French Military Techniques to Learn a Language FAST

🇫🇷 Think your French class was brutal? The French Foreign Legion takes language learning to the next level-pushups, punishment, and no mistakes allowed! Think you could survive? Watch today’s video and let us know your thoughts.
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0:00 - Intro
0:15 - Why French?
1:09 - The Big Goal
3:09 - The “Classroom”
4:15 - The Method
5:37 - What You Learn
7:01 - Typical Lessons
9:47 - Singing in French
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le major Gérald s'engage !
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First french class for Foreign Legion recruits
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Légion étrangère française: 1 mois dans la forêt tropicale
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How the French Foreign Legion teaches the French language to the new recruits.
• How the French Foreign...
Why Do Men From All Over the World Want to Join the Foreign Legion?
• Why Do Men From All Ov...
• Parlez-vous français? ...
• Parlez-vous français? ...
The foreign legion : men without a past
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Cours de français à la légion étrangère
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Légion étrangère française : Les secrets d'une sélection - EP2
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First french class for Foreign Legion recruits
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[@lilidesbelons4093]

We have 5 millions victimes that give ordres to the fake military ,we have the cadavre of their Nevers and the history of the fight ... military in your imagination man

[@stefanodadamo6809]

The famous "démerde-toi" language method

[@breadjinnie5495]

This is a great method. My French teacher wasn't this strict. But our midterms and finals were not a test. We had to go to a restaurant as a class and only speak French. I didn't realize how effective her methods were until years later. I graduated in 2002, and to this day, I still understand and can speak some French. I haven't studied it much after high school. I would every once in a while listen a French podcast. I watched Lupin in French with French subtitles, and I still understood most of it. I can't really write it well, but I can understand it. I am more focused on Japanese and Korean now.

[@KeisTravel]

I’m Japanese. Thank you for your focusing Japanese!

[@blondisbarrios7454]

Nice final exam 💯

[@skndr1964]

très bon professeur 😉

[@ohwowitsme8548]

If you still remember even the smallest things what was her method of teaching?

[@kurtsteiner8384]

Its called total immersion and is a good way to learn a language. Any language you have to use it.

[@ianpeden2906]

No, you need to learn by comparing the new language to languages you already know, otherwise the new language is just a noise, and you are guessing what is meant. Better to be told what the new language means and then use it. That is how people learn languages in a bilingual environment.

[@anoitedfighter]

True story most of the Bulgarian's who served as prisoners of war in France after WWI came back speaking decent french and with french cooking recepies. Most them would get elected in local governments or will open businesses others will serve in the administration because French was like English back then. People always wondered how they learned so good French while building roads in France. I think now i get the idea.

[@gostavoadolfos2023]

Interesting historical fact.

[@if7363]

That's what my Swedish host family did when I was au-pair. No other language than Swedish while I was total 0 at Swedish. Learnt to understand some things within two weeks and talked basic stuff in 3 month. One of tactics was laughing on purpose when I said something wrong so that I would never make that mistake anymore.

[@Perkwunosik]

nah imagine telling them your relative just dead in a grammatically incorrect way and they just laugh at you

[@TheBilly]

Or maybe they just looked down on you and got a sadistic thrill out of it because you were an au-pair. 3 months for basic stuff isn't fast for an English speaker learning a Germanic language, so that was all just needlessly cruel

[@sincotarious519]

@@TheBillymost english speakers cant speak propper Norwegian or Swedish after years, id say 3 months is alright

[@if7363]

@@TheBilly English is not my first language. They felt righteous thinking they are doing massive job/good deed showing how they live and not knowing that we lived actually better.

[@if7363]

@@TheBilly English is way easier than my mother's tongue. It is same or way more difficult to learn our language than German. And it is not Slavic.

[@JDesrosiers]

Native french speaker here. Understood nearly nothing from the first soldier.

