Language Review: French 

You know, learning a language just to troll the native speakers online is the best reason to learn a language

I've lived with a French-speaking family in KYRGYZSTAN and they also happened to speak Russian and Kyrgyz. I think even their dog was not a usual monolingual whoof-whoof dog. In short, French is great, review Slovenian

French's real difficulty is not the accents, it's that you can explain any grammar rule in one minute but then have to spend a quarter hour listing all the exceptions and special cases where said rule doesn't apply. Good video thought, it's always interesting to listen to foreigners' view of the language ^^

Historical fact. French and English actually worked as both languages for the start of the England as we know it. In upper classes french were used to speak and write officials documents when the lower classes used mostly english. After decades the english language became the obvious choice for everyone. It does explain why we share some basics tho our languages are not based on the same phrasing. Super vidéo sinon 😁😁👏🇨🇵❤

My proudest moment speaking French was during a 2 week exchange with my high school. We went deep into the French alps so naturally we went skiing. Waiting for a lift I said "Je suis tres fatigue" with l'homme a cote de moi and he responded. I kept up with my best high school honors French, talking about the time, weather, etc. Eventually he started saying things I didn't understand and I had to say "je ne comprende pas, je suis American." And the guy was floored. He thought I was French because I didn't have an American accent. The 2nd best part was exchanging dirty songs with the other boys. I taught them Monty Pythons "Sit on my face" and they taught me one about going to town on an old smelly prostitute. My mother was thrilled.

As a French I must correct something, actually French stole some words from English but the majority of English words are based on French words, and not the inverse.

I'm Brazilian and I found French quite easy to learn, once you surpass the initial shock. Pronunciation is similar to us (we also do liaisons, exactly in the same way). But the y,en thing... Omg! I could never feel the need of them.😢

The amount of people who didn’t understand that you were obviously joking when you said that many french words come from “american” is actually concerning

Je suis très heureux de savoir que ma langue soit classée en tant que Gigachad :)

"Le vocabulaire n'est pas très compliqué" sûrement la meilleure blague de l'année 😂

6:10 the ô means that the previous way of writing the word was with os like "hôpital" which was previously "hospital" (sometimes it isn't a s that was replaced but that is very rare)

The reason why in Quebec a car is called a tank is that in French tank translates to "char" which also means chariot but more like Roman chariots. And chariots can be considered like ancient cars. In fact the word car originates from "char" and there's a few other english words that come from French minus an h.

The mix of true information and sarcastic ironic presentation is gold. Étant un criss de québécois du calisse, j’ai adoré ta vidéo. Continue comme ça mon kevin

8:40 Ironically, as a native French speaker, I absolutely cannot fathom how you're supposed to pronounce the English R, so I guess the struggle is both ways!

As a french, I’m so surprised of the level you’ve got. You’re insane bro 🎉

6:11 The "è" is really important. The "é" sounds like the "e" in "fiancee" or "cafe", while the "è" makes the same sound as the "e" in "where"

As an American, I blame all spelling mistakes on French. I would rate it dogwater, but I can’t spell it correctly.

J'adore ta façon de voir notre langue j'ai rigolé tout le long de la vidéo, du contenu de qualité ! :)

J'ai tellement rigolé 🤣, t'es un génie mec !!! Tu as du attirer toute la team 1er degré dans les commentaires. ❤ (Nice french mastering by the way)

8:00 le mec invente un nouveau pronom personnel et personne ne dit rien

Les français ne corrigent pas que les étrangers, on corrige également les erreurs des autres français. Et il n'y a qu'à Paris où c'est utilisé pour alimenter un complexe de supériorité. Excellente vidéo.

Yay French mentionned :D I'm actually speaking with an irish drunk guy who tried to speak french and even tho i can't rly understand everything he's saying .. i find this heartwarming and too cute ! I want to help people learning our beautiful language ! ♥

Im relearning french after many years of stopping. Your video had me in stitches. 😂. Subscribed.

