Mate, French is hard as nails but I don't regret learning it. I love it, I'd love to go one day to both Québec and France. Cheers. Hugs for all Frech-speakers out there.
When you come to Quebec, go out Montreal :) It's kind of an international city and there's so much more to see outside of it, like Quebec City and all the countryside regions full of awesome landscape and lovely villages.
En anglais « anglophones » va mieux. « Anglophone people » est trop encombrant. « English speakers » ou même juste « Americans and Brits » vont le mieux.
French is NOT the native language of 300 million people as the video says. It's only the native language of about 75 million who come from Europe, Canada, and upper-class homes in West African cities. Only about 300 million people speak french worldwide but this includes second-language speakers who are far more prevalent than native speakers
So you imply that human being can only have ONE and only native language! That's nonsense! I give you examples: the latinos on the USA have 2 natives languages: Spanish and English.
Well its better having a nation that stands and fight for their freedom and rights Instead of being a nation who let politicians & big industries tacking advantage of them. And continue on as if nothing happen
Je suis philippine et j'adore la langue française. Et je l'étudie depuis 1 an et 10 mois. Ça me plaît beaucoup! Selon moi, c'est la plus belle langue du monde ❤
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@@ohsayitditto378 I have studied for only 2 months. I'm confused tho, why l'étudie and not étudié in your sentence? EDIT: I now understand what the l', la, le, les mean in front verbs i.e. Him/her, her, him, they
what linguist has ever denied that French isn't a HUGE part of English!? lol. Anyone that knows anything about English knows that a third or half of the vocab is French. What makes it still a Germanic language is when you strip it down to its bare parts, that's when you notice that it's really just a Germanic language with a ton of borrowed morphology and phonology
also English is a Germanic language because it is a synthetic language, however French is analytical. In English you don't change the endings of a word (except for verbs), but in French you must do so. Especially, if you have nouns and adjectives - they all change. In English, it simply doesn't happen. However, in German it happens. So now I am totally confused. Thankfully, I love them all and accept them the way they are :D
@@oliveranderson7264 almost nothing - French phonology and English phonology are very different
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French used to be very Germanic, in fact it is this old, Frankish French that influenced English. Songs like ''Chevalier, Mult Estes Guariz'' shows that French used to have sounds like ''Ace'' in the English ''Pace'', ''ist'' in the English word '' fist'' and the German ''eis''.
2:22 "French is so hard to learn..." Well, so does any other language I guess? Especially when it's so different from your mother tongue. For instance, my 1st language is Portuguese so at least we share the same alphabet (both even have cedillas!) which is HUGELY convenient. Now when I moved to Japan in 1996 and started to learn their language and didn't know any single character, mec c'était tres difficile!
15 years? How? You will have an accent for your whole life (unless you really work hard to get rid of it). But you won't be an outcast because you have an accent … People making jokes about accent/grammar errors are just ignorants who never learned a foreign language, just ignore them and look for decent human beings. Everyone makes mistakes, everyone is ignorant of some rules. For example, french is my 1st language and I had no idea what the "tréma" really was, I knew how to read words containing them just because I had heard these words. Vocabulary is the most important thing, if you know how to express ideas/feelings, you'll not be an outcast, this doesn't require 15 years if you really use french every day.
@@osquigene 15 years is a hyperbole to make a point - but I was referring to things like sarcasm, cultural context, shared experiences, absence of shared history, patriotism etc etc. Same for any country move / new language but my experience is French culture is particularly opposed to foreigners joining the club thus diluting "french", especially so in our ever-globalising world
@@chriscaskey6627 I agree that cultural differences can be an obstacle to mixing with natives. I think it's more or less the only real risk for not being accepted. But that's unrelated to France and mainly a direct relation to how big the cultural difference is. For example, it would be very hard for an american to blend in with french because we think social relations in diametrically opposed ways. For example it's considered a quality to be extremely friendly with everyone in the US, while in france it would be considered fake and therefore very rude. To be more concrete on this example, "very nice to meet you" is something a french person only say because they know americans usually say that when they first meet someone. (almost) No french person would ever say "ravi de faire votre connaissance" to another french, practical case where you can hear that is when a friend introduces his best friend to you (he told you countless stories about the guy so you really are very happy to finally meet him). Same could go with parents or very close relatives. But you wouldn't say that in any other cases, that would look super odd (unless you are american, in which case people will say "oh, he doesn't really mean it, it's just his way to say hello"). On the other hand I feel it's quite easy for spanish/italian/and many other european people to blend in with french people because we only differ on frivolous things. Basically : we use the same codes and rules even if we don't interact the exact same way with them.
@@osquigene fyi, when I first meet an unknown french native person or an unknown french speaker from the whole earth, I will say "ravi de faire votre connaissance" or "enchanté", so the equivalent to "nice/pleased to meet you". It works the same way that english speaker introduce themselves to each other.
@@こく自分自身 YOU can say what you want, but when you say that to a French (note that I don't say french speaker) you will sound odd, even if you accent is perfect. In France, people very rarely say "enchanté" except maybe old people. And I think I never heard someone say "ravi de faire votre connaissance" (even though you are right, it would be the right phrase to say).
Je parle français ! I love learning French so much. Even I have no relation to it (I'm from Indonesia). It's complex. It's beautiful. It's beautifully complex. 💜 I won't stop learning French even though it's difficult. It's so challenging ! 😁
I love the French language - so poetic. Learnt French for 6 years at school in Australia. It really helped me understand grammar rules. Thank you ladies for this great vlog.
Yeah of course it's so nice launguege. I'm form Afghanistan 🇦🇫 but I'm Speak 5 launguege my mom laungueg is Persien English German French pesto. I'm learning Spanish and Italian and Arabic like
When I first started learning French, I found it quite difficult. Then my teacher advised me to learn Italian first and try again later. I tried and it solved every thing but pronunciation. For example, when it comes to vocabulary similarity and grammatical construction, Italian and French share a lot in common. The key difference remains their phonology.
My experience was Helen Keller-ish. With total immersion, we parroted phrases associated with uncaptioned photos. We saw no written work for the first year. My 'wawa' moment came with the phrase ' Monsieur Thibeau est ingenieur.' (please excuse the missing accent aigu). With him seated at his drafting table, it just clicked. After that, it was a joy and a breeze.
In Paris given how multicultural it is there are many accents and some are hard for me to understand. In one day I heard french with an Arabic accent, then french with a Russian accent and the french with a Chinese accent among many , many others. It is a beautiful language indeed, but can be a challenge for an American that only speaks english. I grew up speaking Spanish so its a bit easier for me to pronounce, but I still struggle.
I live in Montreal, a place always fighting language wars. The problem is, native speakers don’t understand just how hard it is to learn a language that unlike say Spanish, the writing and pronunciation a totally different. Since french words have so much spelling that is altered when speaking, or outright omitted, then regular day to day interactions help much less than in other languages. Then they accuse people of not wanting to learn french but it’s not that, it’s just really hard to learn as an adult when you have a career and family and simply deal in English all day for work. Lost my native speakers in the language wars is how hard it is to learn as an adult...😳😳
Quite interesting and odd to this person from the US. I always wish to respect the rules of appropriate behavior in my interactions with others but I have never been affluent enough to travel abroad. Therefore there are many behavioral rules that I am unlikely to ever “need to know about “. In my 70’s, and lacking any formal education since the age of 14 I have learned mostly from reading. Proper etiquette was not something that was a major focus in my desire for knowledge. History, geography, art, writing and scientific inquiry have long been important to me but I believe that I would be thought of as polite and courteous generally. I certainly hope so!
it is interesting how europeans describe their language and refer to others as primitive and useless. quiet frankly all languages are creolized including french a creole version of other languages.
hahahhaha, yeah, it's such a colonial way of thinking, the superiority of many Europeans, lol. Though out here in Asia it's similar. Like the Japanese, big superiority complex, when they are a mish-mash themselves. Nowadays, in language as in culture as in genetics, no one if pure or superior of anything anymore, and haven't been for long time.
Its creepy to know but basicaly we are all speaking in a bad prounciation a mix of languages of some sucessfull caveman villages from 100 000 years ago 😂😂 Even latin is a creole language of something who was creole language of something who was also creole language of something etc 😂
Emma you are right when writing as well because French is not flexible why it has been the diplomatic language for so long because it is very precise and you have to follow rules. The French Academy has also limited the number of words coming from local languages also choosing the best among a few, the one which was the more relevant. Merci
Parce que la langue française est plus précise et pointilleuse alors que l'anglais est pratique et conviviale mais porte à une certaine confusion. Alors qu'un français ''branche une fiche dans la prise (électrique)'' un anglais ''plug a plus in a plug''.