[@e-genieclimatique]

in brief: The video discusses the unique and intense methods employed by the French Foreign Legion to teach its recruits the French language. - The French Foreign Legion is known for its rigorous combat training and its strict approach to teaching French. - Communication on the battlefield is crucial, and with recruits coming from various linguistic backgrounds, everyone is required to learn French. - The Legion teaches French not as a second language but as a working language. - Recruits have 17 weeks to learn operational French, mastering 500 words and using them fluently in sentences. - From the first day, speaking any language other than French is strictly prohibited. - The Legion also assigns recruits a new French name, which they must respond to promptly. - The teaching environment can vary from a traditional classroom to outdoor settings. - The instructor is typically a platoon leader who also teaches French in a direct and no-nonsense manner. - The teaching method, known as the KY blong method, is based on repetition, incentive, and immersion. - The recruits are drilled repeatedly to ensure they understand and remember the words and phrases. - The main goal is for recruits to understand and relay orders in French. - The teaching approach is exceptionally practical, focusing on words and phrases that the recruits will use daily. - The instructor uses various techniques to teach, such as pointing to body parts and having the class repeat the corresponding French word. - Recruits are also taught military terms and equipment names. - If a recruit makes a mistake, they might be asked to do push-ups as punishment. - The Legionnaires end up speaking a dialect of French, influenced by the diverse backgrounds of the recruits. - Singing in French is a significant part of the training, with recruits singing various French songs, including the Legion's anthem. - The video concludes by directing viewers to another video for a more in-depth look at the Foreign Legion's language lessons. Overall, the video highlights the intense and immersive approach the French Foreign Legion takes to ensure its recruits learn French quickly and effectively.

[@CrispyRisp]

chatGPT vibes

[@jmwild22]

@@CrispyRisp Totally 😂

[@ianpeden2906]

If they are prohibited from speaking any other language than French, then their learning will be impaired. Languages are best learnt by reference to languages you already know for meaning acquisition.

[@joiesamaniego3056]

​@@ianpeden2906sadly, this is also how the US does this. Lessons are two weeks only. They say they need to be this tough for their survival.

[@NDScalio]

​@@ianpeden2906No, because it would promote the bad habit of relying on other languages when french is supposed to be the one everyone uses.

[@lisilonglegs]

Fascinating. This kind of training would certainly give you the needed motivation to learn.

[@DCS_World_Japan]

Language teacher who's been through similar (but civilian) language programs. The two things here are immersion and motivation (the "students" want to be there). If those two conditions are met anyone can learn any language fast.

[@Vagabund92]

Nice to see clips of "Thomas Gast - Der Legionär" a german former legionary. Very wholesome guy.

[@tianamichael]

I feel the same way as these légionnaires while doing my residency training in a Spanish speaking country. The stressful work environment forced me to learn faster. When you don't have the choice, you learn faster.

[@michelr2521]

L'armée, en générale , est un corps constitué qui n'accepte pas les particularismes. Tout doit fonctionner suivant un ordre établi, la langue technique doit être acquise très rapidement, etc... en fait il s'agit simplement de materialiser la motivation de l individu. Ne pas oublier que la legion est souvent en opérations extérieurs. Vidéo très intéressante, merci

[@alyssapowell1799]

It wasn't always true that French Foreign Legion members couldn't use their native language or had to learn French. In WW1, there were many Czech and Slovak recruits (some came from America and there were recruiting efforts in Chicago and Detroit) and they greeted each other with "Na zdar!" Thus, they were called the Nazdar Battalion. My great grandfather served in that unit and didn't speak a word of French. The Czech and Slovak volunteers to the Foreign Legion were promised that France would help promote free Czech and Slovak territories from the Austro-Hungarian Empire if they won.

[@Decamix300]

That's what the treaty of Trianon did right ?

[@DJHASDIMONDS]

@@Decamix300 and Saint-Germaine, austria and hungary were considered separate countries and had to sign their own peace treaties

[@jiribatysta87]

To be fair, the Nazdar company existed only from late august 1914 until the Battle of Arras in May 1915. The battle made them famous, but only 75 members survived and the company was disbanded, surviving members were scattered among different FFL companies and spoke French. And there were only two CzSk officers in Nazdar, the rest were French. The proper Czechoslovak legion in France formed in 1917 when transports with pow’s of serbians and romanians along with transports of thousands of easten front czechoslovak legionaries came to france. Thus 21st Czechoslovak rifle battalion was born, which was later made into the Czechoslovak brigade. But none of these were part of the French Foreign Legion, the brigade was part of the 53rd Infantry Division of the French army. Although they were Czechoslovak Legionaries from the Czechoslovak POV, they were not French Foreign Legionaries.