The best way to learn french in my opinion (as a French), is to not bother with the spelling in the beginning, and just focus on the pronounciation/speaking part. The french spelling is honestly a huge non sense that we've carrying with us for centuries like a punishment for being French, and that we've somehow decided to view as a "art", to be in denial about how painfully illogical it is. The reality is that a big part of french people actually have a terrible spelling, so you'll come off as perfectly normal with spelling mistakes in everyday chatting. By focusing on the oral part, you won't be wasting energy and time on something illogical, and you'll actually make progress that's not slowed down from having to remember all the silent letters and weird letter combinations. Once you've reached a good level in spoken french, then you might start to learn the spelling. Unfortunately, you gotta learn it at some point, if you wanna read french books, or send emails to your french boss. As for the speaking practice, I would actually recommend to speak with French from southern France. They tend to have an accent there, that makes you think that they went completely mental on the nasal sounds. But aside from that, they tend to pronounce clearly each syllab when they speak. Which is not the norm. If you go to Parisian region, not only you'll have to deal with the multiple slangs (Argot, backward slang, arabic slang,...) that are used all the time, the proper grammar and conjugation who are butchered, but you'll also have to deal with the Parisian/northern accent, which has an unfortunate tendency of "contracting" words to skip some syllabs. For example, for a lot of Parisians: - "Je ne sais pas" (I don't know) will be pronounced "Ch'ais pas" - "Maintenant" (now) will be pronounced "Maint'nant" - "Je pense que le mieux..." (I think that the best...) will be pronounced "J'pens' que l'mieux..." - "Je ne le ferai pas" (I won't do it) will be pronounced "J'le f'rai pas" etc... And I guess it can be very confusing when you freshly arrive with your very "scholar" proper french, and you have no clue what the hell Parisians are saying. I also mentioned grammar and conjugation being butchered. Well, it turns out that in spoken french, some of the most basic rules are being completely disrespected, and I give a quick guideline for all those who are learning French and may not be aware of it. - The proper "ne"/"n' " to construct a negation is usually simply skipped, ex : "Je ne veux pas" (I don't want) -> "Je veux pas" - Yes/No interrogation sentences are made by just saying the affirmation, and raising your tone at the end of the sentence, ex: "Est-ce que tu aimes ça?" (Is it that you like this?) -> "Tu aimes ça?" (You like this?) - Open questions are also being made with the affirmation sentence, and adding the question word at the end of the question, ex: "Qu'est-ce que tu fais?" (What is it that you are doing?) -> "Tu fais quoi?" (You do what?), "Où-est-ce que tu vas?" (Where is it that you are going?) -> "Tu vas où?" (You go where?) - The futur (Future) tense is usually replaced with the futur proche (close future) in most everyday uses. Ex: "Je le ferai" (I will do it) -> "Je vais le faire" (I'm going to do it) - The passé simple (past simple) is never used in spoken french, only in books. It is always replaced with the passé composé (past composed) in spoken french. Ex: "Je fis ça" (I did this) -> "J'ai fait ça" (I have done this) - For the first person of the plural ("nous", we), it is very common (and actually almost always the case) in spoken french to use the neutral third person of singular ("on", it). Ex: "Nous allons à la plage" (We go to the beach) -> "On va à la plage" (It goes to the beach) - There's also this subjunctive tense thing. No one really knows how we're supposed to properly use it, so we mostly don't use it.

Ton français est vraiment très bon, en plus d'avoir un bon accent tu parles en utilisant des mots que nous français on utilise mais que ceux qui apprenent la langue ne connaissent pas d'habitude. Tu parles quasiment comme un natif en vrai. Beau travail. Great job.

First video I watch of yours as a polyglot and was on the fence about subscribing for about... let's say 3 minutes 40 seconds ! (I'm Algerian) tysm for the shout out I was so happily surprised ! ❤

Au début, j’ai pensé que tu juste blagues sur ta chaîne mais la plupart de l’information dans cette vidéo est assez précise mais c’est quand même très drôle. Bon travail 👏 (je suis américain et j’apprends la langue aussi).

Québécois here, I've travelled to many places and heard many languages, and I have to say one thing : Québec french's accent and expressions are the best to get angry. It isn't the most beautiful accent but believe me, there's so much words available to curse in Québec french you'll have hours of fun playing with them. France French is the refined and "brainy" accent. Québec French is "all brawn and no brain" accent.