Well I'm French and I have a short request : I would appreciate you stop playing accordion everytime something is referring to France. Frankly it's boring since nobody especially like accordion in France (personally I even hate it). It's a cliché par excellence. It was popular in the 20's and 30's i.e. almost a century ago, not before and not after. Then 4 years of nazi occupation during WWII were not, to say the least, favourable to artistic creation so that when the anglo-americans landed in Normandy they found a country not only ruined but somehow "frozen" since 1940. Therefore they probably heard old fashioned songs or musics using accodion, hence the stereotype I guess. 76 years have now passed and as a lot of people have travelled to France as tourists, you should know how the country looks like nowadays. In the same vein, all French do not wear a beret or walk all day long with a baguette under their arm and so on ... Thank you for your understanding
MDR. c’est vrai on joue la musique d’accordéon toujours avec des choses françaises! L’accordéon, du fromage et du vin…l’ambiance française complète! Mais franchement je préfère cette musique aux chansons à texte!
@@ericlind6581 C'est exactement ce qui m'agace car c'est précisément le cliché absolu ! Et de la même manière bien sûr tous les italiens jouent de la mandoline sous les fenêtres, tous les grecs dansent le sirtaki, tous les américains ont un chapeau de cow-boy et tous les écossais portent un kilt et jouent de la cornemuse ... Je comprends que vous préfériez (par défaut) l'accordéon aux chansons à texte mais justement la chanson à texte c'est plutôt ça qui est très français, un peu comme la chanson russe d'ailleurs (et là aussi il n'y a pas que des balalaïkas) : si vous ne comprenez pas le texte, vous ne pouvez pas aimer la chanson. Quand au fromage que personnellement je n'aime pas : on en prend traditionnellement en fin de repas et pas tout le temps, c'est tout. Le vin c'est uniquement pour accompagner le repas et il n'y a pas qu"en France : l'Italie produit autant de vin que la France, quelquefois même plus et ils le consomment de la même façon. En revanche je n'ai jamais vu boire autant de vin en dehors des repas que dans les films anglo-saxons ! Si vous passez voir des amis en France à 16h par exemple on ne vous offrira jamais du vin mais un café ou du thé (idem en Italie ou en Espagne d'ailleurs)... C'est fou ce que les anglo-saxons aiment les clichés : les américains dont l'ignorance est légendaire, je comprends mais les anglais devraient savoir.
@@patolt1628 Les Américains en général sont beaucoup moins intellectuels que les français. C’est un fait qui est vraiment remarquable pour moi quand je parle avec des français. Il y a une appréciation pour les choses nuancées, raffinées et subtiles. Les américains préfèrent les descriptions obtuses, simples et souvent en stéréotypes. Si l’on doit trop réfléchir, c’est trop pour eux! C’est évident dans la façon dont les langues sont parlées. On peut parler l’anglais dans n’importe quelle façon alors que l’on doive parler le français avec la précision. Cela exige plus de capacité mentale pour se débrouiller. Ce ne sont que mes opinions.
@@ericlind6581 C'est possible mais je ne suis pas sûr que ce soit dû à la langue : les anglais aussi parlent anglais et sont pourtant en général beaucoup moins incultes que les américains et parfaitement capables de réfléchir ... Enfin c'est mon avis.
simisimi9 Well not according to the FSI, which put languages into groups of different levels of difficulty with hours it takes to learn a language in each group. Both French and Spanish are in group one, the group that takes the least amount of hours to learn for an English speaker. Something like Korean and Chinesse are in groups 4 and 5, which take the most hours to learn. It's something like group one takes 500 hours, while group 5 takes 1200 hours, can't remember exactly off the top of my head right now. I would say that learning French for both English and Spanish speakers is about the same, since French Spanish and English all have words and structures that are similar between them.
simisimi9 Well, spoken French is less similar to Spanish than Portuguese, and I would not call it "easy" to learn. Certainly easier to read it, however. One difficulty when you are Spanish learning French is changing your native accent and adopting the new French one. Thus speaking it without a strong Spanish accent is quite difficult.
French is an interesting language, but it is by no means 2nd in importance worldwide. Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic are way way more influencial. Russian and German are probably ahead of French too. But French is really interesting as a language and culture so it's worth learning.
@@leesteal4458 Firstly, I really hope that comment didn't sound conceited :( Secondly, Czech and English are both my mother tongues. I study French at a French lycee in Prague and am also currently studying Japanese in my spare time. I've also begun dabbling in Korean with my friend. I would love to study Hebrew one day and maybe some other languages too. What about you, my dude?
Nope, The DRC is the most populated francophone country, there is a nuance. But only half of its population speaks french, unlike 97 % of the french population. So no, the RDC is not (yet) the country with the most french speakers, even if it could become so in the future.
Wow, Jeannie was so honest about not understanding French when she was learning and spoken to. It comes so fast to the ears, as distinction gets lost when the words flow together continuously, melting over each other in a mishmash. I usually try to identify some words then the context: the top of the sentence and the bottom, forget the middle!
Je suis anglais et je trouve que le français est assez facile d'apprendre. Ça c'est un peu étrange parce que l'espagnol devrait plus facile pour un anglais que le français et je comprends pourquoi. Cependant, à mon avis, l'espagnol est plus difficle car je ne le parle pas souvent (je ne l'apprends que je suis au college) mais j'ai la chance de parler le français tous les jours avec ma mère mauricienne (ils parlent le français là-bas). Je pense que le français est une langue vraiment belle et je suis très heureux que je pourrai parler plus d'une langue
Vous ne pensez pas que le français est un peu plus facile pour vous d’apprendre parce que vous avez une mère qui parle français ? Je suis anglaise aussi et je pense que la langue est tellement difficile 🙃.
11:40- Actually, there are rules to help us (French language learners) remember whether an object is masculine or feminine. It depends on how the word ends. Like Bicyclette ends in -ette and most things that end in -ette are feminine. Another example, most things that end in -tion are feminine (une fraction, la solution). Masculine/feminine still gets me, and it's been over 3 years of living in France for me hahaha
C'est vraiment bizarre d'écouter ça quand on est français. Les présentatrice ont un accent anglais juste parfait. Comment elles font pour parler en anglais ensemble ça doit être trop bizarre
I've always hated how people seem to brag and complaining on how difficult French is... Language difficulty will always depend on the language you already know. I want to see these girls figuring out tones in Mandarin or motion verbs and the declension system in Russian.
@@unusualsuspect1262 Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese have that amount of verb tenses... and they use subjunctive in a heavier way than French... I'm telling you, I speak Spanish, French, and Portuguese... I know what I'm talking about.
Wait wait wait... You don’t have dictée in others countries ? I did not know that ! In France it’s so usual like it’s normal, and I love that ( not everyone like it ). I thought everyone was having spelling test, wow. Very interesting 🤔😉😅
@@alikobeissi4198 I'm american but I live in Québec and learned the Québec accent instead of the French one so I understand their slang and speech patterns etc. but France I find speaks too softly or too fast and it just makes understanding for me harder.
@@EB-yp1wu oh cool actually I'm learning French and yeah you are right about that French people speak softly and the sound smooth too not like Quebec accent but for me I can understand French people than Quebec people because honestly Quebec people speak in a different way
How much french and spanish speaks around the world that much have the local languages are in every state in india. Burglaring is not the proud history .i request you to checkout the root of almost all language of the world comes from sanskrit world.mother and father of all languages ..in fact mostly spoken language is chinese ,hindi ,english ,spanish ,french ,arabic,and indonesien .
@@amolsheshbhare5069 Well there are 1.2 billion native Mandarin chinese speakers so they are definitely first. In comparison there are "only" about 550 millions spanish speakers
Are we counting all subjects of the Chinese Empire as Mandarin speakers? Like everyone in the Congo speaks French, and the Amazon dwellers all speak Portuguese?
I live in France for quite some time and many many people started to use Tu even TV/radio presenters. Young kids use Tu to me and other adults, I could be their grandma! Except business like talking to clients then Vous must be used. And elderly people who are still very formal. I don't believe that there are more sophisticated or lesssophisticated languages especially in developed countries that are so complexed so many words had to be created along the line. Many French believe French is more difficult than English and Many Germans believe German is more difficult than English though hardly any non-English who speak English speak properly. They make so many mistakes even with everyday-life English. They are just too proud of their own languages, but they shouldn't be that arrogant to say their language is more sophisticated or more difficult than other languages.
