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I’mma help y’all out with that rusty, broken French of yours so that when you start speaking French, the French don’t switch to English before you get out your first “Je..” (it happens). Here's how to improve your French by swapping out a few things you're probably doing as an English speaker + everything else I wish someone would have taught me.
✏️ Topics in this video
1:43 The Lightning Round + How to Spice Up Your French with these quick tips
2:39 While some of us are out here living in a genderless or gender-fluid world, French is still back there making sure you remember what needs to be masculine and what needs to be feminine. Don’t get me started. Basically, learn the gender of the words, because it affects the rest of the language too.
4:03 Learn in context. Learning j’ai dit, doesn’t help much, but learning J’ai dit que, C’est ce que j’ai dit, or Je t’ai déjà dit ça is a lot more effective in conversation.
4:34 You should care about the differing levels of Saying you don’t care. Never knew not caring would be this difficult huh?
5:23 French social skills to get you out of awkward situations
6:18 DO NOT CALL THEM OUT DIRECTLY OR THEY WILL COME FOR YOU AND YOU WON’T KNOW HOW TO RESPOND.
7:31 Reword your sentences with C’est
8:07 The two forms of Would in English and how you’re probably confusing them when you speak in French
10:21 Your French friends will speak better English than you and it’s because French is so formal without even trying to be.
11:18 Adding in extra sounds when they want to. French word order: Instead of “This channel is good.” This channel, it’s good. It’s good, this channel. Beware: the better your French gets, your English will start sounding like this too.
12:11 This is about as advanced it gets in French. These are the French perfect tenses and a lot of times it matches up with English…if you understand how English works. Good luck with this one.
16:25 The End.
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me, a native french speaker: YES DAMON TEACH ME EVERYTHING
Mdrrrr
J'adore ça omg 😂
😂😂 👍🏼
me lmaooo
i felt this
Let's be honest, the best thing is watching this while being French
I couldn't agree more ! I'm enjoying this video so much, fellow frenchie ! ^ ^
Ou Québécoise ;)
@@Voxpopuliii ou belge !
i wish....
Same! I’m smiling like a fool even though I’m completely fluent🙃
People learning French : "Quoi?" Damon : "Comment?" Me : "Heiiin???"
Picardie 4 life! 😂
de ouf ptdddr
Moi : PARDON!!!??
Me:"keskidi?"
Me, a Norman : Tchèqu'tu causes ?
Once this girl who finished early in class said "je suis fini" and the French teacher in the back said "that means you're saying you're dead"
omg ahah yes fini in this case stands for I'm done for/I'm dead
She needed to stay in class
Well he was wrong lol, « finir » is never used to talk about death. It just doesn’t makes sense. Or depending on the context it can mean « i’m done for » as a comment said, but it’s not proper French. From a native speaker.
@@faviermateo3918 Je suis fini" ça peut bien vouloir dire "Putaiiiiiin c'est la hess je vais crever nsm"
@@ddc9999 carrément pas, je sais pas de quel région t’es mais c’est absolument pas du français correct.
We were this close to having him rant about his ex for 17 minutes damon you know what we need
IKR 😂
can i just date Damon if he's single???
Then this would be a real lesson
istg we really need a separate video of him ranting about his ex LMFAOO
he can do it in french and we'll learn stuff at the same time!
The day I become fluent in French is the day Damon gets over his ex
Anna Fre don’t worry, I’ll never be fluent either
I'm french and I'm not fluent yet lol
@@Feliciti919 moi aussi 😂😭 cette langue là aussi
@@robertcook2097 lmao
Feliciti whatt ??
The fact that english people are confused thinking that "actuellement" means "actually" is 10x time funnier when you know that it is exactly as confusing for us french people because we tend to say "actually" when what we really mean is "currently"
Same with spanish hahsjja
Wow. Amazing
Same with polish (which proves that english is the weird language :D)
In Swedish actuellement is aktuellt so it’s similar, yay for knowing multiple languages lmao
And when French people speak English and say normally in the way they would use supposedly lol like "normally, we need to get there for 6pm"
i'm Russian, who's watching video in English trying to learn French😂😭help me
tkt, c facile. Смотря зачем тебе французский, тут чисто разговорные вещи, хотя, в самой стране для понимания очень полезные.
@@antonzhdanov9653 мне кажется, при изучении языка стоит рассма́тривать все его аспекты, в том числе и разговорный вариант со сленгом и всем сопутствующим.
@@valeriasoloveva4667 Лучше освоить базу - грамматику. Потом уже с базой начинать расширять словарный запас - смотреть, читать и практиковаться. Это как кости и мясо. А вот сленговые словечки и диалекты - это уже кожа. Которая делает все органичнее и красивее.
@@antonzhdanov9653 я знаю, советов не просила.
Welll hiii lmaoo
There are 3 levels of French: 1. Regular French 2. Slang French 3. Texting French My God, learning French just never ends.
Slang and texting are pretty much the same, we just use abbreviations for slang words as well.
But yes... It is pretty hard. But the hardest is writing correctly so if you only talk its okay
there's so much more ! like high end french (don't know how to translate that but we call it ''soutenu'' like it's what is used in novels and shit like that. Or academic french (it's the french that college professors and the president use for exeample, it's also a bit more rich and uses words the average joe doesn't use in their day to day life) I hope this made sense
@@ninalagarrigue4002 omg yes. French is my mother tongue and Im still the worst at this.
sorry 😂
now I'm a german girl, living in spain, learning french with this english speaking guy, europe is not confusing at all
amazing!
haha same, but Im a Hungarian living in Italy :DDD
and he's not even British
@@barbart_ Hungarian here too! Currently living in Barcelona and here I am learning French
@@gaborbekessy7783 haha király!!
