How French Netflix’s The Parisian Agency Captures French Culture Perfectly
Native Parsian Geraldine explores modern French culture via the hit French Netflix series L’Agence (The Parsian Agency) for American/Canadian/British audiences.
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There are a few TV series on Netflix right now that are set in France, but not all of them give you an accurate look at everyday French life, French culture, or modern French language. That’s why I was delighted to find out that “L’agence” (or “The Parisian Agency”) was trending on Netflix worldwide!
I love this program, because it was clearly created by French people for a French audience. And if you’re someone who cares about learning about the REAL side of French culture (not the fake, stereotypical, Hollywood-movie side of French culture, which we see in programs like Emily in Paris), then I highly recommend checking it out.
In today’s lesson, I’ll explain what makes this program so French. Then, we’ll explore a short extract together, so you can learn some vocabulary and cultural insights that will help you fit in even better on your next visit to France!
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😘 from Grenoble, France.
Géraldine
I love this series. The magnificent properties make the American real estate shows like Selling Sunset look like cardboard boxes. I enjoy the way this family interacts, so naturally, even though it is scripted.
I’m off to France tomorrow for 2 weeks. I hope my 2 years of learning French stands to me
Lucky 👍👍
Give us updates Sam
Best of luck!
@@williamalexander6130 it went well. My Canadian work visa for Quebec was just approved today. So I’ll be using it more
The way you speak English is an inspiration for me to get fluent in French.
Merci, Geraldine! I watch L'agence, and I feel so dumb that after studying French, I still can't understand the FAST, truncated spoken French. You are such a help! :)
You don't understand it because you didn't listen enough of SPOKEN FRENCH. It just takes a lot of time. I was in the same situation and after 2,5 years i understand almost everything to the point that other "famous french youtubers" like Hugo or Elsa from Piece of French talk too slow for me and i have to speed the videos because it's just too slow. Just stick to listening a lot of spoken French. :)
This fast abbreviated French between brothers reminds me of the way we don't always write all the letters when writing in cursive on something like a grocery list, versus the careful way we might print to address an envelope. All about the context. Thanks so much for breaking this down; I've been watching the show on my own at 3/4 speed, and needing multiple repeats to catch even half. Your careful French subtitles are much more helpful than the Netflix auto-generated version!
I'm in France and speak French but I STILL learn something every time! Would you mind telling me how you slow down the video?
Me too! I like the show but most of the time, am completely lost!! This was a great, great help but I’d be more comfortable with a slower speed. If you can tell us how, we’d be grateful.
@@deniaridley @vahunter Yes, gladly. It's simple when watching on youtube: while hovering your curser over the icons on the bottom of the screen, you click on the settings icon, which looks like a wheel, which then opens a list of four choices, including "playback speed" and "subtitles". Choose the speed you prefer. The "subtitles" choice opens different things for different videos, but usually a choice of English or French language subtitles for French language videos, and sometimes for bilingual videos. (The "cc" icon just acts like a toggle switch for turning subtitles on and off; going in through settings isn't as quick but gives you more choices.)
I watch a lot of reality and this show really drew me in. It really felt authentic and even if it is scripted you never get that sense. Very difficult without subtitles though. I felt I could understand the grandmother the best :)
J'adore l'Agence et c'est une bonne idée de l'utiliser pour votre leçon! Plus de ca!
I binged the series! Made me go back to learning French!
I loved it as well! And the apartments and houses you get to see are insane! I couldn't believe that we had such gems in the middle of Paris!
@@LearnFrenchwithLexie And the other parts of France in series 2 are just as spell-binding!
@@AnnabelleJARankin Yes, they are unbelievable! 😍
I saw the 2 seasons twice (lol) and loved it! I struggled at the beginning but forced myself to listen with French subtitles only, and my listening skills have improved! It is worth it watching it, and so fun. Looking forward to watch season 3!
Great to know! I was thinking about doing the same now that I’ve watched it all with English subtitles 🙈
Vous pouvez utiliser cette série n’importe quand. C’est une de mes favorites. 👍💕
Paris is the star of the series - outstanding city, so unspoiled.
