Learning French - Difficulties And Tips
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Some thoughts about the French language and how to learn it.
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Hi there, this is Steve here. Today, I’m going to talk to you about learning French. French was my first love when it comes to languages. There’s an expression in French, in fact, “On revient toujours a son premier amour.”. You always go back to your first loves. I love French, I love all the languages that I learn, but I have a special feeling of affection for French. I studied French at school; I couldn’t speak at the age of 16. I went to McGill University and had a professor who turned me on. He turned me on to French civilization. To learn a language you’ve got to really love the language, be committed to the language and want to be part of that community of people who speak that language. That’s what happened to me. I got very keen and I ended up going to France for three years where I studied Political Science at L’institut d’études politiques in Paris.
French is a precise language, it’s the language of logic...
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Timelines:
0:15 My love story with the French language.
1:05 French is a precise language.
1:54 Why French is difficult.
2:26 Small tips on learning French.
4:18 Tenses in French.
5:22 Positive and negative statements in French.
6:14 Wh- question words in French.
7:10 Pronouns in French.
7:39 Gender and number in French.
7:59 Sounds you don’t pronounce in French.
10:18 Constantly review verb conjugations in French.
11:13 Tenses and Conditionals in French.
11:49 Subjunctives in French.
12:29 Relative clause in French.
12:41 Things French say differently.
12:56 Homage to the French language.
14:10 Don’t let French grammar be a stumbling block.
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Why the heck am I watching this!!? I'm french
Ahah tu n'es pas le seul je crois que je me suis aussi perdu sur UA-cam x)
I recommend LearnFrenchFast99.blogspot.com
to all you friends who want to
learn french in easy way…Recommended…
I want to learn french, help!
Are you english or fluent in this language Diana :D ?
I'm fluent ;)
Thanks for the kind words, and remember in language learning we need to be patient. It is a long road. We are developing new habits.
Thank you so much Steve 🙏
On revient toujours à ses premiers amours
My first love has 2 kids with someone else. I think it's a little bit too late for me to go back.
Lool sorry mate
Specs8i adopt french
I have spent months studying speaking French online and found an awesome resource at Mirykal French Plan (check it out on google)
Just go back for a night now and then, preferably when kids and someone else are somewhere else;)
I don't think your first infatuation is what is meant by that quote. It is the more subtle and universal love towards the essence of humanity as well as the goodness.
One of my biggest dreams is to speak French and English the same way I speak Portuguese: no fear, naturally, feeling confident, having fun and taking them both as a tool to communication and not a creepy challenge like I see lots of people afraid when it comes to learn a new language. =) P.s: English is my first love and French is my affair hahahaha.
Bon courage!
You can do it!
U can write in English 8t u can't speak in English wow 8y the way u r cute
Reading and writing is some how easy than speaking, probably it's difficult to find a friend to practice with.
***** Because we need it. Everyone in this world need it.
Oh my God when you say "on revient toujours à ses premières amours", I've never heard a non-French speaking a perfect French.
Seriously people don't realise how easy French is. Learning Russian made me realise how simple French was, so I went back and learned French
Studied German because my grandmother is Swiss and speaks in German, French, English etc. Next thing I know I am on a date meeting a girl that I had no idea spoke German and took 4 years of it in high school. Needless to say, foreign languages are almost as interesting and stimulating as being able to play an instrument in my opinion.
I think learning a language is harder and more simulating Than playing an instruments(I think instrument once you got comfortable with it..everything will get so easy unlike language where the grammar and vocabularies will be your enemy,you have to go back and re do everything something like that lol)
I can identify with this comment because I happen to be amateur musician and linguist and aspiring polyglot.
Aye, I think that learning a foreign language as well as an instrument is something everyone should do
@@cosmicplebe310 Grammar is like music theory ,vocab is like chords & scales, and phrases are licks & riffs. Yes, learning a few chords is easy in an instruments but when you get advanced it only gets harder. And if you compare genres of music to different languages, the rules and systems change. Like Indian Hindustani, Turkish Makam, and European Classical music are completely different languages of music with different rules and systems. So, music can get hard and stimulating if you go deep enough.
