אני דובר עברית ואנגלית, ואני גם יודע רוסית מהבית (מדבר לא משהו אבל מבין סבבה). אני לומד צרפתית כמובן, ערבית (גם ספרותית וגם מדוברת של המרחב שלנו) ובאופן תיאורטי אני גם לומד יפנית ויידיש ("באופן תיאורטי" כי בתקופה האחרונה זנחתי את כולן בשביל להתמקד בצרפתית). יפנית כי זו השפה הכי יפה בעולם ויידיש בקטע יהודי 🤷🏼♂️
I'm from India, my mother tongue is Hindi. I learn English and French at my school. I love French more than my mother tongue Hindi!!! J'aime parler français...☺️
Hahaha hahaha I thought the exact same thing, so weird. But cool. Indeed your content is so fresh and you speak in a speed and a way that's easy to follow and understand. Thanks a lot!!
@@pieceoffrench wait Elsa! I did not know you went to Colombia how cool! :) I come from La Colombie 🤩😁 I noticed in a video though, that you were wearing a mochila wayuú (the colorful bag). I am glad you liked it 💐💐
I like how you were so honest about studying a language intensively for six months and then forgetting it. I've done this with French and I don't feel so bad now. You've inspired me to stick with it. Your videos are great and I think they are going to help me a lot. Keep up the great work!
Hiii Elsa! I'm Chinese and I was exhilarated to know that you've learned Chinese! It is indeed one of the most difficult languages for most westerners. I really hope that someday you'll pick it up again because you are already doing not bad! I love your pronunciation! (Also, thank you so much for your amazing French-teaching videos. They helped me tons and tons!)
Ok, Im Chinese American and I speak a few languages: English, mandarin, French and Cantonese, but you have mastered more languages, I’m impressed with your Hebrew.
Hearing your story is such an inspiration! I love languages - I'm native in Chinese (but forgetting a lot since I moved to Canada), learnt Spanish and am learning French now. I really want to improve my French and thank goodness I found your channel. Your videos are so fun and helpful, thank you so much! I wish I could be your student :)
I am from A Coruña, a town in the north of Spain. You are a top in languages! And your spanish is good enough, congratulations! I am a fan of you channel for practising french and english and the same time. Keep like this! You are a champion!
So strange and fun to hear you speaking English. You have an American accent! Is that from watching a lot of American television and movies? I'm impressed :)
I like watching your vedio, I speak Chinese, English, learning French for a few years because I am living in a country francophone, also understand basic japanese.
Amazing! Incroiable! Super! Lo que más me gustó fue escucharte en español ya que soy de Argentina. Hablo inglés y ahora aprendo francés. He intentado con el alemán y creo que volveré a intentarlo.
I takes a while to hear your accent when you speak English, it's really good. I did notice you speak English with a pretty heavy vocal fry, which can be distracting, but your French is full and pleasant. It's interesting and makes me wonder if our personalities change, just a little, when we speak a different language. I'm currently learning French and your videos have been a big help. I plan on starting italki soon. Thanks for your excellent videos.
C'est chouette que tu aies aimé la colombie et que tu aies appris l'espagnol ici. Je suis très content d'avoir rencontré tes videos. Elles sont très utiles ( vu que je me prépare pour passer le DELF B2).
It's fun to learn from you. You made it very easy to understand. merci pour vos vidéos. ça m'aide beaucoup. Hope I didn't do any mistake writing above sentence. Merci🙏
Your English accent is fascinating. It's Israeli/Hebrew which is so odd as French is your first language. It also leans towards American which is again odd as you learned in Ireland and the UK. Could it be that English is a language spoken by a lot of American expats in Israel? Usually, Francophones absolutely cannot shake their French accents. I know a woman in her 60's who moved to the US from France when she was 8 years old, and she STILL has an accent. Love the channel. It's helping me with less formal aural comprehension. MBC.
Bonjour, Elsa! J'ai aimé vachement ce video. Je parle français, italien et j'apprends l'espagnol. J'adore apprendre les langues et c'est toujours très intéressant d'entendre les histoires d'autres polyglots.
I really like your videos they are very useful .I am an older beginner my goal is to learn how to read and understand French . You Spanish was actually very good with a Spaniard accent .
I’m learning French ! I have French ancestry on my mother’s side of early Acadian French Canadian. I don’t live in a French speaking province but one day hope to move to Quebec . Been doing French every day now for 2 months . Seem to be having the most trouble on conjugations and pass tense and allot of grammar
I didn’t realize until today that you had a French channel as well! Have to start watching it. Started to learn French six months or so ago on a whim. Have been watching your piece of Hebrew religiously. Love it. Ironically, we both know the same 4 languages but my native language is English. My second language is Spanish which i use every once in a while (intermediate level) My third language is Hebrew (intermediate level) and now my fourth is French.(beginner level) But,I never learned Chinese! Enjoying learning all the languages and have been seeing marked improvement. Would love to see a Spanish channel too!
וואו איזה סיפור מגניב! ראיתי כמה סרטונים ולא תיארתי לעצמי שאת פה בארץ או מדברת עברית חחח הכי כיף לדעת הרבה שפות 👏 ישר כוח על הסרטונים את מלמדת מעולה! Merci beaucoup pour tout!
Sehr gut! Your English sounds pretty fluent to me, though of course for any of us it depends on how much specialized vocabulary you can pick up too. English is ma langue maternelle; in 8th grade I found a book at the public library by Berlitz to "teach yourself" pa-rooski; alors au lycee j'ai fais mes premieres pas en francais. Oggi je passe au moins 30 minutes chaque jour à regarder des vidéos conversationnelles en francais, deutsch, espanol, russisch, italienisch; UA-cam è meraviglioso per questo. Votre chaine est tres utile et amusante--merci! My only Hebrew is the shema yisrael--one family of neighbors, when I was a child, were Jewish; the mother was my mom's best friend. I can still recite: shema yisrael, adonai elohenu, adonai echod. I picked up some Pimsleur cd's years ago to learn some Japanese, but only remember "watashi wa nihongo ga sukoshi wakarimasu" and "O genki desu ka? Genki desu!" and a few other words. I really think everyone should learn Chinese, a language I haven't learned at all except for "ni hao." I'm envious of xiaomanyc, who seems to have picked up not only madarin but cantonese and various dialects.
