ASMR The French Language (soft spoken)
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Salut tout le monde! Today we're having a look at the French language and it's fascinating origin. Did you know that the Gauls only picked up Latin after West Rome had already ceased to exist? And while nowadays French might have lost its prevalent position to English, it is still used all across the globe with its number of speakers actually increasing. Don't worry, there's no grammar or spelling today - just sit back, relax and get ready for sleep 😘
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Sources:
Putzger Historischer Weltatlas, Kartenausgabe.
Berschin/Felixberger/Goebl: Französische Sprachgeschichte.
Geckeler/Dietrich: Einführung in die französische Sprachwissenschaft.
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French person who studied linguistics here! Most “dialects” are actually languages, so the terms you discuss and question throughout the video are actually quite a good debate to have. Dialects are usually derived from the primary language, so even though the word dialect has been used for minor languages, we’re trying to use the word language more and more. Very instructive video, I enjoyed it!
Hey, thanks for your comment! It might be a bit of a German-language perspective too where there's more of a tendency ot use dialect (at least that's my impression but I'm also not a linguist). It definitely has a negative connotation, though, sadly, so I can see the shift towards another term being a good thing that might help preserve some local language varieties. (If you know any text or author off the top of your head that discusses that terminology shift, I would be super interested to hear about it, but if not please don't worry about it!)
@@MelangeASMR I’ll need to find my lessons again because it’s usually excerpts but whenever I find some references I will! Dialects definitely got a negative connotation in France too. It came partly from the decision to make French the official language. But again I will link references when I’ve got the time to find them! 😊
Неужели есть люди которые полностью это прочли🥴
Seems more complicated
It's kinda a shame how France has lost so much of its linguistic diversity in the past few centuries. France had a period of very heavy enforcement of Parisian French across all of France, leading to the loss of many regional languages of the D'Oc family and also dialects of the D'Oil French Language.
The enforcement of Language rules by the Academie Francaise certainly doesn't help, but that's another issue altogether. I generally think it's a terrible shame when a central language authority (often from a richer and urban centre) tells other regions how to speak their own language. Live and let speak!
Italy is a great example of how it's done right. Most Italians can speak 'Italian', aka Tuscan Italian. But at home, they just speak another language (Sardinian, Sicilian, Neopolitan etc, all of which are regarded as unique languages within Italy). Germany is somewhat similar, although the line between language and dialect there is very blurry (with some Low Franconian 'dialects' being essentially the same language as Dutch but are regarded as dialects of German - and which German, there are two, High and Low German, with modern standard German being the High variety). It's truly a very complex topic!
True, German is absolutely wild. Native speakers can't understand each other half the time because the dialects are so different.
I was just thinking about this the other day- the loss or diminishment of French dialects/languages. But some live on in other places, like Acadian French in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Thank so much for all your hard work. I am not one who typically writes comments, but please know I always gravitate towards your AMSR work first and formost. You possess such a lovely and calming voice... i appreciate all that you do, thank you. Your friend G.
Oh wow, thank you for those kind words 🥺😇🥰 It means a lot!
I live in France and I wasn't even aware there were so many dialects :0 . This was very interesting thank you !! (also your french sounds sooo relaxing)
Thank you, Damien! 😊
Si tu savais le nombre de dialectes qu’on a déjà en Belgique, même en comptant uniquement ceux de Wallonie et le Bruxellois (puisqu’en Flandres on parle néerlandais). Franchement c’est fou le nombre de dialectes par langue/pays
@@Orangeblossomchloe14 Belgium is such a wild case when it comes to languages, super fascinating!
There are many dialects but we don’t actually speak them... Except in some regions.
❤ thank you
Hi ! I'm not a French girl but a native french speaker from Belgium 🇧🇪
Your video was very interesting and so relaxing, thank you for your effort💗
Hello and thank you, that's wonderful to hear 💙
this is such an interesting video, as a french philology student i can tell the research done behind this video, it’s not just an usual ASMR video, you also learn contrasted real information, thank you so much for this!!
Aw thanks, I'm sure you could add many more interesting details on French, though!
I took French in college for two years. It was so lovely to come to class and hear and speak only French. It's such a beautiful way of expressing yourself.