“Learn Etre and Avoir and the rest is game.” Girl, I think you just unlocked something in my understanding of french, I felt something click.
MOI AUSSI!!! Im in AP French and no one told me that!!!
@@calpal14 It’s interesting because different French teachers will teach different versions of french haha. In my French 1 class the first things we learned were être and avoir
I love how we're just invading the comments as French people and like 1% of comments are from non french speakers lmao-
On est là pour juger s'il est digne d'enseigner notre divine langue. Et pour avoir le point de vue d'un étranger sur le français aussi, qu'il nous dise que c'est dur à apprendre x)
Don't worry, us foreigners like to invade your french music videos with comments :)
@@KiooZaax Mdr, Les pauvres. Le francais c'est aussi dur que d' essayer de balancer un stylo sur son nez.
@@Ryosuke1208 I'm sorry but, French rap kinda makes me think of those guys in middle school who thought they were cool and gangster.
@@aesukiqt625 Who said anything about french rap? I prefer indie french electronica.
This gay Eminem clone is the best French teacher I’ve ever had
We Stan!
lol 😂 omg now I cant unsee the resemblance
We- 💀💀💀💀💀
Always knew he looked familiar!! That’s something you can’t unsee 🤣
Is he gay?
I’m a high school French teacher and I’m pretty sure I could just post this on google classroom and retire before 30.
I wonder how many of your students would understand though, Olivia, Damon is hot and his comprehension of French is magnifique and formidable, but his level is way above most of our students - don't you agree?
Oh my god my current French teacher is absolutely going to kill me with how she floods google classroom
oliviamapplin Do it! lol
We're all waiting to see that link!
Gonna be hard for students, Damon is actually speaking French like a French person, and you can't learn these things if you're not talking with an actual French person xD
to all the people who learn or want to learn french, especially the grammar: don’t worry french also sucks at it
Ahahahha!!! That is very true!!! The "Office de la langue française" has even declared that mispelling french was a pandemic among all francophone nations 🤣🤣
I think when we learn languages we tend to be taught them in a very formal way, often more so than native speakers. In learning the language we often have to memorise obscure grammar rules that natives once learned in school and then forgot about. I find this in German a lot with my German co-worker - I mention some part of learning German that's tripping me up, and she looks at me blankly and has no idea what I'm talking about.
That's true, and it's sad. Please learn the proper grammar if you want to learn French.
So true!
Hahaha so true!
me relearning french: there’s something i’m missing youtube: DAMON DOMINIQUE YOURE MISSING DAMON DOMINIQUE
As a French person, let me give you one piece of advice : JUST DO AS DAMON SAYS, everything was so accurate
Lilu P. Tellement ! Je suis assez impressionnée, il sait clairement de quoi il parle et il a juste un très léger accent
hey, do you use whatsapp or facebook ? I have to practice french I'm trying to learn in this warentine and i wonder if you could just talk to me so I can improve it...
@@hiddekelsamuel Yes of course we can talk :) you can find a link to my facebook account on my youtube profile
Just a little tip - in English you can't say a "French", it would have to be "as a French woman / person" or "I'm French and..."
@@genevievedelorenzo7211 Thanks for the tip, I'll keep it in mind 👍
Am I the only one that likes the aesthetic of this video, like the colors and the vintage vibe is really cool.
I too admired the color coordination, his hair and the couch for example, and the greens. I wish he wouldn't fidget and bounce around so much, but maybe that's part of his deliberate persona. Son français est super!
@@timotheelegrincheux2204 Funny, cause I actually liked how he kept bouncing around from sitting up then lying down. Felt like he was in my living room, chilling out while explaining how to speak french.
@@timotheelegrincheux2204 t'as fait des fautes
@@sacha_msky lesquelles?
@@timotheelegrincheux2204 i too admired
for a person that is trying to learn French, this made SO MUCH SENSE
Öğrenmen nasıl gidiyor?
In France we don’t even say I don’t mind/know, we just basically *breathe out the air but with the mouth closed while shrathing our shoulders* that’s the equivalent every French does this haha 🤣
"Shrathing our shoulders", typicly french xD
Francophones sont tous different dans ce genre d'habitude j'imagine
Bof
…Oh, and while we’re at it, chat ain’t pronounced SHATTE
Damon Dominique they better not mess up that one...
Wait. What?! 🤯 😬
*if you’re referring to a female cat, it’s still “un chat”*
mais 'la chatte' se prononce comme cela mdr
YES lmao
I haven’t studied french in like 6 years, but the moment you said “passé composé” I felt my heart drop to my stomach good god lmao
Idk if you’ll get this but my stomach drops when my teacher says “imparfait” and “passé composé” in the same sentence.
Magical Giraffe I feel you 100% lol
im currently learning French and im laughing so hard rn because it is so relatable ksksjskskjsjskjs
Marina Luchéses Magalhães imparfait is FrEaKy and so is passé composé I JUST WANT TO BE BILINGUAL WHY IS IT SO HARD
Magical Giraffe whew! Relatable
I didn’t realize how passive aggressive French native speakers are, and I speak French since the age of 2
How is it passive-aggressive?
