happiness is a matter of choice | Sandra Meunier | TEDxCannes

Through an emotional and inspiring speech, Sandra Meunier, art therapist in palliative care, raises questions about our ability to focus on what is positive and alive, when confronted to illness and end of life. Without denying our suffering , our painful experiences can also inspire us. Let's practice joy every day before it's too late!

[@ani9514]

Who came here just to practice their French for a test? xD

[@jeuadventures9454]

MOI

[@acwyoun6639]

Moi aussi.

[@mengjiexu1477]

moi aussi!

[@bluewatergames8664]

Nope i just came because i want to learn the language in general haha :)

[@nicnic5753]

Me too

[@undergroundskeptic2916]

Je utilise cette vidéo de pratiquer mon français... Et j'aime Ted Talks.

[@naralyvann2060]

+Amy Samuels Moi aussi :D

[@horsdad]

+Amy Samuels oui moi aussi, je trouve cette méthode très utile

[@hanane4226]

+Amy Samuels moi aussi ^^

[@jacopol1525]

+Amy Samuels moi aussi :D

[@BybiGurl1]

mdr moi aussi

[@KylYou]

I watched this hoping to prepare for a french listening test because the more we listen the better we get at it. But i didn't expect such depth and meaning in this. I started tearing up and remembered the important things in life. Merçi

[@yvonnepkable]

This is exactly what happened to me as well. What an amazing woman!!

[@faykuo]

The same with me.

[@juanpablopradamejia827]

sommes deux

[@DameLouve]

Sandra Meunier est vraiment passionnante! Un Ange terrestre qui donne envie de transmettre la joie! Merci; douce Fée! merci pour ce joli flambeau à partager sans lasse!

[@drlaouina2624]

Très touchante merci pour la joie que vous avez partagé avec nous

[@tamarapogossyan4926]

Je suis complètement attendrie par ce discours mérveilleux!

[@alessandrob8182]

Merci Madam Sandra pour cette merveilleuse leçon.

[@vavavooooooooom]

Absolutely beautiful (the speech, the woman, the french language). Thanks for this talk.

[@denisblondeau4731]

Merci Sandra pour ce beau message que tu transmets pour créer plus de joie et de sens à notre vie ! Bonne continuation ! Tourlou xxx Denis

[@bhavitadoshi1107]

c'est juste merveilleuse ...... mon point de vie sur la joie totalement change merci beaucoup

[@heatherfeather1293]

How wonderful! I am trying to learn French and the message in this video is wonderful. We should all chase our dreams. Life is just too short.

[@cyberdemon9306]

Sûrement un message incroyable.. quelle belle voix !!

[@Arhod1]

Merci pour cette leçon de bonheur ☺

[@nic4894]

Suis-je l'unique personne qui pense qu'elle a une belle voix ?

[@beanyironebakay1005]

Non, je le trouve, moi aussi

[@sachatouille3532]

Vous êtes deux

[@FabioOliveiraCantor]

Non. Je pense la même chose !

[@joeldumont9528]

C'est normal, l'amour rend tout beau.

[@loufredougrim2722]

Itou! Quelle belle voix en effet, et quelles chouettes paroles, et quelle jolie vidéo ! :)

[@FabioOliveiraCantor]

J'ai regardé cette vidéo pour apprendre français mais maintenant je suis plus heureux. Merci!

[@misskapoor9122]

J'aime cet video et j'ai compris chaque mot qu'elle a dit. De plus, le sens de la video est aussi clair. C'est super! J'aime TedTalks

[@gentilmariechristine7647]

BRAVO Sandra!

[@paulbrundtland6749]

Wonderful!

[@user-de2to2df7z]

This is a great talk! It's too bad that we often do not realize that we have much more than we think, until we lose it all.

[@dominic.chonlahan1773]

Екатерина Чуракова and

[@traditionsHome]

Fantastic!

[@salahadin821]

J'adore elle est merveilleuse

[@mariaelisregina6519]

i'm here to learn French throught English subtitles. So, i'm from Brazil btw. Merci.

