Counting to 100 in French with a NYC Cabbie

"THERE'S FOUR NUMBERS, FOR JUST ONE NUMBER"
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[@Gradd123]

I came here to be an angry french canadian. But then I laughed.

[@MattColbo]

Hahahaha, many folks around the globe could learn from you Dominic, you're greatly appreciated

[@yasbe554]

Jsuis crampée 😂😂😂

[@juliand.l878]

Caliss que je l'ai trouvé drôle moi aussi 😂😂😂

[@LillahTalks]

This comment made ME laugh!

[@woodyfive0]

Are not French Canadians pissed off all the time?

[@user-fr2gq1xz5t]

*laughs in french*

[@nuclearbomb9483]

Je ris

[@Rick-qg9ju]

hOn HoN hON

[@sarahharbidge5793]

encelade hon hon hon

[@karimkarim5071]

OOO HON HON HON

[@brik523]

*rire*

[@freakystarlight]

Belgium people : *"Laughs in septente"*

[@a2ur]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[@mariafe7050]

*huitante* *nonante*

[@urria8650]

septante* actually

[@urria8650]

@@mariafe7050 its funny cause in belgium we dont say huitante but quatre-vingt

[@MischievousMjolnir]

(Part of French speaking) Swiss people: "Laughs in huitante"

[@gemaxice6807]

1963 in french : mille neuf cent soixante trois 1963 in deutsch : eintausendneunhundertdreiundsechzig

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

So onethousandninehundredthreeandsixty? Germans really need to get their space bars fixed

[@gemaxice6807]

@@OntarioTrafficMan Ja mein freund ! xD

[@TF_Tony]

More like neunzehnhundertdreiundsechzig if it's a year.

[@gemaxice6807]

@@TF_Tony oh sorry it's google translate :(

[@tunder9223]

I'm pretty sure that's the name of some Chtulian old god divinity, and saying it will summon it.

[@hanadian5967]

Even though he’s complaining the whole video he actually learned all of it lmao

[@Daniela-uu8gw]

hana Dian army uwu

[@hanadian5967]

Emilia Eissmann omo am i seeing a fellow army ? 100x uwuu~~~

[@Daniela-uu8gw]

@@hanadian5967 yes uwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuuwuwuwuwuwuuwuwuwuwuwuuwuwuwuwuuw :3

[@aaa-fv3xk]

As a New Yorker, i will say the only effective way for us to learn things is for us to complain about them

[@hanadian5967]

aa a oh well at least it’s effective 😂😂

[@clem0nade_]

My french teacher found this and was offended, watched it in class and everyone died of laughter

[@vashon6817]

Lem on you’re teacher’s a jackass

[@IRVDawg]

@@vashon6817 your* . *jackass*

[@TD31093]

That teacher? Eric Einstein.

[@daraflaherty245]

Our teacher showed this to us

[@callit6801]

i'm late and i'm french but i laughed so hard

[@alecacosta]

This is how the USA look like for nations that use the metric system

[@noideaofhowcallme]

Best comment, man!

[@YYYoannt]

and the metric system was invented by.. the French! ;) 🥖 🥐

[@katerinaslavickova8155]

The moment he yells I DoNT´ nEed To Say EEEennN, iT´S jUSt tWeNTy-oNe!! and than slips out of role and gigles...absolutely killed me, best sketch Matt XD

[@simonr7097]

I got four-twenty-ten-nine problems, and counting in French is one.

[@calinguga]

:)

[@haszmarcus9603]

this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[@raniasd271]

Eyyyy

[@smashguys9725]

i'm french and i can tell this language is garbage - je suis français et je peut dire que cette langue pue la m*rde

[@matheusso1992]

This is brillant

[@Falka999]

English : 99 = ninety nine French : 99 = *4 20 10 9*

[@reko5160]

FaloWiix *oui*

[@jonaslinder8390]

Damn, if u write it down 80 is actually dank in french

[@DP-mv7ph]

Couldn’t they just say neuf neuf or neuf et neuf why make it so hard 😩

[@sammy3212321]

Lol Lol The Swiss use "Nonante" to say 90, you can always trust the Swiss to be reasonable

[@jonaslinder8390]

@@sammy3212321 isnt there also septante in another country that speaks french?

[@arkonakron61]

Can we just appreciate this guy for writing so many subtitles?

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

Look up "KZbin Community Captions"

[@angeljordancardenascoronad8084]

"What do you think? I know all the languages?"

[@lajoswinkler]

You sound like a fucking bot with your "can we just appreciate".

[@aretuzamoonchild502]

I'm french and I never realised how complicated counting in French was ! This video makes me laugh so much ! 😂

[@bribread]

“He asked if I know French, what do I look like... God?”

[@soraya_txr]

ARMY are everywhere😂

[@axelling_atk]

aorysy•소라 야 don’t mention it, people are gonna roast u

[@googly4038]

Glad you didn’t miss your Duolingo class.

[@1yoan3]

The owl had him at gunpoint in the back seat.

