I'm a native English speaker (Australian), and I found this video delightful. It is cute that you said to President Macron if he needed any extra lessons he was welcome to join. Cute.
@@LetThemTalkTV In this episode of 2 minute grammar we learn the difference between TO RAISE and TO RISE. We will look at an interview given recently by French President "Emmanual" Macron to the BBC in English and we will analyse his grammar mistakes. President Macron does sound French but his English is excellent even outstanding and "his never lived in and English speaking country". These are small mistakes, nevertheless one of them is quite common (raise and rise) and we'll look at it in more detail. This is the intro you wrote about this video, before analyzing and correcting Emmanuel Macron's grammar mistakes, learn how to properly write simple english words. You wrote "Emmanual" with an "a" instead of "Emmanuel" with an "e", you wrote "his never lived in and English speaking country" instead of "he has never lived in an English speaking country", before you publish anything review what you have written, because these are not just grammar mistakes but also literary and linguistic mistakes, and the last phrase you wrote incorrectly was simply a non-english and nonsense phrase.
I considered myself to be good at English... until this video. It is such a shame that I didn't notice the difference between rise and raise before. THANK YOU, Gideon, for pointing this mistake, and thank you Emmanuel for making it :-).
Macron is a very good English speaker. I speak both languages (although I’m not fluent in French by any means), and I’ve watched some of his speeches in his native French language, and you can tell that he really tries to be articulate regardless of what language he is speaking.
When Macron visited Australia a little while back, he referred to then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's wife Lucy as "delicious". (Malcolm no doubt thinks she's a "dish"). He would've been translating "delicieux", which is related to "delicious", but can also be translated as "delightful" (which is obviously what Macron intended).
I can definetly see how he is, at times, translating too directly from French, such as when he says 'unhappily', meaning, as you pointed out, 'unfortunetly'....this comes from the fact that in French, we can say 'malheureusement' to mean 'sadly' or 'unfortunetly', ie. 'il était, malheureusement, trop tard.' (He was, unfortunetly, too late). But, his English has always blown me away. It's not just that he makes very few mistakes; there's something about the rhythm and cadence of his speaking that is exactly right. He's so natural. I think he must have learned English as a child? I know you said that it's not impossible to fluently learn a language without living a country that speaks that language, and I think that makes sense, as one can learn anythng if one has the knack and works very hard. But, I think he must have had the advantage of learning English as a child. So many in France do, especially the well-off, and wasn't he from a well-off family? I do love to listen to him, in either English or French. It's fascinating to see how well he speaks English, and I do love his French. He speaks the type I learned, Metropolitan French, not slangy Quebecois like many here in Canada speak.
I'm French and can tell, Mr Macron is the first French President who speaks English so well ☺ Look at all the previous ones, I was ashamed to hear how they spoke in foreigner countries... ! 😜
Lol when I read this I thought of Renzi and I cracked up remembering his English interview where the interviewer's face was like do I have to sit through this. His English is horrible but it's funny makes me have a good laugh😂😂
Hi Gideon. I can so relate to what you mentioned about President Macron having not lived in an English country but can speak good English. I speak French and I learn how to speak it by putting it effort and applying myself, all that while living in Brisbane, Australia. I have never lived in French speaking country, my husband is not French and we only speak English at home. Lol 😂. Cheers from a Down Under
Hi sir, love and respect from India,, it was really knowledgeable video. Please keep making this kind of good videos because people need them to enhance their English. Thank you and God bless you!
ravish Kumar of ndtv. well politicians in India are of two types the well educated and the rural loathsome. currently the latter are in power and did the Rafael scam with france
Contrary to common opinion English is a very difficult language. It is easier to be mediocre in English than in other language like French for instance. Difficulty in English lies in the absence of real structured grammar like in German or French. Basic English grammar can be summarized in one page. English is spoken by instinct and there are no rules, for example, concerning the place of stress when pronouncing words as well as regarding prepositions after verbs. This is my opinion and I hope that I did not make too much mistakes ! 😎
Before learning the hard rules for German, I just spoke by instinct like I do as a native English speaker. I usually got it right, but I learned the correct conjugation for the ones I didn’t
That is a good observation, and no one can fault your excellent English. The only small error I see is similar to Macron's use of "much." We'd say too MANY mistakes rather than too MUCH mistakes. I'm not even sure why, but I think it would be because mistakes is plural. For example: we could have "too many hours on our hands," or "too much time on our hands."