As a french native I can certified you that you perfectly understand the french people🤣well played you made me laugh

As a French, I'm choc by your accent ... very close to a native french 😮

Many English words actually have common roots in old French. Not always but there are quite a lot of cases where the modern and 'é' were actually 'es'. And where French cut the 's', English cut the 'e' . Just like '^' was often a 's'. You then add some time of transformation by pronouncing the French word in English, but you can still see the common root in them if you switch 'é' épouse - spouse étranger - stranger école - school écureuil - squirrel (that one's writing changed quite a bit, but that's pretty close to how an English speaker would pronounce "scureuil" (change the e to s) île - isle hôpital = hospital bâtard - bastard there are a few other swap you can do sometime like GU and W which can give Guillaume - William (le conquérant / the conqueror) This one mostly come from the fact that in the Normandy area (northern France), they used 'W' while around Paris they used 'GU'. French kept the 'GU' for the most part. And so, some English words similar in meaning actually ended up with both versions such as Guardian and Warden. Lots of fun to be had when you look at the root of both language. A fun one that put a few swap from above together : guêpe - wasp The use of 'char' (car) in French Québécois has no relation to a tank. It actually comes from same word family as charrette, chariot, charrue, etc. (cart/plow) . Actually, it has the same root as the one now used in English.

Le "Aurevoir Shoshanna" comme phrase de fin m'a achevé. Elle est osée celle là x) Très heureux que tu apprécies le français en tout cas, tu as un très bon accent, especially for a yankee ;)

I'm a Louisiana Cajun French speaker, which is another variant of the North American French dialect! I really enjoyed this video

Watching this actually made me fluent in french thank you Bonjour

This is a really good vidéo, I’m french and I found it really funny, actual (unlike most of the other youtube videos about french language) and not cliché that is a good thing

5:42 His "Ouais" sounded like Waluigi lmao

8:05 "ons mangent" what a warcrime

french speaker here: amazing video, loved every second of it! i gotta say... i really liked the humor a lot, i laughed multiple times

Wesh je kiffe ta video et ton francais est incroyable, je m'abonne

6:12 the little "^" on top of some letters means there was an -s after it in olf french but it was removed. For example, take the word "hospial" replace the -s by "^" and place it on top of the letter before, here, the lettre -o, and you get "hôpital" which means "hospital" in french. For the other accent, it's supposed to be make the vowel sound a little bit longer but I dont think anybody pronounces it

As a french, you triggered me the ENTIRE VIDEO !! The most triggering part was the moment of the “English words that were stolen by the french” ! Knowing that this is the exact opposite of what really happened is triggering my entire Frenchbody x) ! And knowing that there is 10% of Americans that will think that’s true it’s triggering me even more :( EDIT : I KNOW that he’s doing it in PURPOSE !! I’m just saying that he done it really well !! Don’t worry I know that this is sarcastic x)

Lol, my native language is Spanish and the "y" and "en" were somewhat difficult to understand at first but I got them now. I was learning Italian too and that helped me because Italian have the equivalent ci and ne. I am studying Greek now and the tougher part are the declensions.

Hahaha I love the deadpan sarcasms ! The gateway drug for me was… English ! Truth be told, French and English speakers have that love-hate relationship mostly because of common grounds each argues is THEIRS ; rather than fundamental differences in thinking or even politeness. Anyway, very funny vid !

I'm German and learned French for 5 years in school. It's easy as fuck! Unlike in English, the pronunciation actually has rules that you can easily follow, even if two of their accents are literally useless. Honestly, the biggest problem for English-speakers are two things: 1. the u-sound (It sounds like the German ü and I don't think that this sound exists in English.) 2. laziness (I've heard what French words sound like in English. They're literally unrecognisable! For example "conesewer" in the Pokemon-anime. How do you think that's actually spelled? I can never remember it until I look it up. That's right, "connaisseur".