[@crazypencil8661]

@@1yoan3 The owl threatened to take his family

[@st1lysh35]

@@crazypencil8661 The owl was even recording him, this is why he looks so scared and didn't laugh at all, the owl recording him had a knife in its hand and got him off guard while driving

[@parkchimmin7913]

OwOShadeSongOwO MA FAMILLE! **pleurer en Français**

[@yanni9922]

FUCK YOU JUST REMINDED ME BYE---

[@oddtherapy8919]

As a Belgian who speaks french (we're neighbours), I laughed. We Belgians have decided the whole counting numbers thing was way over the top so we thought we'd use our own word for seventy which is :"septante" instead of "soixante-dix". But because we like making things more complicated for ourselves, we thought we'd keep four-twenty though. And because we're inconsistent, we still came up with our own word for ninety nonetheless, just like we did for seventy, which is : "nonante", instead of "quatre-vings-dix". Way to show the french we're smarter but actually not quite lmao. Brace yourselves though, the swiss came up with not one, but TWO other words for eighty (french : quatre-vingts-dix), which are "octante" and "huitante". But I believe one of the two is rarely ever used though. Anyway, welcome to the french language, what the hell were you thinking when you chose to learn this am I right ?

[@stephanobarbosa5805]

septante, huitante, nonante

[@ymir2795]

Me: *IS LAUGHING* Also Me: *i'm french*

[@wfd87]

by the time this video ended i realized that i'd been tricked into learning some french

[@MattColbo]

Lol gotcha

[@meesalikeu]

now you know some useless trivia

[@waiu0235]

I learnt something today. Mom would be proud of me😂

[@tomasribeiro2779]

This was a better lesson than the one I had years ago

[@driveasandwich6734]

@@meesalikeu Paris is the most visited tourism destination. How is that useless?

[@xemax6934]

English: 99= 90 + 9 German: 99= 9 + 90 French: 99= 4 • 20 + 10 + 9

[@pearlob9552]

Honestly like wth lmaoo

[@erwannthietart3602]

@@pearlob9552 I mean you also say 18+9×7=1897 (date) in englich whereas french have 10+8+100+4+20+10+7=1897 whats so difficult about it Not to mention writing it is even worse englich eighteen-ninety-seven French: dix-huit-cent-quatre-vingt-dix-sept and im nearly sure i forgot a "s" somewhere

[@rendy1421]

neunundneunzig is ninety nine in german

[@xemax6934]

rENDY I know

[@iris367]

@@erwannthietart3602 no, there's no "s" missing ;)

[@ilovemalechickens]

I love this video so much I always come back to it every six months or so. His delivery is comic genius

[@slink66]

2 years later : by 6 months, did you mean roughly 100-4-20 days ?

[@ilovemalechickens]

@@slink66 haha yeh that's what I meant

[@lennaerthondelink7374]

Scout's failure with Miss Pauling really got to him in the end

[@Diedela]

I can just imagine the relief when the 2000’s came and they didn’t have to spend 3 hours saying the year

[@alexandreparent82]

U mean writing it because saying it is as fast

[@Diedela]

@@alexandreparent82 I think "mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix-neuf" is one heck of a lot longer to say than "deux mille"

[@dubl33_27]

I can't waith for the 2100 to come around... oh wait, i'll most probably be dead by then...

[@xivios3784]

for 2000 its like: 2 and 1000= 2000

[@xivios3784]

@@dubl33_27 2 + 1000 +100

[@andreadiaz179]

ah yes the first four number in french 1- oon 2- ducks 3- toas 4- cat

[@josephinemckay7338]

When I was about 6yrs old in primary school a french priest told us a story about a girl who had 3 cats. She named them Un, Deux and Trois. 1 day while out for a walk the cats fell off a bridge and drowned. 1, un, [uh]. 2, deux, [duhr]. 3, trois, [twa]. 4, quatre, [katr]. 5, cinq, [sank]. I will never forget how to count to 5 in French.

[@samparly]

Is this serious

[@user-od1qw8qp1u]

LMAO

[@YourBeingParanoid]

@@josephinemckay7338 Useful, if only you lived in some alternative universe where America speaks French.

[@InFiRe59]

@@YourBeingParanoid Before yes.

[@sepehrrz2101]

It's been 3 years and I regularly come back to this video and rewatch it. It's lovely

[@sandromatthiouz7413]

Normal we go from seize (16) to dix-sept (17). It’s the same in english with twelve and thirteen. Whenever your number of ciphers out, you add numbers to your base (example 12 plus 1, 12 plus 2). t’s just a question of on which numeral base you were counting. In England, people were counting with a twelve base (12 cifers; for example a schilling is 12 pence) and 16 in France. So, in our languages, we kept the names of the ciphers we used as base. Nowadays it appears weird to us because we almost all use a base of ten (10 cifers, example 10 mm in 1 cm). So, we have 10 plus 1, 10 plus 2, but it begins from 13 in english or 17 in french because we kept the names that are reminiscences of ancient bases.

[@fivenightsofben6096]

That is VERY interesting thank you very much, also I'm curious how numbers past 20s were said until the switch?