It's very hard to understand and I've been learning French for 7 years. Haha. I would love to see more on this show and others as well. It's great to get help this way, and I really appreciate you doing this for us! Merci, Géraldine! :)
They speak very fast, and use loads of slangs! It is not the easiest series 😉
Try Dix pour cent (Call My Agent), as well. I do not know that it is so realistic, but the language is slightly less rapid! 🇦🇺
Another case of eating syllables is when the guy says ec instead of avec. J’ai rendez-vous ec Maude.
I love this series, and it was a real eye opener as far as our preconception that the French are all super chic. I noticed that when they go to showings their dress is very casual, sometimes to the point of looking a bit “rumpled”, but they are so confident that they carry it off as though they were dressed to the nines. Sandrine has surprised me even more with her choice of clothes, the very short skirts, wow, I could never carry that off!! I’m definitely a mid-calf woman, but I am much older than she. Majo is an absolute gem, she is the kind of grandma any kid would be lucky to have - and what a trooper!!
I really enjoyed this video and the thorough breakdown of it. I will be checking this series out. Merci !
That was amazing, Geraldine! We are ready for the sequence!
That was sooo useful thank you so much!
I remember learning ordinateur a few months ago and wondered if there was a shorten way of saying it. Ordi is easy and makes sense 👍 Merci!
Thank you, Geraldine! I love this show and I loved your lesson. I'd like to see more like this. ❤😚
Great lesson! Merci! I would to see another lesson on this show. The french culture explained too.
Loved this video, please do more of this!!
So good! Loved this - thank you.
Je pense que vouse êtes la seule personne qui est reconnaisante de ce probleme de comprendre "fast spoken french" et donc peut nous aider avec vos atuces. C'est a dire - "you get it"! Merci.
I'm amazed at your Mexican art collection behind you. The hare alebrije is so cute!
Cette video m’a beaucoup plu, merci! J’adore The Parisian agency.
Thank you so much for posting this lesson! I finally understand why I wasn’t able to understand much of what was spoken on the show Lol. I just subscribed to your channel!!
Wow, merci beaucoup! That was very helpful.
I found this exercise really useful Geraldine , I've just started watching Dix pourcent with French subtitles which I find difficult to understand but it's fun learning. I'll look forward to your next video thank you Geraldine 😁
very useful, I would love to see more!
I loved this lesson!!! Merci beaucoup Géraldine ✨
Love this show so much! Really hoping to see a Season 3! Love the family and everything that we get to see in France and Paris. So well done. (from Sandi)
Wow. Love the relaxed elegance of this family!!!!
Thank you, this is very helpful!
thank you for making this video! It was fun to take everything apart and see all the "eaten words". I will check out what you have on your website. Please make more videos on this series. Very helpful! Merci!
Merci pour votre instruction. J’ai appri beaucoup!
Just recently found your videos. Love them thanks! I saw another video where you mentioned this series. So, my husband & I have started watching & already on Season 2. I have been working on learning French for a number of years but still quite slow, and, live all things French! Your videos are so helpful. Wishing I had found them sooner :). Merci! Merci! Bonne journée!
I just started watching L'Agence today and absolutely love it.
Ouais 👍🏻 et merci ☺️ to another lesson on this show!
Very cool! Thank you!!!
I watched both series of this. Loved it! Hard to follow some of the conversation due to rapid conversation, but was sorry it finished. 🇦🇺
I saw the first episode and I'm hooked!
Omg I love this series!
How I adore this close nit family. God bless y'all always. The parents n the boys n their families ♥️
Merci beaucoup pour cette video!
Yes, I'd like another episode on this show please!
Just love this series!
I LOOOOVE L'Agence! I couldn't wait until season 2 and have already finished it.
Merci beaucoup!😀
Merci pour cette vidéo !
I like watching this, as well as Plus Belle La Vie. With PBLV, I found it so difficult in the beginning that I always used to adjust the speed and add the French subtitles. One day I forgot to do this and I didn't even notice until it was almost at the end! Now I always watch it at normal speed but I'm sad that the show is coming to an end soon, as I have found it useful for learning slang and normal French speech.
