How to speak and act in French? Easy tips and tricks | French Connection Plus • FRANCE 24 English

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Published 2018-06-29
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In this episode of French Connections Plus, we explore the ins and outs of the French language. Once the language of diplomacy, French continues to be influential around the world today, though it can be very difficult to learn. Officials in France are eager to protect the language, especially from the influence of English, although many English words come from French, as author Anthony Lacoudre explains. Finally, we take a look at your questions about "tu vs. vous" and masculine vs. feminine.
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All Comments (21)
  • @VerbaleMondo
    Mate, French is hard as nails but I don't regret learning it. I love it, I'd love to go one day to both Québec and France. Cheers. Hugs for all Frech-speakers out there.
  • @cdaswift9947
    Je suis philippine et j'adore la langue française. Et je l'étudie depuis 1 an et 10 mois. Ça me plaît beaucoup! Selon moi, c'est la plus belle langue du monde ❤
  • @msshay421
    Man I wish I would’ve continued with my French teacher Madame Warren. She was so elegant and efficient with what and how she taught.
  • @AnneMB955
    I love the French language - so poetic. Learnt French for 6 years at school in Australia. It really helped me understand grammar rules. Thank you ladies for this great vlog.
  • @Kanal7Indonesia
    Je parle français ! I love learning French so much. Even I have no relation to it (I'm from Indonesia). It's complex. It's beautiful. It's beautifully complex. 💜 I won't stop learning French even though it's difficult. It's so challenging ! 😁
  • @saberahmed4122
    Je suis soudanais, mais je suis immigrants en France, quand j'étais en France rien pour parler le langue française, mais maintenant mieux parler français et j'adore le langue française cette grâce pour tous professeurs français dans france,mais Motivation très importante pour quelqu'un personne apprendre le langue française ou noter le langue, le langue française très différente comme le langue anglaise.merci beaucoup pour tous et France 24 TV aussi.
  • When I first started learning French, I found it quite difficult. Then my teacher advised me to learn Italian first and try again later. I tried and it solved every thing but pronunciation. For example, when it comes to vocabulary similarity and grammatical construction, Italian and French share a lot in common. The key difference remains their phonology.
  • @mdsoulsounds
    Wow, Jeannie was so honest about not understanding French when she was learning and spoken to. It comes so fast to the ears, as distinction gets lost when the words flow together continuously, melting over each other in a mishmash. I usually try to identify some words then the context: the top of the sentence and the bottom, forget the middle!
  • @acbc3543
    French is my fourth language and I love French as if it’s my first one
  • @CUMBICA1970
    2:22 "French is so hard to learn..." Well, so does any other language I guess? Especially when it's so different from your mother tongue. For instance, my 1st language is Portuguese so at least we share the same alphabet (both even have cedillas!) which is HUGELY convenient. Now when I moved to Japan in 1996 and started to learn their language and didn't know any single character, mec c'était tres difficile!
  • @aeolia80
    what linguist has ever denied that French isn't a HUGE part of English!? lol. Anyone that knows anything about English knows that a third or half of the vocab is French. What makes it still a Germanic language is when you strip it down to its bare parts, that's when you notice that it's really just a Germanic language with a ton of borrowed morphology and phonology
  • @wvanderwahl
    In Paris given how multicultural it is there are many accents and some are hard for me to understand. In one day I heard french with an Arabic accent, then french with a Russian accent and the french with a Chinese accent among many , many others. It is a beautiful language indeed, but can be a challenge for an American that only speaks english. I grew up speaking Spanish so its a bit easier for me to pronounce, but I still struggle.
  • @chadguindon6909
    I come from the projects of Eastern Ontario, Canada. There is a lot of French in this part of the province and I have taken French Immersion back in school from JK to Gr12. My dad is actually French by nature but is perfectly bilingual and my mom only speaks English. Together, they decided to raise me and my siblings in English. My mom wanted us to have more French than she does and my dad would sometimes say little words and phrases in French. Me personally, I can understand it and speak some of it but I am not fluent. Lately, I have been trying to retain the French I have lost after finishing school.
  • @kiranp5611
    Grève - strike 😂😂😂 Strike is so important in France !!
  • I live in Montreal, a place always fighting language wars. The problem is, native speakers don’t understand just how hard it is to learn a language that unlike say Spanish, the writing and pronunciation a totally different. Since french words have so much spelling that is altered when speaking, or outright omitted, then regular day to day interactions help much less than in other languages. Then they accuse people of not wanting to learn french but it’s not that, it’s just really hard to learn as an adult when you have a career and family and simply deal in English all day for work. Lost my native speakers in the language wars is how hard it is to learn as an adult...😳😳
  • I am a native english speaker in french immersion since kindergarten and we had dictations (dictée) and we did not enjoy them.
  • @PicolinoDavid
    Thank you for this video. In Spanish we apply “vos, tu o usted” in the same way that “tu or vous” in French
  • @NaCle62
    She masters both equally english and french, nice job!
  • @ilhuicatlamatini
    Omg so glad I found this video! It’s the best primer for beginner French learners, the history helps me so much!! Please keep making more like this, I love this series 😍