[@bablaba6275]

Very valuable comment, many sources on the internet mention the base system of 20, but not the 16...thanks!

[@WindowsFan2006]

15 (quince) in Spanish.

[@_urgot]

French people be like: Fifty Sixty Sev-... Ya know what frick it Sixty Ten

[@lilasya_art]

Qu'est ce que- 😂😂😂

[@flanbenflen9069]

Sixty AAAND ten

[@Rumpael]

Ei-... Ya know what? Four times twenty!

[@zachariz1490]

DasEndermen yeah.

[@mayamay6155]

DasEndermen and I oop-

[@julietteboivin1844]

I’ve never realized how french is complicated even if I talk it every single day

[@woos1432]

juliette boivin ikr

[@helo2729]

We know it is complicated 😂😈

[@sleepyontime5513]

You’re so lucky I love the language but after a year of learning it in school I couldn’t do it anymore. It was too much

[@dirmanbw336]

When I first started learning French 3 years ago. It IS complicated

[@EzraPlutoCharles]

I started learning it in Immersion when I was 4 up until i was 14. I'm still fluent, but damn. I only just realized aswell.

[@ivy_inferno]

French speaking canadian here. This video is so good and hilarious... and actually made me realize how stupid our numbers are. I just have a lot of respect for this dude.

[@ChachouLP]

How stupid our numbers are ? It's too much ...faut pas pousser non plus 😂 Ce n'est pas logique mais pas stupide non plus

[@loot6]

But don't you use a slightly better system in Canada?

[@ShadowQrow]

@@ChachouLP Idk how you can unironically call something not logical and not stupid at the same time. Schrodinger's numbers. lmfao

[@solunetbagatelle4551]

Guys from belgium say "nonente" instead of "quatre vingt dix" Sounds weird for a french person like me but that's so fricking simpler Gg belgians

[@michaelbrasey665]

and in Switzerland, we say "huitante" instead of "quatre-vingts"

[@paulgut2862]

Je suis francais et j’aime bien « nonente » par contre « septente » cest cho

[@michaelbrasey665]

@@paulgut2862 septante, huitante et nonante, c'est bien plus logique

[@paulgut2862]

@@michaelbrasey665 pr qqn dont le francais nest pas sa langue natale oui, mais perso jai du mal avc « septante » le reste ca va mais ca ressemble a septembre ca me stress

[@michaelbrasey665]

@@paulgut2862 C'est une habitude à prendre, petit je disais quatre-vingts, mais maintenant huitante, tous à fait naturellement

[@htinlinnhtoothan]

“Doing math in the middle of your numbers.” Thank you lmao laughed too hard

[@flanbenflen9069]

How doesn't this comment have any replies yet??

[@falconimation1]

In switzerland we actually say 70 80 and 90 with Septante, Huitante and Nonante 🇨🇭

[@v_salat]

@@falconimation1 HUITANTE AHAHAHAHA AHAHHHHAH KHAAA sorry

[@hazmishaidi]

​@@falconimation1Well, guess I'm a fan of Swiss french now❤️🇨🇭

[@falconimation1]

@@hazmishaidi honorable mention, Belgium say 70 and 90 septante & nonante, but still say the quatre vingts for 80

[@lil_bunz1720]

Please don't show this guy German numbers, he's actually going to drive Into oncoming traffic

[@IStMl]

TheJoseBoss Still better than French, at least they say "sieben und achtig" not fucking retarded "siebzehn und vier zwanzig" 😂😂

[@lil_bunz1720]

@@IStMl if you want to say 846 you say eighthundredsixandforty or achthundertsechsundvierzig. Notice how there's no spaces either, that's what I'm pointing out

[@randomayaya]

@@lil_bunz1720 you'd have to say "huit-cents quarante-six". Good luck to remember the s and the - 😂

[@lil_bunz1720]

@@randomayaya I've lived in Ottawa for like 10 years now and I would like to think I can communicate in french I actually didn't know there were - in the numbers

[@guldklimp]

And don't get him started on danish numbers! That's really tricky stuffs!

[@not-a-theist8251]

Damn this joke is really old but the end killed me. Damn Matt's bunch lines are absolute killer

[@kiwibean9313]

Makes my day with all these hilarious videos XD I'm literally wheezing

[@Nekoowoo]

As a french baguette, you're killing me. I almost dropped my croissant

[@w0lper357]

I forgot my cheese somewhere

[@Nekoowoo]

@@w0lper357 Here, have some of my camembert

[@arcreehysteria9805]

@@Nekoowoo you are wearing a nice beret ! do you want some snails in your wine ?

[@Nekoowoo]

@@arcreehysteria9805 Merci! Miam, je vais me régaler!

[@marketo_9253]

I dropped my croissant... but i still have my camembert and my baguette

[@ThePelly]

Bet the French loved the new millennium. 1999 - Mille neuf cent quatre vingt dix neuf 2000 - Deux Mille

[@beevvaa]

ThePelly y’a sept mots à la suite 😂😂😂

[@SpyLeb1]

“one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine” is long compared to “two thousands”.

