Paris, how many languages do you speak? 

She thought he asked her to translate his question to English.

​exactly

@@miaoumisou8589no , she's understand him very well

​​​​​​@@Walid_walid829The way he asked her to tell him what she thinks of life in Paris is the same way you ask someone to translate a sentence. He literally said : "Can you say in English : what do you think of life in Paris"

@@guilhemtapie7134 I think both are true. As an advanced language learner these are the types of comprehension problems you run into where the context or intonation would indicate his meaning but someone who hasn't had as much experience in building that context of American/English speaking culture wouldn't catch that. I'm learning Persian right now in Asia and I try to keep track of these situations where my questions are misunderstood because it's not necessarily a vocabulary problem but a contextual problem. What's obvious in one culture and background might be not so in another. Jokes are especially tricky because the predictable patterns and shared cultural knowledge aren't there and it's really easy to just look like you're making another error in a language you're not as familiar in. These aren't even problems that are unique to language learners but also cross-cultural communication of all kinds like inter-generational communication within your home country or someone from a poor inner city talking to someone from a wealthy suburb.

Oui, agreed !

Think she knew what was the question but chose to turn tables on the interviewer. Cute response.

@@garmit61 maybe, but it really does not seem or sound like it at first. She does seem to realize when she doubles up and asks him “What do you think?” But the first time around her intonation and way of saying it aren’t like a question but like a translation, in my opinion. Also, his question truly does sound like he’s asking for a translation in the way it’s worded - I might have answered the same way to be honest.

@@garmit61 there is also the possibility that she intentionally translated it instead of answering as a way of letting him know he didn’t ask the question the way one should.. But she doesn’t seem like that sort of person to me

That's funny, I went to school with her 😂

The truth is,we are forced to speak english....you know why......if Russia would dictate.....russian.....my countrymen. German. China chinese......we lost the war it's English....usa. maybe Spanish. Stubborn. Mentality. And lots of them....all ok...law of nature. Alles liebe.....weiter sprechen...soft ch. Bitte.....

I fully agree!

Based on stats, there’s a higher percentage of people who can speak English in Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Denmark than in Canada 😅

It's taught at am early age but also because a lot of TV shows are not translated because its small populations up there.

That’s because they don’t have the choice ! Their languages are not strong and spread as French or Spanish. Basically in France you have access to absolutely everything in French from American tv show to scientific books. On a daily basis there is no need to speak another language that’s why we are worst than Scandinavian countries

@@Entername-md1ev Haha. Those damn Quebecers bringing the average down. Quel dommage.

@@FreeWorldCitizen That's not quite it. Of course they can get access to everything published in English in their respective languages. It's that Scandinavian/Dutch languages are Germanic like English so it is more easily accessible to them. As well they don't have historical and cultural baggage that makes them predisposed to sideline English like the French. Finally- I don't think French people are good at languages barring the related romance ones. French peoole speaking English frequently have quite thick accents.

He probably mixed up German for Dutch because in Afrikaans German is Duits

Le néerlandais est proche de l'allemand et quasiment compris par tous les hollandais .Donc les afrikaners qui sont des colons hollandais en Afrique aussi.

@@pascalgotlib1781 Do you speak German and Dutch?

Afrikaans is a Germanic language just like Dutch.

I thought so! Afrikaans is more similar to Dutch so when he said German, I was confused.

balek

@@loulouthe1750 personne ne t'a demandé ton avis ( :

@@loulouthe1750 Si tu t'en balek d'un truc intéressant, on s'en balek royalement de ton commentaire inutile

Il l'a coupé vite fait quand on est arrivé en territoires tabous. Même les anglos savent d'instinct que c'est interdit d'en parler.

Pourqoui est interdit !?

I live in an immegrant community in France and alot of people are actually very frustrated by that cause they are speaking french fluently but have an accent and the natives are treating them like they are some random lost tourist 🥲

@@diamandcharme-kerhorest7221 Don't worry, i'm native french but with strong south accent and I have same problem when I go to north. The feeling of superiority is triggered as soon as a flaw presents itself

@@diamandcharme-kerhorest7221 Yeah, but the same it's true in reverse: many Arab and Black immigrants in Paris with a thick accent tend to treat you like 🚽bc you're from outside their ethnic/religious/cultural group. For instance, one of the Pakistani butchers round the corner where I've been buying my chicken for +10 years, he's all very fluent, normal and just professional with his ethnic/religious/cultural customers (we are in a very mixed area in the 19th) but he goes to great lengths to show us Whites/Christians/Westerners very clearly that he deeply despises us, so he puts up this very thick accent on purpose. And I have countless other exemples. In short, if you don't speak like a racaille, they speak to you like 🚽

@@azecece1 Why do they do this? Is this part of their training at school? They're famous for it.