Saveurital - You’re absolutely right! I have friends who are French and their english is terrible with awful pronunciation, mistakes in grammar and present/past tense, etc. However, those of us who are Native American english speakers don’t say anything, we don’t correct people unless someone is searching for a word and can’t find it and we make the effort to understand what the non-native speaker is saying. However, the French are quick to correct me if I speak French and are incredibly judgmental of others who speak it and make mistakes. That’s what would be called “mal éduqué.”
@@Becky_Cal Vous faîtes erreur sur l'intention. Les français vous corrigent pour vous aider à progresser, plutôt que vous continuiez à mal parler. Nous avons aussi tendance à répéter le mot que l'on vient d'entendre mais en le prononçant en français pour être sûr que c'est bien le mot que la personne qui nous parle veut employer. Ce n'est donc pas un jugement de valeur ni un reproche. C'est vous qui l'interprétez comme tel. ;)
I don't agree with you, although English spelling is horrifically irregular and therefore difficult, the grammar is much less complex than French grammar, German (case) grammer though is the worst, and also completely redundant for instance if you say "two houses" in German, you'll make it plural three (3!) times: "Zwei Haüser" (Umlaut and an affix) in English you'll use plural just twice, and in French it depends whether you count the written form (twice like English) or only the spoken (just once, "deux"). In lots of languages it's like: one house, two house, three house etc. Turkish is an example. Anyways, the German case grammer isn't only particularly hard to learn, it's also unnecessary because of the strict word order and abundant prepositions. (I speak Dutch, which one could roughly describe as German without cases.)
@@romain6275 my conditional tenses? you mean conditional tenses in English (I'm Dutch) I guess? you are French right? are you saying conditional tenses are more complicated in English than in French? if so, could you s'il te plaît give an example? can you gi
The reason that gender words are difficult to learn is because they don't follow rules of any kind. Many were established by what “sounded” best or what had become “popular” in everyday vocabulary. Ç'est tout!
I come from the projects of Eastern Ontario, Canada. There is a lot of French in this part of the province and I have taken French Immersion back in school from JK to Gr12. My dad is actually French by nature but is perfectly bilingual and my mom only speaks English. Together, they decided to raise me and my siblings in English. My mom wanted us to have more French than she does and my dad would sometimes say little words and phrases in French. Me personally, I can understand it and speak some of it but I am not fluent. Lately, I have been trying to retain the French I have lost after finishing school.
It's truer than you'd think. Many wars between France and England came from dynastic /succession struggles seeing as the British and French crowns were so close due to family ties
Je suis soudanais, mais je suis immigrants en France, quand j'étais en France rien pour parler le langue française, mais maintenant mieux parler français et j'adore le langue française cette grâce pour tous professeurs français dans france,mais Motivation très importante pour quelqu'un personne apprendre le langue française ou noter le langue, le langue française très différente comme le langue anglaise.merci beaucoup pour tous et France 24 TV aussi.
I love it how people that haven't even thought about studying a non indoeuropean language (or whithout going that far, a slavic language) say that French is hard 😂, it's actually a really easy language.
I guess learnibg any language is hard. As a native Spanish and English speaker I must say it's pretty obvious germanic and romance languages are easier to learn. I would never try my luck with Japanese of Chinese for instance 😅
I don't understand why people find so difficult to pronounce the French words. I'm not a native French-speaker but I can pronounce every word properly.
Tu veux apprendre anglais et moi, je veux apprendre français. Je ne suis pas sure de le truc "moi, je" comme en "moi, je veux apprendre etc...." J'ai l'apprendre il y a beaucoup de années à l'école, mais, maintenant ? aujourd'hui ? je ne trouve pas ce combination ? des mots dans l'apps que j'utilise pour apprendre français (Duolingo et Memrise) peut-être c'est "old-fashioned" (archaïque ?) Do you understand my French?
Elles ont répété plusieurs fois que français est difficile mais elles exagèrent vraiment 🙄 surtout si ta langue maternelle est l’anglais, l’espagnol, l’italien, ou quelque chose comme ça. Ça fait 4 mois que j’apprends Français et je peux déjà m’exprimer assez bien et comprendre une grande partie des vidéos françaises que je regarde sur UA-cam. Je penses pas qu’aucune langue est difficile. En fait, nos cerveaux sont désignés pour être capable d’apprendre langue pour qu’on soit capable de communiquer avec des autres et de survivre. Bref, aucune langue est intrinsèquement difficile. Il faut simplement immerger soi-même et sans doute on l’apprendra. Et évidemment que les touristes dans la rue pouvaient pas prononcer les mots français; ils l’ont étudié jamais. C’est pas la preuve que la prononciation française est impossible🤦🏾♀️
In French "è" or "ê" = hey. But "é" is pronounced like you pronounce "e" in "educate" or in "terrific", the mouth is more closed. After it, you'll can learn to pronounce : "o", "ô" . Like this, you'll be able to make the difference between "votre" et "vôtre" in French language ... :)))
@@j-loosenfout67 no, it's the other way round! first e of educate is è, like the e in ten. é is a bit like ay in may, or ey in hey. Is there really a difference in the pronunciation of o and ô or a and â, or between any vowel with or without a circonflexe ? Never heard (of) it.
@@fukpoeslaw3613 Hello, The French "é" is really difficult to explain using a comparable word in English because ultimately there's none ... But I may have found a trick by using French terms used in English like "Déjà vu" or "rendez-vous". :) For the simple "o" and the "ô" with circumflex accent, yes there's a very noticeable pronunciation difference between "C'est votre voiture, ce n'est donc pas notre voiture" et "Cette voiture est la vôtre, pas la nôtre". The "o" in "votre voiture ou notre voiture" is pronounced a bit like a closed "a". Kind of a mixture of pronunciation between the "a" and the "e". To try to give an example we must think of the way in which the "ch'ti" (inhabitants of French north) pronounces the "a" as in "ché po moi" (Je ne sais pas moi - I don't know me). While the ô with a circumflex accent in "c'est la vôtre" or "c'est la nôtre" which the "ô" is pronounced like leters "e,a,u" in the French words "bateau", "château", "oiseau", etc. To make a comparison with English terms, one could for example oppose "know, no" with "now, none". You see what I mean? On the other hand, between "a", "â" and "à", the three in French are pronounced in the same way. :)
@@j-loosenfout67 I think you mean the difference between o and ô would be about the same as the difference between o and oo in the Dutch words nog and boot. you happen to speak or at least understand Dutch?
@@fukpoeslaw3613 No, I don't speak German. Only French (I'm French) and school English as a foreign language (college 8th grade). In English I can easily speak and express my ideas. But it is still difficult for me to really follow a conversation between 2 or 3 english people for example. :) But yes, I've make Google translation read with voice the two words and the difference is something close. You can try yourself in using Google translation voice with "notre" and "nôtre" to see the différence of pronunciation. ;) "Notre" is a possessive ADJECTIVE and can be easily replaced in the plural by "nos". "Nôtre" is a possessive PRONOUN. It is always preceded by a "le" or a "la". In the plural, it becomes "nôtres". In short, the easiest way is to put the sentence in the plural to know if it is notre or nôtre that must be used when it's time to write in French. ;)
French is actually not hard to learn. the problem lies with its economic value... the french-speaking countries, even if added together, can not compete with UK and USA in influences. Even the French president Macron has polished his English while no british prime minister or american president can speak a decent french sentence. None would complain that French was hard if France were the No.1 country in the world.
Kevin Joe Yes, because I would say English takes just as much time for a French speaker to learn as French for an English speaker. Basing this off the fact that the FSI puts French as a group one verb in terms of hours it takes to learn as an English speaker. French is in the least hours needed group, because French is so similar to English compared to other languages like chinesse which takes far more hours to learn according to the FSI.
Omg so glad I found this video! It’s the best primer for beginner French learners, the history helps me so much!! Please keep making more like this, I love this series 😍
Please note that the circonflexe doesn’t only mean disappearance of the s, but can be of other letters too as in âge (aage), dû (deu), or just for unknown historical reasons trône. In older texts it can also mean a repeated letter is omitted (for space), so there would be a circonflexe accent above the consonnant com̂e (comme)
François Ier did not make French the official language in 1539. He made it the official language for justice and administration. It's not the same thing at all (but it's a common mistake). And it's linguistically incorrect to say that Norman is a "kind of French with a strong accent". They are both "langues d'oïl" but when you put it that way it says that Norman is a daughter language of French and it's not the case.
@@oinhthien7183 at school I hated, I loathed the grammar. For me German is easy to understand and use, speaking with Germans is easier even than reading German, that must be because I'm Dutch. German is generally considered an ugly language, or at least not a beautiful one. I learned to appreciate the sound of German through songs. Although my English is a lot better, German can sound more familiar.