Hi! I'm mexican, my native language is spanish, ofc, but I also speak English as you may notice, and I recently finished my studies in french, so those are my 3 languages til' now. I really started learning English when I was 13, I said "really" because I mean, I had english lessons in my school (since elementary and junior high) but those just weren't enough, so my parents signed me up in an English school and at first, I wasn't happy, I didn't enjoy it, I went there almost forced by them; in fact I remember I used to tell them that I didn't find a purpose studying English, I used to ask them what was it gonna be useful for, etc., but some day these feelings went away, I convinced myself that it'd be really important in the future to learn not only english but as many languages as possible and well, I finished studying english at 17, and almost immediately after that, I started studying french, which I quit cause I had to study a prep course to be ready to take the exam to enter the university, so I restarted studying while the pandemic was at its worse, I picked my french up, and after a year and a half I also finished studying french and I got ready for the DELF which I passed and now I have my B2 level in french for life, but I don't wanna stop there, I wanna keep improving both my english and my french, and in the future, study my 4th language, why not?
Omg your hebrew is the best i've ever seen on youtube. You sound naitive, and i couldnt even tell that you are french. I'm learning french for an year now and it's really motivates me to keep going:)
I have been binge watching all of your French videos and have gotten so familiar with you speaking French. I really enjoyed listening to your Spanish and Chinese as I practice them too. Thank you for all that you do!!!!
Chinese is really hard. The problem with foreign language is once you stop using it, you will forget it. I see this with many Japanese who do homestay in Australia. They get quite good, return to Japan and never use English. They eventually forget a lot. I have been studying Japanese for 18 years and I know if I stop, I will start to forget things. What made you get interested in learning Hebrew?
Waooo Elsa vengo de verte hablar el español y lo has hecho muy bien!! Estoy feliz que hayas ido a Colombia mi pais de nacimiento. Soy de la ciudad de Cali. Bienvenida siempre a ese hermoso país! :)
I'm from Nepal I can speak Newari (a different ethnic language and my mother tongue), Nepali, Hindi and English. I want to study in France so i am learning French. May be I will try and learn other languages some day. Thank you for your great videos. Really helpful 👍
Soy colombiano, que bueno que nos hayas visitado por dos meses, hablas un buen español. J'apprends le français depuis six mois, but i feel that i need to practice a lot to get a good level, so i'm in that path. I'm going to learn italian, siento que es un idioma muy cercano al español y también tiene similitud a des mots français peut-être il est facile aprés de apprendre français. My last challenge is learning japanese because i really like anime and manga. Y si la cabeza me da para mas me gustaría aprender persa, pero pues tengo que cumplir primero con los anteriores idiomas. And of course, i speak english, but i need to improve speaking fluently. Merci pour cette magnifique chaîne. Au revoir.
Have you heard of a language learning technique called 'natural acquisition'? It's basically where you learn like a baby learns and the native speaker does 90% of the teaching in the target language and uses a magazine for reference images. Do you think this is the best way to learn? EDIT: Je suis gallois et je parle anglais. J'apprends le Francais pour deux ans peut-etre. Mon francais est mielluer que mon gallois!
Hi Ryan, I did not know about that technique, very interesting I will read about it, thank you for sharing! I guess that this is kind of what I do with my students, I'm trying to speak only in French although sometimes I do speak English or Hebrew with them, for example to explain some grammar points :) But for sure, it's great to hear/read/speak as much French as possible and watching UA-cam videos in French is a great way to improve your French!
@@pieceoffrench you know, actually when I saw your other videos I quickly realised that you are using this technique (maybe without realising it!). That's why channels like yours are far more useful than just simple memorisation so I hope you keep it going.
I am from Hong Kong but my dad raised and talked to me for most of the time in English so I am more comfortable in English than Chinese. I can speak Cantonese(Chinese in China but mostly used in Hong Kong), Mandarin(Also Chinese but pronunciation in a different way compared to Cantonese), English and French but I still lack basic skills in French so I watch random French speaking videos to watch and learn and here I am now in Scotland learning French.
Moi j'ai appris le français et l'anglais au collège et au lycée et à la fac j'ai décide d'améliorer mon anglais et j'ai un petit peu oublié le français. Après, je suis allée en France en Erasmus, du coup là je parle couramment français et à chaque fois que j'essaie de parler en anglais c'est le français qui sort! Je comprends vraiment ce que tu dis par rapport à l'espagnol et l'hebreu. Pourtant, je suis espagnole et je veux que tu saches que tu parles bien espagnol, je peux te comprendre parfaitement et c'est ça qui compte! Mucho ánimo!!
So surprised you think your Spanish is not good, I'm fluent in English and Spanish and hearing you speak all these languages has me over here with my mouth open! You're amazing & your Spanish is great! Please keep up with the French videos they are so helpful. :) One thing I'm struggling with right now learning French is how fast French speakers talk. It's hard to figure out what's being said but I'm sure it is like that learning every new language
Merci Emily, c'est gentil ! I've forgotten a lot of my Spanish but I have recently decided to get back to it! And regarding French people talking speed, it's true that it's not easy but the more you listen to French, the easier it will get 😊
@@pieceoffrench tus videos me ayudan a aprender Frances de una manera distinta. Si algún día necesitas ayuda con el español o quisieras practicar en conversación, Dm me. Comprendo el Francés con los subtítulos, me resulta un poco complicado hablarlo. Mi cerebro todavía necesita tiempo para armar las oraciones. :P
Thumb up, Elsa. Very impressive! Votre anglais est excellent, en fait, parfait. Moi, je suis chinoise américaine et j'habite aux États Unis. Je ne parle que 2 langues, le chinois et l'anglais et j'apprends le français comme ma troisième langue. J'ai deux petits fils et j'espère ils apprendront le chinois un jour dans le futur... Tu devrais être l'inspiration de tous ceux qui veulent apprendre une langue étrangère. Merci pour votre dévouement!