I know exactly what you mean. There have been many moments where I cursed everything about French grammar and spelling haha, but it is a gorgeous langage.
@@MelangeASMR My favorite quote about French is from Oscar Wilde:. "I love the French language. It's delightful to curse with....like whipping your ass with silk."
As a Canadian who learned French from Québécois teachers, as well as a French teacher from southern France with an ITALIAN accent, AND who spoke French with Humans from a few different countries in Africa while working in Kenya, I LOVE your videos!!!!!! Sooooo much love! Oh and my mother tongue is actually Korean ❤️
Amy, I love your comments, thank you so much for sharing your memories and excitement! 💖
i loved this video! i'm from brazil and it's very interesting to see so many different stuff that I didn't know about other countries, i'm starting to learn French and this was very helpful! thanks for your hard work 💜
Hey Ana, thank you for watching and bonne chance with French! 💜💪
Always such a pleasure to hear you speaking few french words! Cheers from the French alps
Oh, thank you 😊 I really need to practice speaking it more often again! It's such a beautiful language.
Diese Sprachraum-Videos sind einfach so interessant. Habe sicher jedes von denen schon 3 Mal angeschaut.
Oh danke, darüber freu ich mich sehr! Es wird auch noch eine deutsche Version von diesem Video geben, falls dir das lieber ist :)
@@MelangeASMR Ja, tatsächlich mag ich Deutsch mehr als Englisch. Nichtsdestotrotz schaue ich natürlich beide Versionen an :)
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Like your content on languages, I just want to say that 1) Provencal is spoken also in Italy, aside the dialects of Provencal and Italian spoken in Liguria and Torino. 2) Creoles are an interesting subject about French too! Trinidadian-Venezuelan french creole is one of those obscure ones that no one knows about but that had a strong influence in the culture of their original region.
Thank you for the addition! Yeah, it's a shame that anything other than metropolitan French is absent from our curriculums - like you said, I've never heard of this variety.
These videos of the origins and dispersal of language are great. As is the intermixing between them. So much to understand from language about the origins of how civilizations have evolved. The blood groups and genetics of people inter-related with the languages would be very interesting. Noticed aspects of this in the French video where the Basque country is close by but language very different to the high RH negative blood type of the Basque.
I am very glad that French is growing rather than shrinking in its use. Was surprized that Romanian was also a part of the romantic languages. Good and informative in a very relaxing manner. Thanks.
I didn't know about Romanian either for a long time. Considering the name of both country and language, it seems quite obvious lol. Of course there is more Slavic (and some Turkish and Hungarian) influence than in the Western romance languages.
Thank you so much, I'm really happy I can keep you interested in these 😊
Vielen Dank für dieses super spannendes Video. 😊 Du hast eine echt hervorragende französische Aussprache, die ich so lieb habe. Klingt es total autentisch 🥰 Es würde interessant, über die finnugrische Sprachen etwas hören. 😁 Aber nur dann, wenn du darauf Bock hast.
Danke, du bist so lieb! Finnougrisch wär super interessant - ich schau mal, was ich finde. ☺
This video is quite frustrating: the content is so interesting that we want to learn everything that you explain, but how are you supposed not to sleep with a such relaxing voice?
Thanks a lot for your work anyway, hope to stay awake for the longest time possible!
I clearly need to become more boring so everyone can go to sleep 😤
My pleasure! And just watch the rest another time if you do fall asleep early :)
You can always comeback the next night and pick up where ya left off!
That's always my problem too! I have to watch the same video every night for a week and just pick it up from the last thing I remember 😂
I had soooo many tingles
I'm french and I really found your video both relaxing and really interesting and informative!🥰
also, your accent is on point!
🥰🥰🥰 Excellent!
Beautiful, i love how you probably directed so much time to learning obout these languages and making these videos. Love it!
Thank you! Honestly I love learning about these things and I'm happy I get to share it with you all. Win win!
This was great. I am Acadien from New Brunswick Canada. You should research the french discovery and settlement to north America from France. The rise of the acadian culture and the acadian deportation from the British, in which resulted in acadians settling in parts of new England and Louisiana.
These last two back-to-back videos are of particular interest to me and make your wonderful work even more special 😊 Thanks so much!
