@@learnfrenchwithalexa Yes,certainly ! Alexa,you are a wonderful French teacher and I really love watching your videos ! Though I am an Indian but your French lessons seem quite inspiring and love French culture as it is seems very fascinating laced with simplicity ! I would like to be a French teacher like you in my next birth ! 😃
@@learnfrenchwithalexa thnks you are the best tearcher i have ava see thanks for you learning as french i have a big respect my queen tearcher💖💖🌹🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Great video thank you 😊 I was confused at first, hearing people say something like « Orr’ voir » almost everywhere; when leaving the mall, bank, boulangerie etc meaning « au revoir »😂
it's funny because when i started learning english at school, my teacher said "english are very lazy people; so when they have to say "it is" they say "it's" instead, also you have to say "you're" and "i'm"" and she kept repeating that everytime, like the negation(i can not/i can't) So i kept this "english are more lazy than french" idea in my mind for years
@@Whillyy The difference is that it is acceptable to use contraction in written form in English while it isn't in French. All languages are "lazy" it's a universal trait to simplify languages in the spoken form, the written form doesn't always follow and that's were the state of mind of a language comes into play (prescribing or describing usage)
On ne doit pas habiter dans le même pays alors, la plupart de ces contractions sont fausses et de la pure flemme. Si c'est représentatif de notre nation, il est stupide de le clamer ici. Merci Arthur.
@@Tinta34 c'est des contractions qu'on peut entendre dans la vie de tous les jours, je ne sais pas pourquoi vous dîtes que c'est faux, on ne parle pas comme ça dans un cadre formel ou professionnel mais dans la vie de tous les jours et dans la rue si
@@user-un1nv7ks9f Exactement, c’est purement et simplement le langage parlé. Ce dernier est différent du français formel sous beaucoup d’aspects. Je trouve qu’on ne met pas assez l’accent sur ces différences alors qu’elle peuvent impacter la compréhension du français (surtout pour un étranger). D’où l’importance de souligner cette différence!
En même temps, selon la région peut-être que les contractions de phrase ne sont absolument pas les mêmes. Personnellement, dans le sud, j'ai rarement entendu des contractions comme "kek chose" ou "pass ke" mis a part dans la bouche de jeunes enfants qui maladroitement font sauter des consonnes qui rendent difficile la fluidité des leurs phrases. J'ai l'impression que dans le nord, ce genre de contraction est plus commun.
Je suis entièrement d'accord avec Aponuit, j'accorde que mon commentaire était hypra agressif dans la forme et ce à tort, mais le fond n'est pas si absurde. Je suis heureux d'entendre les étrangers ou touristes mieux utiliser notre langues que la plupart des natifs, je fais parti des frustré par la nouvelle génération et le français bâclé, si l'on pouvait éviter d'enseigner des raccourcis à ceux désireux d'apprendre, ce serait bien, non ? Par ailleurs, les dites contractions correspondent au parlé de certaines régions et nous avons la chance d'avoir la quasi totalité de notre pays doté d'un fort potentiel touristique. Faire le détail aurait été fastidieux, mais quand même. Qui aimerait entendre un « Ch't'aime plus. » ?!
Dans la bouche des gamins ou de ceux qui se prennent pour des "racailles" j'entends ça, mais la plupart du temps avec des gens "normaux" c'est juste "j'sais pas" ou "chais pas". Bon après je penses que ton comm est au second degré mais bon juste pour dire qu'on a trop tendance à démocratisé ce français "racaille"/"ghetto".
@@K3rhos Oui, c'était du second degré, mais je tiens aussi à aimablement vous rappeler que le français est une langue vivante, et que, par conséquent, elle évolue avec la population qui la parle. Donc catégoriser ces gens péjorativement ne fait pas de vous un sauveur de la langue :) Bonne journée !
@@K3rhos plutôt que de les qualifier de gamins ou de racailles, vous auriez pu tout simplement dire que les jeunes d'aujourd'hui ont tendance à parler de cette façon, parce qu'avec votre commentaire, vous ne faites qu'avoir l'air d'un adulte cynique ne supportant pas l'évolution de la langue avec les générations !
@@TomGeorgin Je ne me vois pas du tout comme un sauveur de la langue, désolé si je t'ai vexé parce ce que toi tu parles comme ça, mais "ché pa frère" c'est vraiment tout sauf du respect, tu parle à tes potes comme ça si tu veux mais dans la rue ou aux autres c'est un manque de respect total, c'est pas une question de sauver la langue ou quoi ici, c'est une question d'éducation.