It is a very beautiful language. I loved literally every second of the 3 French classes I took in college, so much so that professor pulled me aside one day to her office, and I thought I was in trouble and she talked to me for 30 minutes about how I should consider changing my major, (I was a music performance major) and gave me books on careers that I could pursue as a French major 😂😂😂 Regrettably, I still haven't had a chance to really visit and explore France, although I was in Nice for about 6 hours for a layover and I was like there is NO WAY IN HELL that I'm not leaving this this airport and exploring the town for a couple hours.
Try not to forget it! I had a good level in German, but didn't speak at all after leaving highschool so I forgot everything :( I hope you are still listening some French videos and that you can talk with some French friends :)
It’s very enjoyable report but I really don’t understand why you call the French as very hard to learn, especially about pronunciation and grammar. The French language is the easiest language among 5 foreign languages I speak. It’s much more easier than English. You can believe me, if you just start learning, this pronunciation will not be any problem. Nor grammar, it’s very very easy and enjoyable. So keep calm and learn the languages.
I'm French, I re-learn English for 2 years (I all forgot since I was in high school !) and the pronounciation is not very easy but I'm very happy to relearn English.
c'est très gentil, peut-être je vais demander ton aide (votre aide?) pour exemple ces phrases ici, sont-il corrects ? (propres ?, bonnes ?, biennes ?) Moi je suis hollandaise, tu parle (vous parlez?) flamand ?
"French is a very difficult language to learn." Icelandic: Haltu bjórinn minn. No, but I do agree that French is a pretty odd and hard language. The word "today" in French is "aujourd'hui." 10 letters, and then an apostrophe.
the word "aujourd'hui" is by itself a mistake because the word "hui" means "today" by itself, therefore Aujourd'hui means "at the day of today" I'm french and i would LOVE speaking icelandic as I'm passionate by this country and culture but this language is far way harder than french !!
Nobody in France pays much attention to the difference between "é", "è", "ê", and "ai" nowadays - and no, Anthony Lacoudre, Norman wasn't just "French with a strange accent"! It was, and still is, a distinct variety of Langue d'oïl which has contributed to the evolution of the French language. For instance, "Pieuvre" and "hérisson" are both Norman loanwords into Standard French.
Not totally agree with hosts, the Royal Title no longer important after 1789. Who care title of Countess, big deal! A lots french nobles so afraid let people know their original root. Escape to Germany or Belgian, UK. Would you host update your information?! Ask them, not everyone wants to relate to Royal family anymore. >< P.S. Some of my Royal friends told me many real situations of French Society now. Particularly in Paris, less important have DE ....something as their last name. >< Changing a lot nowadays!
To be fair, for English speakers, french is one of the easiest languages to learn. And although it is still influential in some world institutions, it would be more useful for people to learn Spanish or Mandarin.
I can understand written French and write it better than I can speak it. I really would like to speak it better, however every time I open my mouth to speak be it in Geneve, Paris, Strassbourg or Nice the I find it utterly confounding that they seem to forget they are speaking to a non-native speaker and just go off like they were at Le Mans. I then get too intimidated to request "Pouvez-vous parle lentement svp, parce-que ma francais ne pas optimale" feeling it would be rude to interrupt their rapid fire. Serait-ce vraiment impoli? .
Mate, French is hard as nails but I don't regret learning it. I love it, I'd love to go one day to both Québec and France. Cheers. Hugs for all Frech-speakers out there.
When you come to Quebec, go out Montreal :) It's kind of an international city and there's so much more to see outside of it, like Quebec City and all the countryside regions full of awesome landscape and lovely villages.
Why not visit the one of many African countries that France invaded and colonized :))) u can speak french there too
Verbale Mondo have u heard of chinese?c est un casse couille很难！
Thx for the motivation
@@lavelycrow9805 Montreal is a beautiful city isn't it? It's full of color and old fashion design!
The dislikes are from Anglophone people who don't want to thank French for its loanwords 😀
En anglais « anglophones » va mieux. « Anglophone people » est trop encombrant. « English speakers » ou même juste « Americans and Brits » vont le mieux.
French is NOT the native language of 300 million people as the video says. It's only the native language of about 75 million who come from Europe, Canada, and upper-class homes in West African cities. Only about 300 million people speak french worldwide but this includes second-language speakers who are far more prevalent than native speakers
Also, the demonym of Belgium is 'Belgian', and a native English speaker shouldn't make such a basic mistake!
So you imply that human being can only have ONE and only native language! That's nonsense! I give you examples: the latinos on the USA have 2 natives languages: Spanish and English.
What nonsense!! Upper class homes in the West Indies😂😂😂😂 No mention iof Africa. Hilarious
Grève - strike 😂😂😂
Strike is so important in France !!
@Finn MickCool Okay but I have mostly heard with strikes so associated with it !
Well its better having a nation that stands and fight for their freedom and rights
Instead of being a nation who let politicians & big industries tacking advantage of them. And continue on as if nothing happen
Je suis philippine et j'adore la langue française. Et je l'étudie depuis 1 an et 10 mois. Ça me plaît beaucoup! Selon moi, c'est la plus belle langue du monde ❤
Bonjour! Vous parlez très bien le Français,et bonne continuation.
Bonjour ! Si tu as besoin d'aide pour des devoirs (homeworks) ou autre je suis disposé à t'aider (I can help you).
Discord : Sugiii#3188
Twitter: @The_Sugi_
J’ai l’étudie depuis 4 années!
@@ohsayitditto378 I have studied for only 2 months. I'm confused tho, why l'étudie and not étudié in your sentence?
EDIT: I now understand what the l', la, le, les mean in front verbs i.e. Him/her, her, him, they
lonnelharrislive2
what linguist has ever denied that French isn't a HUGE part of English!? lol. Anyone that knows anything about English knows that a third or half of the vocab is French. What makes it still a Germanic language is when you strip it down to its bare parts, that's when you notice that it's really just a Germanic language with a ton of borrowed morphology and phonology
also English is a Germanic language because it is a synthetic language, however French is analytical. In English you don't change the endings of a word (except for verbs), but in French you must do so. Especially, if you have nouns and adjectives - they all change. In English, it simply doesn't happen. However, in German it happens. So now I am totally confused. Thankfully, I love them all and accept them the way they are :D
Bonjour Émilie ça va ?
Emilie Coats What has English borrowed from French phonology ?
@@oliveranderson7264 almost nothing - French phonology and English phonology are very different
French used to be very Germanic, in fact it is this old, Frankish French that influenced English. Songs like ''Chevalier, Mult Estes Guariz'' shows that French used to have sounds like ''Ace'' in the English ''Pace'', ''ist'' in the English word '' fist'' and the German ''eis''.
French reporter interviewing a french writer... In english 😂
That was funny to see ahah
Fun Rush Well, it is an English speaking video we are watching,
Well if it was don’t in French some of us wouldn’t have been informed!
The author speaks perfect English!
I love French language. l am learning it. From India
Learn Sanskrit also.
@@leesteal4458 lol
It is unwanted to learn Sanskrit
@@leesteal4458 sanskrit is a legendary language...not any ordinary person can learn it
@@free_soul9154 How do you know that that person is ordinary, dear.
2:10 and i oop ???
Laura M lmao
"Allô" XD
2:22 "French is so hard to learn..." Well, so does any other language I guess? Especially when it's so different from your mother tongue. For instance, my 1st language is Portuguese so at least we share the same alphabet (both even have cedillas!) which is HUGELY convenient. Now when I moved to Japan in 1996 and started to learn their language and didn't know any single character, mec c'était tres difficile!
😂😂😂😂
it's because like french your language have latin's origin
Mec, c'était très difficile !* :P
😂😂
If you think French is difficult to learn, try German. It has 3 genders (not 2) and four grammatical cases.
Passable French isn’t that difficult to learn - but if you’re non native, you’ll be an outcast for ~15 years.
15 years? How? You will have an accent for your whole life (unless you really work hard to get rid of it). But you won't be an outcast because you have an accent … People making jokes about accent/grammar errors are just ignorants who never learned a foreign language, just ignore them and look for decent human beings. Everyone makes mistakes, everyone is ignorant of some rules. For example, french is my 1st language and I had no idea what the "tréma" really was, I knew how to read words containing them just because I had heard these words. Vocabulary is the most important thing, if you know how to express ideas/feelings, you'll not be an outcast, this doesn't require 15 years if you really use french every day.
