Alexa, I was taught Swiss French and I've noticed that it's easier to understand your French because you speak each word clearly. I was taught to speak French by my foster parents starting at age 3 or 4, I was not adopted by them hence the Spanish name ( I don't speak Spanish). I've also noticed that I can read your writing. Reading French has always been easier for me. I do understand the words but nobody in my city speaks French but I still remember how to read and understand it and even speak it and I'm 60. You are the first French speaker on RU-vid I understand. I was put in a French class in high school but I didn't understand the teacher, she was Cuban and was married to a Canadian husband. That teacher called my foster mother and told her I didn't want to learn but I kept telling the teacher that I didn't understand her because it was a different French than the one I was taught at home. I'll continue learning here on RU-vid with you because you make it easy and yes, I do speak fluent English. Thank You, Merci Madam Alexa
No, there is no! Only thanks to her method of teaching I reached the level B2 alone!! Trust me, i have done years in searching best resources of learning French across the RU-vid - and, the only Alexa has helped me to achieve that.
Better Idea, memorize french nouns with indefinite articles because definite articles in French can contract and you won't be able to distinguish them.
@@luisgoldsmith1211 Ce n'est pas du tout facile de dicerner les mots français masculins des féminins à ses tout débuts d'apprentissage car il existe beaucoup trop d'exceptions. Le français est ma seconde langue mais toute mon éducation a été faite en français et cette vidéo me rappelle les difficultés auquelles j'ai fait face lorsque j'étais encore dans la maternelle. J'étais tout le temps confus. Et ce n'est qu'aujourd'hui que je m'en rappelle🤣🤣🤣🤣 Les gars, veuillez vous mettre dans la peau d'un "toddler" si vous voulez apprendre une nouvelle langue. C'est un conseil.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 J'essaie depuis plus de 7 ans d'apprendre l'Anglais, je n'arrive toujours pas à être courant et le comble c'est que je le comprend à peine🙄🙄🙄
Bonjour Alexa, I found you through my French teacher, who always lists your RU-vid channel as a resource, and she herself watched your videos while she was learning French in college. I am so thankful that you make these videos, and they go right on topic with what we are learning in class. You teach in an easy and fun way, merci!
I used to try to use the rules but, other than a few easy ones (like -tion, or -ment) I long ago figured out the best method is to simply memorize them with an article in the first place. So, according to Alexa I did the good things.
Miss I know only the feminine and masculine I go to French class but I also need to watch your videos thank you I only have a fringe teachers though he can teach me
Este canal foi o melhor que vi para aprender francês. E o me deixa mais feliz (e confusa) é estudar as duas línguas ao mesmo tempo. 😂 Parabéns! Você está me ajudando duplamente! Abraços do Brasil! ❤️❤️❤️
Hello madame Alexa.The ways you teach French is perfect because I have seen many You tube for learning French. I like the ways you teach us French. I have been 4 year in France but still it is very difficult for me to speak well France I try my best an I learn many things from you thank you so much an please if you have little bit time teach me basic French I will pays for you .I hope you will except my request thanks alots
Eh bien ! venez pratiquer avec moi dans les commentaires :) Ne vous inquiétez pas je ne mords pas. Just a small remark about the sentence you wrote in French. without mistakes, it's : (J')étud(ie) (la) langue Francaise mais je ne (la) pratique pas.
My wonder here is, how would she able to speak fluently in both English and French. Thank God! I'm a bit fluent in English but I always find French challenges. And French is my ambitious priories. Thank you madam Alex.
Parce que le français - comme tous langage - possède un caractère arbitraire. Souvent dans le langage parlé populaire, on dit : l'hasard fait bien les choses"... Aussi pour le hareng, on dit " le hareng" et non "l'hareng"; ou encore : "le haricot" et non l'haricot.
But we say: "Le décollage" (Takeoff) "Le décalage" (Offset) "Le chomâge" (Unemployment) "Le ravage" (Ravage) "Le nuage" (Cloud) And there are way more exceptions than these. The list is endless...
@@stanleymontenegro2792 Oui, je suis d'accord - mais on m'a dit que les mots lesquels ont un syllabe unique toujours sont féminine. Les autres sont masculine??