[@weaselbusters]

Nazdar kamo!

[@rosswade3602]

Looks like the Legion has dialed it down a bit. I read a book called "Five years in the French Foreign Legion" by Simon Murray. Writing from the 60s, seems like everything was enforced through violence. Insufficient progress in French meant slaps, a buttstock to the guts, or a thrashing if you were really dragging. It was basically an organization of fugitives and adventure seekers, molded into a powerhouse military organization. Probably still the case!

[@Sorel366]

I had a friend who was a former Legionnaire in the 90s. He was paired with a Russian guy and tasked to teach him the language but the guy absolutely refused. The officer advised to beat him with a stool while he was asleep. My friend did exactly that and the next day the Russian guy started speaking a bit of French. My friend also got beat several times by groups of officers for insubordination. Nowadays it’s a different type of culture and they’ve stopped taking criminals also.

[@Sorel366]

I had another friend who was given the choice to be released from prison and serve the rest of his time in a semi disciplinary regiment, that’s one notch below the foreign legion. After a while he got enough of it and opted to be sent back to prison.

[@alioshax7797]

Society in general changed a lot since the 60s; and militaries from all around the world followed. Violence is now rare in military units (I mean violence as a mean of training), even in the Legion.

[@siretriste4045]

An interesting fact was let unmentionned: up to a fifth of the recruits are already French speaking. In line with the esprit de corps doctrine, they are meant to also teach their classmates, to correct them, help them improve. Failure to learn French from their classmates is weighted extra-heavy on their shoulders, and it works!

[@haraffael7821]

I was left alone with the family of my Vietnamese girlfriend and she told them "I go take a shower, but you can talk to him"... I was not able to speak or understand Vietnamese back then... A fierce struggle and a few days later I was able to understand a little about food and about family

[@mlocascio656]

I had to take French in high school. I wasn't too good at it, but I loved it. Thanks for the video Olly, it's interesting and fun!

[@jujutomato]

t'inquiète pas je vis en France frèrot , je connais pas ton niveau mais je suis quasiment sûr que tu écris mieux français que la plupart des mongoles que j'ai pu croisé dans ma vie lol

[@doudouquent9725]

@@jujutomato Diantre, en voilà un langage bien familier ! N'avez vous donc rien de plus reluisant à redire sur notre gargantuesque vocabulaire?

[@jujutomato]

JPP 😂😂@@doudouquent9725

[@user-yh1nm1vy3i]

It would be cool to see more videos about central Asian and Siberian languages.

[@nsevv]

Yea especially Punjabi.

[@zabaanshenaas]

Yes, I would like to learn Chukchi.

[@lightray9264]

@@nsevvwe need a video on Indian languages in general. They’re the coolest languages in the world but none of them except Hindi are ever really given the light of day by language learners

[@user-yh1nm1vy3i]

@@lightray9264 especially the South Indian and Dravidian languages (Malayalam and kannada etc)

[@user-yh1nm1vy3i]

Chuvash, nganasan, sakha and ket are interesting

[@solveiglecosaque9783]

In France we are we proud of the French Foreign Legion 🇨🇵⚜️💪🏻

[@orboakin8074]

As a Nigerian who hopes to learn French, I support the French military. My country has been having several military drills and joint sessions with France.

[@reginapolo3357]

I just love your pop up inserts! 😂 they are too funny

[@happyslappy5203]

FFL soldiers must speak because: - 90% of FFL officers are French. 10% of officers serving in the Foreign Legion served first as a legionnaire, then as a non-commissioned officer. - FFL must fight alongside French regular troops and must coordinate assaults in French language. - CAS delivered by fighter jets and assault helicopters piloted by French pilots speaking French.

[@wulfhart2653]

and loyalty, France wants soldiers, not mercenaries.