@@osquigene 15 years is a hyperbole to make a point - but I was referring to things like sarcasm, cultural context, shared experiences, absence of shared history, patriotism etc etc. Same for any country move / new language but my experience is French culture is particularly opposed to foreigners joining the club thus diluting "french", especially so in our ever-globalising world
@@chriscaskey6627 I agree that cultural differences can be an obstacle to mixing with natives. I think it's more or less the only real risk for not being accepted. But that's unrelated to France and mainly a direct relation to how big the cultural difference is. For example, it would be very hard for an american to blend in with french because we think social relations in diametrically opposed ways. For example it's considered a quality to be extremely friendly with everyone in the US, while in france it would be considered fake and therefore very rude. To be more concrete on this example, "very nice to meet you" is something a french person only say because they know americans usually say that when they first meet someone. (almost) No french person would ever say "ravi de faire votre connaissance" to another french, practical case where you can hear that is when a friend introduces his best friend to you (he told you countless stories about the guy so you really are very happy to finally meet him). Same could go with parents or very close relatives. But you wouldn't say that in any other cases, that would look super odd (unless you are american, in which case people will say "oh, he doesn't really mean it, it's just his way to say hello"). On the other hand I feel it's quite easy for spanish/italian/and many other european people to blend in with french people because we only differ on frivolous things. Basically : we use the same codes and rules even if we don't interact the exact same way with them.
@@osquigene fyi, when I first meet an unknown french native person or an unknown french speaker from the whole earth, I will say "ravi de faire votre connaissance" or "enchanté", so the equivalent to "nice/pleased to meet you". It works the same way that english speaker introduce themselves to each other.
@@こく自分自身 YOU can say what you want, but when you say that to a French (note that I don't say french speaker) you will sound odd, even if you accent is perfect. In France, people very rarely say "enchanté" except maybe old people. And I think I never heard someone say "ravi de faire votre connaissance" (even though you are right, it would be the right phrase to say).
Je parle français !
I love learning French so much. Even I have no relation to it (I'm from Indonesia).
It's complex. It's beautiful. It's beautifully complex. 💜
I won't stop learning French even though it's difficult. It's so challenging ! 😁
Btw I love Genie and Florence so much. 😁
@@Kanal7Indonesia continue et bon courage pour la suite ^^
@@ismaeldependance3994 merci beaucoup pour ton souhait.😊💖
French is my fourth language and I love French as if it’s my first one
More languages you speak less the level unless used on frequent basis I speak 4 can admit to this.
How did you learn?
Oh really! It's my fifth language and I'm in love with the process of learning it.
Le mien aussi. C'est merveilleux.
I bet you can count to ten in all your other languages, well done kid:)
I love the French language - so poetic. Learnt French for 6 years at school in Australia. It really helped me understand grammar rules.
Thank you ladies for this great vlog.
Yeah of course it's so nice launguege.
I'm form Afghanistan 🇦🇫 but I'm Speak 5 launguege my mom laungueg is Persien English German French pesto.
I'm learning Spanish and Italian and Arabic like
Those who think French is so hard to learn, wait until you learn Russian.
Nobody cares about russian, keep it
Spanish is easy language to learn than French that's why people tend to learn Spanish instead of French
It depends on what your native language is, obviously.
Onlyin the USA. Outside of Spain and Latin America, Spanish is a useless language.
I am a native english speaker in french immersion since kindergarten and we had dictations (dictée) and we did not enjoy them.
Duncan WIlson hey, here in Iran we also have it in our primary schools, and it exactly pronounced as dictée, and yes, it’s not enjoyable
@@sadrarahmani6246 i love it so much (French speaker)
Dictée was my favourite thing in primary school. Maybe I have a masochistic streak in me idk
I hated them so much. L'enseignant(e) parle toujours, soit trop vite ou soit trop lentement.
When I first started learning French, I found it quite difficult. Then my teacher advised me to learn Italian first and try again later. I tried and it solved every thing but pronunciation.
For example, when it comes to vocabulary similarity and grammatical construction, Italian and French share a lot in common. The key difference remains their phonology.
Spanish as well!
Me too ! Finally verb changes make sense to me because i learn a bit of italian :
Mangio - mangi - mangia
My experience was Helen Keller-ish. With total immersion, we parroted phrases associated with uncaptioned photos. We saw no written work for the first year. My 'wawa' moment came with the phrase ' Monsieur Thibeau est ingenieur.' (please excuse the missing accent aigu). With him seated at his drafting table, it just clicked. After that, it was a joy and a breeze.
Cher 😂 Cheap
In Paris given how multicultural it is there are many accents and some are hard for me to understand. In one day I heard french with an Arabic accent, then french with a Russian accent and the french with a Chinese accent among many , many others. It is a beautiful language indeed, but can be a challenge for an American that only speaks english. I grew up speaking Spanish so its a bit easier for me to pronounce, but I still struggle.
I live in Montreal, a place always fighting language wars. The problem is, native speakers don’t understand just how hard it is to learn a language that unlike say Spanish, the writing and pronunciation a totally different. Since french words have so much spelling that is altered when speaking, or outright omitted, then regular day to day interactions help much less than in other languages. Then they accuse people of not wanting to learn french but it’s not that, it’s just really hard to learn as an adult when you have a career and family and simply deal in English all day for work. Lost my native speakers in the language wars is how hard it is to learn as an adult...😳😳
Cuz you are mentally lazy.....
Man I wish I would’ve continued with my French teacher Madame Warren. She was so elegant and efficient with what and how she taught.
Quite interesting and odd to this person from the US. I always wish to respect the rules of appropriate behavior in my interactions with others but I have never been affluent enough to travel abroad. Therefore there are many behavioral rules that I am unlikely to ever “need to know about “. In my 70’s, and lacking any formal education since the age of 14 I have learned mostly from reading. Proper etiquette was not something that was a major focus in my desire for knowledge. History, geography, art, writing and scientific inquiry have long been important to me but I believe that I would be thought of as polite and courteous generally. I certainly hope so!
You've been keen reader since you were fourteen and STILL don't know that it's 70s, not 70's?
@@barnbersonol Knock it off.
"I believe that I would be thought of as polite and courteous generally. I certainly hope so!"
You certainly do to me! Have a nice day!
it is interesting how europeans describe their language and refer to others as primitive and useless. quiet frankly all languages are creolized including french a creole version of other languages.
That's where the word "cruller" donut came from, it means "run over by a tractor".
hahahhaha, yeah, it's such a colonial way of thinking, the superiority of many Europeans, lol. Though out here in Asia it's similar. Like the Japanese, big superiority complex, when they are a mish-mash themselves. Nowadays, in language as in culture as in genetics, no one if pure or superior of anything anymore, and haven't been for long time.
@@aeolia80 there are you just are an idiot
@@aeolia80 I heard there is alot of Sanskrit in Japanese.
Its creepy to know but basicaly we are all speaking in a bad prounciation a mix of languages of some sucessfull caveman villages from 100 000 years ago 😂😂
Even latin is a creole language of something who was creole language of something who was also creole language of something etc 😂
Française est très génial et cool mais très difficile ! Mdr 😂
Mdr le français n'est pas difficile comme ça 😂
I find its easier to speak in English with fewer words to get your point across: french requires more words
Emma not always ... you use many prepositions while we don't for example ...
Emma you are right when writing as well because French is not flexible why it has been the diplomatic language for so long because it is very precise and you have to follow rules. The French Academy has also limited the number of words coming from local languages also choosing the best among a few, the one which was the more relevant. Merci
Parce que la langue française est plus précise et pointilleuse alors que l'anglais est pratique et conviviale mais porte à une certaine confusion. Alors qu'un français ''branche une fiche dans la prise (électrique)'' un anglais ''plug a plus in a plug''.
Well I'm French and I have a short request : I would appreciate you stop playing accordion everytime something is referring to France. Frankly it's boring since nobody especially like accordion in France (personally I even hate it). It's a cliché par excellence.
It was popular in the 20's and 30's i.e. almost a century ago, not before and not after. Then 4 years of nazi occupation during WWII were not, to say the least, favourable to artistic creation so that when the anglo-americans landed in Normandy they found a country not only ruined but somehow "frozen" since 1940. Therefore they probably heard old fashioned songs or musics using accodion, hence the stereotype I guess. 76 years have now passed and as a lot of people have travelled to France as tourists, you should know how the country looks like nowadays. In the same vein, all French do not wear a beret or walk all day long with a baguette under their arm and so on ... Thank you for your understanding
MDR. c’est vrai on joue la musique d’accordéon toujours avec des choses françaises! L’accordéon, du fromage et du vin…l’ambiance française complète! Mais franchement je préfère cette musique aux chansons à texte!