Your videos are so inspirational. Thank you. My mother tongue is Mongolian. I can speak in English comfortably and a little bit in German. I started learning Korean this year. I planned to learn French, because I wanna travel.
¡Te felicito! Tu español es muy claro y tiene un acento muy neutro. No tiene el acento que normalmente caracteriza a los francófonos que hablan este idioma. Excelente conjugación de verbos y de concordancia gramatical.
Je viens de la Chine, je parle chinois, allemand et anglais couramment, maintenant je envisage de profondir mon niveau de francais. merci pour entendre ton chinois und tes sous-titres pour chacun vidéo.
Hope you realize that as a person that speaks 5 languages you're a member of a special group ( only about 10 % of world's pop. speaks 5 languages ) . T'es douée pour les langues, ça c'est sûr. Entonces sigue aprendiendo Chino , ya lo empezaste... Спасибо тебе за твои видео , тебя приятно слушать на любом языке... Удачи в будущем..
It is sooo true when you are not using a certain language, you forget all about it (definitely the same case for me- I had an exchange in France for 6 months and I learnt some basic French for that. I thought I was at least good enough to cope with daily and simple conversations at that time. But then I went back home, Frech became a history for me😂. I lost the ability to manage a whole sentence within a few months due to no practice at all.) However, I have made up my mind to pick it up again- and that's why I had been recommended by UA-cam to your channel😄. You make very good videos really! And btw, as a Mandarin speaker, I agree 100% on what you said about Chinese- it's really hard to learn, as it is not a spelling language. It's made up of characters and those are the hardest part for one to learn- I have to admit that a Chinese can have trouble with recognising, understanding and memorising characters from time to time, lol. But let me give you some reassurance here- your pronunciation of Chinese words is good! Very clear and takes almost no effort to understand you (despite the way you tried to prounce the name of your uni, 😜).
I speak Spanish and English fluently. Tu español es bueno solo un poco de falla con los tiempos pero nada que no puedas arreglar. :) sigue así. Yo aprendo tu idioma porque me fascina!
Oh my goodness your American accent is great! Basically the only thing that gives away your Frenchyness (not a word I know), is the TH, which is totally understandable because I know that's really just an English thing and it's really hard for other people to say it. But wow, great accent (or lack thereof)!
Felicidades Elsa :) tu español es bueno!... Je suis mexicain, je parle l'espagnol et angalis. Je parle un peu lítalian. Je prends peu francais. I really want to learn french is a really beautiful languague. i can help you with spanish and you can help me with french :D saludos!!
Salut Elsa ! Je viens de rencontrer ton channel de UA-cam et c'est très intéressant ! Je suis prof de français ici en Espagne et je vais absolument te recommander à mes étudiants :) Au fait, c'est drôle que tu habites en Israël et que tu parles l'espagnol, je me demande si tu connais le djudeoespañol ou ladino... C'est l'espagnol parlé par les juifs expulsés d'Espagne et Portugal, les séfarades. Merci encore une fois !!
An interesting video, Elsa. I also speak five languages - English, French, German, Italian and Spanish (end even a bit of Irish - at least what I can remember from school). I live in Guadalajara, Mexico, where my wife is from, and she only speaks to me in Spanish. * Plus, I teach English and French in high school here. I also have some German friends, who live here and with whom I can practice German (they were also kidnapped from Europe in the dead of night by Mexican women!), but I've had to go back to doing Italian classes twice a week, as learning Spanish, displaced my Italian, which used to be completely fluent. They are too alike. So, I understand your confusion between Spanish and Hebrew, even though they are very different. * My question for you is, if you learned your English in Ireland and in the UK, why do you have a North American accent when you speak it? Surely, being French, you learned “British English”? Otherwise, that would be like me having learned Quebecois instead of Metropolitan French. * If I could learn a sixth language, I’d like to learn Arabic. I like its guttural sounds, and it is quite widely spoken, but I don’t know if I could learn a whole new alphabet. When you were learning Hebrew did you already know the alphabet, or did you just start by learning it phonetically? I loved watching the Netflix series “Fauda”, where I could hear both Hebrew and Arabic being spoken. * Bon, de toute façon, merci beaucoup, Elsa, pour tes vidéos, qui sont toujours très intéressants. Ça serait cool de découvrir un peu plus sur la vie quotidienne à Tel Aviv. A+
גרתי בארץ כשה הייתי ילדה (מגיל 4 עד גיל 10) ובגלל שאני בקושי מדברת בשפה, אתכלתי לשכוח המון (אני בת 17 עכשיו). מכל מכרה, המבטא שלך בעיברית כל כך טובה, אני בקושי מעמינה את זה!!! המבטא האנגלית שלך ממש טובה גם! Interesting vid and I really enjoyed hearing as to how you ended up learning each language and why! Side note: there might be some grammatical errors in my Hebrew, like I said I don’t really speak, read, or write in the language often😁
Thank you Isabel! If you want to work on your Hebrew, you can also check out my other UA-cam channel that I have with my israeli boyfriend, it's called Piece of Hebrew tinyurl.com/ya3a8h6a
So I’m fluent in Spanish, In high school I took French for 2 years ( freshman and sophomore year) I then studied Chinese on my own for....*drumroll* 5 years!!! I started when I was 17 out of curiosity and fell in love! But like you mentioned, if you don’t practice you will forget and that’s what happened to me! But I still have my books and go over it from time to time. 😅Then When I was 24 I met my boyfriend who is French and I decided to pick up French again in order to communicate with his family. It’s been 4 years now and I understand 90% but I lack confidence in speaking it. I guess I’m insecure about not sounding as nice and you for example who is fluent in it. I feel I just ruin it 😂. I love your videos! It’s so natural, I learn so many expressions I can’t wait to share them with my boyfriend.