Yeah just a little bit
@@k.v.7681 ex the you should clean the room part, they don't direct it. In English if you wanted to sound passive aggressive you would say this room is messy and never direct the person who made the mess
Native French here, just a few points I'd like to correct/add to: - Be careful throwing "tu sais" around. It's not a casual "you know" (even though it is the literal translation), it's sort of a 10% passive-aggressive way of saying "are you aware of that?" - You absolutely can address to the person directly instead of taking the "one must" route, but only when addressing to someone who's relatively close to you, e.g. probably not your boss, maybe a colleague if the task is work-related. That's if you want the fluent feel. Otherwise just be direct and it's gonna be fine. - No need to complexify your sentences by adding words all over the place. Focus on getting your point across or you might actually make a mistake. Funnily enough, he made mistakes in his examples by say "où" instead of "que" after the "là". - Be careful using the plus-que-parfait (e.g. "j'avais mangé"). This is not only a bit heavy on the words but also is more dedicated to telling a story such as a book or movie as a narrator, not what you did yesterday morning, or maybe if you're getting deep into the story and people are actually interested in what you're saying. Most of the time, just go with passé composé ("j'ai mangé"). Even when it's not the perfect choice between the two, it's never gonna sound wrong.
come back and do moreeee
merci bcp !! c vraiment très utile.
His clothes match his furniture so well
Hahahaha
We love him for it. Makes him extra dorky and extra cute!!!!
"French People talk like essays. Most English speakers talk informally, and that's the disconnect. Talk like an essay for a week and you'll learn French." My French Teacher
As a french-speaking... That's just b******t
Windwalker take that up with my French teacher. Although that way helped me out while I was in France. French people add extra words to their sentences and so do Americans when we write essays.🤷🏽♂️
@@windwalker7154 just listen to us speak dude
I kinda see the point here yeah I mean most of our higher register verbs do have a french origin which we tend to use a lot in formal writing. You have to think in the higher register to make it click in the beginning. Your teacher’s not wrong for saying that tho
THEN WHY DO WE HAVE TO WRITE ESSAYS WHEN LEARNING ENGLISH IN FRANCE FOR GOD'S S;;;
I found my big problem with learning any language in a school or academic setting is that they try to teach you to read into the literary standards, which are often decades if not centuries old, when what you really need is this type of social fluency and intelligence.
Im literally learning Japanese and dont know why I'm here but I still watched the full video, ahaha.
Me too😂
i didn't know Wes Anderson directed online french classes
Ian Marquez Garcia I was just thinking of this 😂😂
lmao
bruvv
MDDRR
omyy 😂😭
As a native French speaker I now understand why this language is so cahotic for anglophones
Frederique Bedard la réciproque est vraie. Franchement, je suis totalement d’accord sur le fait que le français est chaotique, qu’il a trop d’exceptions pénibles, une orthographe absolument inutilement complexe... mais l’anglais est pire dans tous les domaines. La différence c’est qu’aujourd’hui on est plus souvent exposé à l’anglais donc ça nous paraît « naturel » ou facile. Mais c’est une illusion. Le français apparaît chaotique pour tout le monde sauf peut-être les italiens.
@@Linguages2024 je suis tunisienne du coup je suis exposés au français plus que l'anglais dans mon pays, j'ai commencé à étudier le français dès que j'avais 8 ans et l'anglais lorsque j'avais 12 ans, maintenant j'ai 19 ans et je peux parler l'anglais parfaitement mais le français 🤦♀️ je trouve des problèmes encore
@@asmajouini8808 ton témoignage montre plusieurs choses. 1) Tu partages avec tout le monde ton expérience personnelle, donc oui tu as raison pour TON expérience personnelle. Mais tu n'es pas représentative de toutes les personnes. 2) La motivation et les émotions que l'on développent par rapport à une langue sont les facteurs les plus importants dans la progression. 3) Les chiffres que tu donnes ne sont pas objectifs. Il y a objectivement plus de sons différents en anglais (45) qu'en français (36) ça c'est un fait et non un ressenti ni une expérience personnelle. Le nombre de façons de les écrire est aussi considérablement plus nombreux en anglais (1100) qu'en français (250). Après il y a d'autres facteurs à prendre en compte comme le fait que la majorité des gens non natifs qui parlent en anglais utilisent plutôt le globish qui est une version très simplifiée de l'anglais. De plus, la plupart des américains aiment utiliser un registre de langue très basique ce qui fait que la majorité des ressources et influences en anglais utilisent un anglais basique. Du coup tu as l'impression de parler "parfaitement" anglais mais je doute sérieusement de ton affirmation sinon tu serais de niveau C2 et même des anglophones natifs n'atteignent pas ce niveau de rigueur. Je te recommande un excellent article du magazine australien Aeon disponible en ligne et qui s'intitule Why English Is Not Normal. Il est écrit par un linguiste américain qui explique pourquoi l'anglais est en fait l'une des langues les plus difficiles au monde. Etant donné qu'il est américain et donc anglophone natif, qu'il est linguiste donc expert en analyse des langues je pense qu'on peut considérer que son point de vue fait autorité. D'ailleurs, le linguiste français Claude Hagège, professeur au Collège de France et grand défenseur du français le dit également dans une interview sur KZhead : kzhead.info/sun/mc56payuhn-OeX0/bejne.html Je t'invite sérieusement à faire la part des choses entre ton ressenti personnel et les faits objectifs.
@@Linguages2024 effectivement je partage mon expérience personnelle j'ai jamais dit que c'est la vérité absolue et je n'ai pas utilisé des chiffres. Et lorsque j'ai dit que je parle l'anglais parfaitement, je ne parle pas de l'anglais commun seulement car comme je t'ai dit je l'étudie jusqu'à maintenant (c'est aussi le cas pour le français ).