@@ericlind6581 C'est exactement ce qui m'agace car c'est précisément le cliché absolu ! Et de la même manière bien sûr tous les italiens jouent de la mandoline sous les fenêtres, tous les grecs dansent le sirtaki, tous les américains ont un chapeau de cow-boy et tous les écossais portent un kilt et jouent de la cornemuse ...
Je comprends que vous préfériez (par défaut) l'accordéon aux chansons à texte mais justement la chanson à texte c'est plutôt ça qui est très français, un peu comme la chanson russe d'ailleurs (et là aussi il n'y a pas que des balalaïkas) : si vous ne comprenez pas le texte, vous ne pouvez pas aimer la chanson.
Quand au fromage que personnellement je n'aime pas : on en prend traditionnellement en fin de repas et pas tout le temps, c'est tout. Le vin c'est uniquement pour accompagner le repas et il n'y a pas qu"en France : l'Italie produit autant de vin que la France, quelquefois même plus et ils le consomment de la même façon. En revanche je n'ai jamais vu boire autant de vin en dehors des repas que dans les films anglo-saxons ! Si vous passez voir des amis en France à 16h par exemple on ne vous offrira jamais du vin mais un café ou du thé (idem en Italie ou en Espagne d'ailleurs)...
C'est fou ce que les anglo-saxons aiment les clichés : les américains dont l'ignorance est légendaire, je comprends mais les anglais devraient savoir.
@@patolt1628 Les Américains en général sont beaucoup moins intellectuels que les français. C’est un fait qui est vraiment remarquable pour moi quand je parle avec des français. Il y a une appréciation pour les choses nuancées, raffinées et subtiles. Les américains préfèrent les descriptions obtuses, simples et souvent en stéréotypes. Si l’on doit trop réfléchir, c’est trop pour eux! C’est évident dans la façon dont les langues sont parlées. On peut parler l’anglais dans n’importe quelle façon alors que l’on doive parler le français avec la précision. Cela exige plus de capacité mentale pour se débrouiller. Ce ne sont que mes opinions.
@@ericlind6581 C'est possible mais je ne suis pas sûr que ce soit dû à la langue : les anglais aussi parlent anglais et sont pourtant en général beaucoup moins incultes que les américains et parfaitement capables de réfléchir ... Enfin c'est mon avis.
@@patolt1628 je parle des américains seulement. Les autres anglophones sont complètement différents
for spanish speakers is easy to learn French , for an English is hard !!
Not for Laoshu50500 haha
Europe is now bigger than that. There are Estonians and Bulgarians etc.
@@ExotiqBeautii YESSSS he is incredible
simisimi9 Well not according to the FSI, which put languages into groups of different levels of difficulty with hours it takes to learn a language in each group. Both French and Spanish are in group one, the group that takes the least amount of hours to learn for an English speaker. Something like Korean and Chinesse are in groups 4 and 5, which take the most hours to learn. It's something like group one takes 500 hours, while group 5 takes 1200 hours, can't remember exactly off the top of my head right now. I would say that learning French for both English and Spanish speakers is about the same, since French Spanish and English all have words and structures that are similar between them.
simisimi9 Well, spoken French is less similar to Spanish than Portuguese, and I would not call it "easy" to learn. Certainly easier to read it, however. One difficulty when you are Spanish learning French is changing your native accent and adopting the new French one. Thus speaking it without a strong Spanish accent is quite difficult.
French is an interesting language, but it is by no means 2nd in importance worldwide. Spanish, Mandarin, and Arabic are way way more influencial. Russian and German are probably ahead of French too. But French is really interesting as a language and culture so it's worth learning.
German ahead ???
Please check your sources...
look im sorry but french is one of the easiest languages to learn...
What other languages do you speak?
@@leesteal4458 Firstly, I really hope that comment didn't sound conceited :( Secondly, Czech and English are both my mother tongues. I study French at a French lycee in Prague and am also currently studying Japanese in my spare time. I've also begun dabbling in Korean with my friend. I would love to study Hebrew one day and maybe some other languages too. What about you, my dude?
@@ellakatrovasova5342 I believe that you are very gifted.
Yeah French is pretty easy for me also, however I also speak Italian and Portuguese so yeah
"and many countries in Africa"
...
Kinshasa is the city with the largest number of French speakers in the world. I see you euro-centrism
They rather mention Canada, even though it is spoken in only one province , where a lot of people will also speak English...
Nope, The DRC is the most populated francophone country, there is a nuance. But only half of its population speaks french, unlike 97 % of the french population. So no, the RDC is not (yet) the country with the most french speakers, even if it could become so in the future.
Wow, Jeannie was so honest about not understanding French when she was learning and spoken to. It comes so fast to the ears, as distinction gets lost when the words flow together continuously, melting over each other in a mishmash. I usually try to identify some words then the context: the top of the sentence and the bottom, forget the middle!
In Puerto Rican Spanish we pronounce our r’s like the French
French also speak english without knowing it.
For me german language is more difficult than french.
rafik bouaouni as an English speaker, personally I found learning German pretty manageable. Most words are similar or comparable
it depends where you came from
Honestly French is common to english and closer to it too but German language is hella hard 😂😂😂
Je suis anglais et je trouve que le français est assez facile d'apprendre. Ça c'est un peu étrange parce que l'espagnol devrait plus facile pour un anglais que le français et je comprends pourquoi. Cependant, à mon avis, l'espagnol est plus difficle car je ne le parle pas souvent (je ne l'apprends que je suis au college) mais j'ai la chance de parler le français tous les jours avec ma mère mauricienne (ils parlent le français là-bas). Je pense que le français est une langue vraiment belle et je suis très heureux que je pourrai parler plus d'une langue
🇫🇷❤️🇨🇦❤️🇧🇪❤️🇨🇭
*J'adore la Francophonie*
( I didn't include all the FR. Speaking countries)
Vous ne pensez pas que le français est un peu plus facile pour vous d’apprendre parce que vous avez une mère qui parle français ? Je suis anglaise aussi et je pense que la langue est tellement difficile 🙃.
c'est bien! Tu parles super bien déjà, continue de faire des efforts et d'apprendre! One love!
Yes. But can you say that in English?
Et bizarrement étant français, je trouve l'espagnol plus facile à apprendre que l'anglais !
11:40- Actually, there are rules to help us (French language learners) remember whether an object is masculine or feminine. It depends on how the word ends. Like Bicyclette ends in -ette and most things that end in -ette are feminine. Another example, most things that end in -tion are feminine (une fraction, la solution). Masculine/feminine still gets me, and it's been over 3 years of living in France for me hahaha
Useful tips!
C'est vraiment bizarre d'écouter ça quand on est français. Les présentatrice ont un accent anglais juste parfait. Comment elles font pour parler en anglais ensemble ça doit être trop bizarre
Les deux sont françaises ?
Elles sont vraiment impressionnantes
I've always hated how people seem to brag and complaining on how difficult French is... Language difficulty will always depend on the language you already know.
I want to see these girls figuring out tones in Mandarin or motion verbs and the declension system in Russian.
French language has more than 20 tenses it's really difficult to speak/write it well even for a french speaker
@@unusualsuspect1262 Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese have that amount of verb tenses... and they use subjunctive in a heavier way than French... I'm telling you, I speak Spanish, French, and Portuguese... I know what I'm talking about.
Wait wait wait...
You don’t have dictée in others countries ?
I did not know that !
In France it’s so usual like it’s normal, and I love that ( not everyone like it ).
I thought everyone was having spelling test, wow.
Very interesting 🤔😉😅
Lol if France French is hard enough come to Québec
Lol honestly votre accent est trop difficile mdr je préfère l'accent français de français lol dude it's like who speaks in American accent in Britain
But of course si t'es de Québec
@@alikobeissi4198 I'm american but I live in Québec and learned the Québec accent instead of the French one so I understand their slang and speech patterns etc. but France I find speaks too softly or too fast and it just makes understanding for me harder.
@@EB-yp1wu oh cool actually I'm learning French and yeah you are right about that French people speak softly and the sound smooth too not like Quebec accent but for me I can understand French people than Quebec people because honestly Quebec people speak in a different way
And also I would like to be friends if you want that lol 😂 but if you don't want it's fine : )
Most spoken language in the world
1. Chinese Mandarin
2. Spanish
3. English.
How much french and spanish speaks around the world that much have the local languages are in every state in india. Burglaring is not the proud history .i request you to checkout the root of almost all language of the world comes from sanskrit world.mother and father of all languages ..in fact mostly spoken language is chinese ,hindi ,english ,spanish ,french ,arabic,and indonesien .