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

I was in grade 1 in 1999/2000 and we had to say the date every morning. Switching from "mille neuf cent quatre vingt dix neuf" to "deux mille" was a freaking miracle

[@AnaRxistBoD]

Well, in English it's not more logical, you know. What the heck is "nineteen ninety nine"? Is it year 19 and year 99? Or is it some how almost year 20 (19.99)? What we are talking about, prices? Would you call year 1000 as "ten zero zero"? If no, than why? Like, just pronounce it with thousands and hundreds what's your problem, dude?

[@SpyLeb1]

AnaRxistBoD it’s 4x20+10. It is logical. Ahahah. Thousands/thousand is Milles/mille and it’s in the number ahaha

[@dileepdoingthings4197]

Wish I could re-watch this for the first time again

[@aeriah987]

As a french, this video made me laugh so hard. That's so true

[@astraluniverse]

I'm french, and in my 16 years of being on this planet I never realized that I was saying four-twenty when saying 80

[@bikechainimmortalis6923]

Makes me curious if many native speakers are that way, where they don't think about it in that way

[@vatsalpurohit3933]

Wait why?

[@plsdonttttt]

you cant be french you speak english....

[@meinkatz34]

@@plsdonttttt I'm french and I speak english so? You think we can't speak 2 languages banana???

[@plsdonttttt]

@@meinkatz34 I never ever met a french person who speaks english. are you famous in you country for speaking english?

[@adamf14]

I would've never watched a show called Brooklyn Quatre-Vingt-Dix-Neuf.

[@mariannelavallee6049]

Lol Québec bought the rights for Brooklyn 99 and it really is called Escouade(squad) quatre vingt dix neuf (it’s really bad don’t watch it)

[@justsomerandomguy992]

@@mariannelavallee6049 It already premiered? Anyway almost every show is bad in quebec.

[@Xavier-kq9hp]

@@mariannelavallee6049 i hate Québec for their transitions for real like happy meal because « joyeux festin » and thats some ugly ass ass name sorry

[@pierre_8859]

@@justsomerandomguy992 huh sorry but a movie translated in France Called " escadron quatre vingts dix-neuf" is a really good name for a movie

[@justsomerandomguy992]

@@pierre_8859 I was talking about a Quebec show. Tv shows from France are good.

[@Denisgvs7]

Thank you so much, mille et un mercis! You make me cry every time!!

[@deanomood]

I like to think that the French numbering system was invented just for this masterpiece of a video to be made

[@willlexie]

American cabbie: "Counting in French is ridiculous!!!" A person who can speak French: "Hold my VERBE."

[@gryfiron7562]

Mec tellement

[@X96o99]

L'alien what the hell

[@liamschwartz2169]

January Colnick no even if i’m french it was so funny and i never thought of what he said before!

[@advena688]

@@NihilistAlien What the fuck is your problem

[@NihilistAlien]

@@advena688 your moron insultive culture

[@PMA]

Man! I'm french Canadian from Quebec! I think I never laught that much! I have cried promised! You've just make me ralised how much stupid it is! Ahah!! Thanls for that!! I'm a new subscriber! 😂

[@MattColbo]

Hahahahaha thank you Pascal!

[@spike8308]

Im a Quebecor too and i realized that years ago 😂

[@Patrick_AUBRY]

@@MattColbo I'm also a Quebecer and I'm telling you, I laughed my ass off! I never realized how stupid it could be. Btw, the grammar of it is a messy too.

[@jdancause]

So why not is just a way to tell number

[@zlafox]

Hahahahaha je viens aussi de réaliser à quel point notre système de nombre est con!

[@frenchy1939]

I'm French and I found this so fun! (and totally true)

[@benjaminhildebrand4842]

I speak enough French that this video had me terribly excited. You did not disappoint.

[@mevlingo2791]

*watches an English video as a german who learns French at school*

[@estefanaluma6212]

Salziger Melvin #Chibi/LPD/BLJ I am Colombian and I do really want to learn German lol, I love it’s culture

[@smed5523]

Your language is so difficult bro more difficult than the french language

[@kalim4]

*watches an english video as a german who knows german and english and learns spanish at school*

[@sofiet.583]

MOINSEN ME TOO

[@wellrick188]

Same

[@templatemusic]

this is exactly how I react to the American measurement system "so we have 1 inch, okay?" "got it" "and 12 inches makes 1 foot" "yep okay" "so then we have a yard" "and that would be 12 feet yeah?" "no, 3 feet" "oh ok what's the next one?" "well then we got a mile" "and is a mile 12 yards?" "it's 1760 yards"

[@sunnyspoumaroux607]

I’m French and I still don’t get it. I guess I gonna struggle with the American measurement system my whole life 😂😂😂

[@usercanalviejo2]

Plus, there is an INTERNATIONAL system but no lol they just stuck with that one

[@giuliam1234]

Same here 👋

[@josephinemckay7338]

I find their way of measuring weight the weirdest over all but even their way of writing the date is messed up

[@samparly]

Oh shit -- this is the exact reaction when I heard American measure system

[@the-language-learner]

This guy is really THE best..... it is actually quite correct, he has mentionned all the things that are bizzare in the french counting system....

