When the FRENCH ACCENT isn't SEXY 

"I realised I have 'apenis'. " "Of course." 😅😅😅😅😅😅

"I 'ave 'apenis" legends say he found it in India

As a french guy, I watched this video and immediately decided to stop using the word "happiness" in conversations.

As a French person, I’m laughing so hard right now, but I’m never saying happiness again

"We'll agree money can't buy 'apenis" Me: *stares in confusion*

As a girl, I now realise why I’m unhappy.

My French Canadian coworker brought lasagna to a break room meeting. It looked good when she took the saran wrap off. We were about to start the discussion when she said "I have to eat it first". OK, I guess you didn't have time for lunch, we thought. We said "go ahead" and everyone just looked at her. After some back-and-forth we realized she meant HEAT it in the microwave before she cut it up to share!

French people don't only drop H, they also add it in surprising places, so arm becomes harm and add becomes had. As a conference interpreter I find the French accent particularly challenging

are we all just getting this recommended now (guys you can stop replying with yes now, it's been 5* months since i posted this comment)

I'm French and this is 'ilarious

Okay but nobody is gonna talk how smooth the women pronounced his name? My hats off to you.

I attended a French immersion school in the states for elementary and middle school. Most of the teachers were from various francophone counties. It was totally normal for us native English speakers to pick up a lot of their ESL quirks like dropping sounds or just saying a word we didn’t know in French as it were English. Because we had teachers from lots of different regions we had a wild international accent and vocabulary that was incomprehensible to some french speakers. I wouldn’t have had it any other way.

The funny thing is that "bonheur" which sounds like "boner" is the french word for happiness.

I like how the company's name is just "very big company".

It reminds me of a talk I once gave. I was rehearsing with a native irish colleague, hoping she would correct and help me. At some point, I wanted to emphasise a point, so I went: "I would like to focus on... blablabla". My colleague just drew the largest smile I ever saw, and a tiny tear drop appeared... but I went on. She, as well, let me going on and, when we started to review everything that was wrong, and it was a lot, she began with: "Well, Ben, you pronounced 'focus' like 'fuck us'!" Since that day, I gave up the accent, but focused... on pronunciation!!!🤣

This accent is so beautiful. Please, never change it when you speak English, it is perfect.

As an Indian Im proud that he found apines in my country

He he, but I liked his accent. He will do wonders in HR.

Love this, as a native speaker of English you dont start to appreciate your own language until you start to learn another, learning French really made me appreciate my mother tongue.

The funniest French conversation video ever!!! The non-pronunciation of 'H's in words is horrifyingly familiar to that of Londoners

Even me who is french, I've never listen people talking like that, but "apines" is real thing said in english classroom.

One Indian man who got vexed up with "funny Indian accents" decided to roast the hell out of "sexiest accent" and he nailed it.

I am now in pain, I have been laughing so hard!!!!!!!!!!!! This french guy acts and sounds so perfect for this skit. Love him!!!

The world would be dull if we all spoke like newscasters. I love accents because they preserve cultural diversity.

Now every Frenchman abroad, that still retained their accent, is paranoid that the interviewer is playing accent bingo during their interview.

If only France had won the seven years war, we would all be laughing at english speakers trying to sound french.

No matter how many times I watch this it always makes me laugh 🤣🤣

As a person who was raised speaking French when I moved to an English speaking country people always got confused when I said air instead hair 🤣🤣 it has been many years but this video just reminded me of it 🤣🤣

my French teacher sent the class this and I'm not sure if he's trying to get us to improve our accents or if he just found it funny

I live with a Frenchman and he was making fun of people with strong French accent until the moment he heard his own English speaking on record. He realized why people didn't laugh at his french accent "imitations" - coz they weren't seeing the difference!!! :)

My French accent has opened so many doors for me in the US, especially in sales. I was the best salesman in 2 states, and I don't think it was due to my great look.

I feel like some people genuinely don’t know that ‘apines is just happiness.

“We’ll all agree money can’t buy ‘apenis.” Transgender people: 😭😭😭😭😭

As a Goan, I'm thankful that he found apenis in my state, I hope many others do too 😊

I speak French as my second language, but I get ‘stuck’ in accents easily (it’s gotten to the point where I switch languages so often in my everyday life that it’s just more comfortable to stay in a certain accent than my native one). I will never say the word happiness in a French accent again. Lesson learned.

