American vs French ENGLISH Word Differences! 

Typically not a french attitude ? ;) :D lol

@@jpc7118 Cliché...

Yas

Great idea

I live in Gabon.

@@FreonSB Comment allez-vous ?

@@adjetyann2095 Très Bien.

Your side note makes me realize that pineapple is a "fake friend" for the french. The translation of "pine cone" in french is "pomme de pin" which literally means pine apple.

Side note about Brazil: when living there I remember people generally referring to "abacaxi" but also to "anana" in some cases, as a different variant of that same fruit, the first one being bigger, whiter, more acid, and spiky, while the second one is smaller, yellow, and sweeter.

How about Francophone countries in Africa and the Maghreb? I'm also curious about the French spoken in Lebanon.

@@JosephOccenoBFH It's "etc" is for that. And because there are so many places where French, Spanish, English are spoken that it should have many groups for only one language...

It's ananas in Turkish too

It's ananas in every European language but Spanish + English

It's ananas in Norwegian too.

In Indonesian, pineapple is "nanas"

It's called Ananas in Hebrew too

So this one is a fake friend for example XD

French style 😏😁 I think US people and french people make the greatest couple, a cute emphaty and curiosity of the other one culture without "préjugés" We love you guys ❤

Slovaks say "bonboniéra" which is a pack of a small chocolate candies.

Yes, a box for candies is in french a "bonbonnière".

and with a perfect french accent as well :)

*but -> and

@@JosephOccenoBFH There's nothing wrong with the "but" , the " , " is right

The second clause does not contradict the idea of the first clause. "But" is used if there is contradiction of ideas. "And" is used for additional information and the idea of the second clause is just that.

Most languages use the same word, which comes from the Old Tupi Nanas. The Portuguese brought them back to Europe calling them ananás based on what they heard from the natives in Brazil and everyone just started using that word. Pineapple in English and Spanish Piña are weird exceptions based on it looking like a big fruity pinecone.

@@hoathanatos6179 yeah and in Argentina they say ananá, probably out of European influence, the rest of Spanish speaking countries say piña.

It's same in Turkish, even the pronunciation

Also in Arabic

@@hoathanatos6179 In tamil, its called annachi which bears the same root as ananas. BTW not a native fruit. It was introduced.

Tbh, most languages have fake friends between them. Like between English and Italian, and viceversa, or Portuguese and Spanish + viceversa, etc ..

Is confusing for English people learning french too or any other language since "false friends" are present in many languages.

In french we say "faux-ami"

It's an additional difficulty, but in return most english words that look like french words (most english words at all then...) actually have the same meaning or a close one. So overall it helps more than it hurts: learning a large amount of english vocabulary isn't as much as a problem as it must be for someone Russian for example. But yeah, you have to always keep in mind that actually doesn't mean actuellement, that to deceive doesn't mean décevoir, that college doesn't mean collège, etc etc... All those words actually come from french through the normans, so it used to mean the same thing. But as the languages evolved, the french and english versions of the words started to diverge, either in meaning or in appearance, sometimes both.

@@esppiral It's especially a big deal in France, since a (very) large amount of English vocabulary comes from old French. So most of the time, those similar words have a close meaning, but when it's not, it's emphasized a lot in school, again and again.

It's "Bonbons" not "bombom"

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 bonbons in french, bomboms in portuguese (BR). It's just what i meant

@@brunovalle11eOh okay 👍. That's interesting

@@christophermichaelclarence6003 C'est évident qu'il a écrit le mot en Portugais... Calme toi un peu sur la correction orthographique

It’s actually both, this isn’t an either/or situation.

@@overlordnat It's extremely likely that the word came to English from French, through. About 30% of English words come from French. That's probably what the other poster meant when they said it's a French word.

@@BigSlimyBlob Yes, I know. I must’ve been in an even more pedantic mood than normal when I posted this 7 months ago!

yes, bicyclette and vélocipède in french...

Velocipede. That's the name for bicycle in Russian language.

Nicht "ziemlich" sondern "sehr".

:D

Hmm i thought vélo was the name of a company. I wonder where i got that “fact” from

Yes, for sure! Like I wrote above, you grasped easily the french pronounciation. Hold on!

Right, just as Croissant and baguette... viennoise ;)

Des que le soleil baisse ? Ca parait tellement diffèrent mais plus logique 😄😄

@@yannlecorre462 Correct! C'est ainsi chez nous. La francophonie est plurielle. Les francophones d'Amérique ont leur propre vocabulaire et usages, venus ici à partir du 17e siècle.

Car ma vie, car mes joies, aujourdhui ça commence avec tois!

It's not rarely used at all. It is a very commonly used word that is equivalent to "parce que".....

🇨🇵 ➡️ 🇳🇱... velo ➡️ fiets 🚲

Pineapples are native to South America (Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay). The name "ananas" comes from the Guarani: "nana" and means perfumed. When Cristoforo Colombo saw them for the first time, in 1493, he thought that he had found a type of pine nut. For this reason, in some Spanish-speaking countries, they are known as "piñas" and, in others, as "ananás".

You're correct! Truck is one example, as it means different things in even American and British English (as well as other languages).

@@thespankmyfrank we normally say ‘van’ or ‘lorry’ (or sometimes ‘artic’ or ‘juggernaut’) instead of ‘truck’ in England but when it is said the meaning is surely the same as in America? ‘Fanny’ and ‘rubber’ on the other hand are true British/American false friends!

English was not Latinized but frenchicized

Some British people are refuting the idea that England was ever colonized by France, since the Duke of Normandy, William the conqueror invaded Britain on his own without the consent of the French king and the Kingdom of France per se.