[@joellehewson3861]

Genuinely.., that's one of the funniest videos on all of youtube 😂😂😂😂 Even after I've seen it a few times...

[@isnitjustkit]

“quatre-vingt-dix” roughly translates to “We’ve never heard of a working number naming system in our lives”

[@MysteriousFoxy87]

quatre-vingt-dix-sept (97) would be more appropriate

[@peffiSC2source]

Ironic since the French wanted to turn clocks and calendars into base 10.

[@bikechainimmortalis6923]

@@peffiSC2source Funny because they used a base 6. 😂😂 Finnish uses a base 10

[@clem833]

"A mile" roughly translates to "we've never heard of a working measure system in our lives"

[@pancake5830]

@@clem833 yeah, that too

[@SaniOKh]

The worst part is that French words for seventy, eighty and ninety actually do exist (septante, huitante and nonante) , but are only used in, if memory serves, Belgium and Switzerland.

[@ouient]

You're right ahah, but I prefer our old school way of saying numbers tbh

[@weweoum1787]

Sauf que c'est vraiment cheum

[@elij.9801]

Jsuis d accord pr 70 et 90 mais huitante ? On dit ca en Belgique ? Pcq en temps que belge jms j ai utilisé huitaine

[@sady3327]

@@elij.9801 Je crois que pour huitante c'est le seul qui n'est pas vraiment défini, par exemple des Suisse ou des Belges disent quatre-vingt

[@poladosgaming6994]

@@elij.9801 Non. On dit septante, quatre-vingt et nonante

[@moussatandiasamassa6106]

Hé Matt Colbo, I just discovered your video from your KZbin channel and I was giggling (loud of laughing) about what you summed up the problem about the numbers in French. Thank you very much and I greet you warmly from Paris/France🇨🇵🥖🥐

[@jah_b]

Easily on of my favorite bits this is comedy gold

[@baldmendressedlikeeachothe4294]

As a guy who speaks french, i've never realised how stupidly obnoxious our "quatre-vingt-dix-neuf" is until i came across this video.

[@2adamast]

"Nonante a vieilli, et c'est dommage" (Littré)

[@6up5ohcopoutprocon]

😂 Me. Too.

[@jaydenjayden9416]

Fr I’m French too and I got pretty used to it since I was in second grade

[@chairmanxina2338]

Same

[@chairmanxina2338]

@@weweoum1787 wesh Mon gars calme yoi mec

[@LillahTalks]

Is there an Award for "Videos that make Canadians Laugh."?? You win.

[@MattColbo]

Hahaha thank you Lillah!

[@loadedwrlds7794]

No stop it

[@Maptop-mf8db]

so canadians never laughe? i never knew that

[@erwandraw7522]

Il est incroyable ! Il dit en une vidéo ce que je me demande à chaque cours de français !

[@ethross_os5587]

We have C° who start at 0 and you have the F° who start at 32 Nice Logique man

[@TheMiGger]

And a 1°C step is not a 1°F step While a 1°C step is a 1 K step (International System of Units)

[@cyborgbob1017]

at least our Degree isnt just vague as fuck. you guys immediately lose that advantage because you got 32 degrees F for one Celcius lmao

[@javierhillier4252]

@@cyborgbob1017 i cant tell if you are talking about Fahrenheit or Celsius being bad

[@rinamine]

@@javierhillier4252 i think they were trying to say that fahrenheit is better because the increments are smaller, so it's more precise that way? i'm from the us, so i don't know if this is common practice or not, but if you measure in celsius with decimals (e.g. 20.5 C) it can be just as precise, so that argument kind of falls flat lol

[@javierhillier4252]

@@rinamine oh ok thanks my wording in english needs to be better lol

[@brebis17]

Dude, im french canadian and this is sooo funny😂😂😂

[@user-tb6dr6zp1x]

Philippe Marier same😂😂😂😂😂 This is so bad lol

[@leanaethier1164]

Philippe Marier Sameee!

[@thisisntallowed9560]

@Michelle Ortiz We're a country

[@twinsrock12]

Eyyy same New Brunswick

[@applejuice4263]

Fuck this is hilarious

[@viejochase]

"Nobody here is Eric Einstein" 2:33 All that he needed to say.

[@jashmedia6935]

And all this time I was thinking his name was Albert Einstein

[@KutayUgurluer]

fuck man i can't believe i don't even knew this man's first name for years. embarassed

[@caramba2345]

Not even Eric Einstein is Eric Einstein.

[@japaris75]

this guy's so-called demonstration is so f..... stupid. How can he argue about a "language"? The fact that through, tough, thorough, and other words in ough are pronounced the same way is not to be blamed on the English. Why should he blame the French for something no one really decided is beyond me. The guy is a moron and not at all funny. Enough said

[@stipe9k]

@@japaris75 Dude, do you even have a slight sense of humour? Have you ever heard of sarcasm? Jesus... The guy doesn't have to be funny to you, that's up to you to decide. But what you don't get to decide is his intention. It was sarcasm and your opinion on the matter doesn't matter.

