How French sounds in an EVERYDAY FRENCH CONVERSATION // French in Real Life in a FAST FRENCH ACCENT

[@devjanichakraborty6204]

Bonjour ! Alexa, Merci beaucoup ! This was my request for the sentences we use in everyday life ! 😃

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

Hey! Thanks for the recommendation!! Hope you enjoyed the video 😍

[@devjanichakraborty6204]

@@learnfrenchwithalexa Yes,certainly ! Alexa,you are a wonderful French teacher and I really love watching your videos ! Though I am an Indian but your French lessons seem quite inspiring and love French culture as it is seems very fascinating laced with simplicity ! I would like to be a French teacher like you in my next birth ! 😃

[@aayushi1991]

Thanks Alexa I requested for this

[@you-tuber8636]

@@learnfrenchwithalexa thnks you are the best tearcher i have ava see thanks for you learning as french i have a big respect my queen tearcher💖💖🌹🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@WalkwithMideNancy]

Great video thank you 😊 I was confused at first, hearing people say something like « Orr’ voir » almost everywhere; when leaving the mall, bank, boulangerie etc meaning « au revoir »😂

[@fabricerocha492]

French is not a language, it's a state of mind.

[@Whillyy]

it's funny because when i started learning english at school, my teacher said "english are very lazy people; so when they have to say "it is" they say "it's" instead, also you have to say "you're" and "i'm"" and she kept repeating that everytime, like the negation(i can not/i can't) So i kept this "english are more lazy than french" idea in my mind for years

[@jeanjacques9365]

@@Whillyy The difference is that it is acceptable to use contraction in written form in English while it isn't in French. All languages are "lazy" it's a universal trait to simplify languages in the spoken form, the written form doesn't always follow and that's were the state of mind of a language comes into play (prescribing or describing usage)

[@lawtraf8008]

@@jeanjacques9365 You're speaking facts. Are you French ? Your name is French

[@jeanjacques9365]

@@lawtraf8008 French Canadian, I teach French (and occasionally English) with a focus on pronunciation and I have a basic linguistic background

[@letstradetogether2897]

jean jacques nobody cares

[@TomGeorgin]

French in textbooks: "Je ne sais pas mon ami" French in France: "ché pa frr"

[@K3rhos]

Dans la bouche des gamins ou de ceux qui se prennent pour des "racailles" j'entends ça, mais la plupart du temps avec des gens "normaux" c'est juste "j'sais pas" ou "chais pas". Bon après je penses que ton comm est au second degré mais bon juste pour dire qu'on a trop tendance à démocratisé ce français "racaille"/"ghetto".

[@TomGeorgin]

@@K3rhos Oui, c'était du second degré, mais je tiens aussi à aimablement vous rappeler que le français est une langue vivante, et que, par conséquent, elle évolue avec la population qui la parle. Donc catégoriser ces gens péjorativement ne fait pas de vous un sauveur de la langue :) Bonne journée !

[@lieeyy]

@@K3rhos plutôt que de les qualifier de gamins ou de racailles, vous auriez pu tout simplement dire que les jeunes d'aujourd'hui ont tendance à parler de cette façon, parce qu'avec votre commentaire, vous ne faites qu'avoir l'air d'un adulte cynique ne supportant pas l'évolution de la langue avec les générations !

[@K3rhos]

@@TomGeorgin Je ne me vois pas du tout comme un sauveur de la langue, désolé si je t'ai vexé parce ce que toi tu parles comme ça, mais "ché pa frère" c'est vraiment tout sauf du respect, tu parle à tes potes comme ça si tu veux mais dans la rue ou aux autres c'est un manque de respect total, c'est pas une question de sauver la langue ou quoi ici, c'est une question d'éducation.

[@TomGeorgin]

@@K3rhos Je ne parle pas comme ça. Ou peut-être que je parle comme ça parfois pour reprendre ces codes de façon un peu sarcastique ? J'en sais rien, ce qui est sûr, c'est que dans un débat, on n'est pas obligé de défendre son opinion, on peut aussi débattre pour débattre. Et je ne parlais pas de cette expression dans le contexte de la vidéo (que je n'ai même pas vue du coup). Je parlais de cette expression de manière générale, et donc potentiellement utilisée dans un contexte adapté : avec ses amis notamment, pour reprendre l'exemple que vous avez cité à juste titre.