@@Beach_comber Because humans are animals and in animal reign there is dominators and dominated ? Or maybe because Paris is a big economical center in France and , with previous explaination, more money = dominator ? Idk

They were some long drinks of water though.

They mixed Dutch with Deutsche

Well, Dutch kinda is a dialect of Low German, some linguists might argue. Just as Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are sorta dialects of the same language.

It's a Germanic language, that's probably what he meant.

​@@guiltydwarf495with that logic (lower) German is a dialect of Dutch as well...

Nothing turkish in alsace its a poor muslim country.

people in every other French city are so much friendlier than Parisians

​@@saullandiof5768Paris c'est la france la vrai

@@Elias-ef7zb oh tg

@@saullandiof5768 I'm not going to say it's false but the people in this video (the foreigners) were saying that parisians were friendly and disagreed with this cliché. We should define first what is a parisian because there is not a lot of parisians who were born and raised in Paris. Most of them are coming from the province and very often are moving back later in their lifes.

Yeah, and if weren't for French troops under Lafayette and Spanish troops under Galvez, the US would still be the Colonies.

the Frenchman says: The kingdom of France has signed your birth certificate

They are not very similar ! I can barely understand any danish at all 😂 Norwegian is easier in my opinion ! Lycka till med svenskan ;)

@@majstrindlund7263 They are very similar, but may require some practice! I study at university of Copnehagen, and many students here are swedish or norweigan. In my experience they understand me well the majority of the time when I speak danish, and I understand the swedes and norweigans well too. A swedish girl I met said she struggled understanding danish the first month she was here, but now she doesn't have any problems at all. If we just practiced each others languages a bit, we would do so well. The problem is most people panic, and believe they don't understand it, then switch to english.

Me too. I am studying Swedish and I am surprised by how much Norwegian and Danish I understand.

Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are three dialects of the same language each with their own army.

​@@carl9901English no , Scandinavian languages are same language even now ,just different dialect

I am not kabyle, but he made me happy especially when he said that's its the language of north Africa

yes

@@brahmaistrash.indiaisatoil5292 the absolute truth that many so called "arab" algerians still have hard time to comprehend

Me too, I thought North African countries were completely arab-ised, these are ancient cultures that should be preserved.

They are preserved in Algeria, and you can learn Kabyle as early as elementary school. @@spiritusIRATUS

So does mine.Saludos de Brasil!

même

go on

I got in the countryside in a non touristic region in the center west of France and I found many people who actually spoke English pretty well to my big surprise, and I didn't have any problem to communicate so far. And the people were very polite, pleasant and respectful. Btw, in most non-English speaking countries in the world it's more difficult to find people who speak English, sounds logical, right?

@@elrevah it depends on the country, but usually we expect it to be difficult in countries like France, Italy or Ukraine.

​​​@@ILOVEDAVIDCAVAZISe truth is that many persons are able to speak English, since we study at school, 3 languages (with French). If you want some information in France, it's better asking people between 18 and 35 years old, normally they would be able to answer, at least with the basics ☺️... And there are no real differences in the "Countryside" since we are all educated in school, where we learn English. Those who travel more have a better English, it's normal, but normally, every person in the range that I told you, can speak ^^ You should go in South America to people who really don't speak english 😂😂 I'm here for 7 months, and it's funny seeing that sometimes even in some information points, they don't speak english (it's rare but it happened in Brazil 😂) . I speak Spanish so I don't have problems, but it amazed people here, when you can speak 3 languages even if it's far from being perfect 🤭 Big difference with Europe

@@abonnessansvideos-qn9yb Mexican here, the reason is almost all the region speak the same language, the contact wirh anglophones is almost zero, movies and TV shows are dubbed into spanish, all is in spanish, even in southern U.S. you can live only speaking spanish cause of the inmigrants and their descendants. And of course most of people can't afford english lessons due to lack of money or time but some more simply aren't interested in learn languages and those are the worst because they have bachelor's degrees, between 25-30 yo or further and still monolingual.

la provence va à l'école comme les parisiens, autrement dit on parle aussi bien anglais que vous

Paris sucks!