@@asmajouini8808 C'est très simple, puisque tu étudies encore l'anglais et le français tu peux donner ton niveau selon le référentiel européen. À mon avis tu es probablement B2 en français et peut-être C1 en anglais. Et je pense que tu préfères l'anglais et que tu ne t'es jamais vraiment posée la question de l'analyse des difficultés comparées d'un point de vu rationnel et objectif (donc scientifique chiffres à l'appui). De plus, je pense que dans l'inconscient collectif de beaucoup d'ex-colonie (dont la Tunisie) le français a forcément une connotation péjorative et c'est normal. De plus, comme l'anglais est la langue internationale et celle utilisée pour les innovations son capital sympathie est forcément plus important. D'ailleurs, même parmi les français de France il y a beaucoup de gens qui sont sentimentalement plus enclin à préférer l'anglais au français. Mais d'un point de vue purement objectif et linguistique l'anglais est plus difficile que le français de même que l'arabe est plus difficile que l'anglais. Après c'est toujours pareil, tout dépend du bagage linguistique de l'apprenant et surtout de son rapport émotionnel avec la langue cible. Et les émotions sont toujours sensibles et influençables selon de nombreux facteurs. De plus, si tu es en contact avec des gens que tu n'apprécies pas cela aura un impact (conscient ou non) sur ta perception de la langue. Et hélas, il y a beaucoup de gens insupportables en France...
me as a native french speaker: i mean yea he ain’t wrong
I loved this!!! I am a retired French teacher and I lived in France for four years before I began teaching. Having lived there made such a difference in how I taught my students. What you talked about in this video is exactly how I approached teaching in my classroom. If I were still teaching, your videos would definitely be a part of my curriculum! Merci, Damon Dominique!
U just explained French grammar in 18 minutes while my teachers couldn’t explain it for 3 years
for real.....
exactly!
Same
I also learned French quickly thanks to a French ex-boyfriend and the first time I was having dinner with his parents, his father very kindly offered me some parmesan on my pasta and I said, very politely, "oh, JE M'EN FOUS", and the poor man was so shocked. I still remember it to this day. So when you talked about it I was literally cringing.
Oh mon dieu je ris rien qu'en imaginant la scène, est-ce qu'ils ont vite compris le malentendu?
I'm so sorry for you that's horrible gdi
@@alicia4206 Oui bien-sûr ! Ils étaient très gentils et je le suis excusée, parce que c'est le langage que j'avais appris de mon ex, sinon mon ex copain lui il s'a bien moqué de moi, mais je me sens coupable encore hahahhaa
@@adrienneirda5350 it's okay, they were really nice about it, but it still haunts me to this day hahaha
OMGGGGG HE MUST HAVE BEEN SO OFFENDED LMAO
My mom is a native french speaker but she REFUSES to help me with my homework so here I am.
he just explained in a few minutes twice as much as i learned over two years in school I-
I never had a French lesson throughout my whole life and somehow I watched this entire video
Zeynep Nur Sözer lmao same
Selam Türk kardeşim meğföwğsşwğsş şu karantina döneminde Fransızca öğrenmeye başlaman kötü olmaz bence eğlenirsin
Me too 😂
@@nehirh.9446 Sıkıntıdan yakında deneyeceğimden eminim
Zeynep Nur Sözer hdğwmfğwls ben de aynı sebeple başladım zaten. Denemediğim şey kalmadı.
I am french and it's so funny to hear the perspective of someone who it's not their native language I never really realized we had sooo much nuances etc that makes it difficult for people to learn
Hahaha moi aussi! Je suis écossaise, donc, j'essaye comprendre les difficultés avec ma langue maternelle d'une personne qui parle pas anglais 😅
french ppl make everything more complicated 😭 at least my first language is spanish and there’s rules that are similar, but english speakers it can be way harder
Yeahh I'm Dutch and in our schools we need to choose which language we want to learn German or French, and everybody always chooses German because French is so hard hahahha
Nadia Borgdorff Although I do like German, hence why I chose it, that is a minor factor as to why I didn't choose French as well! 😂 For most of my classmates in German class this indeed is the sole reason they chose German.
damon and joe
you said ‘just learn être and avoir ‘ and my whole world opened up. felt like chewing 5 gum
As a native russian speaker (with English being my second language) I feel blessed with you teaching me two languages simultaneously
This literally covered more in 17 minutes than my High school French teacher did in 3 years
🤭🤣🤣🤣
Facts
*more than 6 years...
i was literally about to say that 🤣🤣
@@rosiestrawberry6359 that depends on the schooling system...
