Masculine and feminine can be mastered slowly with few tricks and practice but understanding spoken French is the bane of my existence, please provide tips on how I can train my ears to spoken French, Merci!
My prof told me this way, you can only understand this rule by thinking about the Medieval Period. Who reads the book at that time? Mens , that bcs “le livre “🥹 who stay in the house? Womens, that bcs “la maison”😢
I think all the gendered languages have this sexist issue. Spanish and Italian play the same game. My teacher told us that they tried to change it in france recently and the board of languages (or what ever the title is) said no... :(
thanks to god no problem avec le or la i saw your previous videos about them & i understand them so much ...merci infiniment...... 🌹Pro Alexa🌹 pour tous leçons vous fait dan votre lovely châine 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼
In my native Russian we have 3 genders. So I have no problem with understanding why the gender is Necessary in French 😂 My issue is that the same word in Russian may have different gender in French. It’s always confusing. Par exemple, “a table” in Russian it’s masculine, but in French it’s feminine and so om 😅
@@katerinasofie6879who cares if a “table” is masculine or feminine. There’s more severe problems in this life than to be worried about inanimate objects & their genders
Very helpful tips about the word ending. I am a native English speaker trying to learn French using an online language program. I know some German and Spanish and, of course, they have genders also. Merci beaucoup!
Hi @Steve, i hope you're fine, i speak french fluently and i'm looking for someone to help me to improve my english and i help him back in french. if you're interrest answer me please.
I was watching Emily in Paris, and I was learning how the word vagina in French is actually a masculine word, despite being a female thing, and mustaches are a male thing, but it's a female word in French. I can't make sense of that.
The reason for your bewilderment is that, like many generations of students of French before you, you’ve been woefully mistaught. Outside the realm of reference in a sex-specific way to animate beings, such as men and women, bulls and cows, stallions and mares (etc.) the use of the terms ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ to refer to the genders of French is the result of a confusion that has been around for so long there seems to be no way of correcting it. If you want to learn the truth about what’s really going on in French, and the other languages that behave similarly in this regard, I strongly urge you to study linguistics up to the level at which you can read Greville Corbett’s Gender (Cambridge University Press) and G.R. Tucker, W.A. Lambert and A. Rigault’s The French Speaker’s Skill with Grammatical Gender (Mouton & Co.). The scales will fall from your eyes and you’ll realize the extent to which you and millions of others, past and present, have been completely bamboozled about this subject. In the meantime, though it doesn’t go far enough, this video does a passable job of scooping up at least some of the bullshit.
After 35 years of learning and 25 years of teaching French, I still slow down when matching up the right verbs in complex sentences, such as J'irais s'il y était and J'irai s'il y est. It's not that it's hard, but I always have to stop and think about it.
@@paulfaulkner6299 Spanish is actually the easiest language to learn. No funny pronunciations to start with. Plenty of regular verbs. Finally, Spanish is the 2nd most widely spoken language in the world. 1st is Mandarian and 3rd English. Voila!
I struggle the most with the various French accent symbols! To be honest, since I only want to learn enough to understand spoken french and to be understood, I simply ignore the accent marks! As long as someone understands what I mean, I’m happy.
Bonsoir Alexa, je dirai autre fois que je doive rentre à l'école pour apprendre encore une fois la langue de français - mais avant que je peux le fair il faut que je finisse mes étudies espagnols. C'est plus que quarante ans depuis je l'ai appris parler d'une petite-amie ancienne et même-si j'ai oublié beaucoup je crois que je peux toujours le faire. Je dois me rentre à l'école , non?.
I find it trickiest dealing with words that start with vowels. For example, l'orange, l'oreille, l'ete, l'hotel, would it be feminine if it was ending with "E" or masucline?