[@siretriste4045]

FFL soldiers will also be granted French citizenship, eventually. So it's better for everyone that they do master French as a language, really

[@erenkur3832]

I could prefer this Method. It would be very hard though. My french teacher Was a french woman, she was not ordering us to make push ups but, she was speaking only in french. And I don't know but it was the fastest foreign language learning lessons I had. I would use French to ask questions and she would ansver in French

[@discreteloner9573]

Thanks KZbin algorithms for recommending this. Your method seem very effective and not boring. I will try to apply to my situation. I am looking to learn French. I don't have platoon leaders to tell me to do do push up. 😂 I really like the part that the teaching focus on everyday life stuff.

[@Just4FC]

You don't dream in French since you don't sleep, you write out the dictionary throughout the night... lol. Was a legionnaire for 11 years

[@bh2615]

Excellent channel

[@MajorDenisBloodnok]

That's why the FFL needs French or other native French language speakers recruits. They helped their comrades with the language and with the life in France. The FFL usually tries to maintain around 10 to 25% of French or French language speakers. But those last years, the part of native French language speakers is very low, so, 3 or 4 years ago, the FFL organized a public recruitment campaign in France. Officially, French citizens are not allowed to enlist as legionnaire in the FFL, so they enlist as Swiss, Belgian or French Canadian citizens. And by the way, my great grandfather was an officer in the the FFL.

[@laurentsteiner1744]

You can perfectly be French and join the legion. You will just be given a convenience nationality (Belgian, Swiss, etc) during your time

[@MajorDenisBloodnok]

@@laurentsteiner1744 It is exactly what I said...

[@laurentsteiner1744]

@@MajorDenisBloodnok indeed I read a bit hastily what you wrote ! My bad 😉

[@rockk3y413]

Hey Olly, I got your beginning french book! I love it 10/10 recommend.

[@davidknichal6629]

French Techniques to Learn English for example.........a must see vid 🤣

[@herrberg8962]

Nice to see Thomas Gast on another channel. :)

[@nexusdu06]

There seems to be an error in the translation at 6:25, it should be “I told you to hold the canoe, not to move it forward.”

[@izacgalvao6316]

I`m so Tankful that Exist this kind of channel. thank you olly

[@maryjanerx]

This looks so fun

[@sachinsah129]

Thanks you

[@mathewweeks9069]

Your awesome video be safe out there

[@leoncordell6165]

Active immersion with comprehensible input, who knew.

[@chrissiebotha8574]

Fluency and good grammar cannot be separated.

[@dumdum7099]

Really? Have you heard of Singaporean English, their grammar is not the best but they're fluent enough.

[@ryhk3293]

Oh, that I don't know. Butchering grammar fluently not possible? Bet you it is.

[@EdwardLindon]

​@@dumdum7099The answer is that Singaporean English grammar is not the same as eg British English grammar. All language has grammar. It is a necessary facet of language because language is impossible without communal rules.

[@dumdum7099]

@@EdwardLindon No they study British English grammar in school.

[@Ketutar]

LOL Good joke, Chrissie.

[@fred9267]

Excellent mec :)

[@mariapiasd2569]

🤣The words on the board at 3:15 !

[@pdterre5496]

With my current (slow) french learning I might consider joining ..

[@dakinoytc986]

Très intéressant

[@adamczajkowski2665]

"Kurwa" seems to be very common word in french nowodays. #polishculturalsupremacy

[@grandrequin111]

It's functional and it works. After their five years they are fluent. The legion also uses the mother tongues of the légionnaires to communicate with the local populations.

[@kfelix2934]

In reality, I think in foreign legion candidates have some basic French. The candidates that come thru have to know some basic French. This is why the Spanish Legion recruits candidates from a "Spanish Country or Colony". French is one of my favorite languages, I just can't speak it correctly. I did learn a lot while working in Central Africa and my ex-wife is a Francophone speaker. She was brutal in correcting me, and with my bad French.