[@mathdynn4839]

and for the question:" can younreapet the question"-> Vous pouvez répéter la question? in french we say :"heiiiin" 😄😄

[@flodid4965]

Stéphanie de Monaco

[@morganechaili]

😂

[@sweetlolitaChii]

Ouais 🤣🤣

[@israadouar2541]

Lol😂🤣

[@Tylia_equitation]

rip c ça mdrr

[@Neyobe]

As a French learner I find the ‘ne’ being almost nonexistent very interesting

[@_Minervart_]

Well yes, we tend to drop it a lot to make the sentence easier and shorter. It's very common but if you were going to pronounce "'ne", we wouldn't care haha Sometimes, I add "ne" when I speak but in a shorter way. Example: "Tu ne peux pas" (you can do) can become "tu'n peux pas" It really depends but we usually drop it ^^

[@Neyobe]

@@_Minervart_ thank you!!!!!

[@_Minervart_]

@@Neyobe if you even need help I'm here ^^

[@Neyobe]

@@_Minervart_ ❤️

[@RemplacementTV]

It's a very bad habit and completely wrong , even for french people

[@ceciliaslepmet4840]

As a French person, I'm sorry for anyone who is trying to learn french. But don't lose hope! You can do it!

[@mayganphynix8267]

aw this is sweet. ❤

[@entertainer106]

Do you think I would be made fun of if I spoke more formally when visiting France for the first time as an English speaker? I'd rather first understand and memorize a lot of the words lol!

[@liam5866]

@@entertainer106 Maybe try a mix between the two options. I’m Québécois and even though I use local slang and fast ways, I try to keep a neutral accent when speaking to strangers or clients

[@NightinGal89]

😂

[@MrRubikraft]

I'm French and I don't particularly apologize, as it is equally as difficult to learn English :-)

[@pitioti]

Other language: French, you have too many silent letter. French: Are you underestimating my power? *Proceed to have contraction*

[@hugo.p6572]

masterclass 🤣🤣 this should be top com

[@dexter9313]

Proceed to have silent words ("ne") ^^

[@quentindarbon5358]

@@dexter9313 it's more like "i do not do something" which would become "i don't do something" not=ne pas and we cut the "ne"

[@abmusicfrance]

As a French native, I have to admit that it's TOTALLY TRUE ! Sorry fellow foreigners, we made this even more difficult... Please keep going

[@Tinta34]

On ne doit pas habiter dans le même pays alors, la plupart de ces contractions sont fausses et de la pure flemme. Si c'est représentatif de notre nation, il est stupide de le clamer ici. Merci Arthur.

[@user-un1nv7ks9f]

@@Tinta34 c'est des contractions qu'on peut entendre dans la vie de tous les jours, je ne sais pas pourquoi vous dîtes que c'est faux, on ne parle pas comme ça dans un cadre formel ou professionnel mais dans la vie de tous les jours et dans la rue si

[@AlterSolis]

@@user-un1nv7ks9f Exactement, c’est purement et simplement le langage parlé. Ce dernier est différent du français formel sous beaucoup d’aspects. Je trouve qu’on ne met pas assez l’accent sur ces différences alors qu’elle peuvent impacter la compréhension du français (surtout pour un étranger). D’où l’importance de souligner cette différence!

[@Paul_N-M]

En même temps, selon la région peut-être que les contractions de phrase ne sont absolument pas les mêmes. Personnellement, dans le sud, j'ai rarement entendu des contractions comme "kek chose" ou "pass ke" mis a part dans la bouche de jeunes enfants qui maladroitement font sauter des consonnes qui rendent difficile la fluidité des leurs phrases. J'ai l'impression que dans le nord, ce genre de contraction est plus commun.