Totally disagree English is first then Spanish
@@amolsheshbhare5069 Well there are 1.2 billion native Mandarin chinese speakers so they are definitely first. In comparison there are "only" about 550 millions spanish speakers
They're talking about learning it not being a native speaker
Are we counting all subjects of the Chinese Empire as Mandarin speakers? Like everyone in the Congo speaks French, and the Amazon dwellers all speak Portuguese?
I live in France for quite some time and many many people started to use Tu even TV/radio presenters. Young kids use Tu to me and other adults,
I could be their grandma! Except business like talking to clients then Vous must be used. And elderly people who are still very formal. I don't believe that there are more sophisticated or lesssophisticated languages especially in developed countries that are so complexed so many words had to be created along the line. Many French believe French is more difficult than English and Many Germans believe German is more difficult than English though hardly any non-English who speak English speak properly. They make so many mistakes even with everyday-life English. They are just too proud of their own languages, but they shouldn't be that arrogant to say their language is more sophisticated or more difficult than other languages.
Saveurital - You’re absolutely right! I have friends who are French and their english is terrible with awful pronunciation, mistakes in grammar and present/past tense, etc. However, those of us who are Native American english speakers don’t say anything, we don’t correct people unless someone is searching for a word and can’t find it and we make the effort to understand what the non-native speaker is saying.
However, the French are quick to correct me if I speak French and are incredibly judgmental of others who speak it and make mistakes. That’s what would be called “mal éduqué.”
@@Becky_Cal Vous faîtes erreur sur l'intention. Les français vous corrigent pour vous aider à progresser, plutôt que vous continuiez à mal parler. Nous avons aussi tendance à répéter le mot que l'on vient d'entendre mais en le prononçant en français pour être sûr que c'est bien le mot que la personne qui nous parle veut employer. Ce n'est donc pas un jugement de valeur ni un reproche. C'est vous qui l'interprétez comme tel. ;)
I don't agree with you, although English spelling is horrifically irregular and therefore difficult, the grammar is much less complex than French grammar, German (case) grammer though is the worst, and also completely redundant for instance if you say "two houses" in German, you'll make it plural three (3!) times: "Zwei Haüser" (Umlaut and an affix) in English you'll use plural just twice, and in French it depends whether you count the written form (twice like English) or only the spoken (just once, "deux"). In lots of languages it's like: one house, two house, three house etc. Turkish is an example. Anyways, the German case grammer isn't only particularly hard to learn, it's also unnecessary because of the strict word order and abundant prepositions. (I speak Dutch, which one could roughly describe as German without cases.)
@@fukpoeslaw3613 not true. Your conditional tenses are not easy and make absolutely no sense.
@@romain6275 my conditional tenses? you mean conditional tenses in English (I'm Dutch) I guess? you are French right? are you saying conditional tenses are more complicated in English than in French? if so, could you s'il te plaît give an example?
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The reason that gender words are difficult to learn is because they don't follow rules of any kind. Many were established by what “sounded” best or what had become “popular” in everyday vocabulary. Ç'est tout!
Thank you for this video. In Spanish we apply “vos, tu o usted” in the same way that “tu or vous” in French
She forgot to mention that vous is also "all of you".
In Romanian it's: tu, voi, dumneavoastra. The latter is the formal version of you.
French language is dying,English is the world's premier language in most countries, business and even in ex French colonies.
French hasnt future.
Lovely language. But the gender thing kills me.
Merci beaucoup, mes amies.
Je suis français, atteindre un haut niveau dans la langue française est très difficile même pour des natifs.
Tellement !
I come from the projects of Eastern Ontario, Canada. There is a lot of French in this part of the province and I have taken French Immersion back in school from JK to Gr12. My dad is actually French by nature but is perfectly bilingual and my mom only speaks English. Together, they decided to raise me and my siblings in English. My mom wanted us to have more French than she does and my dad would sometimes say little words and phrases in French. Me personally, I can understand it and speak some of it but I am not fluent. Lately, I have been trying to retain the French I have lost after finishing school.
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Also interesting would be the non-verbals one should NOT use so as not to offend someone in a foreign country!
She masters both equally english and french, nice job!
She's French and American.
The correct description ...it's not phonetic
English also has Italian, Spanish, American and more so a book focusing on two langues is quite pointless
And that’s why as brothers we can’t stop fighting : England and France are tied together since 1066
It's truer than you'd think. Many wars between France and England came from dynastic /succession struggles seeing as the British and French crowns were so close due to family ties
Je suis soudanais, mais je suis immigrants en France, quand j'étais en France rien pour parler le langue française, mais maintenant mieux parler français et j'adore le langue française cette grâce pour tous professeurs français dans france,mais Motivation très importante pour quelqu'un personne apprendre le langue française ou noter le langue, le langue française très différente comme le langue anglaise.merci beaucoup pour tous et France 24 TV aussi.
Bienvenue et bon courage à toi 👍
Spanish is a more important language than french and french is increasingly being neglected in world importance
J'aime beaucoup apprendre le français.
Tu as raison! Le français peut sembler difficile, mais il ne faut pas se décourager :)
These guys are completely wrong. French is not difficult at all. We need to learn it the right way.
J`adore la langue Francaise, elle est Magnifique !! Merci beaucoup pour cette bonne report.
That does sound way complicated. Thanks.
Last week I was pushed and attacked by a old white man because I didn’t speak French
I love it how people that haven't even thought about studying a non indoeuropean language (or whithout going that far, a slavic language) say that French is hard 😂, it's actually a really easy language.
I guess learnibg any language is hard. As a native Spanish and English speaker I must say it's pretty obvious germanic and romance languages are easier to learn. I would never try my luck with Japanese of Chinese for instance 😅
Where can I buy the book of Anthony Lacoudre ? It is not available on Amazon . Can you help me !
I know Spanish and English but i want to learn more French, pick up from what I learned in high school
I don't understand why people find so difficult to pronounce the French words. I'm not a native French-speaker but I can pronounce every word properly.
probably bcs your language have latin's origins
@@gogowshagenai6139 No, I am Hungarian.
Pronunciation practices make perfect
My teacher always used to say "En Francais sil vou plait"
En Français s'il vous plaît*
I'm french and i watch this kind of video for learn english ahah :) if you learn french go comment a sentence in french and I say if it s correct ;)
Tu veux apprendre anglais et moi, je veux apprendre français. Je ne suis pas sure de le truc "moi, je" comme en "moi, je veux apprendre etc...." J'ai l'apprendre il y a beaucoup de années à l'école, mais, maintenant ? aujourd'hui ? je ne trouve pas ce combination ? des mots dans l'apps que j'utilise pour apprendre français (Duolingo et Memrise) peut-être c'est "old-fashioned" (archaïque ?)
Do you understand my French?
I am french, and I can assert you that a lot of french people don't speak well this language, so I understand when you say it's hard to learn 😂
Ok but do we really need two moderators for this? I found the beginning really awkward haha
Elles ont répété plusieurs fois que français est difficile mais elles exagèrent vraiment 🙄 surtout si ta langue maternelle est l’anglais, l’espagnol, l’italien, ou quelque chose comme ça. Ça fait 4 mois que j’apprends Français et je peux déjà m’exprimer assez bien et comprendre une grande partie des vidéos françaises que je regarde sur UA-cam.
Je penses pas qu’aucune langue est difficile. En fait, nos cerveaux sont désignés pour être capable d’apprendre langue pour qu’on soit capable de communiquer avec des autres et de survivre.
Bref, aucune langue est intrinsèquement difficile. Il faut simplement immerger soi-même et sans doute on l’apprendra.
Et évidemment que les touristes dans la rue pouvaient pas prononcer les mots français; ils l’ont étudié jamais. C’est pas la preuve que la prononciation française est impossible🤦🏾♀️
5:16 lmao he sounded like a seal
I can speaking French and English
This was very interesting. If I could just remember what was said about the accents.
In French "è" or "ê" = hey. But "é" is pronounced like you pronounce "e" in "educate" or in "terrific", the mouth is more closed.
After it, you'll can learn to pronounce : "o", "ô" . Like this, you'll be able to make the difference between "votre" et "vôtre" in French language ... :)))
@@j-loosenfout67 no, it's the other way round! first e of educate is è, like the e in ten. é is a bit like ay in may, or ey in hey.
Is there really a difference in the pronunciation of o and ô or a and â, or between any vowel with or without a circonflexe ? Never heard (of) it.