Trying for some thematic consistency here haha ✨ Thank you, I'm happy you enjoy these!!
Born and raise in the earth of occitania,
unfortunately only few expressions and accents remain from the Time where it was a largely spoken language.
In fact it's due to politicals décision during the past century that have clasified régional dialects as "patois", and devalued those who speaks it. The aim was to unify the country in one unique language.
But today these "patois" are more and more teach, and i believe and Hope that more and more peuple will be able to speak and understand occitan for exemple !
I was really sad to see how few people still speak the local languages in France! Fingers crossed that it will pick up again. It makes me appreciate growing up with the local dialect a lot more.
As a Catalan there are some regions in the south of France that are very much easy to understand than the French in the north. You can see the oc language origen.
Portuguese is my native language🇧🇷, but I find it easy to understand other languages similar to Portuguese (ex: Spanish, Italian...)
I struggle with languages but I learned a lot today, thank you!
Haha yeah luckily learning languages and learning about languages can be two very different things. Thank you :)
hello from a French girl ! ☺️🇫🇷 it's a great video, thank you !
So I speak basic French as a British English speaker, so I was finding this really interesting....Then fell asleep.... Third time lucky, and well done!
I was a linguistics student a long time ago and I'm slightly upset you weren't one of my lecturers. Awesome stuff.
Hello!
First of all, I just recently found your chanel and I absolutley love it. Thank you so much for all of this amazing information, and so relaxingly presented.
Second, I think you made a small mistake. At 04:29 you say "half a million years," but that can't be correct-that's a bit beyond the homo sapien time scale. I imagine it's meant to be half a thousand (half a mil)?
This is the perfect moment to watch as I'm currently on holiday in France! I can speak and understand French well, so it's fun to still learn about it :)
Excellent, hope you're having a great vacation!
Lived in France for 9 years. Love the people, country and culture. Great vid, really informative.
This randomly came up in my recommendations and I clicked on it by accident. This was really interesting, calming, and relaxing.
I'm very happy to hear that, thank you!
Occitan is particularly beautiful to me. The language of the troubadours
You are such a blessing!!
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Das ist der beste ASMR-Kanal aller Zeiten! 💛
Maaa das ist sehr lieb, aber da bin ich mir nicht ganz sicher haha. Danke!! 💛
I LOVE this type of videos😍
I'm Italian and I think in Italy there are more than 10 unofficial dilects
Thank you!! I took some classes in Italian a long time ago and remember our teacher warning us about that haha.
incroyable !!! merci de cet asmr extraordinaire !!
Merci Eva!! 💜
Immer so herrlich anspruchsvoll Deine Videos!
Und das Elsässische sinnvollerweise auch weggelassen! ;)
Ich glaub, irgendwo in den Notizen war es schon notiert, aber manchmal fallen ein paar Sachen halt unter den Tisch haha.
Danke, freut mich sehr, dass sie dir zusagen! :)
I adore your lovely 🌹🌹 channel 💯. Merci 🙏!!
I recently found your channel and I immediately subscribed. I’m amazed with all the knowledge and soothing voice. I wanted to ask how many languages you speak ?
Hi! I don’t think she’ll reply since it’s an old video but I’ll assume at least 3! She’s German and speaks English here, so 2. But as a French speaker I can tell her accent when pronouncing French words/regions here is perfect, so I guess she speaks French too!
Hey, that's close - I do speak German (not from Germany though!), English and French, plus I've started a whole lot of languages because I find it very rewarding, but I'm not always getting far haha. Right now I'm learning Norwegian :)
Thank you, Marah!!
@@MelangeASMR that’s impressive thank you for the response and the lovely content.
Actualy franco provencal or Arpitan (terme that we, in switzerland and savoya prefer to use) is a language.
It’s funny how a lot of cities in north of France are named like : something-ville (ville is the french word for city)
Just one little detail I would like to add : « Gallia » did not really exist. It was the name Roman Empire had given to the lands that would become France much later. But in reality, Gallia was composed by different people with different habits, traditions and celtic languages (so there was no people claiming they were « Gallian » or something).
