Oh I DOOO know French is so confusing! Had to learn it for 13 years, thank God I hadn't known all of this back than, I just thought "this all makes sense eventually" - it doesn't.
-Ok English, how do you want to pronounce this combination of letters: ea? -Well I was thinking of ee, like in beat -ok -or in heat -good -head -wait what? --a tear, I tear, I read, I've read -what are you doing? -heard, heart, great -stop it! -idea, caveat, ocean, real, create -ok English, you're drunk
Think of the evolution and diversification of the -ea- sound in the same way how the eis sound in Old French evolved. This evolved and changed spelling in modern French to be ais and ois. In standard Metropolitan French these are realized as [ɛ] and [wɑ], yet certain dialects have retained earlier pronunciations before ois became pronounced as [wɑ] and may say [we], [wɛ], [wɛ:], [wa:] [wɒː], or [wɔː], or even may have gone even further to give us Quebecois French [waɪ̯], [wɛɪ̯], [wei̯] through diphthongization of the long oi of Middle and Early Modern French whose distinction from short oi is extinct in Metropolitan French. Even in different French dialects what becomes [ɛ] and what becomes [wɑ] is inconsistent. Like some French speakers will pronounce droit and froid as [dʁɛ] and [fʁɛ] as examples. Unlike English, French schools for the past 150 years have worked their damnedest to uniform speech in schools (particularly in urban areas which of course have seen greater immigration from rural France with urbanization) and have weeded out the sundry of vowel variations traditionally spoken in Northern France. They have also worked to endanger and even exterminate various dialects of different languages spoken throughout France including Brezhoneg and Occitan. We've seen very similar processes be carried out in Northern Germany over the same period after German Unification while deeply conservative Southern Germany has pushed back against it and continue to clearly speak their local dialects, even though in urban areas High German has had a large influence on speech. English on the other hand has been a more voluntary situation of people standardizing speech to fit in and to associate with higher socioeconomic classes (something that German and French speakers also experienced but with greater state involvement via education to push uniformity back in the late 1800s-early 1900s). And in the Americas, as you move further west and away from the longly and diversely settled Eastern Maritimes and Seaboard, one merely sees more assimilated speech due to those regions being settled for much shorter periods of time and by people of a more unified background.
@@hoathanatos6179 accents and regional dialects or language are a different issue. This was an example of different pronounciations for the same sequence of letter in the *same* language spoken with the same accent.
Universal Language: Alright so did everyone do their conjugating homework? The Romance Languages: Yes! *turn in entire novels* English: Uh, yeah... *turns in five pages*
what he shown: ⠀⠀English: "so we were thinking table" reality: ⠀⠀English: "hey, let me copy your work?" ⠀⠀Latin: "ok, but change it a little bit so it's not obvious"
@@darealist690 why would they have took it from Spanish? The iberian peninsula is pretty far from the British isles, by European standards. And the normans pretty much invaded England and fucked even more the already pretty screwed language there. That's why so many words in English are either French or German, with some Celtic (Gaelic?) throughout it all.
Ok, the conjugating he did was actually pretty impressive. I used to have notebooks filled with conjugations homework because French has so many damn tenses. Lol
Yeah, we have tenses but we also have the modes (used according to the sentence's point of view), and all of them contain several tenses (2 to 8), kinda like english modals but way more complicated 😂 this is so confusing
yes you are so right! English is much easier. For exemple, when you want to put your verb in future mode, you just have to add "will" But in French is a whole new way of saying and spelling the word. And the verb "Faire" is one of the hardest one. In english it's so simple, for exemple in the present tense it is : I DO, You DO, He DOES, We DO, You DO, They DO. In french, its : Je FAIS, Tu FAIS, Il FAIT, Nous FAISONS, Vous FAITES, Ils FONT. In english the futur tense is I WILL DO, you WILL DO, he WILL DO, etc...But in french it is JE FERAI, TU FERAS, IL FERA, NOUS FERONS, VOUS FEREZ, ILS FERONT. Insane!!!
As someone trying to learn french, this is just absoultely hillarious. The fact so many words are absoulutely not spoken the way they are written or combinations of words don't always make sense, if you translate them, the make NO SENSE AT ALL This is just pure comedy perfectionist GOLD!!!!
Haha, as a fellow French learner, I can relate. But I think you'll find that French spelling is actually very consistent, especially in comparison with English. You get a feel for the logic after a while.
Naw mate, ut actually makes sense. The writing part of the language is not done for the purpose of pronouncing it (Yes I know, weird flex, but once you understand that, you get it), written French gives details that get lost in spoken French, now that you have this secret, I still wish you good luck 'cause it's hall to learn x)
When he translates all the words that sound the same then puts them together I literally tear up with laughter. This guy is so smart and funny. I'd love to meet him, seems like one of the greatest friends to have.
@@qualcuno3643 Considering how we've dealt with the Corona crisis and how people behave, I suppose our language hasn't left much intellectual resource available...
I saw one guy post it in another comment, he's proud of his language, and he should be. But I've never been scared of how many ways there is to say a verb. There's so many
The scene with French determining the gender of the table is pure comedy gold. That being said it's funny that English speakers always make fun of French for being gendered like it's some sort of grammatical quirk no one else shares. You looked at basically ANY OTHER EUROPEAN LANGUAGE?
@@camillehocde8195 there are? I'm German and I've never really noticed a specific rule for genders. like the sun and the moon- in most cultures, the moon is female and the sun is male, but in German it’s the opposite. (ok that was a bad example) an insect is neutral, which kind of makes sense, but a mushroom is male? idk, if you know a rule I would genuinely like to hear it
12:35 i just love the fact how english actually took shampoo from the hindi word chiampoo which means head message with essential oils,( shampoos originated in india or more precisely chiampoos)
This is the most hysterical video I've watched on UA-cam. At 56, I am trying to relearn French from my younger days of failing to grasp the language from when I went to grade school. Not only am I laughing to tears but now I have a real reason why I found learning French so darn hard.