@@cosmicplebe310 depends on the language some are easy some aren't... some instruments are really difficult some not so much!
I just want this guy to be my grandpa ohmygosh 😭😭😭
I want him to be my daddy. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Night Shade lmfao
Chelsea Kimberlye me too
the comments. geeezz xD
I don't have any grandpas. All gone;
Before I was born mother's father dead.
Absent father's father; alive (yes, maybe ... I don't know) but ... first word.
For me, the best comment on language learning came from Khatzumoto: "You don't learn a language, you just get used to it." In this saying you have all the key elements to learning a new language.
Thanks for passing this along.
There are many components to studying French quickly . A resource I discovered which succeeds in merging these is the Mirykal French Plan (check it out on google) definately the most useful treatment that I have ever heard of. Look at the interesting information .
French takes a lot of getting used for anglophones.
Interesting video...thanks for sharing
V-V-Vincent? :O
It sure is! Oh, what do we do, now?!?!
Vincent Hazme un hijo xD
LEARN FRENCH WITH VINCENT Good advertising, Vincent!
Vincent is also best in the planet. I listen to you always
My biggest problem is when I'm hearing native French tongue I can't differentiate the words. It's all too quick for me, any tips on that?
just keep listening more and more and you will get used to
Keep listening to it over UA-cam. But if you still do this now you can say
« Parlez plus lentement s’il vous plaît »
Watch French movies or shows
Just go with
*Plus lentement s'il vous plaît. Je ne comprends pas*
The second full sentence I learned in French
Expose yourself to it constantly. You can slow the speed on UA-cam. Also if you have captions, use that to separate the sounds until you dont need it anymore
Je pense que je n'ai même pas besoin de prendre des cours d'anglais pour m'améliorer en anglais car pour la première fois en 10 ans d'apprentissage scolaire je comprend parfaitement votre accent et je suis emportée comme une plume. Encore merci Mr Steeve Kaufmann. Vous articulez très bien et c'est justement ce genre de vidéos dont j'ai besoin. Une native française qui vous suit depuis déjà plusieurs mois.
steve, you motivated me to learn english when I was sixteen, now I can understand and speak much better, right now I'm learning french and I wish to be a polyglot like you.
thanks steve.
I'm from Quebec,canada so I speak fluently in English and French
Hi. Can you help me with french speaking
60% of the Quebecois speak both English and French
I've been learning for about 5 months, and this is by far the most helpful video I've seen yet. Merci beaucoup!
There are actually 3 ways to ask a question :
-est-ce que tu es content ?
-Es-tu content ?
And :
-T'es content ?
And you could add a fourth, although grammatically it's a stretch : Content ?, similar to the ironic "Happy, now?"
In Québécois French, there is also -tu ! Ex. Ça se peut-tu? Tu me comprends-tu? In other words, "tu" can be a personal pronoun, the past participle of "taire" and in Québec and elsewhere in Canada, a yes-no question particle!
Haha... 💝
'"T'es content" est familier, je conseille uniquement à l'oral !!
At first i found your style slightly off putting, but now I'm really addicted to your videos, and the way you think about languages. Thanks a lot, these are really interesting!
Steve this advice is fantastic, and I think you're exactly right. Grammar is something to look at, forget, come back to, half remember, look at agin and again and over time it wil just sink in. All the while immersing yourself in the language of course. Merci beaucoup pour tons conseils!
I'm french and I will congratulate you for your work and your skill in french. All what you said is correct and your advice is absolutely right. Thanks for sharing this kind of video and for your love of my language.
Thanks, great description mate.
It is a beautiful language. Merci beaucoup Steve! I used to learn French at school and did not really use it, your speech here gave me the push I needed to carry on my learning.
You have such a beautiful voice, Steve! Whether in English or French, it's always so elegant.