However, we unfortunately lost our celtic roots as they were only transmitted orally. So every written sources describing this area that we have only come from the Romans, which Gallian people became themselves in the end (as populations got mixed during the Gallo-Roman period).
We know nothing about our very first ancestors, including about their languages.
That is a really good point, thank you! It's very tempting to think and talk (not just about the past) in these neat, clear categories, when things tend to be much more uncertain and messy.
@@MelangeASMR Yes, it is! French people themselves talk of Gallia (and imagine French ancestors as one Gallian people) so it’s absolutely okay!
Your videos are amazing, by the way!
Your French accent is really good. I loved hearing it!
Oh, thank you so much for that 😊
She isn’t French by the way.
J'imagine que vous comprenez le français, excellente et enrichissante vidéo.
J'aurais juste une chose à modifier, Metz et ses environs n'ont jamais parlé un dialecte allemand de près ou de loin, la région se trouve à la frontière du patois lorrain, quelques kilomètres au nord se trouve Thionville et les communes frontalières où on parle le francique mosellan voir Luxembourgeois en partie, des langues cousines de l'allemand donc.
Malgré cela l'Empire allemand a jugé bon d'incorporer la partie de langue française de la Moselle ainsi qu'une partie de l'ancien département de la Meurthe lors de l'annexion de 1871, et c'est sûrement pour cela qu'en France (et sûrement dans le monde) certaines personnes en dehors de la région pensent que l'on parle tous "l'allemand" depuis toujours.
Hi Vince, thank you for the interesting addition, I appreciate it!
Loved this! Thank you!
Great and informative
First ASMR video in a long time that has given me the tingles 😀 too!
Excellent, thank you!
In Montreal, there are now doing the same thing that France did - business MUST be done in unilingual French: doctor, lawyer, administrator, it doesn't matter... 'Ici, on parle français' As an Anglophone and an appreciator of Montreal's multicultural tapestry, I'm not a huge fan of this but alas, there's not so much we can do! Il va falloir que je m'habitu!
I have a delightful Acadienne friend who is from the Franco part of New Brunswick... their French is WILD!! That and the Louisiana French, I have a hard time with! France French feels weird to hear but at least I understand most of it :)
I feel with you, it's a shame when things get pushed in a unilingual direction.
Haha yes, Louisiana French is not easy to understand but I love the accent! Which reminds I have a CD from a Cajun singer somewhere, I should dig that out again...
People wants to only speak french since it is more current that we are responded in english which should not happen since Québec is an only french province 😊
@@anne-sophiepaquette5438 je comprends au bureau, dans les magazins etc, mais pour les rdv medicaux par exemple j'aimerais bien comprendre alors il faudra me parler en anglais
@@peppermintsara je suis d'accord avec vous pour ça
Divine 🙏🏼 so relaxed, as always
Thank you, I really appreciate your support!
I speak Spanish and understand Portuguese quite easily. Italian is a bit more challenging but still understandable. But French 😂 some of the words are similar roots to Spanish (the Latin root) but I get lost all the time because I’m like…that’s not _at all_ how we say that word in Spanish 😱
I find that so fascinating! As a native German speaker, I can't even understand everyone from my own country....
It's unfortunate that I find this so interesting, it's actually keeping me awake 😂😂 I'll have to come back during daylight hours so I can listen to this all some more. Thank you for a wonderful video, though!
I'll try and be more boring next time 😉 Thank you!!
Français et fière de l'être 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
I Loved this video so much! Congrats!
Thank you 💚💚
As a French person, it is a dream to be able to speak it 😭
I wish I could write it, why so difficult 😥
Maybe a dutch / afrikaans video could be interesting.
I'll keep that in mind, thank you!
I would love to see you do one of these videos for Italian!
I'll probably do a more general one on the Romance languages soon, but I'm curious about Italian dialects, so let's see. Might take a bit!
You speak english so well that I thought you were a native english speaker 😱🤯😊😊😇 it’s only when I looked at your channel description that I have found out you were Austrian
Aw thank you! I think we can all be lucky that I don't sound like Arnie haha, I don't know how relaxing that would be.
I love how I hate school and history especially, but I love your videos, you’re a better teacher than any of the ones at my school! I love that your channel gives me an opportunity to enjoy education :)
I'm so honoured to hear this! Keeping my fingers crossed that school will turn into a better and more enjoyable experience again for you 💛 Either way, tho, there will always be other places that allow you to thrive.