Great video! FYI l'accent circonflexe ^ (â, ê, ô, î, û ) is meant to modernize the writing of archaic spelling of words that would spell with an S after the vowel. Example: Hôtel used to spell Hostel, Fenêtre (window) was written "Fenestre ", île (island) was une "isle" while Août (August) was spelled "Aoust" - The trema ¨ (ï, ü) is used to duplicate the wovel when pronouncing the word eg: Aïe (ouch)= Ai-ye and finaly, both é and è are for acute and grave sounds kinda like the second and fourth Chinese tones.

French is my second language as well, the first non native language that I've learned. This video hits different. I just watched a québécois movie and found out about their curses a few days ago and no one else i try to explain it to can appreciate how bizarre it is to me

Thank you, :Language Simp, for that one video where you introduced me to Was ist dein Lieblingsfach.

Incroyable la video !!! Ton français est vraiment clean de fou.

Easter egg directly from France here. There is a huge portion of french natives that get the grammar wrong as well as the verbs conjugaisons, the number of mistakes that happen everywhere is higher that you think, and you know what? It pisses off the other part of the french population, so much that they will correct you all the time. And if you make a mistake, your opinions are worthless to their eyes, so as your being. It is easy to say that all this tension and pressure on french people end up on the foreigners, and that is why it is actually dangerous to speak french in France . Those unforgiving people are also called grammar nazis in France (we do steal every cool American words), and they are numerous.

The worst with the words "quatre vingt dix" is that French people seriously think that saying "nonante" is a strange thing whereas it's just logical (and the same for "soixante-dix" and "quatre vingt"). And the video was very nice even for a French speaker. 👍👍👍

Eau being pronounced with the one vowel that is not actually in the word is one of my favorite language learning moments ever

"I learn language to speak langueges and SHOCK LOCALS, not to read it like a nerd" 😂😂

Tu parles tellement bien français and the way to switching from english to french est incroyable, j'en suis bouche bée

For those wondering about the accents, when used with the letter E (è/ê), they do make a difference. In Metropolitan (Parisian) French, both are pronounced the exact same way: as an _ai_ sound. So they're quite different from a plain ol' E! The thing is, in Quebec, ê has its own distinct sound, kind of like a drawn out _ai_ with an added diphthong on the I. Actually, à, â, î and ô all have very distinct pronunciations in Québécois French, whereas they are virtually obsolete in Metropolitan French. That leaves us with ù and û, which indeed make little to no difference phonetically, no matter the dialect.

this guy attacts and scares me at the same time, thats why i subscribed

Bravo pour cette vidéo enrichissante (perso j'ai appris des trucs sur le québécois grâce à cette vidéo).

As someone who is from Southeast Asia, i can confirm that France is the Capital of Ohio.

I am french and I studied in an international section so I was around many people that spoke french despite it not being their mother tongue. I have to admit it is a pretty complicated task to decide when correcting someone is appropriate, because you don’t want to hurt someone’s pride or anything, you just want to help. The « correctly spoken/written french » is something you spend a lot of time learning at school, and when you don’t have french courses anymore, it’s when the real nightmare starts, as there are some teachers that decide to remove points when you make too many spelling mistakes in your maths or history exams. Really, whenever we correct you, it’s because we have a strong PTSD of being bullied by our school system and peers and we don’t want people to judge you for your mistakes, so we try to help you. It is a pretty toxic way to make sure that everyone speak correct french, but at the same time it kind of worked for a long time. As it turns out, more and more french people nowadays have difficulties learning the correct spellings and grammar, so as there are less and less people versed in sophisticated french, I feel like the pressure for foreigners is lowering. About the arabic slang, everyone under the age of 40 use some of it, it’s just a matter of time before the Academie Francaise collapses on itself and stops living in a parallel universe where only exists their own holy and pure version of the french language.

Incroyable merci pour cela Monsieur !

That movie did inspire you to lean French while I was more intrigued to learn Italian hand gesture. Bravo.

Am from Algeria 🇩🇿🇩🇿 and I really love that you mention us it’s an underrated country, much love ❤

I'd really love to see you review Polish. Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła!