@@paulfaulkner6299 La plupart oui il me semble. On ne peut pas se fier à cette règle car baucoup trop de mots y échappent. Tous les mots se terminant en AGE et ayant un seul syllabe ne sont pas tous féminins. Par exemple on dit: -Un/Une age (a beam) -Un âge (an age) -Un nuage (a cloud) -Un/Une Sage (a wise) Parfois les mots "SAGE" et "AGE" sont aussi masculins tandis que d'autres fois non.
My very good friend and working colleague is french and is learning german and I am german and I am learning french. We have so often funny talks e.g. Whaaat the cat is male in french and female in german, the apple is female in french but male in german xD
Hi Alexa. Thank you . I think that I should revise this lesson and write it down but the question is : if I say a feminine word as musculine and vice versa do I look strange or funny? Do I get understood? Because it's so hard to distinguish.
Le destin? There's a French-Canadian folk song that goes: " Mon pere aussi ma mere n'avaient que moi d'enfant./ n'avaient que moi d'enfant, LA DESTINEE, la rose au bois." Is this one of those words that swap genders on opposite sides of the Atlantic? Or does this mean something entirely different? My dictionary is not handy at the moment.
Hi guys,I have a question. If I want to say ''for the rest of your life'' in French,do I have to use future tense? For example in the sentence ''où vous pouvez/pourrez vivre pour le reste de votre vie?'' which one is true,pouvez or pourrez?
Bonjour Alexa , I have a question. Why does it happen that sometimes the word ending with E get masculine, as always a word ending with E is feminine. Few times i get confused in this so that make my answer wrong. Merci REGARDS Aadhya
Hi Alexa, obviously you are an expert in your language and knowing genders of each word surely comes naturally but am dying to know, as a native speaker like yourself...have you stumbled upon words which yourself confused of their genders OR have you ever committed errors in both speaking and writing regard to gender of French words?
The literal translation for a. is “She is pretty as a heart”, and I believe its equivalent in english is “She is pretty as a picture”. It’s when you find the person beautiful. And the second one means “to be put upon”, it’s when someone takes advantage of somebody else, literally “he is walking on someone’s feet”. For example, I could say “Ne te laisse pas marcher sur les pieds” to my friend which means that they shouldn’t let people walk all over them. Hope you understand ^ - ^
Good luck with learning French, terrible language. As a result, we are so happy when someone tries to speak our langague that we shout "your French is so good !!" at every broken sentence 👏
I wonder how important it is to get masc/fem right. If there are not 2 words with different meanings (i.e. un hiver and une hiver) then there is no risk of being misunderstood, only sounding a bit rubbish. So my strategy is to use the correct gender if I know it, but otherwise just have guess and keep talking - the listener will indicate if there is some confusion. I think the traditional focus on getting this 100% right puts English speakers off trying to learn and use French.
Bon, c'est triste mais si vous venez en France et que vous dîtes "le chaise" au lieu de "la chaise" ou encore "le voiture" au lieu de "la voiture". On risque de vous regardez bizarrement.
@@gann2425 Je ne prétends pas avoir la science infuse, c'est d'après mon expérience personnelle que j'ai dit ça :) Mais même les français parfois se trompent... Qui sait si l'on dit un ou une ride, ou encore, un ou une tentacule ; un ou une insigne...? Faites-le test à vos amis français, ils vont sûrement se tromper ^^
Ce n'est pas du tout facile de dicerner les mots français masculins des féminins à ses tout débuts d'apprentissage car il existe beaucoup trop d'exceptions. Le français est ma seconde langue mais toute mon éducation a été faite en français et cette vidéo me rappelle les difficultés auquelles j'ai fait face lorsque j'étais encore dans la maternelle. J'étais tout le temps confus. Et ce n'est qu'aujourd'hui que je m'en rappelle🤣🤣🤣🤣 Les gars, veuillez vous mettre dans la peau d'un "toddler" si vous voulez apprendre une nouvelle langue. C'est un conseil.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 J'essaie depuis plus de 7 ans d'apprendre l'Anglais, je n'arrive toujours pas à être courant et le comble c'est que je le comprend à peine🙄🙄🙄
"Les Français ne se soucient pas de ce qu'ils font réellement tant qu'ils le prononcent correctement." -Enry Iggins - sur Netflix. My Fair Lady ... Hepburn ne chante PAS :) allez Hollywood! is this better French construction? Les Francais s'en foutent de ce qu'ils font, en fait, tant qu'ils prononcent correctement.