@@lisalu910 thank you very much and you are quite righ about "much" and "many" If there are not many grammatical rules in Englis, this one is basic and I remember it from my first year learing English
In order to translate the expression 'en fonction de' I'd rather have translated it by 'depending on' rather than by the translation 'on the basis of'.
Hi, Your video is very interesting and I agree with you, President Macron's English is very good. I'm French and proud to have a President who can give interviews in English without having a translator.When you hear our previous presidents like Nicolas Sarkozy or François Hollande, there is a striking contrast !
Maybe, but since "malheureusement" can be translated as either "unhappily" OR "unfortunately" it is possible he picked the wrong word for what he meant. Similar to the amusing gaffe when Sarkozy apologized to Hillary Clinton for "the time" when he meant "the weather" because "le temps" can mean either one.
@@holissarbeni2652 They're filler words I suppose,they're the same as chinese filler words maa=吗 lah=啦.I'm Malaysian too,but I have an American accent and sometimes a slight British accent cause I literally learnt English from Western TV shows and movies,I mean we have English class,but like ehh.
Interesting video..... I live in the Netherlands where the politicians speak their own version of English. This often causes misunderstandings in international politics. Their pronunciation is generally pretty bad - but they are not in the least intimidated by their limitations.I lived for a year in the UK which greatly helped in getting more fluent in the language. The difficulty with English for a non-English speaker is, that it is quite easy to speak and write simple English, with which you can do your shopping and deal with irritated civil servants, but to speak with more sophistication, let alone to write it on a more developed level, it is more difficult than other languages, like German for instance, because you have the grammar on one hand which is fairly irregular and seems to be based on custom rather than strict rules, and the style of how people say or write things, which has no rules or directions at all - at least that is how it appears. In other words, the more you get into it, the more difficult it gets, while with the French language it is the opposite. J'ai beaucoup d'admiration pour l'Anglais de Monsieur Macron, if faut que ce soit un effort formidable d'avoir maitrisé la langue comme ça.
Great course and definitely the best I found in the web so far. I thought at some point that he wanted to correct Macron on the fact that there are actually only 26 members in the EU, but he did not :)
In Canada they all speak English but very little French except for the prime Minister. In Québec, where I live , French ( slang ) is the main language. I speak English since I was 16, some 50 years ago now and I still make mistakes when I write or speak English. The prime minister of the province of Québec doesn't speak English at all, only French. I also speak some Spanish. English is a bit complicated sometimes but I agree that leaning French must be very complicated.
Really nice and helpful video. I haven't find video like this one yet. I have a request, if you could analyze a few speeches made by famous British person like Theresa May and point out phrases used in her speech(s), that would be great! Thanks!
In Argentina, the vast majority of our former presidents are or were lawyers who ussually don't have to speak any other language than spanish. A few years ago there was an engineer as president that was capable to speak with some fluency, though.
Great video and again a quite original way to get closer English students to English grammar. By the way, in Spain politicians are well recognized by the bad command of the English language. However your superb videos raise our interest in the English language.
In India Mr. Shashi Tharoor, well known politician, is good at English. I request you to make video on his knowledge of English language. He has written many books.
thank you very much for helping french people to speak a better english. Just for the fun of picking you up : it is not "en function de" but "en fonction de" Good-bye Gedeon
Thank you alot for this video... I'm French and honestly, I did the same mistake about Rise and Raise... I hadn't understood why those 2 verbs, with so similar meaning and writing, were in fact different... And sorry for the long sentences and the mistakes I have inevitably done... But French, a contrario to Englishmen, like to speak with emphasis and like to do very long sentences... with (avec) who, which, that, etc lol ;) ... Can you do, or maybe have you done, a video about the pronounciation of "y" in words, why is it "ee" or "i", is there a rule ?