@@K3rhos Je ne parle pas comme ça. Ou peut-être que je parle comme ça parfois pour reprendre ces codes de façon un peu sarcastique ? J'en sais rien, ce qui est sûr, c'est que dans un débat, on n'est pas obligé de défendre son opinion, on peut aussi débattre pour débattre. Et je ne parlais pas de cette expression dans le contexte de la vidéo (que je n'ai même pas vue du coup). Je parlais de cette expression de manière générale, et donc potentiellement utilisée dans un contexte adapté : avec ses amis notamment, pour reprendre l'exemple que vous avez cité à juste titre.
The video is useful but she fails to explain clearly why this happens. It’s not just a matter of “speaking fast”. The negation “ne” drops off in spoken French. That is - for example - one of the reasons. So, I share you pain with French. Hehe. Again: I think the video is good but a more systematic review of why some of these happen, would be cool.
Are you confused when using "it's" instead of "it is" ? Because it is exactly the same thing that is happening in French. Note that for some of these expressions, you should not speak in that way at the office, because it sounds too familiar
Well yes, we tend to drop it a lot to make the sentence easier and shorter. It's very common but if you were going to pronounce "'ne", we wouldn't care haha Sometimes, I add "ne" when I speak but in a shorter way. Example: "Tu ne peux pas" (you can do) can become "tu'n peux pas" It really depends but we usually drop it ^^
After watching this, i am convinced the french didn’t want anyone else to understand or learn french 😭 Edit update: I haven’t given up, just really training my ear as best as possible to the sounds, repeating out loud, still 1A
@@raziellight7507 i might be biased cause english is my first language haha but I do empathise with anyone who has to learn all the arbitrary spelling and pronunciation rules
@@isai1331 nooo way! Spanish definitely has less random rules like french does especially for pronunciation. For me the hardest part of Spanish is context, that a word can go from innocent to vulgar haha
Do you think I would be made fun of if I spoke more formally when visiting France for the first time as an English speaker? I'd rather first understand and memorize a lot of the words lol!
@@entertainer106 Maybe try a mix between the two options. I’m Québécois and even though I use local slang and fast ways, I try to keep a neutral accent when speaking to strangers or clients
I'm not sure I understand. I thought French was already fundamentally based on dropping sounds in words. You're telling me they drop sounds on top of dropping sounds?
French was never about dropping sounds in words. I know that’s a joke, but still, it has never been the case. What you call dropping the sounds, is in fact making the word coherent to its family and it’s position in sentence, for better understanding and expression. That’s what make sense in the language, compared to something like English where rules just feels like they have been invented randomly by a drunk person. But yes, we have a tendency to shorten everything (talking and writing). An example that many American told me when I was there: nobody says McDo in USA, they say McDonald …. In France, you will never, but really never, hear McDonald pronounced fully.
Exactly my thoughts, as a spanish speaker this infuriates me to the point I think I might just quit french and take Italian instead, they don't have like 5 variants for each vowel and write letters that aren't even pronnounced!
@@vez752 Vu qu'on est dans le sujet des anglais qui apprennent le français, Paul Taylor a tout un passage de son spectacle sur le verlan, et son traitement du mot "meuf" est à mourir de rire ^^ Mais oui, "meuf", c'est le verlan de "femme". Une fois qu'on le sait, c'est logique.
@@ladynoire8842 no there isnt ! In french there are way less words than in english ! You probably know this already but for example green,worm,glass,towards,vair,verse… are all pronounced ver in french so context is really important and that’s one of the reasons why French is so damn complicated to learn !
I feel like learning French is learning 3 different languages at once. There’s the formal way I learned to speak in school, the structure of how things are actually said, then the entirely new way it’s slurred and pronounced 😭😭😭😭 I’m doomed. But it’s so beautiful I will never give up!
We contract almost every words in everyday life, but DO NOT use theses contracted forms in a professional setting because you will look like a guy from a really far and lost campaign. lmao
Well I'm French and you're quite right, everything said in the video happens when you're with your friends or family or any person you want to be friend with, moreover speaking French "too well" could make you look condescending in some situations... We only speak formal French when you want to show respect to the person you're talking with But French is a really hard language and even a lot of French speakers have difficulties to express themselves in formal French in comparison inglish is way more easy ^^
Grave on prend vraiment conscience que on a une langue grave difficile ! Pour nous l’Anglais c’est grave facile comparé à ceux qui veulent parler Français les pauvres quoi
@@MasonHatfieldLogorrheaoh there's absolutely no doubt she's a French native, I don"t know any part of France where you would say it this way though. Maybe it is a small mistake - which does not alter the fact that the video is great and very important for any French learner !