I love French’s character, he can be a little psychotic sometimes n he doesn’t care or apologize for it. He likes riling n making Universal question his sanity
@Sling Yes objects in English are "it", but especially men refer to expensive large things they like as being a her/she. And it's totally **not** sexist at all *cough sarcasm cough* Basically if it has an engine, men like it, and it can be owned as property, most men call it a "she" as though it's alive. In English, calling an organism an "it" is an insult and it kinda of like saying that organism is an object and not alive. And yes I have seen men get offended by someone insisting the object is an "it", because they have feeling for this boat/motorcycle/car/etc. Yes it is weird. Though we also have odd phrases like "Listen to that engine purr!" and 'purr' is one of the sounds a pet house cat makes. As someone who has been around a running motorcycle & a purring cat, they sound nothing alike.
When learning German I always wondered about utensils' genders. Because if I remember correctly it's: spoon -Der Löffel - masculine fork - Die Gabel - feminine knife - Das Messer - neutral. And in Polish we have: spoon - łyżka - feminine fork - widelec - masc. knife - nóż - masc. So nearly complete opposite :)
This actually makes sense. Sun gives life = Feminine Moon does nothing but just reflects the sun = Masculine Girl can be pregnant but should not be = Neutral
@@da96103 I don’t get the pregnant part. Mädchen ends on the diminutive chen. Therefore it’s neutral as everything ending on chen is neutral but as it is a diminutive it also still sounds kinda feminine and cute.
Just so you guys know : I'm a french native, and on a daily basis, to make sure I spell words right, I Google them. Yes I'm doing that for english and other languages I'm learning, but I do that even more often for french... So, if you're looking to learn french; don't be so hard on yourselves; even french people don't get it right 😂
He kills me 😂😂😂 French toast we say pain perdu, the bread becomes too hard after two days so we use eggs, milk and sugar and we cook it in a pan. Make sens no?? 😂
In French, it’s the losts as food leftovers. So it’s called lost bread because we used food leftovers for create “French toast”. We take the stale bread and cook it with milk and eggs... why did I juste see a piece of brioche in this vidéo ? By the way, French fries are Belgium, it’s not fair for them 🇧🇪💕
Pain perdu means wasted bread not lost (yes it's the same word for both I know) because we make pain perdu with bread that is too old and has dried up, so it doesn't go to waste... I'm passionnate about pain perdu guys 😭 Ps: don't waste food. Especially not bread, you criminal
French is my first language ( I’m fluent ) and I didn’t realize how messed up the grammar was until I grew up lol. Good luck to all the non French speaker who are trying to learn it .
It actually isn't messed up, it just has a lot of rules. The gendering is a hard deal and after all those years I am still guessing a lot, but that usually doesn't make me less understandable :) The english language has a whole lot of exceptions (especially in pronunciation) so I personally found it harder to learn english (since I am old enough to use yt as much as I want my english ofc improved way more than my french).
I dont speak a word of French, and I struggle pronouncing nuances in any language, but now I want to learn because this French personification seems funny, silly and sweet and I want a conversation! Really though, Im impressed how easy to understand the jokes are even if you dont know the language - thats impressive writing!
Notice how they don't use set genders for scientific latin names. Because they are so meaningless the big brains decided it's best to get rid of them even when resurrecting a dead language for taxonomy.
Oh my gods, this is freaking hilarious! I don't know if being French makes a difference but I can so identify our people in this and especially the one from l'Académie française, and remember at the same time all the pointless explanation I gave to non-native speakers that I can't stop laughing, seriously crying now! Hahaaaaaa
I really think being french makes a difference 😂 I'm french and for example, masculin or feminin is something we don't think, it's natural for us to know what is the gender because we learn this since we are baby (when the gender is false it feels reaallyyyyy weird) (Sorry for mistakes, I didn't use Google 😭👉👈)
@@koyanie9022 I didn't get the google thing but for the rest, yeah I feel you. And I think that when you have to explain it, it's even more odd and that guy came up with hilarious explanation that are so reflective of the French stereotypes, yet in a very accurate way! Very good observational skills that man! 😹 And I can't tell because I'm neither a Spanish nor English native speaker, but that's very much how I pictured my native Spanish/English speaker buddies at uni 😂😂
Icelandic tölvu for computer which i guess means something like 'number prophetess'. Gives an interesting meaning to 'Tölvunarfræðideild' = 'The department of number prophetesses theory' (computer science faculty)
The gendering of Covid is legit a way of testing who is following the official discourse. Everybody was saying Le Covid (as in Le virus), but suddenly the Académie Française made the recommendation to use La Covid (as in La maladie). Just by listening to who switched to the new gender (bombarded by mainstream media) you could tell right away if they still had independent thoughts or were just NPC drones.
@@TheZapan99 Well it seems uite logic to me. The virus is the coronavirus which is "le coronavirus" on french, while Covid means "coronavirus' disease" so it's the disease, that's why saying "la covid" (for saying "la maladie à coronavirus") seems more logical.
@@fili3907 You totally missed the point of my comment. French people organically decided that this new word was masculine, but authorities had to impose a different choice, because it allowed them to check their level of mind-control on the population. They don't understand it works both way, and people are also making lists.
@@TheZapan99 Well... The thing is that the people deciding whether a noun is masculine or feminine aren't the autorites. That's why in the past there have been conflits between the government, who wanted to change some grammar rules to be easier and more logical to be taught, and the "Académie Française" that disagreed. Turns out that the Académie Française won. Cause they are the ones in charge of grammar rules and orthograph. So... No "testing of their mind control" from our authorities. By the way I think that, for the most part, they were also saying "Le covid" before.