Haha, I wasn't like you, I didn't keep my Chinese books! I was like "it's ok, I already master all of this, I don't need this beginner book..." 😂 I'm really happy my channel can help you! And don't be afraid to speak, of course it might not be perfect but who cares, people will appreciate the effort you are making :)
for a francophone such as yourself ,you speak very fluently other languages, English is my second language and french would be the third language which i am beginning to learn at the moment.
@@OneEyedMaxi she does speak English really well with a slight American accent, rather than an English accent for example. There's some famous French people who have lived in England for decades and still have much stronger French accents than her.
Ma langue maternelle c’est le portugais du Brésil. Je parle aussi l’espagnol (j’ai vécu pendant 7 ans dans 2 pays hispanophones), l’anglais (5 ans en Angleterre et 5 au Canada). Maintenant je suis en train d’apprendre le français. J’ai étudié aussi l’allemand et l’italien, mais j’ai oublié presque tout)
J'apprends le français maintenant et j'ai une amie francais mais ton francais et ton accent est très superbe, tu as seulement un peu d'accent (pas comme il y a tous les choses mauvais avec d'avoir un accent mais toujours😉) et tout ça vient d'une personne américaine :)
So awesome and inspiring! Maintenant, je réétudie français parce que j'ai arretée comme l'année 2017? Je souhaite que j'ai n'arreté pas, mais c'est come ça. Maitenant, j'etudie aussi le japonais. J'aime beaucoup ce langue et j'espere un jour pouvoir parler très courament :)
J'ai commencé à apprendre l'espagnol à l'âge de 60 ans, ce que j'apprécie beaucoup. Étant donné que j'avais le latin en plus de l'anglais et du français à l'école, c'était relativement facile pour moi. Voyager à Valence, Barcelone, Séville et Madrid m'a donné la motivation dont j'avais besoin. J'apprends actuellement l'italien via Duolingo, car il n'y a pas de cours proposés ici à Mayence en raison de Corona.
omg you came to colombia?! what city did you go to? im in bogota right now using your videos to improve my french so if you want to do a language exchange i would be happy to help with the spanish 😂
What languages are you speaking and what languages are you learning? Is French one of them? Let me know, I'm curious!
Ma langue maternelle est hebreu, je parle aussi le français et anglais. Un jour je veux etudier l'arabe: Super vidéo comme d'habitude
@@doronisimo Merci Doron ! Contente que mes vidéos te plaisent ! :D
Qui , je peux parler plusieurs langues comme: l'anglais, le punjabi , et la francaise . Mais ma langue maternalle est l ' hindi .
אני דובר עברית ואנגלית, ואני גם יודע רוסית מהבית (מדבר לא משהו אבל מבין סבבה).
אני לומד צרפתית כמובן, ערבית (גם ספרותית וגם מדוברת של המרחב שלנו) ובאופן תיאורטי אני גם לומד יפנית ויידיש ("באופן תיאורטי" כי בתקופה האחרונה זנחתי את כולן בשביל להתמקד בצרפתית). יפנית כי זו השפה הכי יפה בעולם ויידיש בקטע יהודי 🤷🏼♂️
I'm from India, my mother tongue is Hindi. I learn English and French at my school. I love French more than my mother tongue Hindi!!! J'aime parler français...☺️
It so weird hearing you speak English after watching you videos in French. Im learning French & your videos are a big help. merci🙏🏽
Haha yes, I feel that in each language I have a different voice 😅 I'm so happy to hear my videos are helping you!
Hahaha hahaha I thought the exact same thing, so weird. But cool. Indeed your content is so fresh and you speak in a speed and a way that's easy to follow and understand. Thanks a lot!!
@@pieceoffrench wait Elsa! I did not know you went to Colombia how cool! :) I come from La Colombie 🤩😁 I noticed in a video though, that you were wearing a mochila wayuú (the colorful bag). I am glad you liked it 💐💐
I like how you were so honest about studying a language intensively for six months and then forgetting it. I've done this with French and I don't feel so bad now. You've inspired me to stick with it. Your videos are great and I think they are going to help me a lot. Keep up the great work!
Ton accent anglais est incroyable. Tu parles sauf un accent français. Tu sens américaine/canadienne anglo.
Merci !
This is my first time ever listening to you speaking English, I deeply love your vids!
Thank you! 😃🙏
Hiii Elsa! I'm Chinese and I was exhilarated to know that you've learned Chinese! It is indeed one of the most difficult languages for most westerners. I really hope that someday you'll pick it up again because you are already doing not bad! I love your pronunciation! (Also, thank you so much for your amazing French-teaching videos. They helped me tons and tons!)
Thank you! 😃
Wow! Your Hebrew sound incredible! If I hadn't known otherwise I would assume that Hebrew was your first language.
יפה מאוד!
תודה !
I speak English
And Spanish ('cause I'm Mexican)
And I learned french ^^
Once a finish french,I want to learn Italian
Nice! Good luck with French, hope my videos can help :)
Ok, Im Chinese American and I speak a few languages: English, mandarin, French and Cantonese, but you have mastered more languages, I’m impressed with your Hebrew.