[@nargizk390]

I understand why he's so mad about French counting system😂 Anyway, great video!

[@polunuki2775]

i’m glad scout got a job after the gravel wars

[@dinomaster420]

english speaking kids: learns how to count french speaking kids: learns how to count `now with multiplication`

[@creatorman2k895]

There's no math involved in using numbers in French. You just learn how it's said and done

[@Xavier-kq9hp]

Most people don’t even know its math its just how its called

[@haniffaris8917]

@@creatorman2k895 I'm pretty sure you have math involved when you need to multiply 4 by 20 just to say 80

[@BicheTordue]

@@haniffaris8917 well no when we learn how to say numbers we don't do math to know how we say it, we just learn the word without thinking about the meaning of it, and i think we learn it that way because otherwise it would juste be confusing for kids

[@Octalion]

@@haniffaris8917 no it's just their name, 0 math

[@RammusTheArmordillo]

French here, really it's not that compli- *I'M SORRY IDK WHY IT'S SO MESSED UP*

[@yaca_]

RammusTheArmordillo je suis français

[@Snowquigga]

*confused baguette screams*

[@NihilistAlien]

Parce que les gaulois comptaient sur une base de vingt. C'est pourtant pas compliqué, les amerloques sont juste cons.

[@Nicolas_GE]

all you france ppl scare me with your quatre-vingts-dix-neuf while in swiss we say nonante neuf and huitante

[@coltonriffle2310]

Translation to what L'alien said: Because the Gaulish counting system was based on increments of twenty. It's not complicated, Yanks are just stupid.

[@cadenanfimovas6880]

I love that he has a school friendly version in the description

[@sergeantarchdornan510yearsold]

this is so common in school for some reason, i’m glad it is though

[@Theking-li9vv]

Broooo my French teacher put this in class today and everyone was dying of laughter

[@amelia6673]

Bahahha same lol

[@zarback3326]

If you want help for homework , i can help you 👍 (im french)

[@dhruvajayanth6583]

my teacher put it too

[@AaaAa-nc8sy]

r/thathappened

[@webcrawler8244]

@@AaaAa-nc8sy this is youtube, not reddit.

[@iainhansen1047]

As an American who moved to Quebec this has been my internal monologue for 14 years

[@jayaplin1997]

As an Albertan who had to take French class this has been my internal monologue as well lmao

[@tanbir11]

dude i was born here, and i still think its looney tunes ...

[@TheAlbaniaGaming]

Hey, where did you move from? And would you say it was the right move? What caused it? If I may ask haha, Im a student planning to study on Canada but USA has always been an option of mine aswell.

[@KuroHebi]

As a French, I feel your frustration. Even for me it takes half a second for me to say the numbers in the 70, 80 and 90 group.

[@therevengrs]

Omg our French teacher showed this us today. Me and my friends where dying of laughter 🤣🤣🤣😭

[@Gregtheneg]

im french and i aprove deux-cent-quatre-vingt-dix-sept=297

[@OctavKitty]

Jérémy More like « deux cent quatre-vingts dix-sept » Oooohh it’s been a long time since I wrote numbers in letter :/ I’m not so sure suddenly

[@MrBalaboo]

@@OctavKitty Deux cent quatre-vingt-dix-sept should be the right way

[@OctavKitty]

Timothée Alrighty then 😖

[@skyresh2806]

Deux-cent-nonante-sept

[@antoinere7664]

OctavKitty there is no s after quatre vingt when there is a number after, like quatre vingt treize but cent quatre vingts

[@-amel-9896]

I am french and I asked my teacher when I was little "Why is it soixante dix and not septante, Why is it quatre-vingt and not huitante ?" *She responded "because."*

[@Eugensson]

You have been invited to collect your Belgian passport.

[@-amel-9896]

@Sunbro Adresse. *because*

[@pomme_paille]

We used to say septante, huitante and nonante un France, but Napoléon changed the rules

[@tatu_edm]

Parce que, voilà

[@Craneqqey]

My teacher is Suisse so she lets us use those bless

[@kacemchawqi5787]

bruhh le mec a fait une analyse sur les nombres que j'ai jamais faite. On dirait que je les redecouvre LOL.

[@myshkaklein4413]

So according to the French counting system, kids need to learn to multiply before they can learn to count?🤣🤣

[@SimonALa]

As a native speaker of French currently residing in Montreal, I think I was like a teenager when I stopped in my tracks and had the epiphany that "Quatre-vingts" (80) stood for "four times twenty". I guess we learn to count to 100 "by heart" when we're like 4-5 before we learn what a multiplication even is. So it's hard to relate to the struggle. Have fun suckers! ;)

[@LillahTalks]

Exactly!

[@Gelineau96]

You are exacly right my friend 😂

[@gildaslefur2435]

Same with me!

[@seaguardian4409]

I realized because of english speakers

[@yurboisam8696]

All my fellow French-Canadians, I hope you guys all laughed as much as I do.