@@fukpoeslaw3613 Hello, The French "é" is really difficult to explain using a comparable word in English because ultimately there's none ... But I may have found a trick by using French terms used in English like "Déjà vu" or "rendez-vous". :)
For the simple "o" and the "ô" with circumflex accent, yes there's a very noticeable pronunciation difference between "C'est votre voiture, ce n'est donc pas notre voiture" et "Cette voiture est la vôtre, pas la nôtre".
The "o" in "votre voiture ou notre voiture" is pronounced a bit like a closed "a". Kind of a mixture of pronunciation between the "a" and the "e". To try to give an example we must think of the way in which the "ch'ti" (inhabitants of French north) pronounces the "a" as in "ché po moi" (Je ne sais pas moi - I don't know me). While the ô with a circumflex accent in "c'est la vôtre" or "c'est la nôtre" which the "ô" is pronounced like leters "e,a,u" in the French words "bateau", "château", "oiseau", etc.
To make a comparison with English terms, one could for example oppose "know, no" with "now, none". You see what I mean?
On the other hand, between "a", "â" and "à", the three in French are pronounced in the same way. :)
@@j-loosenfout67 I think you mean the difference between o and ô would be about the same as the difference between o and oo in the Dutch words nog and boot. you happen to speak or at least understand Dutch?
@@fukpoeslaw3613 No, I don't speak German. Only French (I'm French) and school English as a foreign language (college 8th grade). In English I can easily speak and express my ideas. But it is still difficult for me to really follow a conversation between 2 or 3 english people for example. :)
But yes, I've make Google translation read with voice the two words and the difference is something close.
You can try yourself in using Google translation voice with "notre" and "nôtre" to see the différence of pronunciation. ;)
"Notre" is a possessive ADJECTIVE and can be easily replaced in the plural by "nos".
"Nôtre" is a possessive PRONOUN. It is always preceded by a "le" or a "la". In the plural, it becomes "nôtres".
In short, the easiest way is to put the sentence in the plural to know if it is notre or nôtre that must be used when it's time to write in French. ;)
Bonjour, Speaking of speaking French, it's Molière, NOT Moulière. Learn how to pronounce one of the most important figures of France!
French it doesn't sound romantic for nothing, l'espagnol et l'italian sont les plus romantic
I can imagine the level of depression when the people who learn French see the combinaison of E, A and U is prononced O 😂
Can you guys explain to me why some african countries speaks french :)
because of colonization
Thats a nice way to describe something that is actually brutal :)
French is a really hard language to master.
but so satisfactory when u do
I wish to learn French in Dubai if there is any free classes?
Des francais qui viennent juste pour rire?
Non je viens écouter des français parler anglais, ça me donne l'impression d'avoir une compréhension de compétition.
French is actually not hard to learn. the problem lies with its economic value... the french-speaking countries, even if added together, can not compete with UK and USA in influences. Even the French president Macron has polished his English while no british prime minister or american president can speak a decent french sentence. None would complain that French was hard if France were the No.1 country in the world.
Kevin Joe Yes, because I would say English takes just as much time for a French speaker to learn as French for an English speaker. Basing this off the fact that the FSI puts French as a group one verb in terms of hours it takes to learn as an English speaker. French is in the least hours needed group, because French is so similar to English compared to other languages like chinesse which takes far more hours to learn according to the FSI.
Omg so glad I found this video! It’s the best primer for beginner French learners, the history helps me so much!! Please keep making more like this, I love this series 😍
I've come to know many french people find french language very lame. Not me tho, i love it.
Please note that the circonflexe doesn’t only mean disappearance of the s, but can be of other letters too as in âge (aage), dû (deu), or just for unknown historical reasons trône. In older texts it can also mean a repeated letter is omitted (for space), so there would be a circonflexe accent above the consonnant com̂e (comme)
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François Ier did not make French the official language in 1539.
He made it the official language for justice and administration. It's not the same thing at all (but it's a common mistake).
And it's linguistically incorrect to say that Norman is a "kind of French with a strong accent". They are both "langues d'oïl" but when you put it that way it says that Norman is a daughter language of French and it's not the case.
So it's just Norman language, not Norman French language?
I love this so much! Je l'aime! Merci!
** j’aime ça.
Je l’aime means I love him or her
French sounds less aggressive than Spanish. But both have a great 👍 formation of pronunciation
spanish = aggressive lol i have to agree
I like both languages! They both sound great. but French, I had to learn to like it.
@@fukpoeslaw3613 what do you think of German?
@@oinhthien7183 at school I hated, I loathed the grammar. For me German is easy to understand and use, speaking with Germans is easier even than reading German, that must be because I'm Dutch. German is generally considered an ugly language, or at least not a beautiful one. I learned to appreciate the sound of German through songs. Although my English is a lot better, German can sound more familiar.
@@fukpoeslaw3613 😂 you think English is more beautiful than German?
It is a very beautiful language. I loved literally every second of the 3 French classes I took in college, so much so that professor pulled me aside one day to her office, and I thought I was in trouble and she talked to me for 30 minutes about how I should consider changing my major, (I was a music performance major) and gave me books on careers that I could pursue as a French major 😂😂😂 Regrettably, I still haven't had a chance to really visit and explore France, although I was in Nice for about 6 hours for a layover and I was like there is NO WAY IN HELL that I'm not leaving this this airport and exploring the town for a couple hours.
Try not to forget it! I had a good level in German, but didn't speak at all after leaving highschool so I forgot everything :( I hope you are still listening some French videos and that you can talk with some French friends :)
The other lady thinks she know everything about French.
she actually speaks a perfect french, she's been on french tv shows.
Yes, she is a little annoying.
I love the French language, but French is not hard to me.
It’s very enjoyable report but I really don’t understand why you call the French as very hard to learn, especially about pronunciation and grammar. The French language is the easiest language among 5 foreign languages I speak. It’s much more easier than English. You can believe me, if you just start learning, this pronunciation will not be any problem. Nor grammar, it’s very very easy and enjoyable. So keep calm and learn the languages.
I'm French, I re-learn English for 2 years (I all forgot since I was in high school !) and the pronounciation is not very easy but I'm very happy to relearn English.
Mais pourquoi ça me passionne...
Je suis française...🤦🏻♀️
Félicitations pour être française 😂
Parce que c’est bien expliquée
If someone needs help for a French homework i m totally free for (to ?) help him. Im from Belgium and my French is perfect
c'est très gentil, peut-être je vais demander ton aide (votre aide?) pour exemple ces phrases ici, sont-il corrects ? (propres ?, bonnes ?, biennes ?)
Moi je suis hollandaise, tu parle (vous parlez?) flamand ?
French is a very hard language
"French is a very difficult language to learn."
Icelandic: Haltu bjórinn minn.
No, but I do agree that French is a pretty odd and hard language. The word "today" in French is "aujourd'hui." 10 letters, and then an apostrophe.
What say you there norse demon? ⛵🇮🇸👹
Beware of those who speak in tongues, as they may say your name 🐍
the word "aujourd'hui" is by itself a mistake because the word "hui" means "today" by itself, therefore Aujourd'hui means "at the day of today"
I'm french and i would LOVE speaking icelandic as I'm passionate by this country and culture but this language is far way harder than french !!
Officially the African birth rate is carrying the french language
Nobody in France pays much attention to the difference between "é", "è", "ê", and "ai" nowadays - and no, Anthony Lacoudre, Norman wasn't just "French with a strange accent"! It was, and still is, a distinct variety of Langue d'oïl which has contributed to the evolution of the French language. For instance, "Pieuvre" and "hérisson" are both Norman loanwords into Standard French.
Not totally agree with hosts, the Royal Title no longer important after 1789. Who care title of Countess, big deal! A lots french nobles so afraid let people know their original root. Escape to Germany or Belgian, UK. Would you host update your information?! Ask them, not everyone wants to relate to Royal family anymore. >< P.S. Some of my Royal friends told me many real situations of French Society now. Particularly in Paris, less important have DE ....something as their last name. >< Changing a lot nowadays!
To be fair, for English speakers, french is one of the easiest languages to learn. And although it is still influential in some world institutions, it would be more useful for people to learn Spanish or Mandarin.
I can understand written French and write it better than I can speak it. I really would like to speak it better, however every time I open my mouth to speak be it in Geneve, Paris, Strassbourg or Nice the I find it utterly confounding that they seem to forget they are speaking to a non-native speaker and just go off like they were at Le Mans. I then get too intimidated to request "Pouvez-vous parle lentement svp, parce-que ma francais ne pas optimale" feeling it would be rude to interrupt their rapid fire. Serait-ce vraiment impoli? .