Hearing your story is such an inspiration! I love languages - I'm native in Chinese (but forgetting a lot since I moved to Canada), learnt Spanish and am learning French now. I really want to improve my French and thank goodness I found your channel. Your videos are so fun and helpful, thank you so much! I wish I could be your student :)
Merci Jianne ! So happy my videos are helping you in your French journey 🙏
Really cool that besides teaching languages you also love to learn it , amazing!!!🤩🤩
I am from A Coruña, a town in the north of Spain. You are a top in languages! And your spanish is good enough, congratulations! I am a fan of you channel for practising french and english and the same time. Keep like this! You are a champion!
Merci Noelia 😊
Viva colombia ❣️ I’m trying to learn french and your channel is very helpful
Je parle portugais (je suis brésilienne), anglais, espagnol (j'ai appris à l'école) et j'étudie le français depuis julliet/2019 S2
Yeah, her English is damn good.
So strange and fun to hear you speaking English. You have an American accent! Is that from watching a lot of American television and movies? I'm impressed :)
I guess it is 🙃
You are so natural and nice, in every language you speak ❤️
your Hebrew is PERFECT
I like watching your vedio, I speak Chinese, English, learning French for a few years because I am living in a country francophone, also understand basic japanese.
Felicitaciones Elsa!!!! Cuando se pueda volver a viajar te esperamos en Argentina para mejorar tu español! Cariños desde Buenos Aires
Tu español es adorable! Suena maravilloso! Deberías seguir adelante!
you have an amazing English accent!
Merci 🙏
Amazing! Incroiable! Super! Lo que más me gustó fue escucharte en español ya que soy de Argentina. Hablo inglés y ahora aprendo francés. He intentado con el alemán y creo que volveré a intentarlo.
I takes a while to hear your accent when you speak English, it's really good. I did notice you speak English with a pretty heavy vocal fry, which can be distracting, but your French is full and pleasant. It's interesting and makes me wonder if our personalities change, just a little, when we speak a different language. I'm currently learning French and your videos have been a big help. I plan on starting italki soon. Thanks for your excellent videos.
Thank you! 😃
C'est chouette que tu aies aimé la colombie et que tu aies appris l'espagnol ici. Je suis très content d'avoir rencontré tes videos. Elles sont très utiles ( vu que je me prépare pour passer le DELF B2).
Incredible, you obviously are gifted upstairs
your english is flawless
Hi elsa! i'm iranian i speak Farsi and am fluent in english. also tryna learn french here with your help!
u r great
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It's fun to learn from you. You made it very easy to understand. merci pour vos vidéos. ça m'aide beaucoup. Hope I didn't do any mistake writing above sentence. Merci🙏
So glad you like the videos! Your French sentences are perfect! 😃
Your English accent is fascinating. It's Israeli/Hebrew which is so odd as French is your first language. It also leans towards American which is again odd as you learned in Ireland and the UK. Could it be that English is a language spoken by a lot of American expats in Israel? Usually, Francophones absolutely cannot shake their French accents. I know a woman in her 60's who moved to the US from France when she was 8 years old, and she STILL has an accent. Love the channel. It's helping me with less formal aural comprehension. MBC.
Bonjour, Elsa! J'ai aimé vachement ce video. Je parle français, italien et j'apprends l'espagnol. J'adore apprendre les langues et c'est toujours très intéressant d'entendre les histoires d'autres polyglots.
I really like your videos they are very useful .I am an older beginner my goal is to learn how to read and understand French . You Spanish was actually very good with a Spaniard accent .
Guauuuuuuu eres extraordinaria en idiomas Elsa, ¡felicidades!
I’m learning French ! I have French ancestry on my mother’s side of early Acadian French Canadian. I don’t live in a French speaking province but one day hope to move to Quebec . Been doing French every day now for 2 months . Seem to be having the most trouble on conjugations and pass tense and allot of grammar
I didn’t realize until today that you had a French channel as well! Have to start watching it. Started to learn French six months or so ago on a whim. Have been watching your piece of Hebrew religiously. Love it.
Ironically, we both know the same 4 languages but my native language is English. My second language is Spanish which i use every once in a while (intermediate level) My third language is Hebrew (intermediate level) and now my fourth is French.(beginner level) But,I never learned Chinese! Enjoying learning all the languages and have been seeing marked improvement. Would love to see a Spanish channel too!
What a good video,i love it
וואו איזה סיפור מגניב! ראיתי כמה סרטונים ולא תיארתי לעצמי שאת פה בארץ או מדברת עברית חחח הכי כיף לדעת הרבה שפות 👏
ישר כוח על הסרטונים את מלמדת מעולה!
Merci beaucoup pour tout!
Merci Roy ! 🙏😊
Très impressionnante Elsa !
Sehr gut! Your English sounds pretty fluent to me, though of course for any of us it depends on how much specialized vocabulary you can pick up too. English is ma langue maternelle; in 8th grade I found a book at the public library by Berlitz to "teach yourself" pa-rooski; alors au lycee j'ai fais mes premieres pas en francais. Oggi je passe au moins 30 minutes chaque jour à regarder des vidéos conversationnelles en francais, deutsch, espanol, russisch, italienisch; UA-cam è meraviglioso per questo. Votre chaine est tres utile et amusante--merci!
My only Hebrew is the shema yisrael--one family of neighbors, when I was a child, were Jewish; the mother was my mom's best friend. I can still recite: shema yisrael, adonai elohenu, adonai echod.
I picked up some Pimsleur cd's years ago to learn some Japanese, but only remember "watashi wa nihongo ga sukoshi wakarimasu" and "O genki desu ka? Genki desu!" and a few other words.
I really think everyone should learn Chinese, a language I haven't learned at all except for "ni hao." I'm envious of xiaomanyc, who seems to have picked up not only madarin but cantonese and various dialects.