[@GORANJOVIC631]

If you're Spanish it should not take that much time to learn French as it have the same roots as Spanish and Italian. I'm French and i've learned Spanish and German at school. Spanish was way easier for me, as you can mostly read Spanish and understand it even if you don't speak it, lot of smiilarities with French. I think that we should all have basic in the 3 most spoken Europeans language, because they are spoken all arround the world. French/English/Spanish.

[@EdwardLindon]

feutre/foutre lol. There's a minimal pair you want to get right...

[@Queridasweet]

Hahaha. This was SO FUNNY! Very lovely video. Thanks for making it👍🏾👌🏾

[@usefulmotivation1]

Great ❤

[@thinker646]

The ultimate TPR

[@parkash9999]

Nice. I love English language British accent. ❤❤

[@eimat67]

Someone needs to use some of this in Quebec.

[@f_bara2310]

I'm French and I think I will do this with Chinese, I'm struggling with this language because I don't spend enough time practicing…

[@ryhk3293]

I'm sure the Taiwanese armed forces are more than willing to take on a warm body!

[@barrelrole]

加油

[@Kannot2023]

Ask yourself for what you will use it. And focus on that

[@dunodolien674]

I am a native French speaker and most of people who speak French in this video are incomprehensible🥴😪. Hopefully I'm not recruited in this famous battalion called "legion étrangère".😅 Great video though 😊 Thanks for the tips and I will recommend it to my language partners who are English speakers. Thanks 👍

[@leneanderthalien]

Yes at debut some spellings are very difficult to understand, but they improve more and more over the time (progress is variable, the best results are if in the binome, one of them speak native french, in some cases, legionnaires who no speak one word french at entering, speak after some years fluent and correct french with only a light accent ...

[@narrom21]

aun no he leido un comentario del metodo, Powell Janaulus es real? se puede considerar metodo de aprendizaje acelerado?

[@KeisTravel]

Wow. It's very strict. That's the army! But I think this is one of the good ways to learn languages.

[@sanjivjhangiani3243]

If only I had joined the Legion! I could have had amazing adventures and improved my conversational French. 😅 3:13

[@riksim4242]

this is how a language should be taught !!!

[@yeetyeet7070]

lol 7:05 "le feutre ou..."

[@umaliensincero5475]

Ou você aprende ou apanha até aprender (definitivamente uma tecnica eficiente)

[@SalaF90]

I never learned grammar on English now I'm C1 😅 so yes most of this just listening and vocabulary

[@zvezda4701]

Oh, if someone could do this for/with me but in Dutch!

[@MasTheface-fs8yv]

Can you do a video on Navajo?

[@jessecortez9449]

I second this request. Not enough is done to promote learning languages like Navajo, Comanche, Nahuatl... These are considered endangered languages on the brink of becoming dead and while they might not be as wide spread and used as a second or third most spoken languages they do deserve being kept alive.

[@MasTheface-fs8yv]

@@jessecortez9449 agree, and it has such intresting/unique grammer.

[@lisanarramore222]

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[@MasTheface-fs8yv]

@@lisanarramore222 not in depth

[@LumocolorARTnr1319]

When I was 15 years old we had to learn 50 words in English every week as regular homework, you had to know at least 35 of them to pass the minimum on the weekly test. 500 words in 16 weeks is normal speed.

[@Ketutar]

my reaction exactly.

[@user-hp5bc5cy2l]

You get to b1 maybe b2 in 4 months. Our main instructor was the lt.

[@Briselance]

Would I be willing to learn languages this way? With drill sergeants, military training, and all? HELL YEAH!!

[@kumori_77]

it would be nice to see some videos like this but with more non-European languages, or just more videos in general focusing on languages from other countries than countries from Europe

[@guymarcgagne7630]

Sacrés Légionnaires! It is eminently practical and efficient - do not mess with success! A little positive reinforcement can be quite motivating! After all, you do want to earn your képi blanc, right!? Be well & stay safe

[@briquetaverne]