As French speaker. You got it all right It was indeed William the Conquerer who invaded England in 1066

@@JosephOccenoBFH Even if you didn't count the Normans as french, there were other french dynasties from other parts of France that ruled England like the Plantagenets and Tudors

@@greenmachine5600 Hmm .. interesting 🤔 Thanks for the info 👍

60%*

yeah all understood by me -- servus from Austria

It's about time and months they finally hosted someone from our country France 🟦⬜🟥🇫🇷

Yes! Team Ananas 💪

Never heard it before too (as a french living in France), nor do I know anyone with that name; It must be rather rare. But yeah, it's beautiful

Her mother invented it, so it's probably very rare, maybe even unique.

wow the months are almost the same in swedish! 8/12 where the same I never knew that

@@Olivia-ny6nl Probably the names in Indonesian come from the Dutch East Indies era.

@Zander NL true we know Wortel 🥕 for Carrot, Kantor 🏢 for Office and Verboeden for Forbidden Hhaa. 😁 We still use some Ducth Word in Indonesia 🇮🇩

@@Olivia-ny6nl so Mention the name of the month name in swedish

@@fabianicoles Sure : ) Its just small differensens with the spelling Januari Februari Mars April Maj Juni Juli Augusti September Oktober November December

not spanish

Not just Canada, those expressions are used everywhere.

I would understand avenue des lumières as avenue of the lights and i would understand avenue de lumière as an avenue made of light. So in the context you’re talking about, it’s most likely Avenue des Lumières.

calm down bruh

Vélo est un terme général. On peu préciser par exemple "vélo de course" ou "vélo tout terrain". Bicyclette est un synonyme mais qui n'est plus beaucoup utilisé.

@@rafaelrandom500 mais pas autant au Québec

@JL L45 actually it’s a bicycle without pedals you use your feet it’s like a bicycle scooter thing???

Weird. I’m from québec and i only hear vélo and sometimes old people say “bécik”, but never bicyclette.

@@angrydoodle8919 as little kids we might

It's a combination of two names, she explained it in a video, but I can't remember which one

Atalanta is a greek heroine in greek mythology.

Like the Spanish "Braso"

The s in "bras" is silent, though, so they sound exactly the same. A French person could accidentally say "Give me your bra" thinking they're asking for the other person's arm...

"Bonbon" for us French means "Candy"

L'Occitanie n'est pas la France. Vous êtes une région vassale, rien de plus.

Intéressant merci

It's funny that both words, "ananás" (PT-PT) and "abacaxi" (PT-BR), come from native brazilian languages but the brazilians only adopted the latter. The spanish have to "thank" Cristoforo Colombo for being one of the few who have a different word for "ananás". When he arrived at what's now Guadalupe island, he was offered a "ananás" by the natives. He had never seen one (obviously) and mistakenly called it a pinecone ("pigna" in Italian or "pinea" in Latin) because it looked like the pinecones of the southern european Pine trees. He brought it to Spain and later became the Spanish word "piña".

In Spanish is "Piña" closer to English than the french one for sure 😂

@@module79l28 Cristóbal Colón was not portuguese, I don't think he would have called it "pinha". He probably called it "piña" from the beggining, so it did not have to be adapted to spanish, I think... EDIT: I just read in wikipedia that although the majority of his writings are in spanish, it seems proven that often he used words that could have come from portuguese or galego. (I'm in fact, from Galicia, and I have heard before about a teory that he could have been from here, but it is not proven also). So, I guess that, in fact, he could have called it pinha at first, and then it became piña in Spain, obviously.

Yas in Indonesia 🇮🇩 we say Nanas 🍍 for Pineapple. 😊

@@migteleco Columbus always called it "piña" since he was from Genoa (Northern Italy). As the other comment mentioned, the seed (it's not a fruit) resembled the pine cones of the Southern European pine trees where it was called "pigna" or even "pinea" in Latin. Columbus would have been more inclined in calling it that.

Actually in french also, she translated it wrong

@@maxmartinn Non, on dit "faux amis"...

False cognates happen between most languages, really.

I'm surprised Athalane didn't use the obvious "pain" as an example of a false cognate.

@@module79l28 Parce que ces deux mots n'ont pas la même prononciation, comme le mot dont elle faisait mention au début, même s'ils sont identiques à l'écrit.

@@adjetyann2095 - Os falsos cognatos podem ser parecidos tanto na pronúncia como na grafia, não apenas numa das duas formas.

I love Indo-European similarities. For example, I found it heart-warming when for the first time in my life I heard a person from India calling their parents mama and papa. Just the way I do though I live far away from India.

@@MattMorgasmo mama and papa are very common in many languages even of different language families because it is a very basic term that one would expect a baby's first words would be. other variants of those are like nana, tata, baba, haha, etc. only slight difference in pronunciation

Peeled off

Je suis francophone mais je n'ai jamais entendu parler de ces variantes-là

Dans quel région le "t" de août et le "p" de septembre disparaissent? Jamais entendu

@@Pynot J'attendais justement qu'il s'argumente beaucoup plus

@@Pynot Je dirais au moins en Belgique pour le "p" de septembre. Et pour le "t" d'août, Belgique à nouveau, au Québec, et certaines parties du nord de la France

Effectivement, au Québec, août se prononce simplement "ou".

lmao😂

I think she says NYC because it gives more context to her answers. NYC culture isn’t necessarily the same as the broad US culture.

@@TheRoloBear Exactly. If someone were to ask me where I'm from, I would say, "I'm from Chicago." Then they can figure out my 'nationality.'

Not gonna lie, I say default to saying which city or suburb I am from cos people assume that cos I'm not white I can't really be Australian