Hi! I'm mexican, my native language is spanish, ofc, but I also speak English as you may notice, and I recently finished my studies in french, so those are my 3 languages til' now. I really started learning English when I was 13, I said "really" because I mean, I had english lessons in my school (since elementary and junior high) but those just weren't enough, so my parents signed me up in an English school and at first, I wasn't happy, I didn't enjoy it, I went there almost forced by them; in fact I remember I used to tell them that I didn't find a purpose studying English, I used to ask them what was it gonna be useful for, etc., but some day these feelings went away, I convinced myself that it'd be really important in the future to learn not only english but as many languages as possible and well, I finished studying english at 17, and almost immediately after that, I started studying french, which I quit cause I had to study a prep course to be ready to take the exam to enter the university, so I restarted studying while the pandemic was at its worse, I picked my french up, and after a year and a half I also finished studying french and I got ready for the DELF which I passed and now I have my B2 level in french for life, but I don't wanna stop there, I wanna keep improving both my english and my french, and in the future, study my 4th language, why not?
Your English is impeccable.
Omg your hebrew is the best i've ever seen on youtube. You sound naitive, and i couldnt even tell that you are french. I'm learning french for an year now and it's really motivates me to keep going:)
I have been binge watching all of your French videos and have gotten so familiar with you speaking French. I really enjoyed listening to your Spanish and Chinese as I practice them too. Thank you for all that you do!!!!
Hi Nikki, thank you! 🤗
I am impressed! Congratulations !! Great journey:)
Merci :)
Wow. I’m speechless.
מאוד מעניין! עד לפני זמן קצר אפילו לא ידעתי שאת דוברת עברית.
I'm from Mexico 🇲🇽 (I speak Spanish) and I use your videos because I study French in College. You're a good teacher and your Spanish is very good 💖
Chinese is really hard. The problem with foreign language is once you stop using it, you will forget it. I see this with many Japanese who do homestay in Australia. They get quite good, return to Japan and never use English. They eventually forget a lot. I have been studying Japanese for 18 years and I know if I stop, I will start to forget things. What made you get interested in learning Hebrew?
J'apprends le français mais je n'ai pas d'amis francophones pour pratiquer
Tu peux chercher un partenaire de conversation en ligne, je te conseille de regarder sur italki! :)
Il existe un très bon serveur Discord pour le français
@@davidallsopp4030 qu'il s'appelle?
@@relativelytired French
Waooo Elsa vengo de verte hablar el español y lo has hecho muy bien!! Estoy feliz que hayas ido a Colombia mi pais de nacimiento. Soy de la ciudad de Cali. Bienvenida siempre a ese hermoso país! :)
I'm from Nepal
I can speak Newari (a different ethnic language and my mother tongue), Nepali, Hindi and English. I want to study in France so i am learning French. May be I will try and learn other languages some day. Thank you for your great videos. Really helpful 👍
Me ha gustado este video y sobre todo tu ivrit, BRAVO❤
Je suis étudiante de français, débutante en espagnol et native en Persan.
Wow persan 🙉🤩😍
Soy colombiano, que bueno que nos hayas visitado por dos meses, hablas un buen español. J'apprends le français depuis six mois, but i feel that i need to practice a lot to get a good level, so i'm in that path. I'm going to learn italian, siento que es un idioma muy cercano al español y también tiene similitud a des mots français peut-être il est facile aprés de apprendre français. My last challenge is learning japanese because i really like anime and manga. Y si la cabeza me da para mas me gustaría aprender persa, pero pues tengo que cumplir primero con los anteriores idiomas.
And of course, i speak english, but i need to improve speaking fluently. Merci pour cette magnifique chaîne. Au revoir.
Have you heard of a language learning technique called 'natural acquisition'? It's basically where you learn like a baby learns and the native speaker does 90% of the teaching in the target language and uses a magazine for reference images. Do you think this is the best way to learn?
EDIT: Je suis gallois et je parle anglais. J'apprends le Francais pour deux ans peut-etre. Mon francais est mielluer que mon gallois!
Hi Ryan, I did not know about that technique, very interesting I will read about it, thank you for sharing! I guess that this is kind of what I do with my students, I'm trying to speak only in French although sometimes I do speak English or Hebrew with them, for example to explain some grammar points :) But for sure, it's great to hear/read/speak as much French as possible and watching UA-cam videos in French is a great way to improve your French!
@@pieceoffrench you know, actually when I saw your other videos I quickly realised that you are using this technique (maybe without realising it!). That's why channels like yours are far more useful than just simple memorisation so I hope you keep it going.
@@cleetusboon Thank you Ryan, a lot of videos are coming up ! :)
I am from Hong Kong but my dad raised and talked to me for most of the time in English so I am more comfortable in English than Chinese. I can speak Cantonese(Chinese in China but mostly used in Hong Kong), Mandarin(Also Chinese but pronunciation in a different way compared to Cantonese), English and French but I still lack basic skills in French so I watch random French speaking videos to watch and learn and here I am now in Scotland learning French.
Moi j'ai appris le français et l'anglais au collège et au lycée et à la fac j'ai décide d'améliorer mon anglais et j'ai un petit peu oublié le français. Après, je suis allée en France en Erasmus, du coup là je parle couramment français et à chaque fois que j'essaie de parler en anglais c'est le français qui sort! Je comprends vraiment ce que tu dis par rapport à l'espagnol et l'hebreu. Pourtant, je suis espagnole et je veux que tu saches que tu parles bien espagnol, je peux te comprendre parfaitement et c'est ça qui compte! Mucho ánimo!!