You should listen to Shashi Tharoor , an Indian politician. He speaks better English than most of the native English speakers. A lot of people would come across a lot of new words ( words that have existed in the English language since ages but not much heard / used ). In face some of the words you won't be able to cite in a dictionary as well.
Thank you for the great video! It would be VERY MUCH interesting watch the same analysis done with Matteo Renzi. Can you think about that? Please, please!! I am pretty sure it will get at least 50k views.
I'm not so sure about his accent? Even though his vocabulary is not so bad, I wouldn't say at all the same thing about his phonetics. At least he speaks English which is new for a French President ( for the very first time).That being said there still a lot to be done, I think Shakespeare about his mispelling wouldn't get me wrong. Nice, interesting, helpful and useful lesson.
Hello Sir..I enjoy watching your videos. There is something to learn always and you are so much fun to watch. Thank you for your videos. looking forward to many more. cheers :-)
"What about the politicians in your country?" It's shameful to our politicians to speak English since they have a big oral translators staff (=interpreters staff)
Hello Everyone The best blunder Macron did, happened in Australia in 2008. He was on the point of leaving Australia . So, here is what he said to the Prime Minister : "Thank you and your "delicious" 🙂 wife for your warm welcome". Unfortunately, his blunders haven't stopped since then.........
Interesting video! That's true he's not bad at all! Accents can be hard to "hide", at least for latin languages' speakers. In France, we sometimes have this kind of behaviour of mocking any other French person trying to make some very nice and well-structured sentences in a foreign language... That's why we really s*ck at it when we travel abroad. Because we don't dare speaking it correctly because of the unconscious barrier of other mocking French pals. That's how some of us are. Anyway, I heard once French accent was kinda cool in English speakers' ears :-)
7:27 Our current Prime Minster speaks English relatively well, having lived in America for several years . I am from Greece and our PM is Kyriakos Mitsotakis, but our previous PM , Alexis Tsipras was so bad that he became a laughing stock, his meeting with former US President Barrack Obama in particular , became a meme here in Greece
Emmanuel Macron lived in Nigeria for a while which I think greatly improved his English. He interned at the French Embassy here in Nigeria. English is the official language in Nigeria.
The best blunder Macron did, happened in Australia in 2008. He was on the point of leaving Australia . So, here is what he said to the Prime Minister : "Thank you and your "delicious" 🙂 wife for your warm welcome". Unfortunately, his blunders haven't stopped since then.........
There are two grammar/typos in one sentence of your written synopsis. In this sentence portion "and his never lived in and English speaking country.", "his" should be "he's" and "and" should be "an".
Gideon, I enjoy your videos very much! By the way, you say: very much is not used before an adjective or an adverb, but there are a few exceptions to this rule, especially before some past participles when they are used as adjectives: "I very much enjoyed our talk". Isn't this the past tense? Unfortunately, I haven’t got a natural feeling for English so I always have to understand the construction. Please, could you also explain the difference between unfortunately and unhappily - Oxford Learner's Dictionary gives these both as synonyms?
I wish we had a video about Sarkozy or Hollande, it would be funny and pathetic...I'm not mentioning the other former Pdt ofc... Thx for such an interesting content. Cheers AH
Russell Hogben I've just asked Donald Trump, and he says the American way is the only way, the perfect way, and the biggest and best way, and if you don't agree, he'll bloody your nose, and if that doesn't stop you, he'll drop the mother of all bombs on whatever miserable s...hole of a country you're trying to emigrate from! So, he said, tell him to "tyke 'is pie rise and die!"