[@martinsmartins7506]

Maria Elis Regina - Brazilians together learning another languages yeahhhh :)

[@morbidsearch]

Watching with French subtitles would be more effective

[@yuzhoutang1515]

Feel the beauty of French from her voice ^ ^

[@RoIIingStoned]

J'aime !

[@audererolle3770]

Bon, ben voilà, tout est dit... Un entraînement de coureur de fond... Mais au bout, la joie !

[@salimhuss5446]

wow...

[@marieclairemathot4135]

Bonjour. MERCI, Sourire....

[@vilainpetitcrapaud]

Merci pour cette belle leçon

[@FitzzBang_the_Swaffelaar]

Perhaps a french title is more suitable

[@bereniceriaudo2361]

J´ai senti tout sa amour!!

[@cesardoppia4301]

c'est pas son mon metier qui est extraordinaire, c'est elle .....quelle magie, quelle femme ....sublime, j'aimerais tellement avoir des personne comme sa sur ma route ... ELLE est sublime .

[@cesardoppia4301]

Merci pour le message, merci beaucoup....

[@Comentsister]

❤️

[@ArslanChaudhary-kr3gj]

Très bonne vidèo Pour apprender le francaise,C'est très apprècie,

[@truth364]

Le bonheur est une question de choix. voilà le titre en français

[@huntington1016]

Bravo! J'aime beaucoup son/ses message. Sorry i do not know if message if masculine or feminine. My french is bad. My guess is feminine since it ends with e?

[@consciousmind450]

message est masculin c'est " le message " even if it ends with an "e"

[@geedug2475]

Why are foreign talks not treated the same as English talks? It's a two-tier site which doesn't cater in the same fashion for English speaking foreign language learners. For example, an English learner gets audio in L2 and gets two-way interactive subs in L1 and in L2 on the Ted site. As English speakers, we get interactive subs in L1 & L2 but no audio on the Ted site and have go to YT where we get audio in L2 and one-way non interactive subs in L1 and L2. It's not really fair and I urge everyone to make this point to Ted. I contacted them about it 6 months ago but nothing has been done.

[@yarahpacheco4088]

Est-ce que a été seulement moi qui s'est rendu compte que ne personne s'est élevé pour la applaudir°

[@kemnyz]

hello, can someone help me with French? I am a beginner and would like to be fluent.

[@craighamilton4189]

Duolingo

[@craighamilton4189]

***** je suis en accord avec toi

[@elijah-he975]

Craig H. No, try Rosetta Stone, it says the words clearly and right, use Rosetta Stone, if I were you, I would use Rosetta Stone, when I try it, i saw a big difference between the two, Duolingo doesn't say the words correctly many time and it says them too fast.

[@craighamilton4189]

Elias Manzanares yh, but it's expensive

[@floyd4life73]

Duolingo, with the help of a grammar book. Some are open-source PDFs and aren't hard to find. I speak French thanks mostly to Duolingo though

[@ayaanwar27]

Why is not it translated in english

[@vuhongnhung4935]

Abdo Abdalla you can turn on the cc button

[@ayaanwar27]

Vũ Hồng Nhung How can I find that button?

[@vuhongnhung4935]

When you are watching a video, just click on the 3 dots button on the right corner on the top of the screen. You will see subtile, turn them on. Hope that it will help

[@patriciaebrahim3471]

Salut, est-il un orateur français qui me aider à apprendre le français?

[@ayoubrami7863]

+Trisha Marie je peux vous aider

[@patriciaebrahim3471]

+ayoub rami Oui, je pense. Merci beaucoup, je suis très mauvais en français mais voudrais en savoir plus.

[@ayoubrami7863]

+Trisha Marie comment puis je vous aider?