So, you are a French who somehow speaks English without a French accent, while simultaneously speaks his native language with an added funny accent?! I'm confused, but... Kudos!
This is soo cathartic for six years of French studies. It's a wonderful language in many ways, but boy it has weird logic for a nordic boy.. French as a character is a new favorite too
As an avid follower of Loïc language toks. I just want to say I'm waiting for the deeper layer of this sketch to come out. When French, Spanish, and English finally ask universal how he says it. Then universal uses the Esperanto. That is truly the dream.
Alors franchement, fallait y penser, eres la leche, great way to let the people comprendre las diferencias entre estos magníficos idiomas... Como decimos : I have split my *ss during the video ;) Continue comme ça Loïc ! ¿Puedes en faire plein please ?
His acting is amazing it’s ligit the same person and it seems like that it’s multiple people bc he’s staring at them and the audio is mixed it’s AMAZING
I think I will have to download Tik Tok just to see your videos! Never hit that subscribe button so fast before! Lots of love from Prague, Czech Republic!
It is even better than that. "Universal language's" English is in a fairly neutral accent, but sometimes his "English language" accent is noticiably American mid-west.
Languages characterization perfectly performed with comedian style that goes straight to the heart ❤️😂😍😂❤️ you made my day everyday I watched your videos 🙏🏻
He's literally wearing the same clothes in all of these but his acting is so good that it looks like different people.
Exactly, it really feels like a different person.
The t-shirt change depending on the langage wich help the transitions. But I agree, the acting is on point !
His cartoon logo is in the same clothes too! 😄
Exactly
Yessss
.... "caoutchouc" ... a final silent "c" ... for symmetry ... i died 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Caoutchouc...
C ... 1, 2, 3, 4 T 1,2,3,4 C
Yup it’s symmetrical
Why ? 🤷
Caoutchouteux has the same root and the final c is gone xD
@@ColonelLucario but but but.... CaouTchouC is NOT C 1234 T 1234 C, it's C 123 T 1234 C
@@jlammetje crêpe you are right
I was been fooled
@@ColonelLucario crêpe 😂
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French looks so innocent and enthusiastic. i understand why everyone wants to be his friend :)
SilpheedTandy.
Heu...
Tell us what is your nationality, just for fun.....
as a belgian guy, you lie, YOU LIIII-
Ummm, actually no, not at all
(If you mean the language itself)
French: *I miss my Papa!*
*runs past picture of French empire
Describe the French language in one meme: "He a little confused but he got the spirit."
IndianWargamer.
Of course te has The Spirit.
French language is rich........like The tailor.
@@ac8907 Mostly only French people will get that joke, since it's from a english teaching book that only french people used xD
P. Miniggio.
Oui et ?
@@ac8907 I don't know this reference but I still agree. Vive la France.
Lol
Being French I had no idea my language could be so confusing. This is hilarious, thanks for the laugh.
Ofccc it is 😩😂 as a persian who speaks 4 languages fluently and learning spanish i still didn’t finish french😐😂coz its so difficult and confusing
Oh I DOOO know French is so confusing! Had to learn it for 13 years, thank God I hadn't known all of this back than, I just thought "this all makes sense eventually" - it doesn't.
-Ok English, how do you want to pronounce this combination of letters: ea?
-Well I was thinking of ee, like in beat
-ok
-or in heat
-good
-head
-wait what?
--a tear, I tear, I read, I've read
-what are you doing?
-heard, heart, great
-stop it!
-idea, caveat, ocean, real, create
-ok English, you're drunk
I need to copy-past this somewhere
@@hirencorn2313 i sent it to all my friends, so I can mock them😂😂😂
Think of the evolution and diversification of the -ea- sound in the same way how the eis sound in Old French evolved. This evolved and changed spelling in modern French to be ais and ois. In standard Metropolitan French these are realized as [ɛ] and [wɑ], yet certain dialects have retained earlier pronunciations before ois became pronounced as [wɑ] and may say [we], [wɛ], [wɛ:], [wa:] [wɒː], or [wɔː], or even may have gone even further to give us Quebecois French [waɪ̯], [wɛɪ̯], [wei̯] through diphthongization of the long oi of Middle and Early Modern French whose distinction from short oi is extinct in Metropolitan French. Even in different French dialects what becomes [ɛ] and what becomes [wɑ] is inconsistent. Like some French speakers will pronounce droit and froid as [dʁɛ] and [fʁɛ] as examples.
Unlike English, French schools for the past 150 years have worked their damnedest to uniform speech in schools (particularly in urban areas which of course have seen greater immigration from rural France with urbanization) and have weeded out the sundry of vowel variations traditionally spoken in Northern France. They have also worked to endanger and even exterminate various dialects of different languages spoken throughout France including Brezhoneg and Occitan.
We've seen very similar processes be carried out in Northern Germany over the same period after German Unification while deeply conservative Southern Germany has pushed back against it and continue to clearly speak their local dialects, even though in urban areas High German has had a large influence on speech.
English on the other hand has been a more voluntary situation of people standardizing speech to fit in and to associate with higher socioeconomic classes (something that German and French speakers also experienced but with greater state involvement via education to push uniformity back in the late 1800s-early 1900s). And in the Americas, as you move further west and away from the longly and diversely settled Eastern Maritimes and Seaboard, one merely sees more assimilated speech due to those regions being settled for much shorter periods of time and by people of a more unified background.
Oh man, wait till you hear about what English did with "gh". Or "ou".
@@hoathanatos6179 accents and regional dialects or language are a different issue. This was an example of different pronounciations for the same sequence of letter in the *same* language spoken with the same accent.
Universal Language: Alright so did everyone do their conjugating homework?