[@Tinta34]

Je suis entièrement d'accord avec Aponuit, j'accorde que mon commentaire était hypra agressif dans la forme et ce à tort, mais le fond n'est pas si absurde. Je suis heureux d'entendre les étrangers ou touristes mieux utiliser notre langues que la plupart des natifs, je fais parti des frustré par la nouvelle génération et le français bâclé, si l'on pouvait éviter d'enseigner des raccourcis à ceux désireux d'apprendre, ce serait bien, non ? Par ailleurs, les dites contractions correspondent au parlé de certaines régions et nous avons la chance d'avoir la quasi totalité de notre pays doté d'un fort potentiel touristique. Faire le détail aurait été fastidieux, mais quand même. Qui aimerait entendre un « Ch't'aime plus. » ?!

[@ezioaugustus2621]

Just when I thought French couldn't get more confusing.

[@marcos_silvestri]

True

[@daisym.7023]

The video is useful but she fails to explain clearly why this happens. It’s not just a matter of “speaking fast”. The negation “ne” drops off in spoken French. That is - for example - one of the reasons. So, I share you pain with French. Hehe. Again: I think the video is good but a more systematic review of why some of these happen, would be cool.

[@Gandanlf95]

Are you confused when using "it's" instead of "it is" ? Because it is exactly the same thing that is happening in French. Note that for some of these expressions, you should not speak in that way at the office, because it sounds too familiar

[@noisy99_]

Ikr lmaoo

[@Djlabrie10]

I'm a french canadian and I'm laughing so hard right now!!! Way easier to learn english as second language than french

[@karimb.]

As a French speaker, I recommend to understand these words but I don't recommend to "use" them in a daily conversation, especially in a professional environment/formal conversation. Some expressions like "ché pas" instead of "je ne sais pas" are very familiar and you should not use this with your boss/administration or in formal conversations, only with friends/family.

[@siskaesther3142]

I see.. merci 🙏

[@yeayea7062]

thanks but irl i think i need to be fluent in both tbh 😔

[@pattjer]

Agreed

[@mamagft1318]

Thanks for the advise

[@patriciaingraldi4719]

Thank you. I was really hoping that was the case.

[@868tatj]

After watching this, i am convinced the french didn’t want anyone else to understand or learn french 😭 Edit update: I haven’t given up, just really training my ear as best as possible to the sounds, repeating out loud, still 1A

[@raziellight7507]

Same goes for English you know xD

[@vin7202]

@@raziellight7507 yeah: daughter and laughter doesnt even sound the same. they look similar, but sound very different lol

[@isai1331]

In Spanish some sentences work in the same way, so if you are familiar with Spanish then you could find the trick !

[@868tatj]

@@raziellight7507 i might be biased cause english is my first language haha but I do empathise with anyone who has to learn all the arbitrary spelling and pronunciation rules

[@868tatj]

@@isai1331 nooo way! Spanish definitely has less random rules like french does especially for pronunciation. For me the hardest part of Spanish is context, that a word can go from innocent to vulgar haha

[@Olive-bf5hv]

For "je t'aime" we say "chtem" when we mean more "I like you" but to mean "I love you" we clearly say "Je t'aime"

[@Çağla-n2s]

You mean there is no Word for like

[@lucie840]

Le mot " aimer" est utilisé pour "like" and "love".

[@Olive-bf5hv]

@@Çağla-n2s for like we say "Je t'aime bien"

[@Çağla-n2s]

@@lucie840 also in turkish there is only one word for this

[@raphaelguerin2691]

@@Çağla-n2s no there isnt ! In french there are way less words than in english ! You probably know this already but for example green,worm,glass,towards,vair,verse… are all pronounced ver in french so context is really important and that’s one of the reasons why French is so damn complicated to learn !

[@zerminermw5809]

pour ajouter de la difficulté on peut parler du "verlan"

[@Eklipso_dnb]

Ce serait une erreur de leur apprendre l'argot haha

[@vez752]

Y faut leur apprendre le language texto aussi mdr, ça va chier des bulles jpp 😭😭😂

[@xlyanaa]

@@Eklipso_dnb c'est vrai mais on utilise le verlan mdr, genre rien que pour "meuf" "veuch" "véner" etc on l'utilise mdr

[@vez752]

@@xlyanaa Tu viens de m'apprendre que meuf ct du verlan, grâce à toi je verrai plus ce mot de la même façon 😭

[@costumelandtv9079]

@@vez752 Vu qu'on est dans le sujet des anglais qui apprennent le français, Paul Taylor a tout un passage de son spectacle sur le verlan, et son traitement du mot "meuf" est à mourir de rire ^^ Mais oui, "meuf", c'est le verlan de "femme". Une fois qu'on le sait, c'est logique.

