Re: the "neither male nor female" question. First my credentials: I'm non-binary, and while I was born in Germany, I lived in France for about 13 years, so I'm fluent in French, though it's a bit rusty since I moved back to Germany. Also, I'm doing my best to explain it as well as I can for those who don't speak French. There is no formally accepted gender neutral pronoun. As far as the académie française is concerned, there is only male and female. However, what Ben said about the gender binary is true, and so we've invented ways to refer to people in a gender neutral way. There is no "they/them" pronoun in French, but we do use neopronouns. The most common one is "iel", which is a combination of "il" (he) and "elle" (she). There are other ones, such as ael, ol, ille, but they're less common. "iel" is the most widely accepted one. Actually, Twitter has started incorporating "iel" into its French site recently, instead of writing "il/elle". Now, in French, every adjective and some verbs have a different ending depending on the gender of the noun, and again, traditionally, there's only male and female endings. Let's take an easy example: the adjective "petit", meaning small or young. The male form is "petit", the female form is "petite". What we do is just kinda mashing both forms together, and separating the male and female endings with a dot. So we would write "petit.e" instead of "petit/petite". This only really works in writing, though. When speaking, personally, I use the male form to refer to myself, because it's considered "less gendered" than the female form, if that makes sense? So when speaking, I'd say "quand j'étais petit" (when I was younger), but in writing I'd use "quand j'étais petit.e". /** Side note: the male form is considered gender neutral in a way because the male plural form of an adjective is used as an all encompassing plural form. For example, when there's a group with only men, you'd say "Ils sont petits". (They're small/short). When it's a group with only women, you'd say "Elles sont petites" (They're small/short). However, when there's both men and women, even when there's more women then men (even when there's only one man and the others are women), you always default to the male form and male plural pronoun. This is something that some of us try to avoid, though, and for a group with mixed genders, we started using the pronoun "iels" (a combination of "ils" and "elles") and the gender neutral form of the adjective. **/ This can get a bit clunky with longer adjectives, for example "heureux", which means happy. The male form is "heureux", and the female form is "heureuse", so the mashed together gender neutral form would be "heureux.se". But we don't have anything else at the moment and probably never will. Also, what I and a lot of other non-binary people tend to do is avoid using gendered language altogether. There are adjectives, for example, where the male and female form is the same. "jeune", for example, which means young. So, instead of saying "quand j'étais petit.e", I'll favor "quand j'étais jeune" because it flows better. This isn't always possible though, and requires a lot of mental gymnastics at times. So yeah, that was your short lesson on using gender neutral language in gendered langauges.
Fascinating! As an enby learning French as a second language, I'm very interested in this development. How would "iel" be pronounced? I tend to smush all the genders together so I might refer to myself as feminine in one sentence and masculine in the next. My Hebrew is even more fun -- my self-referential verbs and adjectives might not match gender in Hebrew, and although I'm sure native speakers are cringing it's completely on purpose.
Wow this is so cool!! You guys have totally modernised and adapted your language to accurately describe your experience, meanwhile some English speakers struggle with using "they" as a singular (even though it's been used that way since Shakespeare!!) 🙄 Thanks for sharing :))
It's fascinating how every single sentence of yours could be applied if speaking about Portuguese (and Spanish as well). Even down to the ungendered "jeune" (= jovem). I didn't even think of these rare words we have where gender isn't implied! Just shows how latin languages follow all these same principles that are very hard to adapt to a new increasingly less binary world.
@@rachelx04 Cheese is a big export of France and I guess there's a stereotype that the stinkier the cheese, the fancier, more expensive, and therefore more delicious it is. I think of the one ep of Spongebob where Squidward bought that stinky cheese and it hung from a string in his fridge lol
Cristine: why were so many philosophers French? Ben: because they were f*cking depressed. Me *going into 2nd year of studying philosophy* : No no, he has a point.
Fun fact for everyone out there: The phrase 'Oh Là Là' is not how you express the beauty of something. In fact, it is an expression of concern. It literally translates to 'Oh dear'
Yes this! And in France at least (idk about Canada) it's often just shortened to "oh la" and is often used to mean anything varying from "wow" to "yikes" or "uh oh"
@@beatm6948 I have no clue, but I'm going to assume that a non-Francophone saw someone say "oh la la" at something surprising/shocking that happened to be positive, and assumed that it was an expression of being pleased rather than concerned. Same thing as saying "voila" to mean "ta da, be impressed". While it is occasionally used that way, in general it just means "there it is" or "there you go". The word "voila" literally translates to "look there". Like if someone asks "where is Paul" you'd point at Paul and say "voila Paul". But it doesn't imply that you're a magician who has pulled Paul out of a hat, declaring vOiLa PaUL with a majestic flourish lol.
Omg it’s been engrained into my head. I take French, it’s Je chante Tu chantes Il chante Elle chante Nous chanteons Vous chantez Ils chante Elles chante We repeat it back and fourth with different words. I think they are forming a cult. There’s a “boot” drawn around the words that sound the same. Don’t get me started on the irregular verbs, like être… JE SUIS TU ES IL/ELLE EST NOUS SOMMES VOUS ÊTES ILS/ELLES SONT ok sorry-
i’m 2 years late but i had the same thought, i’m learning german in university now and we are constantly changing “ich habe, du hast, er hat, …” etc. it helps us remember everything if it has a rhythm 😂
Cristine: *struggles in trying to speak proper french* Ben: *in french* "I remove, you remove, he removes, we remove, they remove, they removes" and "Aliens are extraordinary!"