I learned French because of my late French mother who lived through the second world war, suffered a lot of humiliations while suffering under 4 years of occupation and loss of a normal childhood. Half of her house was blown away by B-17 bombs that missed their target luckily while she was in church. ***** My brother's first name was that of her former 15 year old boyfriend who was at the wrong place at the wrong time, pulled out of a bakery along with four other customers and lined up against the wall and machine gunned because some German was found dead in the vicinity. ***** My French isn't all that great but I can speak, read and write it if you'll excuse my frequent mixing of Le & La. ***** I masculinize almost everything (or talk in plurals so that I can eliminate the feminin ). When listening to others using pronouns like il and elle rather than direct nouns, I'm often tricked into looking for humans not lifeless items like chairs, cars, roadways, The Sun, The Moon, the mountain or the river (which depending on its length and width can be either masculine or feminine) ie "Le Fleuve Loir, "Il" est Grand... or La Rivière, Loire, "elle" est peu profonde". (It's the same G.D. river but upstream its a girl and down stream it became a boy) .... but even farther upstream when it's just a trickle of a 'brook' "Le Ruisseau" it becomes a boy again, "il" ? ****** My favorite BTW is that girls have masculine vaginas "Le Vagin" while boys have feminin Prostates "La prostate". The song that the Legionnaire was singing at the end of this clip had words that they obviously changed to suit the Legion for its own purposes. I was taught this song which was a throw back to the 19th century and its Lyrics (after one line of a trumpet playing the melody) went like this: As tu vu la casquette, la casquette, - Have you seen the cap, the cap As tu vu la casquette au père Bugeaud? - have you seen the cap of Father Bugeaud? Elle est faite la casquette, la casquette, - [she] It is made, the cap, the cap Elle est faite avec du poil de chameau. - It is made [from] with the hair of Camel. As tu vu la casquette, la casquette, -Have you seen the cap, the cap As tu vu la casquett' au père Bugeaud? - have you seen the cap of Father Bugeaud? Elle est faite la casquette, la casquette, - [she] it is made, the cap, the cap Elle est faite avec du poil de chameau. - it is made [from] with the hair of Camel. A final thought... Imagine you walked into the Church of Father Bugeaud. You see people looking under pews, behind the alter, up in the balcony and around the seats of the choir, and behind doors and you asked. "what are you all doing" to which someone replies "we're looking for her" - she's small and black". As an anglophone wouldn't you believe that everyone was looking for a little black girl, perhaps a toddler? Not a hat!

[@johnmartin2464]

Well seing as the Foreign Legion is part of the French Army and the operating language is French, it makes perfect sense.

[@Luggruff]

Moved to Greece FIVE years ago, and I still do not speak conversational Greek. I studied a few months before coming to Greece, and just recently started trying again with Duolingo. My girlfriend is Greek, but never, ever, tries to teach me anything (despite hundreds of attempts throughout the last three years, to tell her I want her to push me). When I came to Greece, I lived in a neighborhood where everyone was Scandinavian like me, and everyone I hung out with, was Scandinavian, and everywhere you go in Greece, you can get by with English. On rare occasion, someone will not speak Greek, but then you will manage with English and pointing etc. anyways. I know people who have come here not knowing English, and learned to become fluid in a year, simply because they had no other choice. I cannot express how jealous I am of that - really. After work etc. it is hard to say "I am now going to completely immerse myself in Greek" as I am also studying things like computer science, and when we watch movies or series, they are in English. If I were to immerse myself in Greek, I would have very little life outside of work.

[@caincawkwell8092]

I have a similar situation, GF is Greek after 4 years still can barely chime in to Greek conversations because they speak so fast. I use duolingo and if I ask she will try and teach me words but due to studying etc, it’s not to often I get any sort of help with a native speaker.

[@Luggruff]

@@caincawkwell8092 that sucks man. The GF is doing Duolingo too for Norwegian, and I guess since she already knows English, it is much, much easier for her to pick it up in a usable way. She understands most of what I say already after about a year, and she can form her own sentences etc.

[@legrognard2238]

Vive la France 💪🏻🇨🇵.