Great lesson, Géraldine. I watch this series a lot even though some of the customers annoy me! Don’t they know that less is more? 🤣 I like it best when Sandrine has to find a location at short notice for a film shoot or some ‘arty thing’.
J'aime beaucoup votre analyse de videos. Merci
merci, Geraldine. Oui, j'amierais beaucoup voir une autre lecon sur "L'Agence." C'etait vraiment interessant.
Oui, s'il vous plait, Geraldine - another lesson based on fast spoken French from L'Agence would be very helpful. I hope to see that soon! A tout! 😊
Thanks!
l’agence est un séries merveilleux. Merci pour nos aider avec le français vite!
Bonjour, Great video, I watch L’agence and struggle to keep up with the fast spoken French. Please more L’agence videos.
I just found L'agence on Netflix, and I'm loving it with the subtitles. I'm thinking that as I listen to more episodes, it will help me to train my ear to the language. Merci beaucoup!
I love this series! I still need subtitles to watch it, but I use French subtitles
I caught season one at the end of last year I think. On to season 2 now. I don't always understand the French, but, I love the show.
I love that show so much.
Plus, good looking men! I loved this series - was so happy when I saw a second series, I binged it.
Terrific! More film lessons, please.
I've been taking Duo French for a year and I understood more than I thought I would. I have a long way to go!
It’s a head spinner, but very enjoyable to have it broken down! More please ❤️
Tres bonne leçon!
De bons souvenirs, j'avais une table ronde comme eux à Vancouver.
C’était une vidéo drôle plein des trucs et astuces. :)
Please translate for Québec aussi. Merci.😆 Excited to Summer watch! ❤️🇨🇵
I find a lot of your videos too elementary but this video was great I learned multiple new words/expressions.
Pleased that I worked out by myself that 't'inquiete' means 'don't worry'!
so cool this kind of video, I learn a lot with films, series and music. If you can do some music also, please!
I must compliment your marvelous French speaking :) . Very beautiful. I can see your culture when I hear you speak. I see you. Proper, formal speech is the only true way to speak and think with a language. If you are using too much slang, you are not expressing yourself properly. You are not speaking. You are not saying anything. YOU ARE NOT COMMUNICATING!
Comme tu es belle! Merci.
C'est formidable. S'il vous plaît, je aimerais si vous faisiez plus comme ça.
Un autre bon vidéo ! Merci. Ils m'aident beaucoup. Heureusement, le metteur-en-scène a fait que chacun espère que l'autre finisse avant de parler. Autrement ...
...and I am watching L'Agence now. :)
Hi Geraldine. I was watching one of your videos a few years ago and I remember you were saying along the way "J'aime a la Française et la petite franquette." Meaning, I like everything about French. Does my memory serves right? Is it correct? Thanks a lot! Nat 💃🏻
i love this show! all the men are so handsome :)
J'aime L'agence parce que je pense qu'ils parlent français très claire!
Je voudrais voir cette episode ce que tu as parle!
Oui, 'fin, it was like being French and watching it--the fourth time through! It's a good exercise.
Bonjour Géraldine! J'aime beaucoup votre chaîne. Oui, j'aimerais te voir montrer un autre épisode. S'il vous plaît!
Bonjour , pourquoi la tutoyer et la vouvoyer dans la même phrase ?
I watched a few minutes of the first episode with French subtitles. I can see how watching this could be helpful, but boy howdy do they speak fast.
Je voudrais un autre video pour expliquer leur vie. Ils prennent toujours l’apero!!!
Ça m'aide beaucoup, Géraldine! : ) Mais j'ai jamais rencontrer l'expression "pour pas que je parte ..." - en anglais: so I don't leave. Normalement ne dirait-on pas "pour que je (ne) parte pas"?. Est-ce qu'on utilise souvent l'autre pour raccourcir le langage parlé ? Merci!