The Romance Languages: Yes! *turn in entire novels*
English: Uh, yeah... *turns in five pages*
Papiamentu: Looks down at his postcard
ASL: well f-
Hindi: *hands over sheet of paper*
This is a well known joke about the Finnish language. Finnish has 15 noun cases (English only has 3), meaning each noun can have over 2000 forms.
English: A dog.
Swedish: What?
English: The dog.
English: Two dogs.
Swedish: Okay. We have: En hund, hunden, Två hundar, hundarna.
German: Wait, I wan’t to try it too!
English: No, go away.
Swedish: No one invited you.
German: Der Hund.
English: I said go away.
German: Ein Hund, zwei Hunde.
Swedish: Stop it!
German: Den Hund, einen Hund, dem Hund, einem Hund, des Hundes, eines Hundes, den Hunden, der Hunden.
Finnish: Sup.
English: NO.
Swedish: NO.
German: NO. Finn, you go away!!
Finnish: Koira, koiran, koiraa, koiran again, koirassa, koirasta, koiraan, koiralla, koiralta, koiralle, koirana, koiraksi, koiratta, koirineen, koirin.
German: WHAT?
Swedish: You must be kidding us!
English: This must be a joke…
Finnish: Aaaand… koirasi, koirani, koiransa, koiramme, koiranne, koiraani, koiraasi, koiraansa, koiraamme, koiraanne, koirassani, koirassasi, koirassansa, koirassamme, koirassanne, koirastani, koirastasi, koirastansa, koirastamme, koirastanne, koirallani, koirallasi, koirallansa, koirallamme, koirallanne, koiranani, koiranasi, koiranansa, koiranamme, koirananne, koirakseni, koiraksesi, koiraksensa, koiraksemme, koiraksenne, koirattani, koirattasi, koirattansa, koirattamme, koirattanne, koirineni, koirinesi, koirinensa, koirinemme, koirinenne.
English: Those are words for a dog???
Finnish: Wait! I didn’t stop yet. There is still: koirakaan, koirankaan, koiraakaan, koirassakaan, koirastakaan, koiraankaan, koirallakaan, koiraltakaan, koirallekaan, koiranakaan, koiraksikaan, koirattakaan, koirineenkaan, koirinkaan, koirako, koiranko, koiraako, koirassako, koirastako, koiraanko, koirallako, koiraltako, koiralleko, koiranako, koiraksiko, koirattako, koirineenko, koirinko, koirasikaan, koiranikaan, koiransakaan, koirammekaan, koirannekaan, koiraanikaan, koiraasikaan, koiraansakaan, koiraammekaan, koiraannekaan, koirassanikaan, koirassasikaan, koirassansakaan, koirassammekaan, koirassannekaan, koirastanikaan, koirastasikaan, koirastansakaan, koirastammekaan, koirastannekaan, koirallanikaan, koirallasikaan, koirallansakaan, koirallammekaan, koirallannekaan, koirananikaan, koiranasikaan, koiranansakaan, koiranammekaan, koiranannekaan, koiraksenikaan, koiraksesikaan, koiraksensakaan, koiraksemmekaan, koiraksennekaan, koirattanikaan, koirattasikaan, koirattansakaan, koirattammekaan, koirattannekaan, koirinenikaan, koirinesikaan, koirinensakaan, koirinemmekaan, koirinennekaan, koirasiko, koiraniko, koiransako, koirammeko, koiranneko, koiraaniko, koiraasiko, koiraansako, koiraammeko, koiraanneko, koirassaniko, koirassasiko, koirassansako, koirassammeko, koirassanneko, koirastaniko, koirastasiko, koirastansako, koirastammeko, koirastanneko, koirallaniko, koirallasiko, koirallansako, koirallammeko, koirallanneko, koirananiko, koiranasiko, koiranansako, koiranammeko, koirananneko, koirakseniko, koiraksesiko, koiraksensako, koiraksemmeko, koiraksenneko, koirattaniko, koirattasiko, koirattansako, koirattammeko, koirattanneko, koirineniko, koirinesiko, koirinensako, koirinemmeko, koirinenneko, koirasikaanko, koiranikaanko, koiransakaanko, koirammekaanko, koirannekaanko, koiraanikaanko, koiraasikaanko, koiraansakaanko, koiraammekaanko, koiraannekaanko, koirassanikaanko, koirassasikaanko, koirassansakaanko, koirassammekaanko, koirassannekaanko, koirastanikaanko, koirastasikaanko, koirastansakaanko, koirastammekaanko, koirastannekaanko, koirallanikaanko, koirallasikaanko, koirallansakaanko, koirallammekaanko, koirallannekaanko, koirananikaanko, koiranasikaanko, koiranansakaanko, koiranammekaanko, koiranannekaanko, koiraksenikaanko, koiraksesikaanko, koiraksensakaanko, koiraksemmekaanko, koiraksennekaanko, koirattanikaanko, koirattasikaanko, koirattansakaanko, koirattammekaanko, koirattannekaanko, koirinenikaanko, koirinesikaanko, koirinensakaanko, koirinemmekaanko, koirinennekaanko, koirasikokaan, koiranikokaan, koiransakokaan, koirammekokaan, koirannekokaan, koiraanikokaan, koiraasikokaan, koiraansakokaan, koiraammekokaan, koiraannekokaan, koirassanikokaan, koirassasikokaan, koirassansakokaan, koirassammekokaan, koirassannekokaan, koirastanikokaan, koirastasikokaan, koirastansakokaan, koirastammekokaan, koirastannekokaan, koirallanikokaan, koirallasikokaan, koirallansakokaan, koirallammekokaan, koirallannekokaan, koirananikokaan, koiranasikokaan, koiranansakokaan, koiranammekokaan, koiranannekokaan, koiraksenikokaan, koiraksesikokaan, koiraksensakokaan, koiraksemmekokaan, koiraksennekokaan, koirattanikokaan, koirattasikokaan, koirattansakokaan, koirattammekokaan, koirattannekokaan, koirinenikokaan, koirinesikokaan, koirinensakokaan, koirinemmekokaan, koirinennekokaan.