Agreed! I’m really glad my English has developed “naturally,” over time thanks to music, video games, TV shows and such. I’m pretty positive I wouldn’t be able to fully grasp it if I were to pick it up from zero now. (Mainly because it’s not really phonetic, and the way it works is sometimes a little weird, even when compared to other Germanic languages)

la langue s'appelle tamazight avec différentes variantes comme kabyle, chaoui, chenouia, m'zab tamazight, touareg tamazight...etc Le tamazight n'est pas seulement parlé par les Kabyles, mais aussi par d'autres amazighs.

Oui, pas des MALchances pour la France quoi, ils avaient le respect du pays qui les accueille...

Definitely the highlight of the video.

it's in my neighborhood. It attracts foreign students and tourists, very trendy , artsy, "cool", not representative though.

Very polaite....

​​@@amc9862yes if you are polite to them

Thanks 😊 greetings to you

Yes, very polite, and they expect others to be polite too, that's what people don't understand...

​@@amc9862Yes, very polite, and they expect others to be polite too, that's what people don't understand...

Yes, that's what she said

That is indeed what she said.

if i have to talk in English in France, i try to talk to younger people, they dont have a problem with my German accent...lol

@@Arltratlo and by any chance you can find a French who learned German at school !

@@ewzinenhou9243 i believe you never went to the Elsaß?.. thats the German speaking part of France, its like East Belgium, the German part of Belgium or Nordschleswig in Denmark, they speak German, too oh i forgot the Austrians and the Deutsch Schweiz... did you know, that people close to borders can learn the other country language, its not forbidden..

With 8 years of english, most of young french are "good" in english. Like he said "it's a universal language"

​@@ArltratloKein Problem damit. Du kannst ja auch Deutsch.... As long as you don't come here with a gun. ;-)

from an algerian kabyle !

Kalispera.

What you say is previledging your interest (have motivated students) to the detriment of your students (have a job ie speaking a language of a strong economic country)

@@veraciteabsolue1221 said the guy whose country is going way down the scale of educated countries because trying to "save money" on education.

@@alexdarcydestsimon3767 My children were schooled in private colleges and did very well in Parisian reputed universities (there are still a few). Yet, what your country is doing has little to do with what you make of your life.

@@veraciteabsolue1221 eh oui, ils étaient dans le privé... C'est bien ce qu'on reproche au gouvernement actuel : déshabiller le secteur public.

Spanish is much easier than French.

Same for USA , England , Italy , Spain , Canada etc all countries have regional accents and words

@@jeanbolduc5818they aren’t regional accents and words, but whole different languages, distinct from French.

@@miaoumisou8589 right, in France they speak croissant in the north, baguette in the south, fried snails in the east, and smelly cheese in the west

@@jeanbolduc5818 neither USA nor England have numerous regional languages. The weight of English is detrimental to linguistic diversity and heavy language policy is needed to preserve minority languages face to English. On the other hand, Spain and Italy have many regional languages like Catalan, Basque and Galician for the former and Sicilian, Sardinian and Ligurian for the latter. These 2 countries have an additional reason that France doesn't have to preserve its regional languages: they had fascist dictators (Mussolini and Franco) who both tried to suppress their regional languages in favor of Italian and Spanish. Therefore, there is an incentive to do the exact opposite.

@@PatrioteQuebecois There are many english Accents and regional words depending on your education in england ....

Luxembourgish is not a separate language but a Moselle Franconian dialect of West Central German! Even if Luxembourgers always claim that it is a language of its own! On our side of the border, the people speak a dialect that is largely identical to Luxembourgish (minus perhaps the countless French loan words), but we know that it is just a dialect and not a language of its own. Until 1984, Luxembourgish was still called "Luxemburger Platt"! On our site there is "Trierer Platt", "Kowelenzer Platt", "Hunsrücker Platt" and "Eifler Platt"! With your selfish declaration of 1984, when you unilaterally proclaimed Luxembourgish a "language", you not only divided our common dialect area, but also divided the Moselle Franconians as an ethnic group! And why? All because you wanted to be a bit more like the Swiss! But guess what: you're not!

@@NKKBerlin What about the Luxembourg province in Wallonia Belgium, do they also speak Luxembourgish or only French ?

@@helloahla239 They speak only French there.

@@maelstrom57 What is a language? It's a dialect with an army.

@@boink800 it doesn't apply yet to MERICA, MERICAN isn't a language (yet) :D

Do you where can I find more of this, like what kind of genre that is? I really loved what he played

He look like Kevin Durant 😂😂

@@cagdasyusufcnar8604Merde c’est vrai ça ! 😳🥵

I agree, he was fantastic.

Hello,Are you from France, French?

@@Kimhajar132 He says it in his comment...................