Aliens also refer to immigrants from one country to another! They may need to use the term when calculating stats from canadian-born citizens to aliens, or immigrants, and they differences between. But thats just a guess
@@cameronlevesque5888 - In English it's seen as pretty fucked to use that term in that manner, but things can change when using a different language so I dunno.
“Do you want to nail with me?” “Are you the cheese?” “Can you put your language in my mouth?” “This white is not milk.” “And then we have to chicken.” “I espresso you espresso we espresso they espresso.”
“Pay attention” “Shut your mouth” Honestly Ben just saying random stuff like toothbrush and convincing people to dig through dumpsters for old baguettes is the best thing ever, I want more French videos with Ben cause these are so entertaining
The Bucket no I did not they probably stole it from me and I f I had the same comment I’m sorry I did not mean to copy someone pls give me there user name so I can check and apologize some people have the same ideas you knoe
Et pourtant, je trouve le français du Québec beaucoup (beaucoup) plus stylé que beaucoup d'autres accents du français ! Les gens qui pensent que le français est romantique n'ont jamais entendu ni un marseillais, ni un vaudois, ni un jurassien :') (Je suis vaudoise, j'ai le droit !)
I also am from quebec. it is true people here are a$$ holes but i try to stay positive :) i do prefer speaking english tho since I have always gone to an english school and therefore am more comfortable in that language. I dont have an accent when speaking french though. As my cousin once said, im perfectly bilingual when it comes to speach. I dont have an english accent when speaking french, nor a french accent when speaking english :D
my favorite thing is the fact ben developed from hating the camera/looking shy around it, making jokes about leaving cristine, to him goofing off and making his own gags on camera, and cristine making those jokes at him. it kinda really cool
If you start to learn it, you will stop to think of it as a romantic language pretty fast because if was not a fun experience for me as someone who doesn't learn much with a language that has more exceptions than regulars 😂
I think that it becomes less romantic because of the accent. When I listen to people who have no knowledge of the Spanish laguage then their accent carries over into it and then same thing happens when a Spanish speaker tries to speak English, you know that English isn't their first language
"I don't want this to alienate people who don't speak French" ma'am I am the furthest from French but this video is so fucking hilarious. I watch it at least twice a month.
Kemit The Frog I don’t think you have to be fluent in the language to be bilingual like I’m not fluent in Spanish and my mom is not fluent in English and I’m ranting so just ignore me
@@kemitthefrog8390 I agree, if she practiced more she would be able to conjugate better and would know whether a noun is masculine or feminine. However I know people who consider themselves bilingual and they're doing a lot worse than Cristine 😂
they drill it into ur head sometimes! playing one conjugation after another in the same order. they did that to me in spanish, with conjugations of "comer" (to eat), so still my brain will bust out "YO COMO TÚ COMES ÉL COME ELLOS COMEN NOSOTROS COMEMOS"
I love how Christine randomly switches between « tu » and « vous » when addressing Ben. Is she being sarcastically overly polite? Is his nail painting so bad he is now a stranger to her?
I noticed this too. French is also my second language and sometimes I accidentally tutoyer/vouvoyer incorrectly because one or the other sounds more normal from the context I learned a phrase. Like I'd always say "tu m'amuse" but then say "je vous informe... " because one i would have learned to say in a friend context and the other in a professional context, regardless of how I'm using it now.
@@vivianelalonde7293 lmao one of my friend used to "tutoyer" and "vouvoyer" the same person in the same sentence ahahah (because of a weird syntax from quebec where instead of saying "est-ce qu'on peut vous demandez ceci" we replace "est-ce que" by a "-tu" after the verb like: "on peut-tu vous demandez ceci") so when you "vouvoie" at the same time its a complete mess ahahah
As a French Canadian I laughed so hard in this video, the chaos here is just great. Also Cristine's French isn't bad! It's mostly the pronunciation, but it seems she has a decent understanding :))
@@theresachacon1122 I had an American English teacher that use to ask the class how to gender words in English because it sounded funny to him. I'm Brazilian BTW.
Annie Phanaphet my parents both speak spanish and i know it so well that it isn’t even a second language, it’s on par with my english and i make the same mistake 😂💀
As a french person I find this video absolutely adorable and hilarious. I never understood why foreigners thought French is so classy but French with an English/American accent is lovely
I like how Cristine struggled to find a male word while I immediately had "problème" in mind bc I learned French as a third language and one of the only things I remember is my teacher saying "Problems are always male" xD
Ben's word salad moments: "Ah miss, are you the cheese?" "Can you put your language in my mouth?" "g... grocery store?" "Croissant! Where are the croissants?" "White milk that is not milk..." "This white is not... milk." "It's very tasty!" "The nicest cheese of the world!" "G I V E M E T H E C H I C K E N" "Perfect like the yogurt." "Give me the espresso... [conjugates espresso]" "All finished! It's very nice! All the same!" "The A L I E N S are *extraordinary!*"
Cristine: Objects in french have genders, I don’t understand why Spanish, German, Russian, portuguese, Serbian, Macedonian, Polish, Italian, Norwegian, Greek, Croatian, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Arabic, Latin, Hindi, Dutch, Urdu and Hebrew: yeah we get it Edit: Well that took me a while haha
Ben lines i love “ are you the cheese?“ “ shut your mouth“ “ i nail we nail they nail“ “ratatouie “ “ where are the crossaint“ “ white milk that is not milk 👀“ “ it is very tasety“ “ give me the chicken“ “ perfect like yogurth “ “ give me the espresso“ “ aliens are extrodaniray!!“
Re: the "neither male nor female" question.