Swedish: Breath!!
German: Whattaaa?
English: Okay, now you’re just making things up!
Finnish: And now the plural forms…..
English: WHAT?!?!
@@-Anjel this can’t be real 😂😂😂 how thick are their dictionaries???
what he shown:
⠀⠀English: "so we were thinking table"
reality:
⠀⠀English: "hey, let me copy your work?"
⠀⠀Latin: "ok, but change it a little bit so it's not obvious"
More like they took it from French, wich evolves from Latin.
@@marutotigre3488 nah probs from Spanish
@@darealist690 why would they have took it from Spanish? The iberian peninsula is pretty far from the British isles, by European standards. And the normans pretty much invaded England and fucked even more the already pretty screwed language there. That's why so many words in English are either French or German, with some Celtic (Gaelic?) throughout it all.
@@marutotigre3488 idk that's just what I was told by my English teacher, mostly Spanish with some French elements and a sprinkle of German for vowels
@@darealist690 okay, but Spanish derives from Latin, so...
Can we just give him an award for literally everything he is doing!?
Ok, the conjugating he did was actually pretty impressive. I used to have notebooks filled with conjugations homework because French has so many damn tenses. Lol
Yeah, we have tenses but we also have the modes (used according to the sentence's point of view), and all of them contain several tenses (2 to 8), kinda like english modals but way more complicated 😂 this is so confusing
The worst part is the groups and the exceptions like that shit never really got into my head
yes you are so right! English is much easier. For exemple, when you want to put your verb in future mode, you just have to add "will" But in French is a whole new way of saying and spelling the word. And the verb "Faire" is one of the hardest one. In english it's so simple, for exemple in the present tense it is : I DO, You DO, He DOES, We DO, You DO, They DO. In french, its : Je FAIS, Tu FAIS, Il FAIT, Nous FAISONS, Vous FAITES, Ils FONT. In english the futur tense is I WILL DO, you WILL DO, he WILL DO, etc...But in french it is JE FERAI, TU FERAS, IL FERA, NOUS FERONS, VOUS FEREZ, ILS FERONT. Insane!!!
As someone trying to learn french, this is just absoultely hillarious. The fact so many words are absoulutely not spoken the way they are written or combinations of words don't always make sense, if you translate them, the make NO SENSE AT ALL
This is just pure comedy perfectionist GOLD!!!!
To be fair you could say the same about english, at least we can have fun learning your language too 😜
French easy to read hard to write. easy to speak hard to understand.
Haha, as a fellow French learner, I can relate. But I think you'll find that French spelling is actually very consistent, especially in comparison with English. You get a feel for the logic after a while.
Naw mate, ut actually makes sense. The writing part of the language is not done for the purpose of pronouncing it (Yes I know, weird flex, but once you understand that, you get it), written French gives details that get lost in spoken French, now that you have this secret, I still wish you good luck 'cause it's hall to learn x)
@@lilmrmagoo Not that hard to read or write, I think its easier to understand than it is to speak. ;)
As a french i've never laugh so much xDDD this is really good
damn, i didnt know french people laughed!! lol JK
@@sourabhsmarty of course they laugh. They just go "hoi hoi hoi hoi mais oui madame hoi hoi hoi!"
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@@NotSocuriousGeorge-uq5im what are you trying to prove?
@Renee McPhail I had a seizure reading this
3:29 I would be that student to put “chiotte” in my essay thinking it was the feminine of “chiot”
Ah yes, I've adopted a t o i l e t
Ahh yes, my dog gave birth to 5 toilets
@@Wren796 chiotte means poop, chiottes with an s means toilet, both of them is an extremely familiar way
@@Jay_D_Ashe doesn't make it better lol
@@Jay_D_Ashe errr... I have never heard "chiotte" used as poop.
OMG Loic needs a TV show where he plays all the universal characters experiencing a new country/food and culture !
When he translates all the words that sound the same then puts them together I literally tear up with laughter. This guy is so smart and funny. I'd love to meet him, seems like one of the greatest friends to have.
Daddy's beard lol..
Btw in Indonesian, one name for cotton candy is "granny's hair"
Yeah weirdo language buddy!! - some French person
In Arabic(in Iraq) we call it "girls hair" cuz it's sweet like girls...I guess
I'll tickle your fancy, in Dutch it's called 'sugar spider'
@@pancakeeating4969 the best by far! 😍
Since it became an Islamic republic long face hair started to grow all around in Indonesia.
I am french and the word "caoutchouc" were my biggest nightmare as a kid during dictations😂
Clearly, an opportunity was missed on that part, because the verb used to describe the action of laying rubber on an object is "Caoutchouter".
Timeil Placebo, how about "rhododendron"? 😂🤣 As the late Sim used to sing " J'aime pas les rhododendrons, j'aime pas les rhododendrons... " 😂🤣
Oi
E voi francesi ve colmplicate la vita da soli tutto questo grazie alla vostra intelligenza superiore
@@qualcuno3643 Considering how we've dealt with the Corona crisis and how people behave, I suppose our language hasn't left much intellectual resource available...
That wasn't all AT ALL for the verb "faire", he didn't even do half of all the forms
Well you know either stories or Tik Tok post have a limited time.
Seriously 🤷♀️😆
I saw one guy post it in another comment, he's proud of his language, and he should be. But I've never been scared of how many ways there is to say a verb. There's so many
The most of French people don't know the half of the forms.
@@diopshonen because it's dumb
French is my favorite!!! LOL. He's like the lovable sneaky child of the group who doesn't mean to be sneaky
I love how Spanish misinterpreted "rubber" lmaoooo and the accent, the pronunciations....top tier perfection
He’s so talented give this man an Oscar!