En français correct on dirait ”pour ne pas que je parte ”. Mais c'est très courant de supprimer le ne. En fait il est sous-entendu. Et très souvent on dit plutôt : ”pour pas que j’parte” ou encore mieux ”pour pas qu’j’parte” . Pas de panique, faites répéter. C'est tellement habituel, qu’on s'en rend plus compte. On répètera volontiers en parlant plus doucement et mieux :)
can you please review the new netflix series Drôle?
I watch this on Netflix just reading the subtitles. Interesting the Castilian or Castellano also cuts off parts of words & whole words.
y'a même une Gilet Jaune dans la scène, on s'y croirait !
Bonjour Profesour, mercie beaucoup pour ce sujet. C'est ce que je recherche maintenant, pouvoir comprendre le français de la vie quotidienne. J'aurais aimé savoir qu'il y a un français standard et un français familier quand j'ai commencé à l'apprendre. Je amarias que vous faite outre vidéo sur le même sujet. Je vous remerci.
Oh la la! Il y a plusieurs « niveaux de langage » en français. Çà dépend de votre interlocuteur en fait. Dans le langage familier il y a des sous-catégories. On ne s’adresse pas de la même façon à un commerçant (un boulanger par exemple) et à son meilleur ami ou son frère. Et pour autant c’est quand même du langage familier et non du langage soutenu. Le vocabulaire, la prononciation, la tournure de phrase peuvent être différents. J’espère vous avoir un peu aidé!
@@victoire4592il y’à être les deux le langage courant aussi ! Le soutenue est de moins en moins utilisé , beaucoup ne l’on jamais vraiment appris .
@@sandrine525 oui c’est vrai, tout le monde ne l’a pas appris. Cela dit, on l’utilise encore à l’écrit ou dans le cadre du travail, avec un supérieur hiérarchique par exemple.
Nice
M'am in English we donnot stress consonants while speaking
Il n'est pas juste de comparer une émission de fiction à une émission documentaire ("Reality TV") - évidemment, la télé-réalité sera plus réelle. Personne ne croit que "Emily in Paris" est un exemple de réalité.
I have American Netflix but don't have any French program on it.
I pretty much understood everything but I did live in Paris as une jeune mariée many years ago. Loved the series because it reminded me of my life there, not the wealth but the accents and the argot. I had the great advantage of being married to a Frenchman which meant acceptance into a friends and family milieu. I thought “Emily…” was heinous although the eye candy was fun. The stereotypes were very predictable and banal. There is so much more to Paris and Parisians that could have been shown. I enjoy your channel very much.
Hey Geraldine, thanks for your interesting and helpful content. I wanted to contact you via e-mail but couldn't find it on your page. There is one thing in the videos you make that makes me .... I'm so sorry to say that but it almost makes me to quit watching them, when you continuously look to your right, possibly to read the script. It's all fine to have a script and read from it, just if you can put it directly middle of the looking area, top of camera or so, you can make the reading unrecognisable. There are some very useful videos on KZhead for how to make it unrecognisable and natural. I really like you and your way of telling, I and probably many other people will appreciate if you can solve this
Correction: The every day life of an average super wealthy french familly. It’s sure much more realistic than Emily in Paris but it still pperpetrates the cliché that french people are all in this fancy rich glamour way of life. This is not at all an average working class parisian familly. Real Paris is like a swan: pretty from the outside, feisty and cacophonic when you face it for real. It’s very multicultural (the main alt background is from north Africa) and busy. There are rich people but also poverty and lots of homeless people. It’s a contrasted city.
The ONLY reason to watch this show is that it is in French. There are many reality shows about real estate agents in English, but as an English speaker, I have no reason to watch them because they are so tedious and uninteresting, just as this show is. "Authentic" doesn't have to be boring though. I just finished "Standing Up'/"Drole" in French on Netflix. - Funny show with a lot of heart.
c'est intéressant pour un français pour traduire notre français usuel en anglais correct. Au passage , pas de verlan dans cet extrait. Rien d'extraordinaire dans ce dialogue, Je ne me rend pas compte que c'est difficile comprendre..