Quick Tips 1. Drop the ne. 2. Say comment not quoi for what do you mean. 3. Y'a not Il y a 4. Use on not nous. 5. Add moi/toi. 6. Tu sais ? Tu vois ? 7. En fait = actually 8. Ok Là = ok there 9. Actuellement = currently Context 1. J'ai dit que... 2. Et puis j'ai dit... 3. C'est ce que j'ai dit. 4. C'est ce que je lui ai dit. 5. Mais c'est ce que je t'ai dit! 6. Je t'ai déjà dit ça! 7.Je t'ai déjà dit mille fois! Saying you don't care 1. Ça m'est égal is not = Je m'en fous (like comment > quoi) French social skills 1. Ah pardon. Je voulais pas dire ça. 2. Ah pardon. Je me suis mal exprimé. 3. Ce que je voulais dire c'est que... 4. Pardon. J'ai pas compris Ça veut dire quoi ? 5. Use the past tense more often. 6. Je savais pas que... 7. J'ai entendu dire que... Don't call them out directly 1. Say one must/it is necessary to clean a room. 2. Il faut ranger la chambre quand même. 3. Il faut parler français si on veut s'intégrer en France. 4. Il faut quelqu'un de charmant pour ce poste. Reword your sentences 1. C'est avec moi qu'il a parlé. 2. C'est dans cette ville là où j'ai fait mes études. 3. C'est en étudiant que tu y arriveras le plus vite. 4. C'est sur cette chaîne là où j'ai bien appris le français. Two forms of would 1. Future = conditionnel 2. Past = imparfait 3. ais | ais | ait | ions | iez | aient 4. For conditionnel attach the endings to the infinitive form of the verb. 5. For imparfait cut off the -er or -re and attach the endings to the stem. 6. Si j'étais toi, je trouverais un copain français. 7. Quand j'étais jeune, je trouvais beaucoup de chats dans la rue. You can never be too formal / When in doubt just double it up 1. Le parc dans lequel = The park in which 2. Le chocolat est bon ? NO ! Il est bon, le chocolat ? 3. T'es sympa, toi. 4. T'es beau, toi. 5. Peut-être que lui, il sait. Have, had, would have, & will have 1. Aujourd'hui J'AI mangé 3 bananes. 2. Avant ça J'AVAIS mangé 5 bananes. 3. J'AURAIS mangé beaucoup plus de bananes, s'il y en avait plus dans le frigo. 4.Ce soir, J'AURAI mangé dix bananes au total. 5. Je SUIS arrivé à Paris à 6h du matin. 6. J'ÉTAIS arrivé à la gare à 5h du matin. 7. Je SERAIS arrivé plus tôt, si mon train était à l'heure. 8. Ce soir, je SERAI arrivé à Londres à 6h du soir. 9. Verbs + avoir : mangé, parlé, commencé 10. Verbs + être : arrivé, allé, mort
you're an angel!
Merci bcp 💙
Thanks 🙏🏾
Thank you so much!!
Thank you for this!
This is my 4th time watching this video over the year and a half I've been learning French. Now I can confidently say I fully understood everything in the last part of this video!!! I feel I'm on another level, I'm so proud of myself lol.
I tried dropping the "ne" and then everyone in Paris asked me why I was speaking as if I was uneducated. If you want a real job in Paris, keep the ne when speaking...
That's true! French parents always teach their kids not to drop the "ne"... Tricky part: if you want to be very polite and speak a very very old formal language, which would be the very opposite, you can drop the "pas". "Je n'ai songé à cette idée". They also teach the "Comment?" instead of "Quoi?", "Non" instead of "Nan", "Oui" instead of "Ouais" otherwise you'd be considered kind of shameless. But what nobody tells you is that adults, mostly under 40, always drop the '"ne" in a friendly conversation! "Niveaux de langage" (soutenu, courant, familier, argot) is the key for developping social skills.
True ! To drop "ne" is familiar : You can drop it with your friends or family, and never in a professionnal context 😉
@@lapislazulis2378 That's the first time that I've heard that you can drop the pas.
@@lapislazulis2378 interesting, maybe it is more people under 30? All of my friends are between 30-37 and said I was speaking like I was from a "less desirable" arrondissement. Maybe I just hang out with snobs? lol
@@Ryosuke1208 It's a very formal and kind of aristocratic (if i may say so) way of speaking. Most of the time, it is seen in old and classic literature. I spoke with an Australian who told me English was a language very "in the present, dynamic, that follows the evolutions of the society", whereas French is very conservative. Knowing acurate vocabulary is well-seen by French teachers since childhood in french elementary schools. It's a whole different (and elitist, quite snobish) approach of the language. I agree with Damon when expressing the idea of "knowing the spirit of one specific language".
I'm french and that made me realize how lost y'all must be... respect for learning such a difficult language... bon courage tho
Y'all!? Hehe
I don’t find french difficult, i’m Brazilian and you know, they have the same origin, I’m currently learning french and it’s been so good (i speak english as well)
Might be Russian too, huh?
@@eltondesa4152 oh my god same :D
I've learnt French , Spanish , English, Japanese , Arabic and Turkish , among all these languages the hardest one is Japanese so....
90% of the comments : French natives agreeing with Damon's video The other 10% : actual French learners 😂
Oui 😂
Matahi Deveugle Meanwhile me: a spanish student who randomly got this in the recommendations.
@@sandra6790 I ain't mad at KZhead tho haha
lmao I'm learning
Matahi Deveugle And then theres me, literally 0 connection to a french language learning video lmao je suis un baguette
Me watching this when I'm on leve 1 of duolingo: absolutely 🧐📝
Love the way he switching positions like that feeling like I'm talking with my bestie
Damon : "Je m'en fous" is kinda rude Me : *laughs in "Je m'en bats les couilles"*
Lmaoo
Mdr
I love the way Spanish and french have so similar expressions, lol
MDRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR TROP VRAI
Dans la rue j'entends que des filles dire "Je m'en bats les..."
"And a lot of times when you learn a new language, you don't even know how your _own_ language works..." WORD, sis!
Legit me
i never understood why english speakers dont learn their language's rules in school, in argentina from first grade until 10 grade you learn every single rule and exception in spanish
@@malena6430 we do but we just forget it all lmaoo
Taylah Davis exactly 😂
@@taylahjepson2269 hahahha yup
This makes perfect sense. I love the description, you just got yourself a new subscriber.
I’m really happy I found your channel. I love your energy and I’ve just started learning French and I’m glad I’ve heard this stuff now rather than later. Thanks for your help!!
When I studied , for "really" I used "vraiment" but after I went living in Paris for months, they alljust said "ah bon?"
😂
Don't worry, both works ;)
If you want to insist that it sounds unbelievable you could use "Pour de vrai?"