I have studied French language at the University as main department My classmate didn't want to learn french after seeing gender at words because our native language don't have any gander (Turkish) so French grammer is so different for Turkish but some words are so same because French gave so many words to Turkish but substantially I have understood the mentally of French it's wrong what I do before making sentences in french thinking English but currently with thinking English I make many sentences in French it's not good so much but it's fine
@@daciasanderoguys1801 Yeah I got it cause I took Italian course a little so I understand what you mean "o" for men "a" for woman like Brava for woman bravo for man
Speakers of English get confused by nouns having genders, but many other languages, such as Japanese, have no gender associated with their nouns either. Probably the best way to learn these is to use them in the progression of recognition: listen => speak=> read => write. Always learn the nouns with the definite article "le" or "la" and practice them with adjectives, until it becomes second nature.
Merci beaucoup pour cette nouvelle vocabulaire et leçon de la semaine et du mercredi pour pouvoir comprendre et apprendre plus la belle langue française
I find the agreement with verbs, adjectives and pronouns very difficult to understand, e.g J'ai mangé une pomme puis je l'ai jetée, The verb "to eat" does not agree with the apple but the verb "to throw" must because of the pronoun la (l').
Les Magasins and Les Emotions.. this is where I am confused. I would think this is masculine plural because there is no "e" at the end. Should it be Les Magasines and Les Emotiones if it was feminine?
Meats and cheeses are confusing. Diary, like milk and cheese would seem feminine, as cow is, but are masculine. The word meat is feminine but various meat are masculine. Le porc, le canard, le poulet. Do you know of a source or book explaining the evolution of French words and why a word was considered masculine or feminine, way back when?
The reason for your bewilderment is that, like many generations of students of French before you, you’ve been woefully mistaught. Outside the realm of reference in a sex-specific way to animate beings, such as men and women, bulls and cows, stallions and mares (etc.) the use of the terms ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ to refer to the genders of French is the result of a confusion that has been around for so long there seems to be no way of correcting it. If you want to learn the truth about what’s really going on in French, and the other languages that behave similarly in this regard, I strongly urge you to study linguistics up to the level at which you can read Greville Corbett’s Gender (Cambridge University Press) and G.R. Tucker, W.A. Lambert and A. Rigault’s The French Speaker’s Skill with Grammatical Gender (Mouton & Co.). The scales will fall from your eyes and you’ll realize the extent to which you and millions of others, past and present, have been completely bamboozled about this subject. In the meantime, though it doesn’t go far enough, this video does a passable job of scooping up at least some of the bullshit.
Omfg This may be completely lost on you but you’ve just made me realise something about Frank Ocean. There was huge debate on whether his album was called Blonde or Blond and he probably did it on purpose because he’s bisexual!
'Masculine' is indeed feminine. But it also exists in masculine without the 'e'... Just like feminine exists as feminin ... Depending on the surrounding words any of the four can be appropriate, bon courage 😂
Those Proto-Indo-European (not really very European actually) people sure could have saved us a lot of work if they had gone 'nah, this gender business is too hard, let's drop it". But I guess it was easy to remember genders when you only talked about goats.
@@scarlettrhettforever ah, you are right on that, to be frank apart from the various accents for some letters french is more a nasal language I've noticed. Also some letter makes different sounds depending on who it is next to Example: C next to a, o, or u makes a Kuh sound but when next to any consonant, i, or e it makes a suh sound. Qu'est-ce que (kessuh kuh)
Je conseille d'apprendre les mots avec les articles un ou une ... Et de travailler... Aucune règle ne marche vraiment car il y a toujours des exceptions : donc il faut apprendre, se tromper, se retromper encore et encore, retravailler et puis un jour vous saurez... Sans effort ... Je ne pense pas vous y arriverez..
Masculine and feminine can be mastered slowly with few tricks and practice but understanding spoken French is the bane of my existence, please provide tips on how I can train my ears to spoken French, Merci!
My prof told me this way, you can only understand this rule by thinking about the Medieval Period. Who reads the book at that time? Mens , that bcs “le livre “🥹 who stay in the house? Womens, that bcs “la maison”😢
Samee
Haha lol. A very patriarchal way to learn french😂
@@YanaWanderlust. Also he added that “french is the most sexist language” lol 🥹
I think all the gendered languages have this sexist issue. Spanish and Italian play the same game. My teacher told us that they tried to change it in france recently and the board of languages (or what ever the title is) said no... :(
I memorize the masc or fem when i memorize the word.