I think it's from the East and North of France, I've heard it when speaking to people from Lorraine, Lyon, Franche-Comté, Bourgogne, Nord Pas de Calais and even Normandie. At first it sounded like an "error of pronunciation" to my ears, but then you realize no body pronounces anything in the same way. I was raised in Poitou and say "fo kji aye".
As a French speaker, I recommend to understand these words but I don't recommend to "use" them in a daily conversation, especially in a professional environment/formal conversation. Some expressions like "ché pas" instead of "je ne sais pas" are very familiar and you should not use this with your boss/administration or in formal conversations, only with friends/family.
Je vous rassure les Français ne parlent pas tous comme ça, tout ce qu'il y a dans cette vidéo est incorrect, c'est d'une vulgarité ! Continuez à apprendre et à parler le français academique !
@@aarijatiq1082 do you realise that this is the equivalence of "I'm gonna" instead of "I'm going to" or "I wanna" instead of "I'm want to", "Kinda" instead of "Kind of" of when words like "fantazy" are pronounced "fan'azy" etc all of that its very confusing when learning english you have not idea.
I'm so glad to be a native French, having known this language since I was born. Huge kudos to foreign people who, one day, deliberately made the brave but masochistic choice of learning this language.
Ohhh my Lord, lol as a native french speaker, I used to watch this type of video but in English (I have learned to speak English only 2 years ago) it's really funny to hear my french behaviour. Merci pour ton contenu
I did basic French in university and I just dropped everything after that. A few days ago I decided to restart learning French again,because I love the language. Although I live in Namibia and nobody speaks French here, it’s just nice to be multi-lingual
my mom is french so i grew up understanding every day french, so when I started learning it in school, I was so confused at the 'ne's and "extra" words cause I learned to say the short faster ways. i would ask my teacher if I could just skip the words altogether as I find it easier hahahaha
Hi, I'm french and just saying that even as a French native I'm lost when it comes to speaking my own language. So best wishes to you all trying to understand us when we don't even understand ourselves sometimes!
@@Ahmed-fc8yz well I'm 25 and it's my native language but even then we always still learn new things along the way of our life. And native French speakers rarely really understand how everything works in our own language. I mean, it is already a pain to remember all the different form of verbs, even common ones. But I especially have a light mental issue that makes it difficult to communicate no matter the language so it might be easier than I think for average people.
@@antizombiepasbeaux Wow. That's amazing to know. I think French is too difficult to learn for me at the moment. But I am trying at my own. Thanks for the reply.
I'll add that it is true that when we talk we try to always speed things up and take shortcut, resulting in words barely pronounced just to go fast and as everyone do it we understand each others. when I work as a cashier and have to ask for payment method for exemple, to say "ce sera en carte ou especes?" I instead say "carte?" or if I say the whole thing it'll sound like "ce sra en carte?" still skipping a sound and the 2 last words thinking it'll be enough for who i'm talking to to understand.
I’m still a learner, but i’ve seen some people say “comme d’habitude” as “comme d’hab” but please correct me if i’m wrong. Thank you Alexa for once again giving us an informative video!🤩💛
Australians take it even further by modifying words and adding random vowels at the end. No? Names such as Kim/Kimberley becomes Kimbo in Australian colloquial speech, isn't it?
Ça n'a absolument rien à voir. Le langage écrit et oral sont deux choses différentes, et ce dans quasi toutes les langues. Les anglais, les espagnols contractent aussi à l'oral. Car à l'oral le but est de rendre la communication la plus fluide et rapide possible.
Thank you very much Alexa. I spent years learning French and verbs from your videos, all the "proper classroom way". But when I listened to French on the radio or tv, it sounded completely different from what you were teaching. I was thinking: "Something is off." This "quicker French" sounds like a "new language". But nothing lost. Many thanks. Keep well.
When I moved to France, it’s this sort of stuff I first noticed popping up in everyday language. Super important content for French learners. Great video!
This is a great video. I had intermediate French and, when I was in France for ten weeks, I took weekly classes. When the teacher told me about Shai Pah, it blew my mind, and suddenly I was hearing it all around me. I knew there had to be a lot more of those to learn, but it was time to go home. No other class I’ve found taught this.
Bravo for this lesson, but as a french person, I would like to add something : You forgot to tell something important : contracted words are mostly very familiar and are not used in a conversation with stranger or your superior. For exemple, at 5:07, this compression can be a little vulgar, you never want to talk like this to a superior because it sound very agressive. Contracted words are mostly used in conversations with Friends and familly, and the way to use contracted words is very personnal and not Always used. You Can talk without any contracted words, just talk as you like. Some peoples never uses contracted words and it's sometime a good quality
Oh Thank you very much, Please please Alexa do these videos like that more because it is very necessary to know how French people speaks in real life...