I just love that you adopted a sort of Canadian accent ^^ However it's "on mange", as the singular form :)

Une très bonne vidéo. Merci ;)

Do a review of Mexican next! Also would like to know why you chose European Mexican over Argentine Mexican? 🇺🇾

Oh man, French was also the very first language I learnt on my own and which pulled me into the whole language learning thing 😂

Tu es l’anglophone avec le meilleur accent français que j’ai jamais entendu ! A really good video (bcs french is gigachad)

As a French and a non Parisian myself I must say that I too don't want to go in Paris

Somewhere around 60 years ago, I worked around Kapuskasing in Northern Ontario. The people around there spoke some kind of French which I had to learn. Surprise, surprise: I wasn't understood in Quebec, Belgium, France. Someone told me that the "French" I learned is a very old regional language from France, no longer used. I have been wondering about that ever since.

I loved this video! Your cultural references are on point 💪

0:58 That's how you know he's a real one

6:09 As a french I must say that "è" does serve a purpose as it does not make the same sound as "e"... "ê" and "è" basically make the same sound, yet è is used more often like in frère, père, mère which basically mean brother, father and mother... However, I have no clue what ô does... same for â (which is even more rare but used in certain words like gâteau or bâteau which mean cake and boat)

So glad I'm learning this gigachad language currently in B2 level. Can't wait to see what other languages this opens up for me

As a portuguese speaker, i can say that our language sounds so similar to french, and lots of words are pratically identical, that we can really understand and learn french with no problems or difficulties.

A few precisions for information's sake "è" does the same sound than the E in the english word "heh" Meanwhile the accent ^ on a vowel is the marker of a letter (often an S) that was present in former versions of the language but disappeared through simplification. A process every language experiences. On an E, "ê" makes the same sound as "è" meanwhile on an O it usually doesn't change anything except in very rare cases where it means you need to produce a lower -o sound. The most famous word using a ^ accent is the word "hôpital" (which means hospital), and was written the exact same way a long time ago. Some words of the same family still have that S and no ^ accent like the verb "hospitaliser" (to hospitalize) Also just a little correction from within the video, "on" never takes an S and it works like "il" and "elle" it's because it's an old remnant of fancy noble speech from a couple centuries ago so it's "On mange", today it is only used as an informal "nous" faster to write and/or say. However you may see "ont", in this case it's the third plural person of the verb "avoir" (to have) used either as a regular verb or as an auxiliary for composed tenses (exact same as present perfect, we just have a unique conjugation for each/most persons as do many latin-based languages)

Honnêtement, bravo Je sais que la plupart des américains/anglais détestent le français et préfèrent apprendre des langues commes l'espagnol, mais je suis et reste impressioné par le niveau que tu as.

3:46 As a french i have to say it actually shocked me how perfectly he said the begining of that sentence

Les sons difficiles pour les anglophones ("R", "U", "Œ") sont faciles pour moi parce qu'ils existent aussi dans ma langue maternelle (l'allemand) :D

Je suis choquer mais ton français et juste magnifique !

Hello ! Fist of all thanks for that video, that was really fun and great for learning. Well from some of us "nonante" is more logial than "quatre-vingt-dix" but t's forget the history of how we peak our language too, so I prefer the old french way to say it. L'académie française... is really hated haha they do sometimes really weird decisions like they did for "oignon" (onion) and decide to write it "ognon" to simplify, but that doesn't work. Even your imitation of the accent of Québécois, you are doing it so good. And yeah, muted letters is a pain for strangers haha, but we don't prounonce a lot of them so, guess it's ok. Really happy you like french language this much, hope you had nice trip in here (don't go to Paris it's a trap).

In the name of all French people, I'd like to use this opportunity to thank Americans for enriching our language so much. Literally we wouldn't have any words without you guys. PS: Help, I accidentally fell in love with your American accent when you speak French 😍.

Hi, frenchman here. The introduction of arabic words in french language started with the first crusade, there are so many that we can barely count them : divan, fissa, niquer, douane, safran, jupe, sorbet, flouze, maboul, barda, safari, tarif.. by extension those words permated into other languages, french being the language that contributes the most to all other foreign languages on earth.

as a french person, HOLY SHEETS OF PAPERS, YOUR FRENCH SOUNDS SO GOOD !!!