Amazing video Steve, tanks a lot!
Thank you so much for making this helpful video!
I was quite inspired for my own French learning technique by your video on using context for learning a language. I really enjoy writing stories so I've been exposing myself to reading lots and seeing patterns in sentences to write short simple stories with simple French sentences of my life and future which also made it relevant for my French target vocabulary acquisition. Being able to read plentiful amounts is so important I've found when comparing my French learning to Japanese (I cant read)
Thank you for these insights, very interesting you hear you talk about some of the nuances in the spoken language as well.
Hi, Steve. I loved your video!! So hard to find videos about learning french, so thanks!!
I'm brazilian, and I do understand a lot of english. In fact, I saw your video without difficulties. Right now I'm making a french class, and I think this language is especially hard because the pronunciation problem that you mentioned.
So thanks again for your videos, this things always help a lot.
Big hug from Brazil!
I'm taking Spanish and high school and I've been very happy with the sharing of Latin roots with Spanish and French. Obviously because Spanish is Latin-Iberian and French is Latin-Frankish so not as much vocabulary similarities as with Spanish and Portuguese. However the basic grammar structure is fairly easy for me to comprehend because I am already very familiar with the primary Latin grammar via Spanish Class. So basically what I wanted to say is if you want to learn a language but your current options at a school don't include it, try to find a language that is related, like Spanish to Italian or German to Swedish, and so on. Very helpful.
DANKE shön! I have been waiting so much for this video ! I´m learning French I´t is quite difficult but I wont stop learning! I love this language !!Merci Beaucoup
certainly helpful! thanks for the vid
Those are great tips for learning French. I'm learning French and I use a variety of resources such as a textbook, grammar book, French-English dictionary, and books that consist of readings in French. I also listen to French songs and I practice writing in French.
Very interesting info there , im learning this language for about two weeks , with alot of reading and listening I feel um way better than my first couple days , i found lingq three days ago , and god!its very helpful and very fun , im find myself enjoying the process with lingq with its great community , keep it up Mr.kaufmann and thanks for your efforts
Excellent explanation! thanks
So true. So true. Thank you sir!
thank you very much !!!!!
that was really useful
WAW, je suis vraiment impressionnée, votre accent français est si correcte, j'en suis époustouflée!!!! Votre vidéo m'a épaté, franchement. Il est parfois rare de trouver un anglophone avec un accent français aussi parfait.
My first love is japanese but currently I'm learning Korean both are my loves
coz you like Kpop?
Max Hope lol it’s not always that I have no interest in that but I know someone studying it who can’t stand k pop 😂
@@donsavant6170 So what languages are you studying now?
Max Hope French and Japanese
Max Hope you ?
thank you Steve for the video,, I became more excited about learning french :)
I agree with you 100% you express these concepts well
Loved the video! Very helpful, Steve. I have learned Spanish and I can also speak Portuguese decently. I just think French is a beautiful and very interesting language. I understand how it can be difficult to understand since there are so many vowel sounds (more so than Spanish), many consonants aren't pronounced, and so many more words are just one or two syllables which seems easier but can be more difficult comprehensive-wise. Very informative video. It really inspired me to learn! Merci beaucoup! Hunter
So cool! Thanks
Always love your videos Steve! If you could do a similar one covering Spanish that'd be great! I plan to eventually learn French but it depends how my Spanish develops, I'd like to reach a pretty high level in that first which could take a number of years.
Thank you for talking about grammar, pronunciation.... etc. Very helpful for a beginner (3 weeks). :)
The best way I know, to get use to french pronounciation is watching movie with french dub and french sub at the same time.
hello do you have any movies as recomendation for me to watch,im quite new and know little about the language(and a web site to watch too)
I don't know what type you're into, so here are my favourite french movies:
- Le Mystère de la chambre jaune (2003), a detective movie set in early 20th century.
From Jean-Pierre Jeunet, two romantic movies :
- Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001), romantic comedy set in modern Paris (Althought a lot brighter than normal Paris).
- Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004), a french countrygirl looks for her missing boyfriend after world war one.
From Jean-Pierre Jeunet again, two creepy movies :
- Delicatessen (1991), It is set in an apartment building in a post-apocalyptic France of an ambiguous time period, the residents are cannibal and want to eat the newcomer.
- La Cité des enfants perdus (1995), not sure how to describe it. There is a mad scientist kidnapping children to get their dreams. Very creepy, VERY weird.
- 99 francs (2007), the story of a cynical man working in advertisement business. Great, but depressing. WARNING : sexual content.
On a brighter note, we have, like, a billion adaptation of the french comic book Astérix. If you don't know about it, better start by :
- Les Douze Travaux d'Astérix (1976), not my favorite, but the only one introducing the situation before throwing you into.
My favourite Astérix movies :
- Astérix et Cléopâtre (1968), do NOT confuse with "Astérix et Obélix : Mission Cléopâtre"(2002). Best gags.
- Astérix et la Surprise de César (1985), not the funniest, but the first one showing Rome as a big deal.
- Astérix chez les Bretons (1986), WARNING : "bretons" in the movie don't talk normal french. It's english translated literally in french. Do NOT imitate them.
- Astérix et le Coup du menhir (1989), best atmosphere. Good to explain superstition to children.
- Astérix : Le Domaine des dieux (2014), best satire.
There is also many french comedies, but they are really really not my thing, so I can't recommend anything.
THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH IS NOT AN ENCOURAGEMENT FOR ILLEGAL DOWNLOAD. It's an alternative for people who can't find the content through legal way.
The french word for "download" is "télécharger". Type "télécharger [nameofthemovie]" on google, the first link is often the one. They usually propose the movie via several host, uptobox, 1fichier and uplea are the faster.
For the sub, www.opensubtitles.org/ is great, but there are others.
Ask if you have any question, and sorry if I made english mistakes.
ManaPeerfr Wow,im really grateful for these tips of movies to watch(you really do love asterix)i shall take into account all movies and watch them,if i have any other doubts i'll be sure to ask you again :D
"you really do love asterix" Yeah, I can't deny it^^'. I hope you will enjoy them^^.
So, did you wath it ? :)
I am a french speaker but I consider my language the common heritage of both French and English speakers on account to the amount of vocabulary and influence French had on English. I feel like it would be a little bit like learning latin or greek for french speakers. Also French is a common heritage since at the time of the Norman invasion, the Normans wrote a lot of books, far more than in France. And those books are fundamental to the french language nowadays (e.g. King Arthur, ...). To some extent Norman French is the source of modern french and many texts and books are still easily readible.
so useful this video! thankyouu
This is a very helpful series.
Merci beaucoup pour les conseils :D
Merci! Très bien!
Been learning French for 6 weeks now so got excited when I read the title of this video :D
Thank you for you useful information, i enjoyed Listening to your Video. it made sense for me.
This is very interesting Stevie !!
And I thought I was hopeless for wanting to teach myself French at age 19, like it was "too late" well I'm wrong. Thanks for your videos. I too want to live in Paris (in the far future) and travel. Having three years of Spanish from high school definitely is helping right now, too.
Heyy, someone in almost my same situation! (Spanish first, though I've only self-studied for 2 years so far, and now I'm reeeeally impatient to get into French even though I knoww Steve says don't do 2 at a time)
...oh, six years ago lol so you're probably fluent already!
@@2b-coeur are you still learning french?
@@kmradosevich it's in hiatus right now (i may or may not have ummm taken up italian) but i did reach the level where i could go to Paris recently and more or less navigate, plus read a v interesting philosophy book in French!
I'm taking french class in high school next year, I can't wait
I'm French and I enjoyed watching this video, thanks.
Je suis français et je regarde cette vidéo . Pourquoi? Je sais pas mdr
On est deux.