Louisiana French gets complicated because it didn't start with Acadian resettlement, nor end with their arrival. Many french descendants carry non-Acadian surnames, but later all morphed into the anglicized "kayjun" label. Though also the application of that label by outsiders in the early 20th century, and it's later adoption by some of them, highlighted a cleavage of identity along the lines of English/American sensibility of racial definition. But anyway, yes, many of the settlers came from coastal regions near Bordeaux. I've wondered how Occitanian their language of the latter half of the 1600s was in its origins. Later, so many brought forms of French from other regions, including after the Revolution. Also much of the French spoken in nouvelle Orleans was extinct after the US Civil War, while the rural folk continued on until the first world war, due to geographical, topographical isolation in the river delta and the western side of the State. It still humors me to hear a Canadian Acadian speak in French and then speak Canadian English with its particular vowel sounds. Also a while back in another channel's video or some reading online, it struck me to hear a specific word from Occitan, without which, we would not have a common word or term for something in English. I forget the word, but there are so many examples of such things. A misfortune to be losing aspects of the intangible "patrinomie" as they say.
Do you happen to know a good source to read up on the topic? It's super interesting, but my knowledge is woefully sparse when it comes to anything other than Standard Metropolitan French, despite (or maybe because of) many years of French classes.
Very impressive being able to speak 3 languages!
Wonderful 🤩
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This was amazing, thank you!
Thank you, that means a lot! 🥰
I didn’t fall asleep… it safe to say I died passed out. So satisfying 🤤😴
Ahaha I hope that's a good thing? 💛
@@MelangeASMR C’est bon! C’est très bon😌
@@makiahjolie2512 Excellent!
The is no catalonian regions, there is Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic islands where different occitanian dialects are spoken (catalonian, valencian and balearic or majorcan)
Catalan it’s no Occitan it’s a language that comes from but no the same language…
@@angyliv8040 No that's nationalistic catalonian politics. Valencian and balearic are dialects of occitanian just like catalonian, not catalonian dialects. The language of the kingdom of Aragón was provenzal, another dialect of occitanian.
Would love to see something like this for the US
Hey, I'm glad you enjoyed it :) Do you mean something like which languages are spoken where in the US?
Your videos are wonderful and so informative. 💕📖💕
Thank you!! I'm very happy you like them 🥰
@@MelangeASMR Not only do you have a beautiful speaking voice, but you also provide so much interesting information. And the videos are produced so nicely; I can imagine how much work goes into them. Thank you!
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Always saddened me that until recently the French government has been trying very hard to stamp out the regional languages and dialects.
Okay I'm french and i just know I have a lot to learn here😭
Or just have a little nap! 💙
What a great book you have
Could you possibly do a video on Slavic languages? 🙂
Already done! It's in the language history playlist :)
Salut! Would you be able to do the Zulu language? Merci!
Hey, thanks for the suggestion! I'm afraid I know very little about Zulu, but I would love to do a more general video on language families in Africa.
My vote would be for russian or polish
Thank you for the suggestion! Slavic languages would definitely be interesting.
@@MelangeASMR yes I find Slavic culture fascinating and I think the languages sounds beautiful.
What map book is that? It looks amazing
Putzger Historischer Weltatlas, Kartenausgabe. The sources are always in the description box :)
@@MelangeASMR thank you
Hallo,
Was ist das Buch Name?
Danke, merci 😉
Salut, die drei Bücher sind:
Putzger Historischer Weltatlas, Kartenausgabe.
Berschin/Felixberger/Goebl: Französische Sprachgeschichte.
Geckeler/Dietrich: Einführung in die französische Sprachwissenschaft.
@@MelangeASMR Danke 😉
Die franzosiche Sprach Geschichte 👍
J'aime ta présentation chronologique de l'histoire de la langue et de fait du peuple et ce rappel que nos 2 pays partagent une histoire, une Kultur, commune.
Oh je suis française ! 😳
Salut!
Tres bien chere mademoiselle!
Je t'en prie!
Ahhaa the French
Mais oui~
spoken by most African countries!