What Alexa forgot to say s that this kind of very contracted French is only spoken with friends or family. Which is almost 50% of the time. !! But when you deal with work ( not always) administration, unknown people you use normal French.
6:30 -> a'toot, but quiet often, too -> a'tal (tal : the contraction of heure (hour) -> who comes from a'tal-heure) ;) This video is really good, well done ! :)
As a French person, I agree with all of that but I also know that most of us don’t speak like that in the office, like we are obviously trying to be more professional, clearer especially when we are with customers. I mean, there are some people who will still do it here and there in meetings, they will even say rude words time to time: putain, conneries... but those people are rare.
@@Tinta34 J'avoue, j'ai pas capte pour quoi elle fait genre on parle comme ca a tout le monde alors que je sais pas pour les autre mais pour moi c'est seulement famille/amis que je parle comme ca. Je penses pas que la majorite d'entre nous s'exprime comme ca au travail ou avec des gens qu'on ne connait pas
Sorry to let you know but you must live in a very serious and/or well off environment where such a thing is expected. The only people that really go through the effort will be people speaking to clients or hierarchy they dont know. The moment there is a form of "ease" people no longer speak the written French ^. ^
@@lawtraf8008 c est pas pour pousser les gens a parler comme ca mais aider ceux qui ne parlent pas français a comprendre ceux qui parlent avec toute ces contractions. Donc elle a fait un bon boulot
@@lawtraf8008 tu t’en rends ptet pas compte, mais lundi au boulot, compte le nombre de fois que tu dis Jsuis au lieu de je suis. Ou j’sais pas, à la place de je ne sais pas. Tu seras surpris. On parle tous comme ça. Oui, professionnellement, on le fait moins, mais on le fait encore énormément
I thought contractions like this were specific to our Québec French - I didn't realize how similar vernacular continental French was. (Most of the vowels are pronounced differently here, though.)
@@hughpm Shai pas, y'a pas, eon aploo, kek-shoz, kek-par, stuh-pleh etc, and many more, are all used in Québec. But some of the vowel sounds have changed considerably from how they say them in France. Here's a great demonstration of Qc French expressions (2 parts): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ae913QSPsAk.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9XT7_Njauh0.html
@@hughpm I'm from Québec and at the very beginning, I thought she was from Québec as well, the spoken contractions are exactly the same. It was only a minute in that I finally heard a Parisian accent slipping in, I think from the letter "a" being pronounced like the a in "pass" (most American accents, not the longer English pronounciation haha) instead of the Québec way, which would be more like "aw" in "saw". A minority of these are even more contracted sometimes (je ne suis pas -> chuipa > chupa), but both would be well understood (even the "really long" 4 syllables "je ne suis pas") :P It's worth noting though that both in Québec and France, you NEVER put these contractions in writing (unlike in English where it's perfectly fine to write either "do not" or "don't"). You ALWAYS write using the full phrases, the only exception being when a character is talking and you want to put emphasis on the way they speak.
@@wendyy9299 J'ai déjà entendu quelques rares francophones le dire. Alors, je ne sais pas si c'est un régionalisme ou simplement une erreur (pas spécialement convenable de le faire remarquer), mais ça a au moins le mérite d'exister chez les natifs !
"Je Ne Sais Pas" sounds like "Ya no sepa" in Spanish which also means "I don't know." When you said it slowly and completey without cutting out words, I understood what you said in French. :)
ya no sepa...is i already (subjunctive) don't know in spanish..its very different no sé is i don't know in the way you mean..what you said ya no sepa sounded like i already may not know in spanish cuz the subjunctive made it sound like you are unsure
i do agree that "ya no sepa" sounds really similar to je ne sais pas, but "ya no sepa" doesn't make any sense in Spanish, you would usually say "no lo sé" or "yo no lo se" :)
bonjour! alors I was trying to say the words the fast way and i guessed nearly everything. merci beaucoup now i can understand things in french movies.merci encore
As a French speaker, I confirm ^^' I don't think they are the most difficult, but since we never encounter these accents in movies or on RU-vid, we are not accustomed to these accents (this makes me struggle to understand Doctor Who without the subtitles, for instance ^^) The absolute worst I've encountered was Jamaican English. I lived 5 months with Jamaican people, and the only sentence I was able to understand (without them slowing down the pace) was "maneethufoo", which is "come on, eat the food" XD
I am learning french through a mobile app since last year. The pronunciation is a bit different there as it makes us pronounce each word seperately. But while doing listening activities I used to struggle a lot. Now I understood why. Contraction. Thank you Alexa for this video. It is helping me a lot in improving my pronunciation and listening skills. I am determined to speak french much fluently within this year.
