I remember talking to little Spanish children when I was a teacher in Burgos. They used to teach me Spanish as we walked to school and I taught them English - we laughed a lot and we taught each other songs and jokes. They found my attempts at the jota very amusing e.g. mejor. It's an absolutely charming way to learn and I was always so impressed when these children of five to seven or so spoke so well, putting all the preceding objects in the right place and using complex tenses like the subjunctive with such ease! Thank you for these videos - I am resuscitating my French and I love listening to these children. They also speak more slowly, which suits me fine at the moment. France is a wonderful country, when I lived there the people were just great and I love the sound of French.
I am Indian . Hindi is my mother tongue and English is taught to us from Nursery along with Hindi unlike France where English starts from 4th grade. I am also taught Sanskrit in school for 4 years. I started Learning French at my University where I read it for 4 years and Found it interesting and continued learning it and still doing it.
Actually, I've met a lot of French people who speak English well. I think very few English people speak another language - and I am talking about educated people. Our university courses in Spanish and French are generally rubbish. I've met recent graduates who can hardly maintain a very basic conversation - standards have plummeted. Our education system is very 'dumbed down', whereas you on the continent have maintained good standards.
Uhhh I don't know many French people but some ppl I met online are enthusiastic about learning English or Spanish etc.. And I'm able to converse with them in English (*sigh that's all I know*) and it has been good. Hmm I may ask Easy American English to do a street video on why Americans (most i think not all of course) seem to only know 1 language and aren't that successful ~~
If only French people realised how romantic the English language sounds when spoken with a French accent. More so than any other accent, including the English.
I think that there is an emphasis on knowing multiple languages in the USA. If you live in California, Texas, or New York those states are incredibly important to know another language in. I speak french, Latin (yes I know it's a dead language), and english. Most people I know speak more than 2 languages. But again this is just from my point of view I'm seeing this.
I think french people don't put enough effort to learn foreign languages because they already speak french which is very important world wide. It's not that french people in general are bad at languages, they just have to be interested in learning a different language thats all :)
Abed Basha Perhaps you're right. Yet it can be very hard for the French to learn English (and the opposite is also true - it can be very hard for an Anglophone to learn French) and that's due to the fact that French is mostly a syllabic language (usually most syllables are well pronounced and articulated) while English is a stress-based language (only the words that convey important information are well pronounced). So , what do you think of this new project? might well sound like a jumble of mumbled words with the words think and new project being well pronounced. The Anglos seem to be masters at filling in the blanks. Better? Worse? Just different.
+Abed Basha I think you shouldn't generalize a certain group of people. it is like if you met a French guy who sucks at languages, and suddenly you conclude that all French people are bad at languages. I think it is not about effort in learning languages, but the educative system. I think every generation is more multlingual than ever.
Moi, je trouve que les jeunes s'applique bcp sur l'apprentissage de l'anglais surtout s'ils s'intéressent de la musique, la télé, littérature ou bien la culture Américaine, Anglaise, Australienne etc. Mais on généralise bien sûr. Je pense que ça dépend de la personne. Chacun a ses capacités
Ce cliche n'est pas seulement avec le française, au Amérique Latine c'est très populaire le cliche que les espagnols ne peuvent pas parler bien l'anglais
Non, c'est pas pareil... Cela est = c'est. C'est facile à comprendre dans un étranger vu que c'est juste une contraction. Ici, on retire l'entièreté des signes de la négation donc cela change le sens en théorie. Ca reste du langage purement parler car selon le ton, cela peut vouloir dire "tu peux t'inquièter".
je vais faire deux commentaires. je vais écrire le premier avant de regarder la vidéo. alors, je pense que les français ont une mauvaise réputation par rapports aux langages étrangères parce que autrefois ils avaient pas vraiment besoin d’apprendre des langue puis que le français c’était la langue internationale et les gens au tour du monde l'apprenaient.
Je ne pense pas que les personnes françaises sont si mauvais avec les langues. En fait chaque tous les personnes françaises que je connais parlent bien ou très bien l'anglais. En général, quand des personnes veulent apprendre des autres langues et il y a stimulation suffisante, ils les apprenant! Autant que je suis concerné, si les personnes n'ont pas besoin ou envie d'apprendre des autres langues, je ne le vois comme une grandes problème. Et dans tous les cas, c'est mieux pour moi parce ainsi je pourrais parler français avec quelqu'un quand je vais en France!
Ahh.. I'm french... and i can agree that we are not that good in languages, not because we don't put effort.. It's more an educational school systeme issue.
+Yoline972 Je crois que nous devons practiquer conversations en les langues etrangerés. La communication est la meilleure façon pour d'apprendre les langues du monde.
Ouai, alors les langues romantiques sont trop facile pour francophones, c'est évident, donc à la même, l'allemand est trop facile pour nous qui ont anglophones
c'est pas vrai en tout cas, tellement ils se forcent a parler anglais que moi quand jetait la bas en France, j;ai pas pu pratique le français et du coup j'ai dépensé beaucoup d’argent pour un voyage linguistique qui au final n'a servi a rien.
+D'André Marcellus Je pense que ça dépend où tu vas en France, dans les grandes villes tu auras plus de probabilité d'avoir des personnes qui parlent l'anglais.