First my credentials: I'm non-binary, and while I was born in Germany, I lived in France for about 13 years, so I'm fluent in French, though it's a bit rusty since I moved back to Germany. Also, I'm doing my best to explain it as well as I can for those who don't speak French.
There is no formally accepted gender neutral pronoun. As far as the académie française is concerned, there is only male and female. However, what Ben said about the gender binary is true, and so we've invented ways to refer to people in a gender neutral way.
There is no "they/them" pronoun in French, but we do use neopronouns. The most common one is "iel", which is a combination of "il" (he) and "elle" (she). There are other ones, such as ael, ol, ille, but they're less common. "iel" is the most widely accepted one. Actually, Twitter has started incorporating "iel" into its French site recently, instead of writing "il/elle".
Now, in French, every adjective and some verbs have a different ending depending on the gender of the noun, and again, traditionally, there's only male and female endings. Let's take an easy example: the adjective "petit", meaning small or young. The male form is "petit", the female form is "petite". What we do is just kinda mashing both forms together, and separating the male and female endings with a dot. So we would write "petit.e" instead of "petit/petite". This only really works in writing, though. When speaking, personally, I use the male form to refer to myself, because it's considered "less gendered" than the female form, if that makes sense? So when speaking, I'd say "quand j'étais petit" (when I was younger), but in writing I'd use "quand j'étais petit.e".
/** Side note: the male form is considered gender neutral in a way because the male plural form of an adjective is used as an all encompassing plural form. For example, when there's a group with only men, you'd say "Ils sont petits". (They're small/short). When it's a group with only women, you'd say "Elles sont petites" (They're small/short). However, when there's both men and women, even when there's more women then men (even when there's only one man and the others are women), you always default to the male form and male plural pronoun. This is something that some of us try to avoid, though, and for a group with mixed genders, we started using the pronoun "iels" (a combination of "ils" and "elles") and the gender neutral form of the adjective. **/
This can get a bit clunky with longer adjectives, for example "heureux", which means happy. The male form is "heureux", and the female form is "heureuse", so the mashed together gender neutral form would be "heureux.se".
But we don't have anything else at the moment and probably never will.
Also, what I and a lot of other non-binary people tend to do is avoid using gendered language altogether. There are adjectives, for example, where the male and female form is the same. "jeune", for example, which means young. So, instead of saying "quand j'étais petit.e", I'll favor "quand j'étais jeune" because it flows better. This isn't always possible though, and requires a lot of mental gymnastics at times.
So yeah, that was your short lesson on using gender neutral language in gendered langauges.
Thank you for this, it is incredibly informative and interesting!
Fascinating! As an enby learning French as a second language, I'm very interested in this development. How would "iel" be pronounced?
I tend to smush all the genders together so I might refer to myself as feminine in one sentence and masculine in the next. My Hebrew is even more fun -- my self-referential verbs and adjectives might not match gender in Hebrew, and although I'm sure native speakers are cringing it's completely on purpose.
SlightlySingedAngel you would pronounce it i-èl
Wow this is so cool!! You guys have totally modernised and adapted your language to accurately describe your experience, meanwhile some English speakers struggle with using "they" as a singular (even though it's been used that way since Shakespeare!!) 🙄 Thanks for sharing :))
It's fascinating how every single sentence of yours could be applied if speaking about Portuguese (and Spanish as well). Even down to the ungendered "jeune" (= jovem). I didn't even think of these rare words we have where gender isn't implied!
Just shows how latin languages follow all these same principles that are very hard to adapt to a new increasingly less binary world.
"- why were so many philosophers french?
- cause they're fcking depressed"
oui.
C’est très vrais!!! Lol
Totalement oui! Tous des dépressifs comme Beaudelaire!
And why are all of them post modernist, post structuralist, annale etc... All complicated understandings
“I should have flaked on you 8 years ago” is the best old couple burn.
Because english isn't my first language, I've never heard that phrase before?? Wth does it mean lol??
Fran Bo she’s basically saying I should have left you years ago, but as a joke
Honestly super underrated I laughed so hard and she just skipped past it 😂
I need to steal this to say to my husband 😂
"But you didn't" sorry I had to do it😂😂
Cristine: actually trying
Ben: just conjugating for no reason
Me in french class back in high school tho
Me in high school right now😂
We out here just conjugatin'
Major French class flashbacks with the conjugations 🤣
さよなら
Ben: i work in a office why do i need to know rainbow
Also ben: ALIENS ARE EXTRAORDINARY
Ben: Perfect like the yogurt
Ben works for the canadian's government, of course he does need to talk about aliens!
And how to conjugate "expresso" and "nail" verbs
Ben: Are you the cheese?