[@MattColbo]

Hahaha thank you Tyler

[@zachattackclashyoutuber1624]

I did laught a lot

[@lepidj]

Lmao « Thanks tYlEr jOsEpH »

[@KimberleyGraceLi]

I'm Mauritian and still laughed my ass off. BTW I speak french too🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@rebecca4680]

English Canada here, but learned (some) basic French in school. This was absolutely hilarious, and it's even better because kids in my class said the same thing and it brought back so many fun memories.

[@singular3223]

my french teacher showed this video to us.. highlight of her career

[@Finnishmanmusic]

I like how canonically the driver drove many hours to canada with a probably frightened passenger while talking about this

[@omnipresentnoob4776]

All the other Romance languages: *follows the Latin numbers* French: Wait what?

[@MrRemicas]

Apparently that quirk comes from the Gauls, they counted in base twenty and it stuck.

[@legrandluan]

@@MrRemicas *THE MORE YOU KNOW*

[@roms4154]

it's normal we (french) are complicated for everything ! lol

[@JdMsk]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigesimal

[@itzreaps]

the french will always be the outcast

[@Hersatz]

As a native french speaker, I have to admit, the logic behind some of the words and grammar we use is hilariously complicated. I never thought about how convoluted our numbers are. Thanks for the laughs.

[@psychedelicc]

dont worry every language has their fair share of stupidity.

[@Para0234]

It's an inheritance from our gallic roots.

[@ozwood999]

Tu parle pas français donc ta gueule

[@meekz770]

Same 😂😂

[@biledox5576]

TUKIF OZ toé tayeule

[@ganeshraj5865]

This never get old.

[@mustafahikmetozcan]

Man keep bringing us another videos of this driver 😂

[@ZezetteMaya007]

French is my first language, and this is probably the best aspect of it in my opinion. I just love seeing other people being super confused by it and going on a rant. Because it might be impractical and straight up ridiculous, but it's not completely devoid of logic in a certain way. It's just a nice quirk. A nice quirk that makes French super hard to learn for other people, but whatever. It's entertaining to see people like you, and I say this in the nicest most well-meaning way. Edit: Wth the one time I make a comment on a video, I get a thousand likes, how does that happen

[@131]

Where's the logic? What's the quirk? I'm not trying to be rude, I'm genuinely curious.

[@ZezetteMaya007]

@@131 Well I really only meant that when we use more than one number to say a number, the math is accurate. Like 80 is literally "four-twenty" and 80 does equal 4 x 20. Like he said, 97 is "four-twenty-ten-seven" so you take care of the first part (4x20=80) and then add 10+7 and you get 97. The list goes on. Now as to why THOSE numbers are like that while others have their own name and are perfectly normal, now THAT'S the mystery. I like to think that there is absolutely no logic behind the choice of which number is which. I like to imagine some guy hundreds of years ago sitting at desk, bored to death with his whole "figure out a way to say numbers" job while his boss took the day off and he just goes like "To hell with this, lets have some fun and make it practically impossible to learn." If I had to invent a language, I know that's what I would do.

[@131]

@@ZezetteMaya007 Oh, yeah I know what you mean. You said French is your first language? You speak English like you're fluent. I hope my French gets as good as your English one day...

[@ZezetteMaya007]

@@131 Thank you! I started learning English in 6th grade and now I go to an english university so I don't have much of a choice! But actually I've always really liked english and also travelling so it was always important for me to become fluent. And I know French is tricky, especially as a second language, but there's no secret to learning a new language, practice makes perfect! What helped me most with my english and other languages was watching movies and listening to music in that language very early, even if I understood not even half of what was being said. You just start picking it up little by little. Plus, it doesn't feel like homework!

[@miralysmaederi4779]

Hi ! French guy here as well. We actually have words for 70, 80 and 90, which are septante, octante/huitante (not sure about that one) and nonante. However, and this is where this makes no sense, those words are only used in Belgium, and not everywhere else...

[@albuquerqueaerialimagery6133]

Answer in Spanish and then your married, 10 kids.... I died. 😂🤣😅

[@alejandramartinezcontreras1140]

Banger073 que?

[@danielyao2389]

@@alejandramartinezcontreras1140 Fue cómico. Puedo impregnarte, ¿ sí? ;)

[@Uncle_Iroh.]

Time for the yearly rewatch

[@barrymontreal8079]

When I was in Switzerland they said septante for 70, huitante for 80, and nonante for 90.

[@atomicbigfoot8835]

BrUh, **MIND BLOWN** I am a francophone and I never realized before how that works. In my head, I just associated numbers with words. i never realized there was this complicated/hidden math integrated with my native tongue. Again **MIND BLOWN** /O_o/

[@MattColbo]

Hahahahaha I've received a few replies regarding that, so weird because as a native English speaker, you recognize it right away😂

[@atomicbigfoot8835]

@@MattColbo It is very weird when you think about it 😂 Overall, great video!!! Very funny, keep it up

[@MattColbo]

@@atomicbigfoot8835 Thanks mate! Appreciate that!

[@nicjoe5116]

L'affaire c'est qu'on y pense même pas, mais il a raison, c'est compliqué en maudit !