J'apprécie les circonlocutions très politiquement correctes du commentateur de la vidéo avec Emmanuel Macron ! J'ai un niveau d'anglais très moyen mais il me semble qu'il n'y a pas besoin d'être expert pour sentir qu'Emmanuel Macron a un anglais à peine supérieur à celui de François Hollande. C'est très surprenant quand on connaît son cursus : ENA, carrière dans le milieu de la finance, volonté d'apparaître comme un homme international.
Vous rigolez ? Macron est très bon en anglais, et bien meilleur que Hollande, je peux vous l'assurer. Il suffit de voir l'aisance de Macron à s'adresser hors camera à ses confrères en anglais, alors que Hollande peinait à prononcer quelques mots (voir la vidéo où il s'adresse à Elon Musk (congratulations for your spatial fusée).
I'm a native English speaker (Australian), and I found this video delightful. It is cute that you said to President Macron if he needed any extra lessons he was welcome to join. Cute.
Let us all raise our glasses to Gideon for being such a good teacher
Cheers!
@@LetThemTalkTV In this episode of 2 minute grammar we learn the difference between TO RAISE and TO RISE. We will look at an interview given recently by French President "Emmanual" Macron to the BBC in English and we will analyse his grammar mistakes. President Macron does sound French but his English is excellent even outstanding and "his never lived in and English speaking country". These are small mistakes, nevertheless one of them is quite common (raise and rise) and we'll look at it in more detail.
This is the intro you wrote about this video, before analyzing and correcting Emmanuel Macron's grammar mistakes, learn how to properly write simple english words.
You wrote "Emmanual" with an "a" instead of "Emmanuel" with an "e", you wrote "his never lived in and English speaking country" instead of "he has never lived in an English speaking country", before you publish anything review what you have written, because these are not just grammar mistakes but also literary and linguistic mistakes, and the last phrase you wrote incorrectly was simply a non-english and nonsense phrase.
I considered myself to be good at English... until this video. It is such a shame that I didn't notice the difference between rise and raise before. THANK YOU, Gideon, for pointing this mistake, and thank you Emmanuel for making it :-).
I've been struggling with rise and raise for a long time and now, all of a sudden, with your explanation it became clear to me. Thank you very much
Macron is a very good English speaker. I speak both languages (although I’m not fluent in French by any means), and I’ve watched some of his speeches in his native French language, and you can tell that he really tries to be articulate regardless of what language he is speaking.
Gideon, you are a Rising star, raising our understanding of the English grammar :)
Macron did live in an English speaking country - Nigeria - when training for the French civil service. English is used as the national language there.
When Macron visited Australia a little while back, he referred to then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's wife Lucy as "delicious". (Malcolm no doubt thinks she's a "dish"). He would've been translating "delicieux", which is related to "delicious", but can also be translated as "delightful" (which is obviously what Macron intended).
What the difference between delicious and delightful please?
I can definetly see how he is, at times, translating too directly from French, such as when he says 'unhappily', meaning, as you pointed out, 'unfortunetly'....this comes from the fact that in French, we can say 'malheureusement' to mean 'sadly' or 'unfortunetly', ie. 'il était, malheureusement, trop tard.' (He was, unfortunetly, too late).
But, his English has always blown me away. It's not just that he makes very few mistakes; there's something about the rhythm and cadence of his speaking that is exactly right. He's so natural.
I think he must have learned English as a child? I know you said that it's not impossible to fluently learn a language without living a country that speaks that language, and I think that makes sense, as one can learn anythng if one has the knack and works very hard. But, I think he must have had the advantage of learning English as a child. So many in France do, especially the well-off, and wasn't he from a well-off family?
I do love to listen to him, in either English or French. It's fascinating to see how well he speaks English, and I do love his French. He speaks the type I learned, Metropolitan French, not slangy Quebecois like many here in Canada speak.
Please take a look to Matteo Renzi's English! You will draw inspiration for hundreds of lessons from just one of his speeches!!!
Ahahahah becauuusz
HAHAHHAHAH Scockk bicous
I'm French and can tell, Mr Macron is the first French President who speaks English so well ☺ Look at all the previous ones, I was ashamed to hear how they spoke in foreigner countries... ! 😜
I wish Italian politicians spoke English half as well as Macron can...