🤣😂🤣😂
Cristine: decent French, forming coherent sentences
Ben: THE ALIENS ARE EXTRAORDINARY
Hahahahah yeah
Cristine*
@@jeffbuckleylover69420 Fixed! lol
And, my favorite: ARE YOU THE CHEESE?
"Give me the chicken" ahhahahah
most people: french is such a romantic, beautiful language
ben: are you the cheese?
Omfg u r the chosen one
U got a fucking heart omfg
Wait if you like a comment do you get notifications when someone makes a reply? Shit
sunny shines i did get the notifications lmao. i deadass squealed when i saw that she liked it i was so excited lmaooo
@@bags.of.bagels6726 if you reply, then yes, also it's a fucking heart stop overreacting
cristine: actually tries to speak french
ben: cHeESe
Lol
“Are you the cheese?” 😉
I don't get the thing about the stinkiest cheese
@@rachelx04 Cheese is a big export of France and I guess there's a stereotype that the stinkier the cheese, the fancier, more expensive, and therefore more delicious it is. I think of the one ep of Spongebob where Squidward bought that stinky cheese and it hung from a string in his fridge lol
YES
"Pay attention!"
"Shut your mouth!"
-Cristine and Ben's romantic French conversation
Cristine**
This should be called “Ben conjugating French words and talking about cheese for 15 minutes straight”
Conjugating nouns* xd
and aliens 😂
Ben “conjugating” nouns
Ben connaît très bien les conjugaisons du présent de l'indicatif pour les verbes du 1er groupe! xD
"your stinkiest cheese, please!"
As of now Ben has shaded:
-The Paul Brothers
-The entire Beauty Community
-Gabbie Hanna
and the entire province of QUEBEC
As someone from Québec, I can confirm it's not even shade, it's just the truth😂
And depressed French philosophers!
what did he say to shade gabbie hanna? (am curious not beefing)
@@alexthorne9026 think on the podcast
Quebecois is the New Zealand accent of the french speaking world
Alternate title: "Woman discovers her boyfriend is the human embodiment of Google Translate"
Omg this is brilliant
Bloody brilliant
TRANSLATOR FAILS MALINDA WHERE ARE YOU
edit: it's twisted translations now :)
@@sophiafreitas4802 She quivers in Ben's presence
Are you the cheese?
Ben just exclaiming "aliens are extraordinary!" is hilarious
I was drinking fizzy lemonade and now my throat and nose are BURNING!!
When?
@@elizabethcarpenter696 14:45
Ben's French statements had me cracking up all video
Im crying laughing at "un petit f*ck-up" still omg
That was my favorite part as a quebecois. I died
Yes😂
small fuck-up
I am laughing at the "quest-que f*ck"
@@LlamasAtMidnight madame
“Are you the cheese?” “Pay attention” “shut your mouth”
Lmao I love them
Don't forget "Aliens are extraordinary"
@@mermerthecat278 oui ben, je suis d'accord! xD
Don't forget "white milk that is not milk" aswell 😂😂
Cristine: why were so many philosophers French?
Ben: because they were f*cking depressed.
Me *going into 2nd year of studying philosophy* : No no, he has a point.
👀🌹👍
Or do you mean "non non, Il a un point"
😂 this is even funnier
I can hear Kronk’s voice hahahahaha 😂
Cleo Contaoe I WAS BOUT TO SAYYYY
Fun fact for everyone out there:
The phrase 'Oh Là Là' is not how you express the beauty of something. In fact, it is an expression of concern. It literally translates to 'Oh dear'
Knowing that makes the scene even funnier cause of the messiness of the nails, they could, for sure, be going "yikesss"
Wait, now I wanna know how ooh lala became a good thing, because there's got to be some funny story out there about it
Yes this! And in France at least (idk about Canada) it's often just shortened to "oh la" and is often used to mean anything varying from "wow" to "yikes" or "uh oh"
@@beatm6948 I have no clue, but I'm going to assume that a non-Francophone saw someone say "oh la la" at something surprising/shocking that happened to be positive, and assumed that it was an expression of being pleased rather than concerned. Same thing as saying "voila" to mean "ta da, be impressed". While it is occasionally used that way, in general it just means "there it is" or "there you go". The word "voila" literally translates to "look there". Like if someone asks "where is Paul" you'd point at Paul and say "voila Paul". But it doesn't imply that you're a magician who has pulled Paul out of a hat, declaring vOiLa PaUL with a majestic flourish lol.
@@its_clean it could be because it sounds magestic and kind when u don’t understand but im not sure
ben's french is like he pressed the auto fill too many times
I am poor and need my channel support
Bahhaha
I feel like he only committed weird phrases and insults into his memory
It's literally like Julian (jenna and julian) when he speaks Spanish 😂😂
Elle ne m'a pas trop offensée..
Par contre elle parle quand même très bien français !
Christine's french is understandable and then Ben is like "THE WHITE IS NOT MILK"
“Are you the cheese?”
“give me the chicken!”
“where are the croissants?!”
“the nicest cheese of the world!!”