"Tu déééconnes ?!" ha ha! "真的吗？"
« Jure ?! »
Things that I found useful when speaking French in France: -if you want to say "don't worry!" it's far more common to say "t'inquiètes !" instead of "ne t'inquiètes pas". Even though technically "t'inquiètes" means the opposite - you worry. Don't think about it too much haha. - they pretty much always in my experience used 24 hr time. So rather than saying "Je vais partir à 6 heures du soir" they'd say "à 18 heures" which is another level of fun 😅 - they say "du coup" alllll the time. Apparently it means "therefore" but it's used a lot more like how we'd say "so" to restart a conversation after a silence or a tangent. Also from memory it's also kind of used like how we'd say "anyway" just a word at the end of the sentence that doesn't really add anything "I'm going there anyway" - getting rid of the ne in "ne pas" (or any other negation) is huge, definitely get used to doing this. But then remember to add it back in when writing formally, which I always forgot - when saying "hey!" or "hi!" to friends you can say "salut" but I found "coucou" was very common and I think it's cute haha - greetings: bonjour means hello obvs, but if you say bonne journée it means "have a good day". And similarly bonsoir means "good evening" but bonne soirée means "have a good evening" - salut can mean bye as well as hello! -people say "ouais" a lot rather than "oui" as it's more casual. It's like saying "yeah" rather than "yes" Edit: I just remembered that ways of saying that you're free/willing to do something when invited were useful e.g. "Yes I'm free/I'd like to go to the movies this evening" -ca me va (that suits me) -ca marche pour moi (that works for me) - je suis dispo (short for disponible - I am free/available) -je suis partant (I'm keen/I'm down for it)
Eleanor Murray this helped me thanks
As a French girl, I agree with everything good job 👏👏
@@Julie-tp2pe yay! I'm glad 😅
May I add that "Bonne nuit" is only used when you go to bed. Unlike in English where you can use "Good night" when parting for the night. - Also, "night out" as in clubbing is "aller en boîte" or if it's at someone's house "aller à une soirée" I've also heard "une boum" for teens ou en québécois "un party"
the ouais thing is definitely a game changer
I love the vibes here and your editing is AMAZING
No lie, this video helped me out so so so so much, saving it, downloading it, taking notes. Into my memory, my heart, my room, bathroom. I NEED to remember ALL these tips!! Thanks, D!
i'm french and I'm sorry for all you french learners
I guess after learning french grammar in school for around 6 years, I'm doing okay with the grammar part... BUT I SOUND LIKE A DYING DUCK SINCE I'M SO BAD AT THOSE LIASIONS *help*
@@cupofgreentea WE'RE ALL SORRY
@@cupofgreentea sorry 😅
@@cupofgreentea have you tried watching shows and movies in french to be more used to hearing liaisons?
@@carrotcake6595 I did but I must admit not that many - can you recommend some shows / movies ? :) (I mean shows produced by french ppl, not shows translated in french)
So that's why it sounds like native french speakers talk so quickly. They just drop half the words!
Exactly 😭
In Québec, we shorten words and syllables, that's worse lol (it's like Aussie English or Chilean Spanish)
@@changminscreamsalot As a Chilean guy, I am utterly frightened of knowing about the existence of a French equivalent of Chilean fucking Spanish wtf, I'm already dying with regular French
As a french it's like listening to americans who are eating most of the letters (for ex: Hey, what's up? -> Hey wassup?) but in fact it's just the way they pronunce 😭😭
@@krztvl_v2 french is wayyyyy more complicated than what you learn i think xD For instance in france we slang words, like the noun "femme" becomes "meuf" And we do it with some english words like "black" becoming "kebla" (to design a person that has a black skin color). And in general, if you want to improve your french go to france or a french-speaking country like quebec or france or belgium (altho quebec is basically speaking french but from the XVI's century)
Damon, please start a series to teach us French. This was so good!!
DUDEEEE YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH YOU HELPED ME WITH THIS💛tyyyyyy
i love how he just casually looks like a greek muse while spilling tea about french grammar
I learned french for over five years now and literally you are the ONLY person to explain the imparfait and conditional in a way that MAKES sense and I understand now
Its eight years for me
He dididnt really talk about the "r" in the conditional. You basically use the future tense's stem with the imparfait's terminaition
Eushanda George no we don’t want to so go the hell out of her bitch
im in real tears over imparfait vs. conditional. Life saving information.
Dude sorry to disappoint but he said it wrong. So conditionnel is not a tense it's a mode. He just wrote the terminaisons for imparfait twice. For instance, if you want to say "if I were rich I would travel", if I were is the condition, in which you use the imparfait so "si j'étais riche" and then the conditionel comes in when you say what you would do if the condition was realized "Je voyagerai".
This video is one of the best instructional video out there. I am SO glad I stumbled upon this channel. Thank you SO much! And don't worry, the pacing was PERFECT. Kept my attention throughout.
omg yassss obsessed with this! can't wait to watch your other french vids :)
Damon we need Part 2, Part 3 etc. If you decide to develop a course (even on the info you have given in this video) we definitely would purchase. Just saying... Screenshots. Lol
Yes I would def purchase
Yeah, so would I
Yes more videos like this!
YES!!! I would buy any French course he creates. I love his teaching style
Yessss
one thing I wish someone had told me is that "le" sounds deeper than "les", one day in the supermarket I asked for "le sel, svp" (le sounding higher) and the worker thought I was saying (l'aisselle) "the armpit, please". Teaching me how to pronounce le and les, right there, in the hallway. Ufff, and the difference of "u" and "ou", damn... so many conversation going to shit because they cannot tell if I'm saying debut or debout, bureau or bourreau :(
I know it's kinda strange but the -e sound in "le" is close to the sound of the -oe in "oedema" it's a sharp sound: your mouth need to be round with just a small opening (like when you are going to whistle). When the -es in "les" sounds like the -ea of headache: you need to kinda smile (your mouth should be open horizontally) Sorry if my explanations are weird, hope it helped you
Le = leu(l’oe) les= lé
isn't the guy in the video saying tU instead of tOUt? 02:08
@@ChocolateMuffin308 personaly i'm hearing it properly as tOUt ahah
HAHAHAHA I'M FRENCH AND THIS IS SO FUNNY TO READ
I've come back to this video many times throughout my time learning french and each time I come back and watch this more and more clicks and more makes sense and even now as I'm studying abroad in Paris and I feel pretty fluid in my languge I still pikc up something new each time. His breakdowns just make so muhc sense!
