French: romantic, global, and pretty similar to English

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French is one of the most useful second languages for UK citizens, and not that different to the English you already know. Britain's most multilingual student, Alex Rawlings, is here to take you on a introduction tour.
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20 мар 2018

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@AiNguyen-zd1um 3 года назад

Merci, je suis vietnamienne, j'apprends l'anglais et le français. Vous parlez très bien français !👍

@Berber141 2 года назад

Algeria is one of the biggest countries where french is spoken

@benvad9010 8 месяцев назад

You guys are getting away from it and disassociating yourselves. Many Algerians don't speak French just like most of Azeri youth don't speak Russian because they're not taught it in school anymore. You Algerians should make darija the official language and right it in the Maltese script.

@evropakhan1137 5 лет назад

That number is close to 300 million now..

@WizzardJC 4 года назад

i wouldnt say im fluent in it, but i usually get the jist of whats said, i always think our shorter words are closer to German, our longer ones to French, not sure why

@laique8797 3 года назад

Normans.... The long Germanic words were supplanted by the French ones and surviving Germanic words mostly has a French/latin synonym.....

@mounireaddevil 5 лет назад

In Algeria we speak it more than Arabic itself !

@czas4 3 года назад

Really? 😲

@smal750 9 месяцев назад

honteux

@benvad9010 8 месяцев назад

you speak an arabic creole called darija that no one in the arab world can comprehend. Make that the official language because it's the most widely spoken.

@Hrng270 Месяц назад

Your video is very beautiful and cute, you should make another video doing it, saying that English grammar was created by the French in the ancient and middle ages, hugs.

@JRK2669 4 года назад

Put it mildly the shared history of England and France, I mean the English monarchy has it roots in the anglo-normans and for many centuries the royals spoke french as their main language

@benvad9010 8 месяцев назад

That actually goes for just about every Royal family in Europe. It's kinda of strange because all European royalty is mad up if two ethnic divisions French or Germanic

@Noiiizeeey 6 лет назад

Also Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, and Libya.

@britishcouncil 6 лет назад

Most of the countries that Alex lists in the video are countries where French is an official language. But you are right, the language is spoken in countries beyond those in the list!

@Noiiizeeey 6 лет назад

British Council colonialism makes those darned lines blurry!

@moisepicard3417 5 лет назад

British Council French is also a main language in Algeria, Libya and Morocco.

@moisepicard3417 5 лет назад

British Council And, also Tunisia.

@Sara-dv2nj 3 года назад

@@moisepicard3417 Libya ?? idk about that it never was under the French . It's Tunisia Algeria Morocco and Mauritania not Libya

@belajarbahasainggrisgratis6126 4 года назад

Interesting 😍

@praveenkariyamplavil6378 5 лет назад

Half of English words derived from French!

@fabbunny 4 года назад

@Eversix86 - In fact, even if a lot of words are directly coming from Latin, some are wrongly assimilated to it, because after the hundred years war, lots of words have been Latinised. For instance, "salive" became "saliva" or "docteur" changed to "doctor", to sound less French and feel less like an invasion.

@user-cx9od6mt2r 3 года назад

@Eversix86 - Well french is 'Vulgar Latin' so yeah same thing

@bluelanterns2589 4 года назад

I thought you were going to speak French the whole time at the start.

@tigerofepicness 6 лет назад

Not trying to be rude but Equatorial Guinea speaks Spanish as a main language... you're still pretty darn right, though, since a lot of Equatorial Guineans learn French as a second language because they are surrounded by French african nations.

@moisepicard3417 5 лет назад

tigerofepicness French is also a main language, too "genius."

@moisepicard3417 5 лет назад

tigerofepicness Along with Portuguese.

@tigerofepicness 5 лет назад

The point is that he didn't point out how they also spoke spanish. It also used to be a Spanish colony. I'm not trying to say that French isn't an important language in Ecuatorial Guinea, just that Spanish is also very important.

@benvad9010 8 месяцев назад

@@tigerofepicness The Spaniards concentrated mainly in the Americas and Philippines not Africa so much.

@paolobarbini6876 4 года назад

Oh yeah

@adrienc8716 4 года назад

Lol it's a nice ad to learn french but I already speak it fluently

@calthecat6527 3 года назад

So? Just because you can speak it fluently doesn’t mean everyone else can. It’s like those people saying “too easy” on a music piece meant for beginners

@Louisianish 3 года назад

Félicitations ? mdr

@HaroldGodwinson24 2 года назад

I want to learn to speak Anglish

@jennifermatsuda4424 6 лет назад

Equatorial Guinea also speaks Spanish

@moisepicard3417 5 лет назад

Jennifer Matsuda Equilateral Guinea also speaks French and Portuguese as one of their official languages. And, by the way you spelled Equilateral wrong.

@torispencer4779 4 года назад

In fact, the colonial language is Spanish and 90% of the population speaks it. Almost nobody speaks french or portuguese. These two languages were introduced as official for trade purposes.

@torispencer4779 4 года назад

OK, just a few features, French as mother tongue in France, Belgium 42%, it is 5 million, Switzerland 19%, it is 1,6 million, Canada, only Quebec, 8 million. And a little more. The vast majority of speakers is in Africa and these speakers use it as a second language because it is official and unites a whole nation where hundred of local languages are spoken. French is an important language, but I'm not sure about it in the future. I don't desire any decline, don't get me wrong, but today French is not even in the top10 list of most spoken languages by number of native speakers(85 million)

@torispencer4779 3 года назад

@陳淑卿 no

@moisepicard3417 5 лет назад

French is the most beautiful language in the world.

@latinito21 3 года назад

In your opinion it is but Italian Spanish and Portuguese are also on the top 1.

@moisepicard3417 3 года назад

@@latinito21 In my opinion????... You obviously know I never have any opinions. You obviously know I go by facts. This is obviously not my opinion. This is obviously a fact. Spanish and Italian are obviously not also in the number one rank.

@latinito21 3 года назад

@@moisepicard3417 Spanish Italian Portuguese and even English are the most beautiful languages...obviously u say French because with your name Mouse Pinocchio excuse me Moise Picard you defend French which I think sounds like a person has a potato in his mouth when speaking.

@moisepicard3417 3 года назад

@@latinito21 You are not even worth getting a response from me.

@benvad9010 8 месяцев назад

@@latinito21 not really

@rexlupusetxe8367 2 года назад

Very good video. Just the music is awful.

@marcinlamcha5687 5 лет назад

Elo fypki

@marcinlamcha5687 5 лет назад

Gupki

@Hrng270 Месяц назад

Your video is very beautiful and cute, you should make another video doing it, saying that English grammar was created by the French in the ancient and middle ages, hugs.

@paolobarbini6876 4 года назад

Oh yeah