It’s Cristine
"why were so many philosophers french?" "because they were f*cking depressed" same
Carla Francesca All french people are depressed hahaha, on est tous dépressifs
@@colinejayne haha oui, en fait on met de l'atrabile dans le biberon des bébés français :')
Chloé G. hahaha ça c’est génial
ok but chris as you porfile picture...
stan skz stan talent
Ben is me in German class. Just conjugating every verb I hear.
ongle is a noun lol 💅🏽
Just that in his case it's not verbs that he is conjugating xD
Omg it’s been engrained into my head. I take French, it’s
Je chante
Tu chantes
Il chante
Elle chante
Nous chanteons
Vous chantez
Ils chante
Elles chante
We repeat it back and fourth with different words. I think they are forming a cult. There’s a “boot” drawn around the words that sound the same. Don’t get me started on the irregular verbs, like être…
JE SUIS TU ES IL/ELLE EST NOUS SOMMES VOUS ÊTES ILS/ELLES SONT
ok sorry-
i’m 2 years late but i had the same thought, i’m learning german in university now and we are constantly changing “ich habe, du hast, er hat, …” etc. it helps us remember everything if it has a rhythm 😂
der die das 👏👏 wer wie was 👏👏 wieso weshalb warum, wer nicht fragt bleibt dumm 👏
Cristine: * speaking good French sexily *
Ben: ...white milk that is not milk
Samaya Sidd my name is also Christine
@@christinewolmarans6747 i mean techniaclly cristine's name doesnt have the h unlike you but thats still cool
Cristine with no h
Woah I did a transgression by spelling her name wrong but still got a like damn 😲
@@christinewolmarans6747 WITH A HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Cristine: actually is speaking French
Ben: FrOMAge, et eXtRa teRestTiaLLLL
Cristine: *struggles in trying to speak proper french*
Ben: *in french* "I remove, you remove, he removes, we remove, they remove, they removes" and "Aliens are extraordinary!"
The re-watch ability of this video is unreal. I go back to re watch this video once a month
ikr and I still laugh every time
LITERALLY
literally it's so damn funny🤭
OMG i thought im the only one 🤣🤣
istg
“Why so many philosophers are French?”
“Cause they’re fckin depressed” lmaaooo good response
🤣🤣🤣
I don't know if you're a genius or if i'm extremly tired but "un petit fuck-up" absolutely killed me
i lost it when she said that omg HAAHHA
I had to replay it like three times I’m CRYING
Video: *painting nails in French.*
Ben: *rAtaToUiLlE.*
Alternate title: Ben tries to show off his french skills by conjugating every word he hears 😂
Ben is the true word-smith we needed
_"I nail"_
_"you nail"_
_"he nail"_
_"she nail"_
_"they nail"_
It's an absolute tearjerker honestly
he reminds me of the french dr. sus
Love your pfp I’m 💖💜💙
You forgot “we nail”
*gasp* your profile picture is me-
I nail you
You nail me
We created a family
Ben is a funny guy, but he's funnier in French.
Anything is funnier in French
I gave you 999 likes.
Aliens are extraordinary!
I watch this in repeat while doing chores just because Kkrristin is so good and Ben is so cute
I love how he's ever-so-gradually been letting out more of his comic talents over the years - I have a feeling he still has reserves, too.
The big question is why does Ben need to know the words for alien working for the government
AHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAH
Aliens also refer to immigrants from one country to another! They may need to use the term when calculating stats from canadian-born citizens to aliens, or immigrants, and they differences between. But thats just a guess
👽👀
@@cameronlevesque5888 - In English it's seen as pretty fucked to use that term in that manner, but things can change when using a different language so I dunno.
@@Siberius- stop being so fragile
Ben conjugating nails just to prove he can is the most relatable thing ever
Lmao. Yes!
I still have PTSD from doing those charts...
@@benjaminwilliams8030 i love your pfp! wicked is awesome
Oui! Mais il oubliait toujours "elles" xD
@@kyn182 merci! ^•^
“Do you want to nail with me?”
“Are you the cheese?”
“Can you put your language in my mouth?”
“This white is not milk.”
“And then we have to chicken.”
“I espresso you espresso we espresso they espresso.”
*Aliens are extraordinary.*
Quotes of the year
😂
hahaha
You forgot "Ratatuille" xd
Cristine: Oh, you finally understa-
Ben: *WHERE ARE THE CROISSANTS*
10:40
Christine is the person who learned french in school while Ben is the person who learned from Duolingo
Ben: I used to be quite uncomfortable being on camera at first
Ben now: aRe YoU tHe ChEeSe?
Grace Lu are YOU the cheese?
I Like Birds no I’m actually the butter sorry
“Pay attention”
“Shut your mouth”
Honestly Ben just saying random stuff like toothbrush and convincing people to dig through dumpsters for old baguettes is the best thing ever, I want more French videos with Ben cause these are so entertaining
Facts
I want a t shirt for every nonsense thing he said in french. "ALIENS ARE EXTRAORDINARY" "Are you the cheese?" fr i would buy them out
Denise Larsen I would too that sounds fucking amazing
Well crap, now I want a "Are you the cheese? 👁️👄👁️" Shirt
Nobody:
Christine: decent French
Ben: Aliens are extraordinary!
Cristine*
I laughed so much at that part
The Bucket no I did not they probably stole it from me and I f I had the same comment I’m sorry I did not mean to copy someone pls give me there user name so I can check and apologize some people have the same ideas you knoe
Cristine*
Also Ben: c h e e s e
Faith Mouse thx I’ll fix that
Menchie just chilling on Ben's shoulders is the most heartwarming thing ever
According to Cristine’s Snapchat she does that almost every night when they have dinner lol. So she’s used to sitting in Ben’s shoulders.