So surprised you think your Spanish is not good, I'm fluent in English and Spanish and hearing you speak all these languages has me over here with my mouth open! You're amazing & your Spanish is great! Please keep up with the French videos they are so helpful. :) One thing I'm struggling with right now learning French is how fast French speakers talk. It's hard to figure out what's being said but I'm sure it is like that learning every new language
Merci Emily, c'est gentil ! I've forgotten a lot of my Spanish but I have recently decided to get back to it! And regarding French people talking speed, it's true that it's not easy but the more you listen to French, the easier it will get 😊
@@pieceoffrench tus videos me ayudan a aprender Frances de una manera distinta. Si algún día necesitas ayuda con el español o quisieras practicar en conversación, Dm me. Comprendo el Francés con los subtítulos, me resulta un poco complicado hablarlo. Mi cerebro todavía necesita tiempo para armar las oraciones. :P
Well, I never knew you were Canadian until I heard you speak English! :)
Merci pour partager ton experience, c'est inspirant. La partie de Chinois, c'est marrant:) De tout façon, tu est super adorable! 🥰😍🥰😍
The Chinese part really surprised me, impressive, well done. Merci beaucoup Elsa.
Thumb up, Elsa. Very impressive! Votre anglais est excellent, en fait, parfait. Moi, je suis chinoise américaine et j'habite aux États Unis. Je ne parle que 2 langues, le chinois et l'anglais et j'apprends le français comme ma troisième langue. J'ai deux petits fils et j'espère ils apprendront le chinois un jour dans le futur... Tu devrais être l'inspiration de tous ceux qui veulent apprendre une langue étrangère. Merci pour votre dévouement!
Merci beaucoup Joy, c'est super gentil !! 🙌
Eres muy talentosa👍 y... perseverante para continuar aprendiendo tantas lenguas
I speak spanish (my mother tongue) and english.
I'm learning french and just yesterday I started arabic.
Your videos are so inspirational. Thank you. My mother tongue is Mongolian. I can speak in English comfortably and a little bit in German. I started learning Korean this year. I planned to learn French, because I wanna travel.
I am from Colombia and your Spanish is great! I am learning french with your channel now
Ohh thank you! I loved my trip to Colombia so much 😍
@@pieceoffrench super happy you enjoyed it. ✌💕
¡Te felicito! Tu español es muy claro y tiene un acento muy neutro. No tiene el acento que normalmente caracteriza a los francófonos que hablan este idioma. Excelente conjugación de verbos y de concordancia gramatical.
Je viens de la Chine, je parle chinois, allemand et anglais couramment, maintenant je envisage de profondir mon niveau de francais. merci pour entendre ton chinois und tes sous-titres pour chacun vidéo.
Hope you realize that as a person that speaks 5 languages you're a member of a special group ( only about 10 % of world's pop. speaks 5 languages ) . T'es douée pour les langues, ça c'est sûr. Entonces sigue aprendiendo Chino , ya lo empezaste... Спасибо тебе за твои видео , тебя приятно слушать на любом языке... Удачи в будущем..
It is sooo true when you are not using a certain language, you forget all about it (definitely the same case for me- I had an exchange in France for 6 months and I learnt some basic French for that. I thought I was at least good enough to cope with daily and simple conversations at that time. But then I went back home, Frech became a history for me😂. I lost the ability to manage a whole sentence within a few months due to no practice at all.) However, I have made up my mind to pick it up again- and that's why I had been recommended by UA-cam to your channel😄. You make very good videos really! And btw, as a Mandarin speaker, I agree 100% on what you said about Chinese- it's really hard to learn, as it is not a spelling language. It's made up of characters and those are the hardest part for one to learn- I have to admit that a Chinese can have trouble with recognising, understanding and memorising characters from time to time, lol. But let me give you some reassurance here- your pronunciation of Chinese words is good! Very clear and takes almost no effort to understand you (despite the way you tried to prounce the name of your uni, 😜).
Haha happy to know my chinese pronunciation is good! Pronunciation is one of the hard thing with Chinese!! Good luck with your French :)
I wish I could help you with your spanish and you help me with my french😂🥰
Love your videos!
Your Spanish is great! I'm sure if you spend a few weeks in a spanish speaking country you'll be even better in no time!
שלום אלזה
המבטא העברי שלך טוב מאוד, אני אוהב את זה.
למדתי הרבה צרפתית, מהערוץ שלך ותמיד עקבי אחרי הסרטון החדש שלך!!!
Ma langue maternelle est l'arabe et je peux parler aussi l'anglais et maintenait je suis en train d'améliorer mon français :p
I speak Spanish and English fluently. Tu español es bueno solo un poco de falla con los tiempos pero nada que no puedas arreglar. :) sigue así. Yo aprendo tu idioma porque me fascina!
Haha thanks! I understand Spanish pretty well but speaking is harder... Good luck with French! :)
You haven’t forgotten all your Chinese. You spoke pretty good Chinese in this video 😂.
Jajaja suena re diferente hablando otros idiomas, estoy acostumbrado a escucharla en frances jaja. Excelent !
Oh my goodness your American accent is great! Basically the only thing that gives away your Frenchyness (not a word I know), is the TH, which is totally understandable because I know that's really just an English thing and it's really hard for other people to say it. But wow, great accent (or lack thereof)!
Felicidades Elsa :) tu español es bueno!... Je suis mexicain, je parle l'espagnol et angalis. Je parle un peu lítalian. Je prends peu francais. I really want to learn french is a really beautiful languague. i can help you with spanish and you can help me with french :D saludos!!
Salut, Elsa. C'est très intéressant que tu changes les gestes selon la langue. Je me demande si ça vous autres arrive aussi. ^^
Salut Elsa ! Je viens de rencontrer ton channel de UA-cam et c'est très intéressant ! Je suis prof de français ici en Espagne et je vais absolument te recommander à mes étudiants :)
Au fait, c'est drôle que tu habites en Israël et que tu parles l'espagnol, je me demande si tu connais le djudeoespañol ou ladino... C'est l'espagnol parlé par les juifs expulsés d'Espagne et Portugal, les séfarades.
Merci encore une fois !!
An interesting video, Elsa. I also speak five languages - English, French, German, Italian and Spanish (end even a bit of Irish - at least what I can remember from school). I live in Guadalajara, Mexico, where my wife is from, and she only speaks to me in Spanish.