[@golgoth7600]

Yeah it never came to my mind either. As a French Canadian, It's just a word stamped on a number. Seems awfully complicated but it's really not since there's zero thought process involved. Unless you really dig in LOL

[@dansingdaisy]

Teacher : alright folks I want you all to say 99 in your language Swiss French : nonante-neuf Belgian French : nonante-neuf Luxembourg French : nonante-neuf Quebec and France French : QUATRE-VINGT-DIX-NEUF

[@caneson230]

Effectivement nous devrions tous faire comme les suisses

[@dansingdaisy]

D S En soi, le Français venant de Suisse ça ressemble énormément au Français de Belgique 😂

[@Koup6218]

🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭

[@Gabriel-he6ih]

Croatian: *DEVEDESET I DEVET*

[@eiram649]

Franchement en tant que Luxembourgeoise, je tiens à préciser que chez nous, les seuls qui disent nonante neuf sont les belges ^^ Mais bon après il y a pas vraiment de “français luxembourgeois”, on parle ce que les autres parlent 😭😂

[@Moss_Dude]

Scout gives a French lesson on the way to the dustbowl 1960 colorized

[@allaindb1944]

In belgium the french speaking part just say septante and nonante for 70 and 90

[@MGNashi]

Im . actually impressed that you managed to remember all that in such a short amount of time.

[@fatheadsnake]

Say something in Spanish to a Latina: ***BANG*** Married and 10 kids.

[@RD-jd8hq]

Lmaooo

[@bohnemormone3057]

Oh hello Ikenna

[@jellymight6333]

I was gonna say this

[@YepsMr]

no it only works if they speak in english and you respond in spanish

[@meesalikeu]

french are also latinas

[@discordadmin9796]

This is what is always going through my mind every time I'm in french class

[@momentouscrazynoob1709]

THIS IS AMAZINGG

[@OL9245]

As a French, I never realized the wierdness of our counting system before I saw jokes like this one on KZbin 😂. Want something weirder? When I then tried to convince my bro that we are wierd, he did not catch the thing. He just tried to explain me back how simple it is 🤣. This helped me understand how hell american people can feel comfortable with their imperial system.

[@evex3197]

Moi aussi

[@lucastagnette3794]

"Il ce casse juste pas le cul, moi j'aime la douleur, d'ailleurs frappe moi"

[@FabSoapShow]

Préférer le système impérial au système métrique alors qu'on ne vient pas d'un des rares pays utilisant le premier c'est original.

[@deuzeurh1460]

@@FabSoapShow peut-être que j'ai mal compris ce que tu voulais dire, mais il disait pas préférer le système impérial, juste qu'il comprend que ceux qui ont été élevés avec trouvent ça évident ^^

[@inquisitordave2751]

No, metric with normal numbers.

[@kingolo97]

When I moved to Ottawa from Belgium, I was anticipating having to live with Quebec French. About 1 month after I arrived, I met this girl from outside Paris and somehow my birth year came into the conversation. Growing up in Belgium, I was used to saying nonante for 90, so she asks me, "what year were you born?", I respond: "mille, neuf cent, nonante-sept" (1997), she says "quoi?" And I said it again 3 times with her eventually saying: "I can hear you, but I just don't understand what the fuck you're saying?" And then I said, "ohh true you're from France my bad: mille, neuf cent, quatre-vingt dix-sept (1997)"... The best part was that she said "Belgian french is weird", I was thinking "excuse me??"

[@ChachouLP]

She didn't said that in a bad way. A lot of French accent are weird so no problem

[@kingolo97]

@@ChachouLP yeah yeah I know, it was all in good fun

[@ChachouLP]

@@kingolo97 I'm sure you accent is nice :)

[@kingolo97]

@@ChachouLP merci :))

[@ChachouLP]

@@kingolo97 you're welcome :)

[@jordanvienneau9178]

"that's four numbers... for one number!" is what kills me

[@nhatvinhnhatvinh7310]

If I were to sit in a French test, I would automatically fail at the question: "Count 1999"

[@millian1065]

Should be retitled" *Man speaks the truth for 3 minutes*

[@babouchebabouchebabouche8302]

onze-mille-neuf-cent-quatre-ving-dix-huite or 11998

[@Chris-qt9uu]

i mean if you think about it it’s not much longer then saying it in english 😂: eleven thousand nine hundred and eighty eight

[@julbarrier]

And? Does it spell something upside down on your calculator?

[@SANDRA231072]

oui, le pire c'est la langue allemande...... il n'y a même pas d'espace pour les chiffres !! ça peut faire 2 lignes en continue !!!,

[@DJAizakku]

@@Chris-qt9uu I mean, in terms of length... It's not that different, sure. But just trying to even attempt to pronounce it in French looks intimidating AF! I can speak Spanish just fine, but I can never fathom how those two languages are even related... It's like two distant relatives meeting each other and it's just fucking awkward, forced and scary.

[@vit0038]

11998 in german means elftausendneunhundertachtundneunzig 😂

[@MsFaliona]

Thanks for making me laugh and cry 🤣🤣🤣

[@joebochek2300]

I'm cramming for a french test, and this video actually helped me.