38lionel
Et de trois :p
Fabrice Menoux Moi aussi :D
+1
Greg ~ d'accord😈
It's cool that you studied en France, thanks for the tips. Je voudrais étudier à Paris.
Me too I can say I have special love for this language, but is so hard for me to understand everything sound the same .I don't recognize the words in the sentences if spoken and contractions exactly the way you describe everything.many thanks for sharing your expertise and skills .very very helpful !!❤❤❤
i do love your advice.
As a native from France I have listened your video with attention and must say that your advice seems interesting...well French uses English words but in some peculiar way...People can wear 'smoking' and 'basquettes' (these at their feet), they buy things and call it "le shopping", and they can park their car on 'parkings'. Saturday and Sunday is for us 'le weekend'. They eat 'steaks' or 'biftèques' ; or 'cookies'...and they send 'emails' or...'courriels'...And so on...Or etc (this is Greek here!)
I'm pretty sure it's even written "baskets".
Also chewing-gum pronounced "chouinegom".
I plan to in the future.
Merci beaucoup, je pense le même
OMG STEVE I never know you re from McGill as well!!! Quelle surprise!!! J'étude à McGill aussi et ça me fait très très plaisir à savoir votre expérience!!
When I stayed in France with some old friends for the summer, the first thing I learned was how to say, "Can you slowly repeat that, please?" Therefore, when someone was speaking too fast for me to understand, they broke their sentence down for me so I could grasp their meaning. It helped a bunch! I recommend it!
Thank you, Steve! I am planning on spending some time in France in the future, when I learn French well enough and when I get lucky. :D
I'm french Canadian and this video is good for improve my english .
hahaha absolument génial!
Surtout le "ch'ais pas"(je sais pas) bien joué!
That's exquisite, I never realised how my language was so tricky with pronunciation. I think with our tenses, it is reassuring to know that apart from grammarians, almost no one masters all the tenses. It is way to complicated so we tend to forget the less used tenses. As learners, we spent years using the Bescherelle. And most people make mistakes apart from well learnt ones. I myself discovered there was no subjonctive after après que when I was 19. It came a bit as a shock lol.
Great Tips! Portuguese is my first language. I'm learning french with my second language that's English. Like French is romantic language to me French isn't simple language. However Portuguese I've spoken, I don't know so much about the grammar.
Merci de vos conseils~~
I find it useful to stick with basic verbs and nouns and use those words to make sentences in the target language. Therefore you can find the basic structure of grammar and find patterns using known variables. You can then see how different grammar structures modify words you already know.
Thanks for the time stamps in the Description box.
Merci Beaucoup!!
hello steve as a native french speaker i would recommand to start by the most important part of french grammar wich is " la conjugaison" the structure of tenses are soo different from english that"s my own point of view
Excelente video señor Kaufmann. Justo necesitaba un video como este para encaminar mejor mis estudios de frances. Y es verdad la gramatica del frances es un problema, jeje. Un video sobre el aprendizaje del aleman seria fantastico. Un gran saludo.
Merci beaucoup 😍
My mom taught me some French when I was a kid, it was her native language. A lot of what he said in this video is natural to me (I just know it / feel it) yet I don't know the language. If a kid can be exposed it means everything. I feel confident I could learn the language but there simple is not compelling reason to...
Thank you!
Thank u sir very motivating video
Yes to know a little of everything is my passion
There's also the minor issue of how colloquial French is spoken as opposed to how we learn it. Two common examples are:
a) in common conversation, to express the 1st person plural actions they will usually state "we go" as "on va" as opposed to the textbook "nous allons." This is true for many other verbs.
b)often times (Steve briefly alluded to it) when making negations they will often omit the "ne" and simply state the verb and add the "pas."
I like how you respected the feminine plural of amours
I'm French and willing to learn multiple languages. I'm amazed and astonished by the way you switch from a language to another, like in the part from 2:45 to 3:00 seriously you're impressive man
Merci
me: trying to learn french
what do I do: watch an english explanation about it, practicing my english in the process (which is yet acceptable) and not my french (which is very bad)
I've heard it's good to learn a 3rd language through a second though! I'm going to try to learn French through Spanish.