[@hassanmouahhidi703]

il faut joindre l utile à l agreable

[@yuropean_eunion2133]

she gave me an anxiety attack when i was high lmao

[@pmccarthy001]

Pollyanna... I've always loved Pollyanna! However, I'm uncertain that we're all equal in our capacity to be Pollyannaish. First, I suspect there is some hereditary components to how we respond to stressors... we don't choose our genetic makeup. Secondly, I think to some extent no matter perhaps how you choose to look at things, greater environmental stressors likely will make it more difficult for many of us to remain positive and enthusiastic. There's also questions here concerning authenticity. Could it just be that some people are just simply miserable people? If being miserable is your authentic self, then... Further, although I'm not certain this is entirely inconsistent with her thesis, arguably sorrow is simply part of the human experience too. If the sorrow is authentic, then should one try to put a smile where a tear might arguably be more appropriate?

[@geosutube]

+Daisy Bell You appear to be so focussed on defending depressions that you are not able to see the beyond what it is in front of your face. The forest for the trees. The reality of now opposed to the fear of when? who knows?

[@isachris0509]

geosutube ,.

[@Julia-lk8jn]

True about there _might_ be some hereditary factors, but then that's also true for other things, like how athletic we can potentially be. Not everybody of us has the genetics to be a world-class ballet dancer, but almost all of us are lucky enough to have a body that can be athletic, given the training. Same for being Pollyannaish.

[@zehraeroglu9406]

Comment

[@bernardmansire8642]

😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁❤

[@crimsonrose2417]

Quelle belle femme (Je suis américain donc mon français est mauvais)

[@antevenio8303]

seeing someone as a clown is uplifting?- or making fun at the persons expense - anger-raising

[@jamesfox8930]

FAIRE RIRE QN

[@morbidsearch]

The French audience is very un-responsive. The Americans cheer or laugh after everything.

[@peristiloperis7789]

Est-ce que je suis l'unique personne qui pense que il y a quelque chose de bizarre en cette femme?

[@salahadin821]

VOUS n'êtes pas le seul , moi aussi je pense qu'il y a quelque chose bizare en elle.

[@salahadin821]

Bizarre de façon positive bien sûr:)

[@askwhy8875]

Pas du tout et je trouve que sa voix est adorable. Chicken Soup for Hard Times- Chinese/Français/English There are subtitles in many languages but not in Chinese. I translated the whole but I am sharing only few of them because no one appreciates any hard work in the Hard Times. 半空（消极）? 还是半满（积极）：对半杯水的正负两面看法/voir le verre à moitié vide ou à moitié plein/see the glass half empty or half full； 不是悲伤，却是喜极而泣/il pleure, non de tristesse, mais de joie/he is weeping not with sadness but with joy； 传递爱心，收获爱心/je lui envoie plein d'amour, et elle m'en envoie en retour/I give her loads of love, and she gives it back to me； 每天都要用心体验幸福/La joie, ça se travaille, tous les jours/You need to practice joy every day； 白驹过隙当珍惜，莫到临终方悔恨/profitez de la vie avant qu'il ne soit trop tard/Live your life to the full before it’s too late; 生命本身就很美好/le simple fait de vivre est déjà merveilleux/The mere fact of living is already wonderful； 满足并感恩，而不是欲望难平/Soyons content de ce que nous avons plutôt que de vouloir toujours plus/Be satisfied with what we have instead of always desiring more； 拥有梦想，在太迟之前尽力实现它/Ayons un rêve, et réalisons-le avant qu'il ne soit trop tard/Have a dream, make it happen before it’s too late； 活在当下/vivre le présent/live in the present； 不要再做自哀自怨的极品/arrêtons d'être des champions du monde du malheur/Stop being the world champions of misforture -justiceQC/律政混混， IForYou, Tumblr blogger (English/Chinese), the first one who translated Quebec Business Corporations Act (2011) into Chinese, a voice for little people, ordinary people and minority people in Quebec, Canada!

[@caseyblue3218]

Cette femme est belle.

[@antevenio8303]

People need Jesus

[@nicolaspalacios7083]

What on earth was she smocking, jaja.

[@peristiloperis7789]

C'est une actrice. Elle vit dans un monde fantastique.

[@jimjimmy2636]

je suis nausée. cette femme est une vraiment folle. j'ai essayé de pratiquer mon français, mais maintenant, je veux me tuer :)

[@Hari-888]

I felt the same way, there is something very wrong about her