"I do not observe the rules" is the calmest way to defy anyone ever and I absolutely love it
Kristy M 100th like dang it look a day
That's the most likes I've ever gotten that fast! Cool!
I love how this time, it’s Ben annoying Cristine.
Ben's Aries energy is shining.
8
a rare sight
Ben going through all the "I, you, he, she, they, we..." is literally the equal of all my French knowledge 😂 getting high school flashbacks
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same!!!!!
I got Spanish class flashbacks somehow
Yup! Literally only remember how to conjugate verbs 😂
"People that think French is romantic haven't been to Quebec."
Me a Quebecer: ouch my heart 🤧
But that’s awfully true 🤣 as someone from Quebec too🥴
@@andrealauzon-l6082 we are just special.....in a good way.😂 Mais salut! C’est rare que je vois des québécois sur UA-cam.👊
C'est très vrai j'ai cramper 😂
Et pourtant, je trouve le français du Québec beaucoup (beaucoup) plus stylé que beaucoup d'autres accents du français !
Les gens qui pensent que le français est romantique n'ont jamais entendu ni un marseillais, ni un vaudois, ni un jurassien :') (Je suis vaudoise, j'ai le droit !)
I also am from quebec. it is true people here are a$$ holes but i try to stay positive :) i do prefer speaking english tho since I have always gone to an english school and therefore am more comfortable in that language. I dont have an accent when speaking french though. As my cousin once said, im perfectly bilingual when it comes to speach. I dont have an english accent when speaking french, nor a french accent when speaking english :D
“Be nice”
“𝚜𝚑𝚞𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚖𝚘𝚞𝚝𝚑”
"hey Ben, shut the f**k up"
Cristine: "Do they have tea in France?"
Ben: "French people just drink wine. For breakfast."
10/10
1000/10 😭
Pas vraiment. C'est le chocolat ou le cafe.
Christine: actually trying to speak french
Ben: yelling out the first french thing/sentence that comes to his mind
Tbh me at any course I take😂😂😂
jenna vs julien speaking spanish vibes 😂
It’s the Aries in him
fROMAGE!!
my favorite thing is the fact ben developed from hating the camera/looking shy around it, making jokes about leaving cristine, to him goofing off and making his own gags on camera, and cristine making those jokes at him. it kinda really cool
“What the seal” was an incredible French joke. 10/10.
YEAH??
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I don't speak French but I got it🤣
I don’t know French but oh my god that was a great joke
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Love this video💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖😅💖😅💖😅
“The white is not....milk” “it’s very tasty”
-Ben 2020
-Benjamin 2020
DevilAsher uwu I love your profile pic
Cristine and Ben really broke the stereotype that French is a romantic language.
If you start to learn it, you will stop to think of it as a romantic language pretty fast because if was not a fun experience for me as someone who doesn't learn much with a language that has more exceptions than regulars 😂
I think that it becomes less romantic because of the accent. When I listen to people who have no knowledge of the Spanish laguage then their accent carries over into it and then same thing happens when a Spanish speaker tries to speak English, you know that English isn't their first language
What do you mean? Cheese is very romantic
Best 👏 burn👏 ever
"I don't want this to alienate people who don't speak French" ma'am I am the furthest from French but this video is so fucking hilarious. I watch it at least twice a month.
“objects are gendered, which i do not understand!”
german: hey.
DRMCTCHR everyone always forgets about us 😭😭
Exactly.
And that is why German is my least faverite class
Yeessss
Sign language (ASL): 😎😎😎 no genders here beech!!
When he starts conjugating words that aren’t verbs 😂
Je Espresso
Tu Espresso 😂
IKR BAHAHAHHS😂😂😂😂
That killed me 😂😂😂😂
Il flakey tu flakey
We need the “French Tips” series but it should be Beyyn giving the worst advice possible.
This video was awesome!
Now that Cristine is not well they should get on this
Yeah!! But Christine should translate what he’s saying.. that would be even funnier- 🤣
The funniest thing about this video is Cristine calling Ben " vous". (It's very formal, not how a couple would speak to each other)
Normal people: beyyyyn
SimplyFrenchlogical, an intellectual: *beeynjaamiynn*
normal cristine with no H: menchie~
cRRRistine in french: _mangschei_
Cristine: why were so many philosophers french
Ben: cause they’re fu*king depressed
Well that explains why I took philosophy for 3 years
Ben's french had me crying, his accent is so funny. Cristine's french is really good though, she's definitely bilingual.
I don’t think that’s bilingual but she’s fairly good at it. If she were to practice more I’m sure she’ll become fluent
Kemit The Frog I don’t think you have to be fluent in the language to be bilingual like I’m not fluent in Spanish and my mom is not fluent in English and I’m ranting so just ignore me
exactly you don’t have to be fluent to be bilingual
@@kemitthefrog8390 I agree, if she practiced more she would be able to conjugate better and would know whether a noun is masculine or feminine. However I know people who consider themselves bilingual and they're doing a lot worse than Cristine 😂
@@Adrianadelnorte but that's what the term means, no?