Thank you for the instructive video.
And the German ones do not have problems with the english language, no... they are themselves problems with any language 🤐
Lol when I read this I thought of Renzi and I cracked up remembering his English interview where the interviewer's face was like do I have to sit through this. His English is horrible but it's funny makes me have a good laugh😂😂
Hi Gideon. I can so relate to what you mentioned about President Macron having not lived in an English country but can speak good English. I speak French and I learn how to speak it by putting it effort and applying myself, all that while living in Brisbane, Australia. I have never lived in French speaking country, my husband is not French and we only speak English at home. Lol 😂. Cheers from a Down Under
Hi sir, love and respect from India,, it was really knowledgeable video. Please keep making this kind of good videos because people need them to enhance their English. Thank you and God bless you!
😁😊❤😍😢😉
he looks like ravish Kumar of ndtv
ravish Kumar of ndtv. well politicians in India are of two types the well educated and the rural loathsome. currently the latter are in power and did the Rafael scam with france
Contrary to common opinion English is a very difficult language. It is easier to be mediocre in English than in other language like French for instance. Difficulty in English lies in the absence of real structured grammar like in German or French. Basic English grammar can be summarized in one page. English is spoken by instinct and there are no rules, for example, concerning the place of stress when pronouncing words as well as regarding prepositions after verbs. This is my opinion and I hope that I did not make too much mistakes ! 😎
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@@AmiraAhmed-gb8sh I only found 2.
Before learning the hard rules for German, I just spoke by instinct like I do as a native English speaker. I usually got it right, but I learned the correct conjugation for the ones I didn’t
That is a good observation, and no one can fault your excellent English. The only small error I see is similar to Macron's use of "much." We'd say too MANY mistakes rather than too MUCH mistakes. I'm not even sure why, but I think it would be because mistakes is plural. For example: we could have "too many hours on our hands," or "too much time on our hands."
@@lisalu910 thank you very much and you are quite righ about "much" and "many" If there are not many grammatical rules in Englis, this one is basic and I remember it from my first year learing English
What a nice clear explanation, with interesting examples from the interview.
Speaking English in a French accent. That's the beauty of being bilingual.
In order to translate the expression 'en fonction de' I'd rather have translated it by 'depending on' rather than by the translation 'on the basis of'.
Please, upload french lessons. I see you are the best teacher. So , I would like to learn french from you.
Hi,
Your video is very interesting and I agree with you, President Macron's English is very good. I'm French and proud to have a President who can give interviews in English without having a translator.When you hear our previous presidents like Nicolas Sarkozy or François Hollande, there is a striking contrast !
Italian politicians are not that able to speak English... well some of them are not able to speak at all...
Bullshit.....You must have never heard Virginia Raggi speak English....
@@DT-vo7fg the exception that confirms the rule
Like ours in Spain 😂
By "not able" you mean they can't because they don't know english or because they must speak in italian by law?
Jajajajjaa......
I don't think he meant "unfortunately" when he said "unhappily". I believe he meant "we will only be 27 and we will be
unhappy about it"
Thought the same. The translation of the teacher distorts the content.
Maybe, but since "malheureusement" can be translated as either "unhappily" OR "unfortunately" it is possible he picked the wrong word for what he meant. Similar to the amusing gaffe when Sarkozy apologized to Hillary Clinton for "the time" when he meant "the weather" because "le temps" can mean either one.
3:37 "en fonction de" not "en function de". In French "un" is most of the time pronounced [ɛ̃]
Actually it's not "very much important"
Great video by the way
ah yes, sorry about that. I slip of the pen.
Our politicians in Malaysia speak English in the following manner -
" Come on, it's a small mistake la..no need make an issue maa..."
What are 'la' and 'maa' things which are inserted into the sentence?