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So helpful, especially Tip #4! Thanks!
Merci! Super helpful!
this is so helpful thank you very much alexa
Your videos are succinct and enjoyable! Everything falls into place for me❤
I am a beginner here, and I think this video helped me a lot.
Thank so much.🌹
your better than my HSC french course
Thank you so much! I have a French test today and I think you helped me a lot!
How was the test
Very helpful ❤
Loving that you used malarkey!
thanks to god no problem avec le or la i saw your previous videos about them & i understand them so much ...merci infiniment...... 🌹Pro Alexa🌹 pour tous leçons vous fait dan votre lovely châine 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼
thank you so much i have a midterm tomowrow
Merci beaucoup alexa
Excellent way to explain
yes 😊
In my native Russian we have 3 genders. So I have no problem with understanding why the gender is Necessary in French 😂 My issue is that the same word in Russian may have different gender in French. It’s always confusing. Par exemple, “a table” in Russian it’s masculine, but in French it’s feminine and so om 😅
Yes, same in Czech! I find this very difficult about French :(
@@katerinasofie6879 most words have different genders than those in French?
@@user-qh8zi2gq3p some are the same, but many are different :/
@@katerinasofie6879who cares if a “table” is masculine or feminine. There’s more severe problems in this life than to be worried about inanimate objects & their genders
Bonjour Madame very useful for your channel you are very good teacher
Bonjour madame Alexa J'ai passé 5 ans avec vous et en suivant 😮merci madame
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Very helpful tips about the word ending. I am a native English speaker trying to learn French using an online language program. I know some German and Spanish and, of course, they have genders also. Merci beaucoup!
Hi @Steve, i hope you're fine, i speak french fluently and i'm looking for someone to help me to improve my english and i help him back in french. if you're interrest answer me please.
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Merci beaucoup!!
You are great madam. I love you so much . Your lessons are also very much useful and make all my doubts clear💋💋🥰🥰😍❤️❤❤
I was watching Emily in Paris, and I was learning how the word vagina in French is actually a masculine word, despite being a female thing, and mustaches are a male thing, but it's a female word in French. I can't make sense of that.
The reason for your bewilderment is that, like many generations of students of French before you, you’ve been woefully mistaught. Outside the realm of reference in a sex-specific way to animate beings, such as men and women, bulls and cows, stallions and mares (etc.) the use of the terms ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ to refer to the genders of French is the result of a confusion that has been around for so long there seems to be no way of correcting it. If you want to learn the truth about what’s really going on in French, and the other languages that behave similarly in this regard, I strongly urge you to study linguistics up to the level at which you can read Greville Corbett’s Gender (Cambridge University Press) and G.R. Tucker, W.A. Lambert and A. Rigault’s The French Speaker’s Skill with Grammatical Gender (Mouton & Co.). The scales will fall from your eyes and you’ll realize the extent to which you and millions of others, past and present, have been completely bamboozled about this subject. In the meantime, though it doesn’t go far enough, this video does a passable job of scooping up at least some of the bullshit.
The post-it note tip is great! I'm going to cover my whole house with them right now!
Yes a new home decor. Do it then call “Home Worthy” to film your “post it” note filled home. May catch on, who knows!!🤣🤣
Merci beaucoup. C'est interessante
Thank you
Merci
Merci ❤
Merci, mes élèves étaient toujours curieux du pourquoi des genres.
Thank you Alexa from somalia
Thanks so much mam
Thank you for addressing this. Who cares why languages are gendered!?! People overthink way too much. It’s exhausting.
Exactly. Only the French. Very overbearing & self opinionated. If you make a mistake when speaking who cares. Get over it & move on.
Merci beaucoup ❤️
Hello
After 35 years of learning and 25 years of teaching French, I still slow down when matching up the right verbs in complex sentences, such as J'irais s'il y était and J'irai s'il y est. It's not that it's hard, but I always have to stop and think about it.