I just imagine simply trying to fire someone and saying your dead
Oui oui baguette
Yes frederic
Good luck with your hair 🙈
Croissant
Un peu
ahhhh! frederic!!! everything is
Ben has really strong julien energy when he’s giving people french tips
I thought the same!!
they’re both aries suns
is it bad that I thought of king Julien instead of yk Julien I thought of that animal
@@liannahaha6016 _i LoVe To MoVe iT mOvE It_
@@liannahaha6016 omg lol. Same energy so it’s okay. 😂
Cristine is genuinely trying and Ben is like "ARE YOU THE CHEESE?"
AHHAHA UN PETIT FUCK UP NOOO I AM CRYING😂
no-one:
literally no-one:
ben: conjugates words that just don't need to be conjugated to show that he can conjugate
Puja Sharma that’s how I learned conjugation 😅
they drill it into ur head sometimes!
playing one conjugation after another in the same order. they did that to me in spanish, with conjugations of "comer" (to eat), so still my brain will bust out "YO COMO TÚ COMES ÉL COME ELLOS COMEN NOSOTROS COMEMOS"
Me though
I subbed to you
Lol
Alternative Title: Ben conjugating French verbs for 15 minutes straight
More like french nouns 😂
they're not even verbs
Mary Skryabina yeah, I guess so 🤷🏻♀️
I'm French and I cannot even tell you how fun and entertaining and somehow super heartwarming this was
I love how Christine randomly switches between « tu » and « vous » when addressing Ben. Is she being sarcastically overly polite? Is his nail painting so bad he is now a stranger to her?
I noticed this too. French is also my second language and sometimes I accidentally tutoyer/vouvoyer incorrectly because one or the other sounds more normal from the context I learned a phrase. Like I'd always say "tu m'amuse" but then say "je vous informe... " because one i would have learned to say in a friend context and the other in a professional context, regardless of how I'm using it now.
OHMD11 French is my first language and I still switch between the 2 by accident lol
@@vivianelalonde7293 How is that even possible ?
@@vivianelalonde7293 lmao one of my friend used to "tutoyer" and "vouvoyer" the same person in the same sentence ahahah (because of a weird syntax from quebec where instead of saying "est-ce qu'on peut vous demandez ceci" we replace "est-ce que" by a "-tu" after the verb like: "on peut-tu vous demandez ceci") so when you "vouvoie" at the same time its a complete mess ahahah
@@Noemie112 QUEBEC WTF
I love how Ben just randomly said “*_ooh Ratatouille_*”
Cristine: Why were so many philosophers French?
Ben: Cause they’re f..king depressed😂
That's true for a few of us French people ;)
Mood 😆
As a French Canadian I laughed so hard in this video, the chaos here is just great. Also Cristine's French isn't bad! It's mostly the pronunciation, but it seems she has a decent understanding :))
Ben: Why would I need to know rainbow Also Ben: ALIENS ARE EXTRAORDINARY!
Cristine: WHY DOES FRENCH GIVE OBJECTS A GENDER?
Me, a spanish speaker: * chuckles * they ain’t the only ones
Danny Torres s a m e
Same but in german
same in greece
Spanish and Portuguese 😅
Italian too😂
Best quote in my opinion:
Christine: "and now we add a..."
Ben: "some cheese"
Okay but I absolutely love the fact that she smiled when Ben kissed Menchie.
Ben whipping out the "je/tu/il/elle/nous/vous/ils", hit me with the nostalgia of middle-school french I never want to experience again haha
i couldnt stop laughing at him conjugating it every time LMFFAAOOAHAHA
SAME 💀💀
Learning conjugation in a nutshell😂😂
I'm taking French 1 (9th grade french) and we just finished je/tu/il/elle/nous/vous/ils/ells. it was pretty easy ngl
@@hilol9004 thats so cool! Well I’m a native French so 😂😂 I’m glad you are learning!
Cristine: why do objects have genders in French?
Spanish speakers: is it “la sartén” o “el sartén”?
Every thing is gendered in the Latin languages
@@theresachacon1122 I had an American English teacher that use to ask the class how to gender words in English because it sounded funny to him. I'm Brazilian BTW.
Same with polish, and, I believe-every slovakian language
Omg I learn Spanish and sometimes I'm so confused with the "la or el" 😭
Annie Phanaphet my parents both speak spanish and i know it so well that it isn’t even a second language, it’s on par with my english and i make the same mistake 😂💀
me(a fluent french speaker): *laughing my ass out on the floor*
Same 😂
Same lol
I’ve only been studying French for one semester and it’s way funnier than when I barely knew anything!
Can you tell me why this is funny? 😭😭
@@lillyc9283 oh my god yes !! i watched this way before i knew any French and just with one semester this is hilarious
As a french person I find this video absolutely adorable and hilarious. I never understood why foreigners thought French is so classy but French with an English/American accent is lovely
Haha they're neither english nor american tho, they r canadian :)
I like how Cristine struggled to find a male word while I immediately had "problème" in mind bc I learned French as a third language and one of the only things I remember is my teacher saying "Problems are always male" xD
My Italian teacher said the same thing! Since 'problema' is an irregular word, meaning it's male despite having a female ending.
My French teacher said the same thing to me😌
Same, French and Spanish
My mandarin teacher said the same thing since 男 (male) and难 (difficult) are pronounced the same way
Le chat is male. They have two cats.
Christine: [Making sense for the most part]
Ben: CHEESE AND ALIENS
copied from another comment and also Cristine without an h
Ben's word salad moments:
"Ah miss, are you the cheese?"