I’ve been teaching high school French for 25 years and have always enjoyed your videos, my students too! Continue le bon travail. N’oublie jamais qu’on sème à tout vent!
I'm a French, but let's learn french again since it's with Damon 😭
Damon: il faut conjuguer l'auxilliaire être et avoir, "mangé" ne bouge pas. Me: *laugh in accord du participe passé avec le COD*
Lucas LAICHOUR that last sentence just gave me war flashbacks
Ohhhh boy, ouiiiiiii mdr. Ça donnait des tics à mes camarades de classe!
* il faut conjuguER
@@soleildivin8694 wow gg t'as corrigé une faute d'accord tu veux une médaille?
@@llaichour oui c'était la première fois de ma vie, j'estime au moins une récompense je suis trop fier ! :)
I simply love your french hacks!! thanks, Damon. You are really good, you.
Damon you kept me interested the whole video😆💖💖💖🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
I’m trying to teach French to my British boyfriend.. so far he only knows how to say “je suis un cheval” and “mange tes morts” (he’s a mackem so tbh I don’t even understand his English sometimes)
tbh "mange tes morts" is used a lot lmao
Je l'imagine trop dans les rues de villes de France quand quelqu'un l'énerve "mange tes morts" avec un accent bien étranger 😂
Pourquoi je suis un cheval though 😂😂
Carla gnc le moment où il va rencontrer mes parents aussi, grave hâte 👌🏻😭
mariama oug C’était un exemple pourri, mais il a trouvé ça drôle du coup c’est tout ce qu’il a retenu 😂
cannot believe i took 12 years of french in school and graduated as a certified bilingual to still feel like i know the bare minimum of the language
Alors comment t'as pu être certifiée bilingue ?
In which country did you graduated ? In France it's quite the same. I had the higher grade in Italian on my final exam, still Italian people seems not to understand me cause they answer in English when I speak Italian... School methods in foreign languages really needs to improve... especially French methods
@@hellobonsoir1853 Then it's your fault
@@Kebbab.213 je pense dans le système anglais comme tu peux te spécialiser dans une langue (un peu comme la spécialité llce avec la réforme du bac) mais puis jsp.
@@Bloupyblooper je suis en LLCE mais c'est totalement différent. Je pense surtout qu'elle a fait des études de français.. et elle abuse sûrement quand elle dit qu'elle a l'impression de rien connaître 😂
Congratulations sir, you’ve successfully made language learning fun! This was very useful
Damon this brilliant! Luv how you bring humour into it! Makes learning fun!
Pourquoi ne pas faire "the English no one teaches" maintenant pour les français? :)
C'est different, tout semble normal quand tu parles dans ta langue maternelle... En tout cas il pourrait apprendre des particularités de quelque dialecte
J'aimerais regarder ça en fait
c'est assez différent pour les anglophones! on apprend presque jamais le grammaire - quand j'ai commencé à apprendre le français, ma prof a essayé de nous apprendre le grammaire en le comparant avec l'anglais. facile à dire, ça marchait pas du tout... mais peut-être damon l'a étudié lui-même!
Astraía Non nécessaire.
dites moi ce que vous en pensez mais ça vous a pas fait buguer le passage avec would ? Genre, je savais pas que would pouvait être utilisé pour parler au passé vous avez appris ça vous ?
I'm not learning french, I don't have an interest in speaking french, I don't watch any french/language learning videos on youtube. So why the hell did this end up in my recommended, and why did I watch all 17 minutes of it.
same. I am french and speak English fluently, maybe better than french, yet this video was so entertaining for me
Because he’s doing an incredible work right here
For him to get payed the full 17 minutes hahaha
Lololol SAME
Same
I love the way you are so free
Love it! Thank you for the French class!
a thing i find thoroughly interesting is the way one’s thinking development after learning a language. bilingual people like me, whose mother tongue isn’t english manage to speak it fluently and legit begin thinking in that language, like a separate personality if that makes sense. also something that always mesmerises me is that in knowing a language so well, like english for me, i can learn a whole other language like french in english (for example if i want to learn french on duolingo i have to do it from english, since romanian my mother tongue isn’t an option on there). it’s amazing! man i love languages 🤩
My voice sounds so much different when Im speaking Lithuanian compared to when I speak English. My English voice is deeper and while my Lithuanian voice is more articulate and pronounced. Ive lived in Ireland for a good 12 years now so I think in English, but its almost like my personality changes when I speak Lithuanian.
same here si cateodata am impresia ca ma pot exprim mai bine in engleza:))
i know what you mean about the personalities! when I speak in french my “personality” but more so my voice are both very soft and eloquent but when I talk in english or spanish (probably bc it’s more comfortable) i can go normal, slightly street or extremely posh 😂 I wouldn’t have thought I’d know what you meant about learning a language more easily bc you know another one but having done japanese has actually really helped to learn korean! and also romantic languages like damon says, also fall under this bc as someone who speaks spanish and french learning portuguese is easier bc so many words resemble a counterpart in spanish or french! I’m really thankful I learn languages by the sounds tho, it would be immensely difficult if it wasn’t like that for me 😝 but I totally agree I love languages!!