@@holissarbeni2652 They're filler words I suppose,they're the same as chinese filler words maa=吗 lah=啦.I'm Malaysian too,but I have an American accent and sometimes a slight British accent cause I literally learnt English from Western TV shows and movies,I mean we have English class,but like ehh.
@@mellie3882 I greatly appreciate your answer, Melanie.
Interesting video..... I live in the Netherlands where the politicians speak their own version of English. This often causes misunderstandings in international politics. Their pronunciation is generally pretty bad - but they are not in the least intimidated by their limitations.I lived for a year in the UK which greatly helped in getting more fluent in the language. The difficulty with English for a non-English speaker is, that it is quite easy to speak and write simple English, with which you can do your shopping and deal with irritated civil servants, but to speak with more sophistication, let alone to write it on a more developed level, it is more difficult than other languages, like German for instance, because you have the grammar on one hand which is fairly irregular and seems to be based on custom rather than strict rules, and the style of how people say or write things, which has no rules or directions at all - at least that is how it appears. In other words, the more you get into it, the more difficult it gets, while with the French language it is the opposite. J'ai beaucoup d'admiration pour l'Anglais de Monsieur Macron, if faut que ce soit un effort formidable d'avoir maitrisé la langue comme ça.
Outstanding teaching. I dig those top quality videos. Thanks Gideon
Thank you, Gideon.
Thanks for the program.
Great course and definitely the best I found in the web so far. I thought at some point that he wanted to correct Macron on the fact that there are actually only 26 members in the EU, but he did not :)
Let's lift up our glasses for Gideon's sake for being so such a very much good and best instructor! )))
very interesting video. thanks. God bless England
In Canada they all speak English but very little French except for the prime Minister. In Québec, where I live , French ( slang ) is the main language. I speak English since I was 16, some 50 years ago now and I still make mistakes when I write or speak English. The prime minister of the province of Québec doesn't speak English at all, only French. I also speak some Spanish. English is a bit complicated sometimes but I agree that leaning French must be very complicated.
@NWO Official 666 .....Hé oui !
Excellent prof
Merci beaucoup 🇫🇷 that’s cool now 👍
I remember a speech given by our former king .I reckon,it was excellent and without mistakes ,easy to understood
I mean our deceisead his majesty Hassan the second the king of Morocco
Please do it Renzi from Italy!!!!
Omar c Oh God no
Really nice and helpful video. I haven't find video like this one yet. I have a request, if you could analyze a few speeches made by famous British person like Theresa May and point out phrases used in her speech(s), that would be great! Thanks!
I have the same issue with lay, lie: lying down, laying down etc. Can you tackle these in your next session? Thanks,
Great idea to bring up PResident Macron's grammar mistakes. We , non natives speaker are in good company
In Argentina, the vast majority of our former presidents are or were lawyers who ussually don't have to speak any other language than spanish. A few years ago there was an engineer as president that was capable to speak with some fluency, though.
@NWO Official 666 jajaja....probably
If Macron noticed someone pointing out his grammar mistakes when it comes to speaking in English, God knows the way he would react!!
So that was it. To advertise his English school. Nice job.
I extremely love your video. Please make more. I am waiting to hear from your English channel.
President Macron is next in line now for your classes! Great job!
We have a space for him. Thanks
Great video and again a quite original way to get closer English students to English grammar. By the way, in Spain politicians are well recognized by the bad command of the English language. However your superb videos raise our interest in the English language.
Thank you for your comment and your good use of grammar
Except King Felipe VI. He is so good that I believe he is fluent in English.
Thank you!you explen it very good !iam from algeria !it's very interresting !i made many mistakes me too when i was student intil now !ilove english😍
I like this type of videos where people's English is analyzed. :)
Me too
In Quebec many quebecers speak english very well although we are living in an officially french speaking province.
GREAT!!!!!!
I love you lessons.
I meant your lessons
Thanks for this type of lessons and our prime minister Mr Cipras...,How many mistakes can he does....
How about "Learn English with Günther Oettinger"?