The frenchie speaking english starter pack: - We drop most of the "h", and a good part of the ending "s", because we're bringing to english the concept of "silent consonants" - We magically transform the "th" into either "z" or "ss", because hell, who needs those sounds anyway, you look dumb when trying to pronounce them - We tend to skip the preterit tense, because we can't afford to remember how it works (we already struggle to remember how our own preterit works) - If we don't know an english word, we just casually try to say the french word pronounced in an "english way". There is 25% chance that it will actually work out, but even if it doesn't, we'll expect you to get it anyway. If needed, we'll repeat that made up word until you understand. - If anyone tries to correct us in english, we'll get very offended, even though we spend our time correcting each other in french among frenchies (because yes, we also can't speak or write proper french) - We make various weird sounds with our lips, something like "ppppp", while talking that are confusing af for all foreigners, because we never considered one sec that we're the only ones who do that - We insert random "euuuuh" from time to time On a more serious note, I can see some reasons why most of us suck at english, among other things: 1. When it comes to older generations (people who are 40-50+yo), lot of them just didn't care enough to learn good english back in school, because back then, there was still a widespread mentality that english was not more relevant than french wordlwide. So there was a bit of matter of pride there, like "who cares about english?" 2. The way we learn language in school/highschool is still a bit old fashioned (I mean, atleast it was still the case when I was in highschool 6 years ago), in the sense that there is a great emphasis on learning all those gramar rules, vocabulary, etc... , but there is less focus on actual practice, let alone speaking practice. You have some speaking exercices from time to time, but it's usually texts that the students will have prepared at home, written on a sheet, so that they will only read it for the actual exercice. "Improvisation" is very rare. As such, most people who don't keep studying english after highschool are very bad at dealing with an actual "live" conversation in english. There has been some progress been made in the past decade or so, but the language education still needs to modernize. 3. There is this mentality in french education that is deeply rooted within us and has a hard time going away: "if you don't know, you shut up". It's never told directly, but it gets slowly printed in your mind while you are in primary school, and then it just stays with you for a long time. Because of that, you are ashamed at the idea at saying something wrong in front of people, so you prefer keeping your mouth shut unless you're sure. This is especially bad when it comes to language, because language practice requires you to try speaking, and you will obviously do a lot of mistakes. And thus, I suspect that a lot of french people who are not THAT bad at english but who are not confident in their level, try to avoid speaking at all cost, to avoid making mistake, especially in front of a real english speaker. And so, they'll just lose their english level, and become even less confident, it's a cycle :/ 4. This one might sound really stupid to foreigners, but when we learn languages in highschool, there is a high chance you'll be shamed by your classmates if you try having a better accent. If you try speaking with a good accent, you'll hear a lot of "wow, look how he's trying to show off", and it can make you discouraged to keep trying. And even outside of highschool, if you are among french people and for some reason you have to say something in another language, and you try to say it with a good accent, there is a good part of people who can see it as being pretentious. Hell, I get laughed at by my own family when I pronounce foreign places names in their native pronunciation ahahahah Sorry, that was a long comment ahahah Edit: I can't believe so many people actually read this whole thing. I didn't realize so many people felt the need to express their complexes with English language ahahahahah

I love the two HR-Guys' acting. Their pokerfaces, their synchronized movements (especially the pen-clicking in the beginning) this total out of place "Bingo!" at the end. Stellar performance in this 1-Minute-Clip

The guy with the "h" card asked the 'apenis question, he played dirty

"We'll agree money can't buy 'apenis. After school I went to India, looking for 'apenis." You should have gone to Thailand.

I was with a French girl once: Her: Pffff I'm so angry.. Me: Why? Her: Aren't you? Me: Why would i be angry?! What's going on? Her: I mean, we haven't eaten since yesterday afternoon!! Me: Awww you mean HUNGRY! True story 😌

It's awesome that the subtitle even spells Happiness as "Hapenis"

Das ist sehr lustig, wie gut Französisch am diesen video, liebe am wie er seiner Aussprache in Englisch 😄

This concept of gaining points for every miss of S and H is hilarious and really creative 😂😂😂

Sitting on the beach in Goa, I realised, I 'ave 'apenis Of course The most majestic expression and respond.

This is fantastic, reminds me of the Canadian Prime Minster Cretien when he was talking about happiness, and everyone looked concerned, then realized his accent threw it off. Great times. The teenage me was very happy to realize such a joke could be made.