Oo, da , inteleg perfect. Also, I find it interesting how I can express a certain range of thoughts way better in English , maybe because it's the kind of stuff I normally hear about / read about mostly in English
@@dovydasgrigas441 I feel the same way
Damon Dominique PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THESE FOR OTHER LANGUAGES TOO! As someone that's been trying to get closer to having an understanding of the way French natives speak, your videos are so helpful! Love your Red Wine Talks too!
This!!!
kzhead.info/tools/I4xp8qHD1MDErkqxb1dPbA.html This channel helped me enormously learning to understand French people and to speak myself. He's got a bunch of podcasts on that channel that are easier to understand for intermediate learners, and his website has even more. Best of luck everyone :D
How don't you understand how French people talk ? (As a French native speaker I'm quite curious)
I think the main struggle is that French people tend to speak more quickly, and the sentences are more dense. There's also a lot of differences between written French and spoken French. If someone says "bah, ché pas" that's VERY different from "Bah, je ne sais pas" so if you haven't gotten used to the language tics as a learner you'll be a bit lost.
@@benjiboy1245 oh okay It makes perfect sense now that you say it because personally I speak very fast and tend to contract words or just don't speak clearly enough to be understood by everyone But it's the same for every language I think, the difference between written and spoken (I was trying to think of a way to work on this issue but I can't find one except talkinf and trying to talk with some native speakers)
Excellente vidéo 😊 Clairement, c'est les meilleures bases que t'as posé et vraiment courage à ceux qui apprennent le français et qui ne sont pas nés avec ça doit être hyper dur.
This was SO useful! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS! THANK YOUUUUUU
if he was my teacher i would never ever again missed a class
I'm just here to listen to him speak french as a coping mechanism.
Same, I have the French school entrance exam tomorrow and je suis stressé
Learnt a lotttt. Thanks for this video ☺️. We need more of this please
best video could have ever been. love you
I’m a native French speaker and I don’t understand how I ended up watching this entire video!😂😂😂 Anyways love how you explained everything accurately without making it boring. I wish I had you to teach me all the languages I want to learn!
I know
Bienvenu au club 😂
Je suis pas la seule française perdue ici alors 😂
@@elomarsden1818 moi aussi 😭
In fact even "ça m'est égal" can be taken as a bit dismissive (depending on the context, and your tone ofc). So, the most agreeable way of saying that would be "comme tu veux" or "c'est toi qui vois". On a sidenote, the true equivalent to I don't give a fuck is "j'en ai rien à foutre", which is far more hardcore than "je m'en fous" (but not yet the most hardcore, you still have the nuclear option "je m'en branle" :D).
Well sometimes is just the context and the way to say it who change the rudeness (you can say "je m'en fous" to friend in some context and don't be rude, like when you're choising to order food)
Other nuclear options "je m'en tamponne" "je m'en bats les couilles" "rien à branler" "j'en ai rien à foutre" "j'en ai rien à cirer" It's almost like we need a dozen ways of being dismissive ^^
where does je m'en fiche stands? or does it not exist and I learnt something wrong?
@@beanverse69 It's familiar but not really rude
@@bleucha oh, okay thanks. So it's intensity is even lower than ça m'est égal?
you are SUCH a gem for this video thank you so much!
I'm glad KZhead recommended me this 😂😂❤️ I absolutely loved it! ❤️
Learnt french for 6 years, but have stopped classes... this vid has inspired me to watch more french netflix and get up my french back up sis
Grace Lockett what shows/ films do you watch
Yes! You got this!
I can recommend family business. It's a light hearted french comedy show about a jewish family starting a weed growing business, thinking it's legal.
Dix pour cent is really cool!
Same gal - watching this I am actually like omg I forget how complex learning conjugations can be for so many tenses! I recommend the films/series's Rien a cacher, I am not an easy man, Dix Pour Cent, Les Renevants and Disparue
Bruh French is my native language, and it always have been confusing. When you dig deeper and deeper into the grammar lessons, it's just... hell.
yep, I just feel like clapping when people from other languages try it out
French people are struggling at french class with all those tense, rules and exceptions, grammar, and all... I am not surprised if no native speakers are confused with so many things 😂
thank you for this video & love the aesthetics of this video btw! :)
This was super helpful! I'm starting to learn French again and this is so good to know! I have a lot to learn when it comes to conjugating!
The thing is our grammar is so complicated that we spend our entire primary and junior high school studying it -> so don't get depressed if it takes you some years too !!!
LEO j’avoue purée, et le nombre de francophones qui savent toujours pas écrire sans fautes 😭😭, toute la primaire à copier coller le bescherelle pour mémoriser la conjugaison 🤣, misère, heureusement c’est fini y a longtemps
Thank you!
@@inesnvideo9499*sans faute 😂
Fact!
English : What is it ? French : mais qu’est-ce que c’est que ce truc là ? French translated directly to English : but what is it that it is that this thing there ? 🤯
I'm a native French speaker and have never heard anyone say that :/ people say "mais c'est quoi, ce truc ?"; "mais qu'est-ce que c'est que ça ?" at best. Which to be faire is already quite long haha
Madeline B You could also just say “c’est quoi ça?” 😉.
This is mostly used for emphasis ;)
nobody rly says this lol
Clara-Maude Boisvert sérieux! Au Québec c’est ça qu’on dit. No time to waste.
This is a mind blowing video. Thank you for all the effort you put to make a video like this! Respect
This is nothing short of brilliant!... Can you do more of these? SVP 😊❤