🇫🇷 Different ways the French use ICI and LÀ - Everyday French 📍📌

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

Là, on est à 852 abonnés. Let's get to 1000! Like, share, and subscribe, and I'll be doing a Q&A video on the channel! Leave your questions down below!

[@doso4782]

Laptop & Flip Flops Do you know any other languages than English and French? Are you planning on learning any?

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

Hablo un poco de Espanol pero solo un poco. I speak some Spanish but not much. I haven't decided my next language that I'll do long term. I like Korean and Swedish but they aren't super useful. Any you recommend?

[@doso4782]

Laptop & Flip Flops Oh I speak Swedish! Hej jag talar Svenska och skulle bli jätteglad om du lärde dig det. I think Mandarin is also good to learn because the Chinese are becoming very powerful and influential in the world.

[@annmcdonald8793]

Thanks so much for this video. Could you please do one on retrouver?

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

@@annmcdonald8793 Ok Ann, it's on the list!

[@josepharis8248]

Oui svp, je voudrais une vidéo sur "retrouver". Et aussi, les différences entre "retrouver", "rejoindre" et "rencontrer". Merci! I'm a native english speaker enrolled in French language school full-time. Your videos are super helpful and are a great supplement to my learning!

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

Merci pour la suggestion !

[@franckchauvereau178]

Si je dois choisir un objet présenté devant moi je dirais: "Je veux celui-ci" pour l'objet le plus proche physiquement (ici), et "Je veux celui-là" pour le plus éloigné (là-bas) - Excellentes vidéos, bravo Alex !

[@Alysean]

Priceless for my B1 revision! Merci

[@HeidiButkus]

Merci Alex! Je suis là! 👋

[@angelodiazrodriguez5186]

Great video as always! ¡Gracias! 👋🇪🇸🇬🇧

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

A tu tambien gracias

[@Mineirinhanabelgica]

Thank you for this amazing lesson

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

You're very welcome!

[@mackjay1777]

Excellent!~You have covered one of my favorite topics about French. Living in France I became aware of the very common use of 'là" and relative rarity of "ici". It's an example of how the language is taught to English speakers, often out of textbooks that don't reflect the way native speakers really talk. My favorite example of this is the expression "n'est-ce pas?"" which I don't think I heard a single time during the year I lived in France

[@jacmorales5314]

I was browsing around and encounter this video. It was God send, thank you so much. I just subscribed. Greetings from Vermont, USA.

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

Greetings from Montpellier! Thanks for joining Joe!

[@Chris-od5wj]

This explains why when listening to the French news, I constantly hear 'la'. Thank you thank you for explaining this. I thought it was an article haha!!!

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

Whereabouts in France are you, Chris?

[@Chris-od5wj]

@@FrenchinPlainSight I'm not - I'm in Dorset UK but listen to "France Culture" and "Oui Fm" :) Can you suggest any other good stations? For once I want to hear talking on the radio haha

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

@@Chris-od5wj You told me that before! Doh!

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

@@Chris-od5wj I'm not really a radio listener, but would listen to RFI when I was a lower level. They do the daily news summary for learners. savoirs.rfi.fr/fr/apprendre-enseigner/langue-francaise/journal-en-francais-facile

[@Chris-od5wj]

@@FrenchinPlainSight I am definitely a lower level, so I will give it a listen thanks

[@marthaymartincolino285]

J'aime beaucuop vos videos. Merci.

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

Merci à vous :)

[@md.alamgirmiah7634]

Your video is always very helpful.do you know any English movie site with French subtitles in it. Thank you.

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

Netflix is great!

[@Chris-od5wj]

I second Netflix. Just started watching 'Another Life' in French :)

[@xephren6557]

mon dieu i love this channel

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

And it loves you

[@ydela1961]

Oooh, you mist the Voici vs Voilà !!! And because you like the shortcuts, there are of course the Swee-ci and Swee-là

[@iliveinacrowdedhouse368]

You have great pronunciation man like how?

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

Lots of imitating locals.

[@juttnoman6310]

Nice content

[@yvonnejansen1449]

Bonjour Alex, I discovered your channel a couple of weeks ago and just wanted to let you know how much I am enjoying it! I am trying to resurrect my schoolgirl French for a trip in February. I created a KZbin account just to subscribe. Keep up the great work! One question - do you have transcripts anywhere or written notes on your episodes? Cheers, Von.

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

Bonjour Yvonne ! Merci beaucoup for taking the time to do all that just to reach out to me! At least now, KZbin will know to show you my new videos! At the moment, I don't publish transcripts. What exactly would you like to see? I'll look into it for the future.

[@yvonnejansen1449]

Laptop & Flip Flops It just occurred to me watching earlier videos that I really should be taking notes, so I’ll have to re-watch them all! But having a written summary of each episode would be really handy to go over afterwards. Merci beaucoup Alex!

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

I'll consider it for the future. Thank you for the helpful feedback, Yvonne.

[@MissJay4258]

You didn't do allision (spell?) in "Je suis_en train..." ?

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

That's true. I never picked up that habit. It's one of those that some French people use and some don't. I'm going to do a video on liaisons soon actually.

[@mrose8748]

2:00 "Againment" lol I think you're getting a bit mixed up there. Great video though.

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

Lol, I've listened a few times now. I don't say "againment". That would be some funny franglais though. "And you've got" is the closest thing to that that I hear near that timestamp :)

[@mrose8748]

Correction: at 1:56 you say "...again more..." and I heard that as "againment"

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

Ahhh. No, I threw in some French: Également. I like to do that to embrace the Franglais/Franglish :p

[@louisfrancisco2171]

En fait, c'est "ici" qui vient de "ci", pas l'inverse.

[@drewc.9908]

What about ceci and cela? Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

it's roughly like the difference between "this" and "that" in English, however, French will more often than not use "ça" for both. Cela can almost always represent ça in written French. Ceci is the least used. It comes up in really specific situations and in expressions like the one you've cited.

[@parsayektaparast285]

you don't live in SOUTH OF FRANCE but you live in southern france there is a difference

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

As an English native, you can say both

[@mahfouzahmed7228]

Unspeakable

[@imromi3316]

c'est vrai que "celui-ci" n'est plus vraiment utiliser en francais, on l'entend quasiment jamais.

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

On l'entend mais je ne dirais pas "quasiment jamais". Plus souvent que ça mais beaucoup moins souvent que "celui-là" par contre.

[@markhathaway9456]

Will "schwee" ever become a thing for the French, as "C'est"? Sera «schwee» jamais devenir un chose pour les Français, comme «C'est» ?

[@FrenchinPlainSight]

I'm not sure what you mean. C'est is not a shortcut. Schwee is a verbal contraction to speed up pronunciation.