He's already an actor
@@arn3107 You mean he's on the way? Because not even 0.1% of actors have an Oscar.
@@AtotehZ that might be true but i was just saying he's an actor
The scene with French determining the gender of the table is pure comedy gold.
That being said it's funny that English speakers always make fun of French for being gendered like it's some sort of grammatical quirk no one else shares. You looked at basically ANY OTHER EUROPEAN LANGUAGE?
German...der, die, das
Laughs in Finnish
same with Arabic
@@keiths2902 haha ok this one’s different I admit
European? Look at hindi bruh
About gender, french isn't an exception, most of the languages uses gender. English is an exception !!
thank you
though honestly, it does not make much sense to assign inanimate objects a gender
edit: guys, I get it, please don’t reply to me anymore
Yeah but for example in German they don't put genders to words randomly, there's rules
@@camillehocde8195 there are? I'm German and I've never really noticed a specific rule for genders. like the sun and the moon- in most cultures, the moon is female and the sun is male, but in German it’s the opposite.
(ok that was a bad example) an insect is neutral, which kind of makes sense, but a mushroom is male? idk, if you know a rule I would genuinely like to hear it
@@camillehocde8195 ein mann, eine frau, ein mädchen... Wait what
I absolutely love Loic
There is no one like him
I totally adore him look up to him
He is my inspiration
12:35 i just love the fact how english actually took shampoo from the hindi word chiampoo which means head message with essential oils,( shampoos originated in india or more precisely chiampoos)
Convincing me not to learn French and teaching me French at the same time.
This is the most hysterical video I've watched on UA-cam. At 56, I am trying to relearn French from my younger days of failing to grasp the language from when I went to grade school. Not only am I laughing to tears but now I have a real reason why I found learning French so darn hard.
I died when he felt the table to determine gender 😭😭😭
The only prefix words for nouns are :
Un
La
Le
En
Best part is the yellow claire-fontaine notebook. Really adds character to Universal Languages lol
I love French’s character, he can be a little psychotic sometimes n he doesn’t care or apologize for it. He likes riling n making Universal question his sanity
English : all those languages that use gender for objects! So insane!
Also English : look at that ship! She's beautiful!
Lol they call sll vehicles she
@@TamWam_ Bicycles? Trains? Helicopters?
@@JustinCase99999 the vast majority of objects are feminine in english, try not to think of the implications of that too much.
right😅
@Sling Yes objects in English are "it", but especially men refer to expensive large things they like as being a her/she. And it's totally **not** sexist at all *cough sarcasm cough* Basically if it has an engine, men like it, and it can be owned as property, most men call it a "she" as though it's alive. In English, calling an organism an "it" is an insult and it kinda of like saying that organism is an object and not alive. And yes I have seen men get offended by someone insisting the object is an "it", because they have feeling for this boat/motorcycle/car/etc. Yes it is weird.
Though we also have odd phrases like "Listen to that engine purr!" and 'purr' is one of the sounds a pet house cat makes. As someone who has been around a running motorcycle & a purring cat, they sound nothing alike.
Meanwhile in German:
Sonne (Sun) -> Feminine
Mund (Moon) -> Masculine
Mädchen (Girl) -> Neutral
Warte so "Halt Mund" mean "Hold Moon"?
mund means mouth, Mond is moon
When learning German I always wondered about utensils' genders. Because if I remember correctly it's: spoon -Der Löffel - masculine
fork - Die Gabel - feminine
knife - Das Messer - neutral.
And in Polish we have:
spoon - łyżka - feminine
fork - widelec - masc.
knife - nóż - masc.
So nearly complete opposite :)
This actually makes sense.
Sun gives life = Feminine
Moon does nothing but just reflects the sun = Masculine
Girl can be pregnant but should not be = Neutral
@@da96103 I don’t get the pregnant part. Mädchen ends on the diminutive chen. Therefore it’s neutral as everything ending on chen is neutral but as it is a diminutive it also still sounds kinda feminine and cute.
" le vagin ressemble à un petit bonhomme avec une moustache , ahahah monsieur vagin "mdrr ça m'a tué
j'ai jamais rien entendu d'aussi cursed que "monsieur vagin" avec sa vieille tête de psychopathe en plus jpp xd
Voilà quelqu’un qui assume de parler français
But why is a beard, a moustache feminine? 😂
@@kimalida because its end with a "e"
🤣🤣🤣 moi aussi
I love this guy, he is so funny and despite French language difficulty, I adore this language 🇫🇷♥️
Just so you guys know : I'm a french native, and on a daily basis, to make sure I spell words right, I Google them.
Yes I'm doing that for english and other languages I'm learning, but I do that even more often for french...
So, if you're looking to learn french; don't be so hard on yourselves; even french people don't get it right 😂
01:30 Spanish guy "oh my god, French was right about you !" Vive l'amitié franco-espagnole. Olé !
Como español digo:
Fracia es un hermoso país, así que
Vivan Francia y España.
I'm trilingual (spanish/french/english) and I laughed so much!!!!!!
much *
I'm bilingual (spanish and english) and learning french, and yeah, it was pretty funny.
Same here trilingual and this is pure gold
The etimology of French Toast HAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😂😂😂😂
He kills me 😂😂😂
French toast we say pain perdu, the bread becomes too hard after two days so we use eggs, milk and sugar and we cook it in a pan. Make sens no?? 😂
In French, it’s the losts as food leftovers. So it’s called lost bread because we used food leftovers for create “French toast”. We take the stale bread and cook it with milk and eggs... why did I juste see a piece of brioche in this vidéo ?