I enjoy it.
In german all the seasons and days of the week are masculine too
Je pense que les matières la plus difficile en Français est la conjugaison des verbes et les temps 🤷🏼♀️
You should try Spanish
@@paulfaulkner6299 Spanish is actually the easiest language to learn. No funny pronunciations to start with. Plenty of regular verbs. Finally, Spanish is the 2nd most widely spoken language in the world. 1st is Mandarian and 3rd English. Voila!
I struggle the most with the various French accent symbols! To be honest, since I only want to learn enough to understand spoken french and to be understood, I simply ignore the accent marks! As long as someone understands what I mean, I’m happy.
Bonsoir Alexa, je dirai autre fois que je doive rentre à l'école pour apprendre encore une fois la langue de français - mais avant que je peux le fair il faut que je finisse mes étudies espagnols. C'est plus que quarante ans depuis je l'ai appris parler d'une petite-amie ancienne et même-si j'ai oublié beaucoup je crois que je peux toujours le faire. Je dois me rentre à l'école , non?.
I find it trickiest dealing with words that start with vowels. For example, l'orange, l'oreille, l'ete, l'hotel, would it be feminine if it was ending with "E" or masucline?
l’hotel it’s masculine as well as l’ete (all the weather seasons are masculine)
It's easier if you use the indefinite article as there's no elision: une orange, une oreille, un été, un hôtel.
I have studied French language at the University as main department My classmate didn't want to learn french after seeing gender at words because our native language don't have any gander (Turkish) so French grammer is so different for Turkish but some words are so same because French gave so many words to Turkish but substantially I have understood the mentally of French it's wrong what I do before making sentences in french thinking English but currently with thinking English I make many sentences in French it's not good so much but it's fine
@@daciasanderoguys1801 Yeah I got it cause I took Italian course a little so I understand what you mean "o" for men "a" for woman like Brava for woman bravo for man
Merci. Quand on utilise à de en avec les verbes, et comment ils changent de sens.
Bonjour Alexa,
your videos help me learn french so much!! thank you :)
Bonjour Madame Alexa.
I hope you are having a good day.
Where can I find your grammer vids? I'm struggling in grammer 😭
Alexa do you stream in twitch?
Speakers of English get confused by nouns having genders, but many other languages, such as Japanese, have no gender associated with their nouns either. Probably the best way to learn these is to use them in the progression of recognition: listen => speak=> read => write. Always learn the nouns with the definite article "le" or "la" and practice them with adjectives, until it becomes second nature.
when did i ask???
exactly i didnt lmao
@@cubic3282😂😂
@@scpmdt this was a year ago wtf😭
@@cubic3282 charming person
merci beacoup
Alexander, How can I begin with your courses?
All courses are on my website at learnfrench.com :)
How will we be able to put an definite article in front of a word which is given? Identify feminine and masculine for this scenario plz help
Dans ma langues il y a 3 genders m f et n
Merci beaucoup pour cette nouvelle vocabulaire et leçon de la semaine et du mercredi pour pouvoir comprendre et apprendre plus la belle langue française
Bravo!
Question. in modern-day engineering is masculine or feminine still used? example Pump, Valve or Motor - Pompe, Vanne, Moteur
La pompe, la vanne, le moteur
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you really make things easy.
When do u use des?
I think la or une can sound nicer with certain words than the other but I kinda wish French would ditch the feminine and just go with le and un.
I find the agreement with verbs, adjectives and pronouns very difficult to understand, e.g J'ai mangé une pomme puis je l'ai jetée, The verb "to eat" does not agree with the apple but the verb "to throw" must because of the pronoun la (l').
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Iam found difficult to differentiate between masculine and female
Please 🙏 I have so many problems with the third group verb.....
Les Magasins and Les Emotions.. this is where I am confused. I would think this is masculine plural because there is no "e" at the end. Should it be Les Magasines and Les Emotiones if it was feminine?
What abut coffe?
How do I sign up for beginner classes ??