Super!! Merci beaucoup!! Je suis russe J'habite en Ukraine J'aime la France J'adore Marseille Belle melange?? J'apprends le français Je le apprends avec Vous maintenant.... Merci!!
Tu te débrouilles bien ! Je me permet juste de te corriger. On dit UN mélange, c'est au masculin donc BEAU mélange et non belle :) ! Et pour finir je le apprends c'est je l'apprends car APPRENDRE commence par une voyelle :) Cheers !!
Bonjour Alexa, à 7:00 vous dites: Il faut que j'y aille Vous prononcez: Fo kji al (al comme la terminaison de: cheval) ça devrait être: Fo kji ay (ay comme la terminaison de: travail, détail)
@@6infinity8 Mais dans quelle région le dit on alors? J'ai eu beau beaucoup voyager en France comme dans d'autres pays francophones, je n'ai jamais entendu cette prononciation.
Bon jour Alexa. Where did you learn to speak English! It’s amazing, the accent is French but light, graceful and perfectly pronounced. You sound like a Duchess who was tutored by a professor of English or linguistics. I could happily listen to you reading words out of a book of British grammar for hours!
I see so many people in the commentsw saying how this makes learning french harder! I promise it kind of doesn't! I studied french for five months, and now these phrases are actually something i can recognize. And with this video, it will only get easier :)
Slang and contractions. It does make learning this difficult, but every country has it. It just makes me want to try harder. I would love to see more of these videos and a little longer with review, pronunciation and games (quizzes).
Same in Québec mate haha, I always thought the Parisian impressions of Belgian French always sounded much more like actual Québec French than the universally poor impressions of Québec French (only one who can do it right while meaning to is Gad Elmaleh haha). All reasons for me to think Québec Belgian most probably understand each other better than Québec Parisian.
Thank you! This is just what I needed. The difference between my reading comprehension and verbal comprehension is massive and this is part of the reason. How did Bradley Cooper get so good at French? That is my goal, his level. Luckily, the brain is great at re-associating sounds with meanings given the proper guidance like this marvelous video! This is another reason I seek out your videos.
French is my mother tongue, and i want to apologize to all frenchs learners, because this is TOYALLY TRUE, our language's rules are so weird, never mentionned that 😅
Je ne sais pas reminds me of the time when I said it in work and one of my colleagues said - "what does that mean?" So I said - "I don't know" and they replied with - "Well shouldn't you look it up then?" To which I said "No, it means 'I don't know' "
I'll just add a little correction for one of the last sentences "faut que j'y aille", we do not prononce the word "aille" like "al", it's prononced "aye" ;) Great video, verry funny for me as a french ;)
@@61juliette La prononciation correcte reste "aye" malgré tout ahahah peut-être que suivant les régions/accents certains disent "al" mais je pense que cela reste anecdotique x)
speaking fluent spanish; the gateway to learning french simply 💕 the beauty and simplicity of romance languages 🌹💕🙏 many phrases are just the same! joy and patience to all new language learners 💕congratulations 🎉 is it a respectful and honorable choice to learn languages ☺️ humanity connects ever more so 🥳 thank you. ❤️ je t’aime ❤️ te amo ❤️ I love you ❤️
Alexa you are changing my life with one video at a time. ! Thank-you so much! I am French but grew up in a British Family and lost my French, thank-you for giving it back to me! Dawn from Canada!
"shai" alone do not mean anything. "shai'pa" = je ne sais pas = I don't know Cheh (bien fait = well deserved) is an Arabic word used recently by teenager.
@@MalkaLux Voilà le problème des gens sur Internet. On veut apprendre une langue et la maîtriser dans tous ces aspects en 3 mois alors qu'on a pris toute notre vie pour apprendre et parler notre langue maternelle. Si je veux apprendre l'anglais et que j'écoute de jeunes américains ou britanniques et que je veux faire exactement comme eux rapidement, je vais me décourager. Ils ont pris eux mêmes des années pour apprendre à l'école et dans la société. Si vous êtes débutant en français, oublier les contractions. Apprenez les choses simples et parler simple. Si vous parlez en publique même si vous faites des erreurs, ça passe facilement parce qu'on sait que vous apprenez et que vous n'êtes pas natif.
@@goodlogossa6471 Je suis d'accord, et je ne m'attendrais pas à parler comme un natif au début, mais j'espérais avoir plus de facilité à comprendre les locuteurs natifs et cela rendra les choses plus difficiles.