By the way, French fries are Belgium, it’s not fair for them 🇧🇪💕
I'm French and i am very ubset by la vidéo. Yes vidéo is a girl that makes sense
@@Link-vk8nv frenche fries are not from belgium they are from flanders france and belgium🤝
in Québec, French Toast is « pain doré » and bread pudding is « pain perdu » :o
Apart from his contents are absolutely hilarious, who else agrees that he is a tremendous actor, literally.
I just discovered your channel and as a polyglot I absolutely love it, I could spend all my day watching those videos. Keep it going💗
Pain perdu means wasted bread not lost (yes it's the same word for both I know) because we make pain perdu with bread that is too old and has dried up, so it doesn't go to waste...
I'm passionnate about pain perdu guys 😭
Ps: don't waste food. Especially not bread, you criminal
😂😂😭
Stylé
haha i cry in French there are so manny words that says same of completly different things xD im done with my language
Toast, French toast, sops, croutons, etc... were all created to use stale bread.
yeah, there are cool things that can be done whith dryed toast bread, like make panko
French is my first language ( I’m fluent ) and I didn’t realize how messed up the grammar was until I grew up lol. Good luck to all the non French speaker who are trying to learn it .
I am dying . While learning 😂😂😂
@@shreyosheeislam4093 good luck
@@shreyosheeislam4093 you can ask me some question in French if you want I may be able to help you
It actually isn't messed up, it just has a lot of rules. The gendering is a hard deal and after all those years I am still guessing a lot, but that usually doesn't make me less understandable :) The english language has a whole lot of exceptions (especially in pronunciation) so I personally found it harder to learn english (since I am old enough to use yt as much as I want my english ofc improved way more than my french).
Nope.
- Ok, English, how do you pronounce "u"?
- Use, cup, turn, juice, true, pure, queen, put, bury, four!
This happens with most languages, where a combination of u with another letter will make a different sound lmao
@@CaoNiMaBi Eh. . . not necessarily this much variable, I think, though.
@@wahrebeobachter
Well they *are* just as bad as English in this matter.
@@CaoNiMaBi il a insulté ton daron ou quoi
@@CaoNiMaBi désolé de t'avoir offensé mon reuf
I dont speak a word of French, and I struggle pronouncing nuances in any language, but now I want to learn because this French personification seems funny, silly and sweet and I want a conversation!
Really though, Im impressed how easy to understand the jokes are even if you dont know the language - thats impressive writing!
A very wise person once stated that the French only added so many silent vowels to their words to make sure they always win at scrabble.
you can't use two different languages in one scrabble game though
English speakers trying to make sense of languages with a latin origin
English has the same root as the love languages..
@@captaincruise_eq.8652 well no, it's root is those languages.
Every other Germanic language has genders. English is the exception.
Notice how they don't use set genders for scientific latin names. Because they are so meaningless the big brains decided it's best to get rid of them even when resurrecting a dead language for taxonomy.
@@captaincruise_eq.8652 sh s uc k
Genius! And it’s never been “déjà vu” before... how talented. Merci beaucoup for a good rigolade!
a man with a little mustache?! LMFAO so good
I lost it at that I am laughing uncontrollably at work! 😂
MONSIEUR VAGIN
Funny enough mustache is a feminine word
I was laughing my head of the whole time😂😂. My dad is a French teacher and his reaction was hilarious😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😍Love this guy! Always puts a smile on my face❣️
Oh my gods, this is freaking hilarious! I don't know if being French makes a difference but I can so identify our people in this and especially the one from l'Académie française, and remember at the same time all the pointless explanation I gave to non-native speakers that I can't stop laughing, seriously crying now! Hahaaaaaa
I really think being french makes a difference 😂 I'm french and for example, masculin or feminin is something we don't think, it's natural for us to know what is the gender because we learn this since we are baby (when the gender is false it feels reaallyyyyy weird)
(Sorry for mistakes, I didn't use Google 😭👉👈)
@@koyanie9022 I didn't get the google thing but for the rest, yeah I feel you. And I think that when you have to explain it, it's even more odd and that guy came up with hilarious explanation that are so reflective of the French stereotypes, yet in a very accurate way! Very good observational skills that man! 😹
And I can't tell because I'm neither a Spanish nor English native speaker, but that's very much how I pictured my native Spanish/English speaker buddies at uni 😂😂
Rolling a shovel killed me hahaha!
As a French I love these videos. Do it with the accent : é, è, ë, ê.
Gaelic chuckling at silent letters and Finnish is watching the drama on the "knowledge machine" aka computer
Gaelic is so damn hard to pronounce, even french has more intuitive writing
"knowledge machine" hahahahahahahahahahahahahah
@@Tvngsten At least Irish pronunciation doesn't have exceptions lmao
It's "knowledge/information counter" (bilgi-sayar) in Turkish :D
Icelandic tölvu for computer which i guess means something like 'number prophetess'. Gives an interesting meaning to 'Tölvunarfræðideild' = 'The department of number prophetesses theory' (computer science faculty)
Please never stop making videos! Your creativity and humour is undeniably the best I've ever encountered! :)
EGOT fer sure. The direction and editing are extraordinarily. 😄👍👏
Daddy's beard lol. Well it's makes sense even in Arabic one of the names of cotton candy is * girl's hair *
HAHAHAHAHA!
so funny your acting & accent is ammmaaazing!
thumbs up!
So... le covid, or la covid ? xD The table sketch just happened for real
La... I think 🤔 I have heard both so I am not sure.
The gendering of Covid is legit a way of testing who is following the official discourse.
Everybody was saying Le Covid (as in Le virus), but suddenly the Académie Française made the recommendation to use La Covid (as in La maladie).
Just by listening to who switched to the new gender (bombarded by mainstream media) you could tell right away if they still had independent thoughts or were just NPC drones.
@@TheZapan99 Well it seems uite logic to me. The virus is the coronavirus which is "le coronavirus" on french, while Covid means "coronavirus' disease" so it's the disease, that's why saying "la covid" (for saying "la maladie à coronavirus") seems more logical.