All courses are on my website: learnfrench.com :)
@lianem9323: Don’t waste your hard-earned cash.
Idk how I understand French but that’s why I’m here
I find most of French grammar easy to understand. Granted, i learned Japanese first 😅
Cool
For me the biggest problem is conjugation.
langue is feminine but most languages (belong in les langues) are masculine?
Indeed!
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I have problems knowing when to use a or au or en, and de or du. I know that it's gender related but I often get it wrong.
You don’t have a problem my friend. The French do so leave them be & tell them “get a life & move on” instead of being petty.
Meats and cheeses are confusing. Diary, like milk and cheese would seem feminine, as cow is, but are masculine. The word meat is feminine but various meat are masculine. Le porc, le canard, le poulet.
Do you know of a source or book explaining the evolution of French words and why a word was considered masculine or feminine, way back when?
The reason for your bewilderment is that, like many generations of students of French before you, you’ve been woefully mistaught. Outside the realm of reference in a sex-specific way to animate beings, such as men and women, bulls and cows, stallions and mares (etc.) the use of the terms ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ to refer to the genders of French is the result of a confusion that has been around for so long there seems to be no way of correcting it. If you want to learn the truth about what’s really going on in French, and the other languages that behave similarly in this regard, I strongly urge you to study linguistics up to the level at which you can read Greville Corbett’s Gender (Cambridge University Press) and G.R. Tucker, W.A. Lambert and A. Rigault’s The French Speaker’s Skill with Grammatical Gender (Mouton & Co.). The scales will fall from your eyes and you’ll realize the extent to which you and millions of others, past and present, have been completely bamboozled about this subject. In the meantime, though it doesn’t go far enough, this video does a passable job of scooping up at least some of the bullshit.
English (believe it or not ) has genders too. Blond (masc) and blonde (femi) is one of a very few examples. The rest are all neutral. 😊
Omfg This may be completely lost on you but you’ve just made me realise something about Frank Ocean. There was huge debate on whether his album was called Blonde or Blond and he probably did it on purpose because he’s bisexual!
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Oddly, the word "masculine" in french is feminine...
'Masculine' is indeed feminine. But it also exists in masculine without the 'e'... Just like feminine exists as feminin ... Depending on the surrounding words any of the four can be appropriate, bon courage 😂
@ytj22: Most French are ODD.
Those Proto-Indo-European (not really very European actually) people sure could have saved us a lot of work if they had gone 'nah, this gender business is too hard, let's drop it". But I guess it was easy to remember genders when you only talked about goats.
BINGO
Why is the French language pronouns different from the written French? I feel need to write down how it sounds a lot. eg: qu’est ce (kes ker)
How so? Is it about speaking vs writting?
No. Just wonder why the language has a lot words that are pronounced different to how it is written.
@@scarlettrhettforever ah, you are right on that, to be frank apart from the various accents for some letters french is more a nasal language I've noticed. Also some letter makes different sounds depending on who it is next to
Example:
C next to a, o, or u makes a Kuh sound but when next to any consonant, i, or e it makes a suh sound.
Qu'est-ce que (kessuh kuh)
Je conseille d'apprendre les mots avec les articles un ou une ...
Et de travailler...
Aucune règle ne marche vraiment car il y a toujours des exceptions : donc il faut apprendre, se tromper, se retromper encore et encore, retravailler et puis un jour vous saurez...
Sans effort ... Je ne pense pas vous y arriverez..
I used post-it notes all over my house. It works.
Amazing!
@@learnfrenchwithalexa
You are.
ça fait long temps
Do French people get the genders wrong too?
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3:02 to 3:05 funny
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What if the word is non binary? Will these romance languages be deemed offensive,bigoted, and transphobic?
Do you do any videos only in French? It doesn't help me to listen to you speaking English.
Alexa are you married? 😍
@stretchh2o: to a Frenchman maybe.
Haa why do emotions have gender😂
Women be shopping
2030, french will have 230 gender's if not 0.😂😂
Please go slow alexa
You become old omg !! But still gorgeous
how many genders are there??