I'd imagine there'd be a lot of things to learn from ; )
@NWO Official 666
Hmm... that's a rather weird thing to say.
@NWO Official 666
I noticed that, no need to confirm.
And judging by those two comments on your channel you also seem to attract weird people.
Unfortunately, some of our leaders don't even speak Armenian properly :D Thanks for another lesson!
Excellent video. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!
In India Mr. Shashi Tharoor, well known politician, is good at English. I request you to make video on his knowledge of English language. He has written many books.
Can you make a video about Antonio Guterres's English?
thank you very much for helping french people to speak a better english. Just for the fun of picking you up : it is not "en function de" but "en fonction de" Good-bye Gedeon
He's never lived in an English speaking country, but he has money to hire all the private native English-speaking teachers he wants.
He must've had attended the best school, I reckon.
luca lamberti yeah but not the best english class lol france usually has very low-quality english classes.
@@peachp9963 then I appreciate him even more that he speaks such incredible English even with bad teaching. Really impressive
His wife was his English teacher
Thank you alot for this video... I'm French and honestly, I did the same mistake about Rise and Raise... I hadn't understood why those 2 verbs, with so similar meaning and writing, were in fact different... And sorry for the long sentences and the mistakes I have inevitably done... But French, a contrario to Englishmen, like to speak with emphasis and like to do very long sentences... with (avec) who, which, that, etc lol ;) ... Can you do, or maybe have you done, a video about the pronounciation of "y" in words, why is it "ee" or "i", is there a rule ?
I like ur teaching style.
Brilliant teaching, many thanks !!!!!
You should listen to Shashi Tharoor , an Indian politician. He speaks better English than most of the native English speakers. A lot of people would come across a lot of new words ( words that have existed in the English language since ages but not much heard / used ). In face some of the words you won't be able to cite in a dictionary as well.
That video is awesome! Good and innovative technique.
"Learn English with Alexis Tsipras"! Pretty please !
In my country France most people are lazy regarding foreign languages but here in Germany the people make efforts
I really like all videos you made. I just have a comment to say: Could you turn the music down a bit?
Also, he should raise the volume of is voice. Btw he looks like a french chef !
Ty very much for this lesson ! You can listen to Raffarin in english he's better than Macron :))
Well done brilliant as usual 👍🏻
You're welcome
+LetThemTalkTV you look like news anchor rabish Kumar of ndtv india
Thank you for the great video! It would be VERY MUCH interesting watch the same analysis done with Matteo Renzi. Can you think about that? Please, please!! I am pretty sure it will get at least 50k views.
Thanks, I will try and find an interview with Renzi.
Our country(Afghanistan) leader's English is Outstanding!!!
Please, have a look of his speech in Ted.
Maybe his job interview was at the state dept.
Ses erreurs sont aussi son charme. Je le trouve très mignon quand il parle anglais. En tout cas il fait un effort. Bravo 👍👍👍!
I'm not so sure about his accent? Even though his vocabulary is not so bad, I wouldn't say at all the same thing about his phonetics. At least he speaks English which is new for a French President ( for the very first time).That being said there still a lot to be done, I think Shakespeare about his mispelling wouldn't get me wrong. Nice, interesting, helpful and useful lesson.
thank you very much for this video.
Hello Sir..I enjoy watching your videos. There is something to learn always and you are so much fun to watch. Thank you for your videos. looking forward to many more. cheers :-)
this is good idea, make videos of leader/celebrity and teach people grammar
Love your videos, I always learn new stuff
This channel is very much interesting...👀
Thanks!
Mr. Shashi tharoor indian politician. He is praised a lot for his english
'Much' is his favorite word :)
Yes Our late Lee Kuan Yew spoke English very well
"What about the politicians in your country?"
It's shameful to our politicians to speak English since they have a big oral translators staff (=interpreters staff)
כל הכבוד גדעון . אני בטוח שנפתלי בנט יעמוד בדרישות .Merci beaucoup monsieur Gideon ei je salut Monsieur le president de la Republique Francaise
Actually please notice that he’s French and English is not his native language.