[@WineSippingCowboy]

This is more harsh than the US military. Here (in the USA 🇺🇸), military personnel apply to the DSLI in Monterey (south of my hometown San Francisco 🌉) , California (my home state). The Foreign Legion uses Pavlovian psychology to an extreme. Recruits learn because of survival instinct. I learned some words of languages I speak from being lost 🙄. Those situations forced me to speak in those languages. Good 👍 episode 👏

[@ryhk3293]

DSLI? You mean DLI? DLI's language training is entirely for a different purpose than the FFL's recruit language training.

[@laudemar-A.B.6386]

I didn't know there was a city called Monterey in California 🤔

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Monterey, close to Santa Cruz, is different than Monterrey, which is the 2nd most populated city in Mexico 🇲🇽. Late Stanford 🌲 dropout and famous writer John Steinbeck had Monterey as background for his book Cannery Row. 📖 . The Army had a base at Fort Ord, east of the city. Monterey is more famous for its aquarium. 🐟 I visited that many times as well as Ft. Ord, when it was a base. The notorious politicians passed the Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Ft Ord was 1 of many California bases which were closed. Certain politicians bought some of the land. Greedy SOBs 😈

[@laudemar-A.B.6386]

​@@WineSippingCowboyThe only Monterey I know is in Mexico 🤷 and as you say, it is the second most populous city in Mexico and is the capital of the state of Nuevo León 😎

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Ok. 👌 If you ever visit Northern California, you should include Monterey to the itinerary along with San Francisco 🌉 my hometown, Santa Cruz, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley and San Jose.

[@kingofdjembe]

I should be like this with my students. If they had to do pushup everytime they speak their mother language, they'd learn faster for sure.

[@MultiSciGeek]

Imagine the guy teaching you French speaking worse than you. Gosh what a nightmare.

[@davenci4778]

I liked your page when you were learning new languages and having us along on the journey. I am unsure what your aim is these days.

[@ltwinters30]

Hello Olly, is there any chance of releasing a book in the topics that matter series in Russian? I’d love to read either world wars or philosophy in Russian from your series. Thank you.

[@lorih2249]

I learned Spanish with this technique. By week 5 I was dreaming in Spanish.

[@shlacked2690]

how

[@Guitarman973]

Actually it seems like there is some progress in military language. Heard from one Ukranian historian that in Austro-Hungarian Army soldier wasn't obliged to know German but he must know 80 words. In Foreign French Legion soldier must know as much as 500 words. Definetely times have changed)

[@lugo_9969]

C'mon Olly. When will you do books & audio in the Frisian language ? It will be popular for EVERY WORLDWIDE student of 'Old English' ...... and that is millions of students.

[@underwatercrypto]

Being a native French speaker, I can tell you that the level of spoken French in this video is really low, even for those who seem to speak well. Anyway, thanks for sharing

[@copiouscat]

See that’s the thing, the point I noticed and what illy is explaining is not achieving ultimate fluency, it’s about actively speaking with confidence and minimum comprehension to listen and respond! Lol

[@underwatercrypto]

True but the words are wrong, and I wouldn't have understood if I had only heard the audio. At one point, he said 'Pompééé' in reference to 'push-ups,' but the correct pronunciation is 'pump.'" The thing is, it's the trainer who gets it wrong, not the soldiers.

[@jmwild22]

Exactly. @@copiouscat

[@jmwild22]

Didn't you get the part about the foreign legion having its own dialect? @@underwatercrypto

[@cleanthe3276]

I had the same feeling listening to them. It was sometimes hard to understand what they were saying, the teacher even made a pronoun mistake once. I suppose, as long as they understand each other, it's the most important.

[@Shansky]

7:02 the sentence ont top mean "the felt or the c*m"

[@francoispicard8507]

Food for though for the few Anglophones in Québec refusing to learn French :)

[@yodaz101]

Yes brutal.... radical french.. I served with french on my flank as NATO Ally....the don't muck About... Well trained.

[@ryhk3293]

Meh. They're okay. Foreign Legion are a mixed bag. All the NATO militaries have had ups and downs since the fall of the Iron Curtain. IMO, only Poland has really taken the idea of the national defense seriously for all 30 of the past three decades. That's why they're ahead of the curve now and first in line in getting the new South Korean tanks, self propelled artillery and rocket artillery, all more technologically advanced and capable than the American equipment.