That’s why when people tell me i don’t sound french when speaking, i get extremely relieved

What's really interesting is that English got a lot of those words from French after the Norman invasion. They were originally pronounced with a silent H in English (herb, history, and hospital, for example). It's also why Americans don't generally pronounce the H in "herb". The accent in England changed in the 1800s and they decided to pronounce the H at the beginning of French loan words while Americans kept using a pronunciation that's closer to the original French.

This was gold. "I realized I 'ave 'appines" was literally gold.

I have fallen in love with the French guy 😍😍

Why no one is appreciating the actors? All of them are awesome!

Interviewing a Russian. If he rolls an 'R' I get a point. If he says a 'G' in 'ing' you get a point

I love how in the start it is written Very Big Company.

If you pronounce an English word incorrectly, it will become a different word, completely. Pronunciation is key.

This is hilarious...had a great laugh - thank you!

sooooo i'm the only french person this was recommended to? lmao we do speak like that tho but at least we can communicate a bit in english ahah

It took him a journey, but now he knows, 'apenis was always inside him.

This was missing from my life . And RU-vid recommended me this after this much time🤣🤣🙏

My fabulous english teacher showed us this video this year (I'm in France)

As a french personne, this is the funiest and the most accurate video of all times ( sorry for the grammar but as i said i am french)

That “of course” sounds so hilarious, understanding and comforting at the same time lol

As french person without a big accent, I can say it's what I'm always hearing

It's amazing how he found apines despite searching for it for so long

"We'll agree money can't buy 'apenis." This dude _definitely_ hasn't lived where I have.

0:40 "It make many SSSing" My ears are bleeding. 😅 Yet I'm French.

That "ofcourse" after "I realised i 've 'apines." 😂😂😂😭💀

I lived in France for eight years, and when I asked our French friends, what our voices sounded like when we spoke French and they said very sexy, which was a surprise to me.

I am bilingual and I find people screwing up speaking either language a good source of laughter.

Random fact: French has a lot of sexual connotations

It is impossible for The French Accent to not be sexy.

"Who would be your ideal boss?" That's when you look at them and smirk. "At this moment you two"

1:00 "I have a penis." "Of course." LMAO😂

His accent is great tho😳

As a French guy, i can tell it’s so true!! 😂 We have a real problem to practice the accent because if we don’t do it right, other students or coworkers are just laughing so we don’t even try… and many years after we speak like Jean Charles ^^

As a korean american i never once thought that the language of french sounds sexy. Not once. Not saying french people are not sexy, but the language itself is not.

"I realized, I 'ave 'apenis" had me laughing all day.

1:16 Give this man an oscar !

Lol !! 😂 I am learning French and I learn today that I need to keep “ H” on Happiness … lol 😂

Je meurt de rire. Un grand bravo aux concepteurs de cette vidéo. 😂

Years ago, I used to work with a French guy who spoke English with a strong French accent. Once he wanted to say that he disliked another guy. He then sad "I (h)ate him"! He meant to say "I hate him", but it sounded like "I ate him"!

"I realized, I 'ave 'apenis" *i may have busted a lung*

hahaha, the 'a-penis' just laughed my a*** off

I’m French-Canadian adn grew up in Montréal. Sometimes I feel like we’re unicorns when it comes to French language stereotypes. Sure, they exist here, but the majority speaks French with so much English mixed in that it has become its own language, Frenglish.

this is hilarious

As a French guy, I have never understood what some people find sexy about the French accent. It's so... coarse combined with English.

Je ne m'en lasse pas ! 🤣

Speaking English with thick French accent is a catchiest thing in life

Well I did not expect to laugh as hard as I have at this, and I'm sure I'll watch it 50 more times in the next week. It brings me joy and apenis.

This is one year old but we're all getting it recommended rn 😭

I'm French, I laughed xD

Now this is what called actual youtube content. I wish we had more video likes this one

double the points for a silent "x"

"I realised I already ave apenis" Them: "Of course" I died hahahah 🤣🤣🤣

"I realised I'ave 'apenis" "Of course"

Always. The answer is always.

LMAO so true. I had to force myself to figure out how to mostly drop the French accent I had when I was younger, although it does become a bit apparent when I say certain things or speak too fast!

Be proud of you, because you be, do, what we want to do....

i literally snorted when he he said "I realised i 'ave 'apenis." LMFAOOO PLS

He wasn't talking in English, he was talking in French.

"Sitting on the beach of Goa I realized, I 'ave 'apines"

This dude journey is just admirable he went through tough decision to obtain 'apenis you can say he is 'apenis himself