He actually already done a great job
Hello Everyone
The best blunder Macron did, happened in Australia in 2008. He was on the point of leaving Australia . So, here is what he said to the Prime Minister : "Thank you and your "delicious" 🙂 wife for your warm welcome". Unfortunately, his blunders haven't stopped since then.........
Interesting video! That's true he's not bad at all! Accents can be hard to "hide", at least for latin languages' speakers. In France, we sometimes have this kind of behaviour of mocking any other French person trying to make some very nice and well-structured sentences in a foreign language... That's why we really s*ck at it when we travel abroad. Because we don't dare speaking it correctly because of the unconscious barrier of other mocking French pals. That's how some of us are. Anyway, I heard once French accent was kinda cool in English speakers' ears :-)
'Emmanuel and very much' a novel by Gideon
7:27 Our current Prime Minster speaks English relatively well, having lived in America for several years . I am from Greece and our PM is Kyriakos Mitsotakis, but our previous PM , Alexis Tsipras was so bad that he became a laughing stock, his meeting with former US President Barrack Obama in particular , became a meme here in Greece
Emmanuel Macron lived in Nigeria for a while which I think greatly improved his English. He interned at the French Embassy here in Nigeria. English is the official language in Nigeria.
What I got from this video is that his English is in fact far from “outstanding” haha
The best blunder Macron did, happened in Australia in 2008. He was on the point of leaving Australia . So, here is what he said to the Prime Minister : "Thank you and your "delicious" 🙂 wife for your warm welcome". Unfortunately, his blunders haven't stopped since then.........
There are two grammar/typos in one sentence of your written synopsis. In this sentence portion "and his never lived in and English speaking country.", "his" should be "he's" and "and" should be "an".
it's so weird there are such mistakes in this text, who wrote it ?
Gideon, I enjoy your videos very much! By the way, you say: very much is not used before an adjective or an adverb, but there are a few exceptions to this rule, especially before some past participles when they are used as adjectives: "I very much enjoyed our talk". Isn't this the past tense? Unfortunately, I haven’t got a natural feeling for English so I always have to understand the construction. Please, could you also explain the difference between unfortunately and unhappily - Oxford Learner's Dictionary gives these both as synonyms?
I wish we had a video about Sarkozy or Hollande, it would be funny and pathetic...I'm not mentioning the other former Pdt ofc... Thx for such an interesting content. Cheers AH
You might have addressed the British pay rise as opposed to the American pay raise. Which is correct?
Russell Hogben I've just asked Donald Trump, and he says the American way is the only way, the perfect way, and the biggest and best way, and if you don't agree, he'll bloody your nose, and if that doesn't stop you, he'll drop the mother of all bombs on whatever miserable s...hole of a country you're trying to emigrate from! So, he said, tell him to "tyke 'is pie rise and die!"
J'apprécie les circonlocutions très politiquement correctes du commentateur de la vidéo avec Emmanuel Macron ! J'ai un niveau d'anglais très moyen mais il me semble qu'il n'y a pas besoin d'être expert pour sentir qu'Emmanuel Macron a un anglais à peine supérieur à celui de François Hollande. C'est très surprenant quand on connaît son cursus : ENA, carrière dans le milieu de la finance, volonté d'apparaître comme un homme international.
Vous rigolez ? Macron est très bon en anglais, et bien meilleur que Hollande, je peux vous l'assurer. Il suffit de voir l'aisance de Macron à s'adresser hors camera à ses confrères en anglais, alors que Hollande peinait à prononcer quelques mots (voir la vidéo où il s'adresse à Elon Musk (congratulations for your spatial fusée).
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l'aisance n'a rien a voir avec la grammaire .
Je commets toutes mes fautres de grammaire avec aisance !
"What about the politicians in your country?"
My apologies.
The less the politicians in my country speak anything in English or that worths any international attention, the better.
This doesn't bother me. He does a great job.
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