsuniens savent ils ou ce situe Le continent Antarctique 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣autrement ils auraient demander à leurs gouvernement de s'emparer de ce contient de façons a faire des stations balnéaires
Nice vidéo !
Our President , Emmanuel Macron, said "There is no French culture."
yes...
as of now, new caledonia is still french despite 2 or 3 referendum since 2017. futhermore, the time when we were the 2nd biggest empire was during the beginning of the 20th century and not during the napoleonic war. understandable mistake though. great video overall
Malta eats a ton of snails but being a super small country if can’t get anywhere near france. Also it’s disgusting -and I love escargot
Do next video react on Serbia Geography Now pls
👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵👍👍👍
oh buddy quebec and france french is not the same depending on the regions. people close to newfoundland speak a weird ass french that even i someone from the centre of quebec can't understand at all
For what it’s worth, this video would have been way better without so many interruptions cutting off the flow…
For the record, you would be surprised by the number of “new words” entering the yearly edition of the official dictionary in France… France’s academy of language is way more “Roch’n Roll” than the Quebec’s one (which is governed by its own rules and depending on their own opinions and specifications).
But despite its own issues and regional aspirations, don’t be mistaken : joual and others colloquial languages in Canada (there are french speakers in Manitoba, Ontario or New-Brunswick too) are street vocables, not the official french language (despite slight fitting differences in vocabulary) taught the same way and going by the same rules whatever the french speaking area… As English taught in Canada, USA, UK, NZ, etc… is the same by the book.
There are some of the new entries in the dictionaries for 2022 and 2023 (the 2 mainstream brands being Larousse and Petit Robert) :
- Wokisme
- NFT
- Chick list
- covidé (a new french adjective for a person sick with Covid)
- écoanxiété (anxiety due to ecology falling)
But also others words like konjac (japanese plant), or kakapo (New-Zealander parrot specie) are also concerned.
As you can see the 3 first words are purely from English language. The others foreign words are just what they are : namely things you can’t change.
The Academie Française is just an institution whose purpose is to advise and suggest others “more french” words if these things already exist in some obscure historical references which is sometimes impossible (mainly in the new technologies domain) but they are not in capacity to forbidding any use of these words.
Thanks for the additional feedback and comments :) I appreciate it
Comparing to many other "reacts to", he did not interrupt alot the video.
Let’s be very clear about that: the only purpose and job of the Académie Française is to maintain a dictionary. Nothing less, nothing more. They don’t have any power whatsoever, and don’t pretend they have.
Their members, called Académiciens, are elected for life by their peers, and come from various fields of academics and intellectual life: writers, scientists, historians… And they basically do their job for free, as they earn around €100 a month. Being a member of such a prestigious institution is pay enough.
React to UK?? ❤❤❤
Could you also react to 1848 year of revolutions by epic history tv.
This one is definitely on the list.
Languages are dying out because of the government. So, the government won't do anything, sadly
c'est quoi cette mode de piquer une vidéo d'un autre de la diffuser et de faire juste un " je réagis à une vidéo "
et de se faire une vidéo tranquille a l'as sans se fatiguer ?
loi de fair-use
On pourrait peut être faire des vidéos sur des vidéos de réactions de vidéos ?
@@adeleg4759
non, juste de la fainéantise
snails aren't insects!!!
About "French Fries". they are actually.. Belgian.. Everybody in France knows that belgian owns the best way to cook fries...
About Irak: REmemebr when French prime minister said: "listen to an old country" when arguing against invasion... And English representant said: "as a country created by frenchs 800 years ago, etc..."