[@dannyroosenboom3640]

once you know some basics, you learn most on the go meaning by using the language. this way i learned english, french and german while my natif language is Dutch. no really I speak a flemish diaalect but dutch is the official language beside french in Belgium. a word you don't understand? just ask to explain the word.

[@Charlieisbadatgerman]

I have your book in german. But, it is so hard for me to learn and benefit from it I also don't have loads of money to spend on language learning(like under 20 pounds). What should I do?

[@rixille]

Make do without. The internet is such a vast repository of information which can help accomplish this task.

[@Elriverside]

Ah! But speaking French without the romance…it’s like English without the cricket or football without a ball. Quel chagrin! But using consequences does work. It builds confidence. The fear factor of the error is lessened; the mistakes been made. That spring in the mind that bounces to reject a move is less likely to ping. The shame’s been suffered in the classroom so the error of repeating in public diminishes itself. If only I could get that year 10 cohort doing press-ups!…they’d sail through their orals with flying colours (Or even better to polish my shoes😂)

[@jean-paulboyer5800]

what is the meaning of ''EVLE'' on the carnet du legionnaire?

[@remoraexocet]

je tente une hypothèse: Engagé volontaire de la légion étrangère

[@castletransport]

Sounds a bit like learning by acquiring the language. Learning by seeing and repeating the words. That's what i'm doing now to learn Bisaya. I'm drawing the items or seeing pictures of them and copying the words I hear

[@jonaspete]

Very physical and mental demanding

[@sylvainduret9880]

Learn French, join the Legion 🇲🇫✨

[@Scalpaxos]

I'm not sure the method is the only thing to credit in this case, it matters of course but at the end of the day what counts is how much you're motivated, and as in any elite military force, if you don't have the motivation you're out, so the results are skewed here, the guys who can't learn French well enough are probably weeded out anyway and aren't accounted for, can't afford having a soldier unable to communicate in life or death situations. There's also the similarities between your own language and the language you want to learn, French for instance isn't the hardest language to learn for a native English speaker, English itself being like 30% French, for example the word "language" itself is a French word, literally, and if you add the words that have common Latin roots, a smart native English speaker can sometimes understand French with 0 French knowledge.

[@MultiSciGeek]

At this rate the Legion will soon produce a brand new language unintelligible with actual French, kinda like a creole.

[@ZEtruckipu]

Not exactly, eventhough it's true that légionnaires do use a lot of FFL slang, the same is true for any other french army unit. The Legionnaires need to be able to communicate fluently with native speakers since when they are deployed, they operate interdependently with other units (CAS, artillery support, logistics...) And these guys are native Frenchmen.

[@Renee-Heal-The-Eagle]

Yes you will suffer...we agree!😂

[@astermaris9908]

« Tiens, voilà du boudin, voilà du boudin. Pour les alsaciens, les suisses et les lo-rrains… » It’s stuck in my head now so thanks for that 😂 great video ^^

[@davidlacoste]

"Pour les Belges, y' en a plus, ce sont des tireurs au cul."

[@kingofdjembe]

4:20 J'en peux plus les mots sur le tableau "binouse, pinard, casser les couilles" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@titnesovic4522]

One word I certainly learned here, without even visiting the foreign legion: pomper!

[@Skiamakhos]

I daresay they couldn't do this in an ordinary UK school - but a boarding school perhaps, like a military academy? You'd get *so* fit.

[@EdwardLindon]

Yes, drilling students in the future/foutre distinction while they crawl through mud would probably be frowned upon. Political correctness gone mad...

[@ha_seldon7985]

They may speak French, but they swear in their own language 1:18 you can clearly hear the Polish "kurwa"

[@pitkafka]

exactly ;)

[@Morocco.Barbara_67]

Actually it's just their accent

[@elainer8288]

Thank you! Sorry to say, but the audio of the video is not so good...

[@jeancharland3858]

La meilleure methode pour faire apprendre le francais a McGill et Concordia.

[@WisdomTrad]

I feel like this is a repeat video- I watched something about French foreign legion a few months ago...