"Can you put your language in my mouth?"
"g... grocery store?"
"Croissant! Where are the croissants?"
"White milk that is not milk..."
"This white is not... milk."
"It's very tasty!"
"The nicest cheese of the world!"
"G I V E M E T H E C H I C K E N"
"Perfect like the yogurt."
"Give me the espresso... [conjugates espresso]"
"All finished! It's very nice! All the same!"
"The A L I E N S are *extraordinary!*"
G I V E M E T H E C H I C K E N should honestly be new merch
This all has julen energy 😂
A TOOTH BRUSH
Chistine's best line was like my _derriere_
I love Ben just throwing out all the French he remembers. It’s so funny I’m laughing out loud.
Cristine: trying so hard to get her point across
Ben: "fromage"
"My name is so ugly in french."
Me, a french canadian named Marie-Christine: ...
French R intensifies
My name is Christine 😂
MaKriE KcRisTiNeEeE
@@anitanvs how would you pronunce that? 😂😂
Marie-Christine: Just use the nickname MC.
Cristine: why were so many philosophers French?
Ben: cuz they're f*cking depressed
Cristine: no CUZ THER'RE SMART!
guess im a philosopher now
I'm both Haha
@@angely1557 hi Both Haha
Tsion Mesfin idk about the smart part on you 😐
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Ben really just said “Aliens is extraordinary” I’m dying
Ben- generally struggles with French
Also Ben- *without skipping a beat* “let’s go boys” “I don’t observe the rules”
nobody is mentioning the “i should have flaked on you 8 years ago!” I AM DEAD 😂😂
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And when Ben said a little fuck up 😂
Cristine: Objects in french have genders, I don’t understand why
Spanish, German, Russian, portuguese, Serbian, Macedonian, Polish, Italian, Norwegian, Greek, Croatian, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Bulgarian, Arabic, Latin, Hindi, Dutch, Urdu and Hebrew: yeah we get it
Edit: Well that took me a while haha
and portuguese
And Serbian
And Polish
And macedonian
And Polish - we have 3 ways actually, so noun can be non gender
CRUSTINE THE TRANSLATION FOR GLOSSY TACO IS “TACO BRILLIANT”
This gave me serious "Julien speaking random sentences in Spanish that don't make any sense" vibes
"Yo soy MAS que mucho menos!!"
Yes! I was thinking that the whole time! They both understand just enough to make random sentences.
HAHA! SAME! Fun to pick up words here and there though, lol
YES!
huchar el baseball huchar el baseball
„A lot of French words are gendered“ Me: *laughs in German*
I was trying to learn German at one point and the gendered nouns always got me
Greek as well. It's weird to hear other languages have items be a different gender than they are in greek lmao.
Don't forget Spanish, all our nouns are gendered lol
*Laughes in dutch* we threw those things out centuries ago! XD
@Dindon Farci its easier if you learn die der das automatically with the nouns, because there is no logic connection. :)
"People who think french is romantic haven't been to Quebec" That is absolutely correct tabarnak de saint sacrament
Mdrrrr💀😂
JALLAIS FAIRE CE COMMENT BUT I SAW YOURS FIRTS AHAHAH
Duuddee, caliss que c'est drole!
Oui 😂
Florane Bolduc HAAHAHAH GOTTA GO FAST
"cus they're f*cking depressed "
As a French and American person i felt that.
cristine: parfait means perfect and yogurt
youtube: *immediately plays yogurt ad*
me: parfait
This comment is underrated 🙌😂😂😂
Je suis français et j’ai jamais entendu quelqu’un appeler un yaourt un « parfait »
@@evancol-eyraud4923 je pense qu'ils veulent dire le dessert "parfait" à base de yaourt🤷♀️.
I LAUGHED WAYY TOO HARD OH MY GOD
XD
as a French viewer, this video is HILARIOUS
Vraiment 😂
how do you say “my cat keeps waking me up at six a.m” in French? thank you !!😊🙃🙏🏻
@@Jane-in6cr "Mon chat n'arrête pas de me réveiller à 6 heures du matin" :)
@@clementine3150 OMG thank you so much. this had literally made my day🤗
@@Jane-in6cr you're welcome!!
"Everyone who says french is romantic haven't been to Quebec" 😂 I'm on the Quebec side of the river and it couldn't be more right
Lol Gatineau ne compte pas... C'est zéro romantique hahaha. 😂
Hahaha.. yeah, from Montreal myself.. that was a big BURN!!! 😂 And I’m not even quebecois, but immigrated from Germany..
Lmao that killed me. However being from quebec and listening to them translate things word for word was painful 🤣🤣🤣 pouce ongle ☠
Bin non voyon, François Pérusse qui chante "ak cé dont belle une fille" c'est la chose la plus romantique que tu pourrais jamais entendre 😂 *sarcasme*
I live in Montreal and I feel that people are always giving me shit in french lol
Ben lines i love “ are you the cheese?“ “ shut your mouth“ “ i nail we nail they nail“ “ratatouie “ “ where are the crossaint“ “ white milk that is not milk 👀“ “ it is very tasety“ “ give me the chicken“ “ perfect like yogurth “ “ give me the espresso“ “ aliens are extrodaniray!!“
No one:
Literally no one:
Cristine: it’s too thick, like my derrière