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Plus, I teach English and French in high school here. I also have some German friends, who live here and with whom I can practice German (they were also kidnapped from Europe in the dead of night by Mexican women!), but I've had to go back to doing Italian classes twice a week, as learning Spanish, displaced my Italian, which used to be completely fluent. They are too alike. So, I understand your confusion between Spanish and Hebrew, even though they are very different.
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My question for you is, if you learned your English in Ireland and in the UK, why do you have a North American accent when you speak it? Surely, being French, you learned “British English”? Otherwise, that would be like me having learned Quebecois instead of Metropolitan French.
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If I could learn a sixth language, I’d like to learn Arabic. I like its guttural sounds, and it is quite widely spoken, but I don’t know if I could learn a whole new alphabet. When you were learning Hebrew did you already know the alphabet, or did you just start by learning it phonetically? I loved watching the Netflix series “Fauda”, where I could hear both Hebrew and Arabic being spoken.
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Bon, de toute façon, merci beaucoup, Elsa, pour tes vidéos, qui sont toujours très intéressants. Ça serait cool de découvrir un peu plus sur la vie quotidienne à Tel Aviv. A+
Oh wow your English accent is nearly perfect, sounds like a native!
Thank you! 😃
גרתי בארץ כשה הייתי ילדה (מגיל 4 עד גיל 10) ובגלל שאני בקושי מדברת בשפה, אתכלתי לשכוח המון (אני בת 17 עכשיו). מכל מכרה, המבטא שלך בעיברית כל כך טובה, אני בקושי מעמינה את זה!!! המבטא האנגלית שלך ממש טובה גם!
Interesting vid and I really enjoyed hearing as to how you ended up learning each language and why!
Side note: there might be some grammatical errors in my Hebrew, like I said I don’t really speak, read, or write in the language often😁
Thank you Isabel! If you want to work on your Hebrew, you can also check out my other UA-cam channel that I have with my israeli boyfriend, it's called Piece of Hebrew tinyurl.com/ya3a8h6a
@@pieceoffrench Awesome, I will definitely check it out then! Thank you :))
So I’m fluent in Spanish, In high school I took French for 2 years ( freshman and sophomore year)
I then studied Chinese on my own for....*drumroll* 5 years!!! I started when I was 17 out of curiosity and fell in love! But like you mentioned, if you don’t practice you will forget and that’s what happened to me! But I still have my books and go over it from time to time. 😅Then When I was 24 I met my boyfriend who is French and I decided to pick up French again in order to communicate with his family.
It’s been 4 years now and I understand 90% but I lack confidence in speaking it. I guess I’m insecure about not sounding as nice and you for example who is fluent in it. I feel I just ruin it 😂. I love your videos! It’s so natural, I learn so many expressions I can’t wait to share them with my boyfriend.
Haha, I wasn't like you, I didn't keep my Chinese books! I was like "it's ok, I already master all of this, I don't need this beginner book..." 😂 I'm really happy my channel can help you! And don't be afraid to speak, of course it might not be perfect but who cares, people will appreciate the effort you are making :)
Por mucho tiempo llegué a pensar que eras de México jeje
Saludos. :D
Your English voice is better than your French voice. Eventl though your French accent is fabulous.
for a francophone such as yourself ,you speak very fluently other languages, English is my second language and french would be the third language which i am beginning to learn at the moment.
Thank you! What is your first language ? :)
You sound like your from California when you speak English 😀
Haha 😅
i don't get how people can think her accent is so good, i can definitely understand it but it doesn't sound american or anything
@@OneEyedMaxi she does speak English really well with a slight American accent, rather than an English accent for example. There's some famous French people who have lived in England for decades and still have much stronger French accents than her.
@@OneEyedMaxi It sounds like someone from California for sure
Ma langue maternelle c’est le portugais du Brésil. Je parle aussi l’espagnol (j’ai vécu pendant 7 ans dans 2 pays hispanophones), l’anglais (5 ans en Angleterre et 5 au Canada). Maintenant je suis en train d’apprendre le français. J’ai étudié aussi l’allemand et l’italien, mais j’ai oublié presque tout)
J'apprends le français maintenant et j'ai une amie francais mais ton francais et ton accent est très superbe, tu as seulement un peu d'accent (pas comme il y a tous les choses mauvais avec d'avoir un accent mais toujours😉) et tout ça vient d'une personne américaine :)
אני שמח שאת מדברת עברית 🥰bon en vrai j'suis français mais j'fais un programme massa en Israël la
听到Elsa说中文很惊喜，欢迎再来中国！
So awesome and inspiring! Maintenant, je réétudie français parce que j'ai arretée comme l'année 2017? Je souhaite que j'ai n'arreté pas, mais c'est come ça. Maitenant, j'etudie aussi le japonais. J'aime beaucoup ce langue et j'espere un jour pouvoir parler très courament :)
J'ai commencé à apprendre l'espagnol à l'âge de 60 ans, ce que j'apprécie beaucoup. Étant donné que j'avais le latin en plus de l'anglais et du français à l'école, c'était relativement facile pour moi. Voyager à Valence, Barcelone, Séville et Madrid m'a donné la motivation dont j'avais besoin. J'apprends actuellement l'italien via Duolingo, car il n'y a pas de cours proposés ici à Mayence en raison de Corona.
I can tell your Spanish is the least you speak fluently but you speak good Spanish too. Bravo muñeca!!😘😘
Hi Elsa. I envy you haha..what happens to you with hébreu and spanish, happens to me with french and english y.y thanks for your videos!
Hi, Elsa
Hola Elsa, estoy estudiando francés por mi cuenta y descubrí tu canal.
Me parece bastante útil.
Gracias!
omg you came to colombia?! what city did you go to? im in bogota right now using your videos to improve my french so if you want to do a language exchange i would be happy to help with the spanish 😂