@@fili3907 You totally missed the point of my comment. French people organically decided that this new word was masculine, but authorities had to impose a different choice, because it allowed them to check their level of mind-control on the population. They don't understand it works both way, and people are also making lists.
@@TheZapan99 Well... The thing is that the people deciding whether a noun is masculine or feminine aren't the autorites. That's why in the past there have been conflits between the government, who wanted to change some grammar rules to be easier and more logical to be taught, and the "Académie Française" that disagreed. Turns out that the Académie Française won. Cause they are the ones in charge of grammar rules and orthograph.
So... No "testing of their mind control" from our authorities.
By the way I think that, for the most part, they were also saying "Le covid" before.
"Lost Bread"
That had me hysterically laughing for 2 minutes
So, you are a French who somehow speaks English without a French accent, while simultaneously speaks his native language with an added funny accent?! I'm confused, but... Kudos!
I’m fairly sure he’s an American
Maybe he's simply binational. One parent French, one parent English or American?
@@cestmoiletuncay7157 His mom is French and he lived in Mexico before settling in the United States.
Maybe he is Canadian, Where both English And French are official languages.....
@@Limmosee Then what about his Spanish chracter?
These are the best 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 literally THE funniest 💯
the "oh la vache" thing actually makes sense for the etymology of "holy cow"
That's just "holy God". God was substituted with cow by people who didn't want to use his name to swear.
This is soo cathartic for six years of French studies. It's a wonderful language in many ways, but boy it has weird logic for a nordic boy..
French as a character is a new favorite too
You are the funniest person ever! Best medicine.
As an avid follower of Loïc language toks. I just want to say I'm waiting for the deeper layer of this sketch to come out. When French, Spanish, and English finally ask universal how he says it. Then universal uses the Esperanto. That is truly the dream.
oh mon dieu just amazing how you play with the words...the world is just an amazing place
The "french toast" one had me dying, it actually makes so much sense now!
You make being polyglot a whole lot more interesting than I thought it would
I would love to see him actually try to create a universal language. I'd try to learn it.
07:50 the french toast was so original!! 10/10
I agree
im learning more multilingual words from him than 10 years in school
In french:
J'ai mal à mon orgueil de français
In english:
Oof !
@@まことむらざき oh serious i did not know you're so incredible to know that, i love you. (serious, who did not know that ?)
French is my first language and this had me tearing up lmao
Hi moomo 🤭
I love this man. ❤️ He has made it very clear to me how much of an addictive personality I have.
0:42 French is looking so proud of himself after finishing that speech😂😂🤣🤣
As a Spanish speaker and someone who loves languages in general, I love your channel. Keep it up. ✨
Alors franchement, fallait y penser, eres la leche, great way to let the people comprendre las diferencias entre estos magníficos idiomas... Como decimos : I have split my *ss during the video ;) Continue comme ça Loïc ! ¿Puedes en faire plein please ?
Lol
J'aime L'esfranglish
He entendido absolutely tout
I love this so much!
@@llayasii3697 Y me aussi
I am so glad I was born French and learned English, not the other way around..
Actually, English is horrible to learn.
Je l'adore, il me tue❤🤣
J'étais hyper contente de l'avoir vue dans une publicité ! Bravo !💐
Found this channel somehow, and now I'm addicted. But I really wish you have more asian languages too. Anyhow, awesome work and great talent!
As a Spanish-English speaking person who lives on a Francophone country, y totally approve this video.
Language counselor- oh, you see it's kind of cute and funny I'll allow that.
Me- well, this is the only work in which you have a reason to allow 🙂
SO CLEVER
Celui du caoutchouc m’a achevé 😂 je veux trop te voir faire un one man show en vrai
Je pensais comme vous. Il serait très bon en one man show
His acting is amazing it’s ligit the same person and it seems like that it’s multiple people bc he’s staring at them and the audio is mixed it’s AMAZING
You're extremely good, loved the skits. I was laughing my ass off at the word for rubber. Spanish and French men are so on point. Keep them coming
😂😂 and now i understand why French it's so difficult to learn (and i am French), it doesn't make sense 😂
No
It really doesn't 😅
Cries in exams
Yeah, I really like the verb "Biffler" 😂
Mélodie Travel.
Soyez fière de votre langue.
Le francais est une langue infiniment artistique......et riche.
I think I will have to download Tik Tok just to see your videos! Never hit that subscribe button so fast before! Lots of love from Prague, Czech Republic!
You are by far the best and the funniest!!!
He is so good in imitation!! He doesn’t need to change his appearance! So talented person!
Most amazing, creative and hilarious way of being a multi-linguist 🤩🤣👍🏻
8:55 As a mexican, I can confirm this is the correct application for "what fart?"
You should have 10 million followers by now!!! You are brilliant!!!
You know I’m kinda thankful that my schools taught us english instead of what I’ve heard my friends learn if its this complicated
Can we have a moment of appreciation for this guys mastering of languages. Afaik he is french but his english is without any accent. Great actor too
It is even better than that. "Universal language's" English is in a fairly neutral accent, but sometimes his "English language" accent is noticiably American mid-west.
French: dad let me eat your beard it's so delicious
Universal language: french are you good?
I laughed so hard at that part
6:29
What is funny is that english took Table from french, not the other way around xD
We are artist you can't understand english people.
We have a good expression in France to illustrate that : "Why do simple like we can do difficult ?"
I'm so lucky to speak English French and Spanish so I can understand his videos
Languages characterization perfectly performed with comedian style that goes straight to the heart ❤️😂😍😂❤️ you made my day everyday I watched your videos 🙏🏻
He deserves subscription and views in millions. I am astonished at millions of views nonsensical videos get while such talents go unnoticed.