Hahaha. You sounds brazilian, i know for your name. I think in learn French the next year, for now, i improve my English and Spanish for to thrive in languages
I'm doing the same thing 😂😂
I've tried teaching myself French with the Berlitz method and it went pretty well. Then I gave it up a year ago Lately I've been questioning myself about catching up with it again and after seeing this video I think I've found a good source of motivation. Merci Steve!
Did you? 😅
Thank for Lesson tips...
Wow nice!
Merci steeve
nice video!
Thanks for your tips! My native language is Spanish and I speak English, definitely my third language will be French.
My problem with French is that I can't write a word wich I learn from listening and I can't pronounce the word which is written. How can I fix that.
I love French since I was a kid.
Just learn to be patient, it will get better.
Thanks.
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve nice thanks for the heads up i need some help with that
you dont necessarily need a lot of patience... there are rules that explain how you pronounce things, of course there are some execptions but that s normal... you will need to work hard, because english speakers always have a prononciation that is a bit too harsh (like in this vid)
I think you should try to learn some pronunciation rules and practice just pronouncing French words by themselves. Obviously, you would also need to hear the correct pronunciation before or after you pronounce it, too. French pronunciation is actually more consistent than English; I think what makes it difficult for many learners is that French pronunciation rules and English ones are significantly different.
Thank you :)
I think part of learning a new language, is to not have an expectation of it being a rational process; let me elucidate, there is not reason for English to say "The red shirt" just like there is no reason for the French to say "La chemise rouge" languages are totally empirical until you reach a point where you are so familiar with "The How" of the language, that you can make educated guesses on grammar, and also words. Things like a lot of English words ending in -ive end in -if in French but are really similar. If you go into it, trying to make sense of everything you will go crazy.
+dakota demaris I have to disagree. Even though languages are empirical in it's formation doesn't mean it doesn't have a logical process in it. You can, of course, learn it by ear and just repeat it, but you won't be able to drown yourself in the language to the point you could understand, for instance, abbreviations and slangs or just joke with the sound and etc, what a native speaker can. In my personal experience, I can't understand a language if I can't see the regularities in it, what I do is understand a little more of the culture in what the language is inserted, as I experienced when learning french. But I can understand what you said about 'thinking' about it when speaking, in time it doesn't happen of course...
I think you miss understood me, my point is exactly that you can not just repeat a word to yourself and learn it, or to a larger point; you cannot simply set in a room and learn French just in your brain with no materials. Language is empirical in that you need many examples of usage, i.e. reading the word, writing the word, hearing it used in conversation, making a mental image of it etc. If you try to make sense of a language you'll go crazy, just learn it.
Merci beaucoup :D
Good luck to you!
Merci beaucoup monsieur
Thank you for the tips! Will take a stab at my third language! Polish, English and now French!
Good luck
Hi,
I try to listen French audios on Lingq (or elsewhere as well) and learning new words. And if I review those audios again, I can understand those words which I learned, while reviewing them in written form (cards, cloze, multiple choices etc. on Lingq). But when I hear a new text I feel like I am at the beginning again, I feel like lots of the French words sound all the same to me again, so I can barely understand even the discussed topic itself.
I try to spent 30min-1h per day by active learning with Lingq or Babbel (listening and reviewing marked words) and passively when trying to watch French movies or French news.
I´m still beginner in French (started almost two months ago) and trying to approach A2 content on Lingq. My main goal for the beginning is to understand the spoken French.
By what kind of listening (meaning where, for how long, how difficult content) I can improve my understanding of spoken French, so I can at least recognize the words in sentence (be able to imagine them in written form) if not immediately understand their meaning.
Thank you for your help in advance and sorry if my question feels long or exhausting.
Pavel
You are really talking something very conceptual to learn french