Bonne vidéo J'ai kiffé 😁

6:31 I wouldn't say "stolen" , the french language is way older than the US itself so it's most likely the americans who stole those words since within the mass immigration in the 18s , a lot of french immigrants came to live in the US

If you can visit southern France, you will love it. People residing there are generous, sophisticated, welcoming, and free from discrimination. I didn't spend much time in Paris, so I don't know that much struggle there and only have good memories of France because of the people there. So you can balance your view when you visit those villages.

Merveilleuse vidéo. I love you second degree humor. Very French ;)

You made me like the word wesh, thank you x))

I remember asking my French friend how to pronounce Saint-Saëns (a famous composer). She didn't know.

as a French I'm confident that for English speakers, French isn't too hard to learn, i think we share about 30% of our words in both pronunciation/meaning, the tricky part in French is that we have a lot of words that have similar/very close pronunciation but mean different things, like "et", "est", "haie", "que", "queue", "tante", "tente", "tente" (du verbe tenter), "temps", "tant, etc. those are super annoying for English speakers because if you happen to not know a specific word but you only know one similar sounding one you might be very confused if you try to understand a sentence.

actually, the belgian system of counting makes more sense. here's why: in a long mostly forgotten era there was decimal counting and duo decimal decimals were kept where duodecimal was thrown out by belgium. hence them say "dix ving trente quarante cinquante soixante septante octante nonante" (10 to 90) in decimals when you reach 9+1 you write 10 and you say ten/dix in duodecimals you don't count by 10 but by 20, and that alone explain the quatre-ving being said quatre-ving because 4 packets of 20 instead of 8 packets of 10 so, in france we mix both systems when we" talk but only when we use the words, not when we count, we don't considers packets of 20 in fact. it just stayed like that for no reason to be honest the paris accent don't exist no more (it was called "le titi parisien" if you wanna search it) arabic words in france are just meant to sound "street" mostly. many mens find it redflag and totally unnatractive girls who use "wesh" when they talk lmao "if I was the fernch president i'd add more arabic words". I'm sorry but we don't want that, there's already many words and I prefer the french language to stay french, please. I bet I'm not the only one wanting to keep the language intact, just letting it self-evolve and not erase it by adding other languages words since it's already the fact.

Je suis québécoise et j'apprends le russe, l'arabe et l'allemand. Tes vidéos sont un régal ! 😄👌

I have frenchphobia from french lessons, the language still scares me to this day.

Très bonne vidéo ! J'aime beaucoup tes transitions Français/Anglais. Si t'es jamais encore allé dans le sud de la France sache qu'il y a un patois qui s'appelle le provençal et qui est juste génial. Par exemple on ne dit pas "tu es fou" mais "tié fada" ou bien encore au lieu de "il n'y a personne ici" c'est "y'a dégain".

One thing I have to correct tho: è makes a difference! It's kinda pronounced like "ay" ( - i think this is the closest in english) and e is (kind of) pronounced like the o in "word"

Can't believe that in just few years, this guy's English skills are now high level, let alone he speaks other different tounges

Nice video. I have noticed a mistake (8:03), the personal pronoun "on" (not ons) is actually the same as "il/elle" so it is not plural but singural, even if it means the same as "nous mangeons"... (On mange = we eat / Nous mangeons = we eat) :/

Thanks Bro, for making a video on french, I'm learning french and I want you to make more videos on french

In the dialect portion of the video, I am surprised to see no mention of Louisiana French given that you are American and Louisiana is the state that has the most active connection to their French history. This includes influences from the Cajuns and European French settlers. Interestingly, the Cajun ethnic group is actually historically connected to Quebec as they are a result of a diaspora of the old Northeastern French American colony of Acadia which is located where Maine and parts of Quebec are today.

Hi Gigachad, I know that it´s difficult, but, could you please put a guide (spript) to read your videos?. I´m a native Spanish speaker and I learn a lot of idiomatic expression with your videos. Thankss !