[@dembonez19]

This is just like English when we say, "Dunno" or "'Cause" or contract words together like "Couldn't" or "Won't". "Ain't" is a good one.

[@fosmith61]

How about "imina" for "I'm going to"..

[@bobbiusshadow6985]

@Simon .. and then you also have Quebec spoken familiar French between them

[@ewarioevan783]

yain't

[@brokensymmetry1874]

The contractions aren’t a good example, since those are actually words, unlike “chais pas” 😅

[@conlangknow8787]

I'm going to->I'mma I'm going to have->I'mma've

[@lunatism9714]

Reading comments about how hard french is is oddly satisfying

[@Kebbab.213]

As a French yeah. I don't know it makes me happy that I speak it natively

[@wayne9287]

Try to learn russian and come again.

[@urshochstrasser8859]

@@wayne9287 с удовольствием ☺️

[@lawtraf8008]

Same because I'm a native French speaker and I feel so superior rn lol

[@TheEtherny]

Por que no te has molestado en aprender lenguas mas dificiles, los chinos se rien de todo el mundo por que eso si es dificil

[@doctornico1759]

C'est toujours drôle de tomber sur ce genre de vidéos en tant que Français^^

[@laguardiawolfgang6736]

Grave on prend vraiment conscience que on a une langue grave difficile ! Pour nous l’Anglais c’est grave facile comparé à ceux qui veulent parler Français les pauvres quoi

[@akikoneko6700]

@@laguardiawolfgang6736 ça me rappelle que je doit être heureuse d’être française pour pas avoir à l’apprendre 😂😂

[@lavenvnr]

Et ta les Québécois qui sont encore au dessus xD

[@laguardiawolfgang6736]

@@akikoneko6700 Grave on parle la plus belle langue du monde !!! N’en déplaise aux rageux 😂😂😍😍

[@laguardiawolfgang6736]

@@lavenvnr Vous parlez Anglais et Français ! 😂😂🤣🤣

[@alexanderroberts5223]

I'm not sure I understand. I thought French was already fundamentally based on dropping sounds in words. You're telling me they drop sounds on top of dropping sounds?

[@tiggyvolts9076]

Yup, basically. Been learning it half of my life and I still find stuff I never realised existed despite doing it myself

[@almostyumi]

Oui

[@Pwassoncru]

French was never about dropping sounds in words. I know that’s a joke, but still, it has never been the case. What you call dropping the sounds, is in fact making the word coherent to its family and it’s position in sentence, for better understanding and expression. That’s what make sense in the language, compared to something like English where rules just feels like they have been invented randomly by a drunk person. But yes, we have a tendency to shorten everything (talking and writing). An example that many American told me when I was there: nobody says McDo in USA, they say McDonald …. In France, you will never, but really never, hear McDonald pronounced fully.

[@nomoremrniceguy8106]

Oui, but not as much as they drop the pants.

[@TheEtherny]

Exactly my thoughts, as a spanish speaker this infuriates me to the point I think I might just quit french and take Italian instead, they don't have like 5 variants for each vowel and write letters that aren't even pronnounced!

[@Francis...]

I'm not skipping any ads cause I think that you are a great teacher.

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

Merci Francis 😅😍

[@supercheriff1424]

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[@HakimHakim-et9bs]

@@learnfrenchwithalexa bonjour

[@ewea13]

Vraiment intéressant, on s’rend pas compte de toutes les contractions qu’on fait, s’dingue 😂

[@Laurent69ftm]

spa croyable

[@creativeguyyy]

M’enfin !

[@StudioNetcom]

Ouaip, c fou d'même.

[@razanatsoasamimah1623]

Vive la France 😂😂😂😂

[@wendyy9299]

Attend qu’ils apprennent qu’on utilise le verlan ... les pauvres

[@cestlaphie]

I feel like learning French is learning 3 different languages at once. There’s the formal way I learned to speak in school, the structure of how things are actually said, then the entirely new way it’s slurred and pronounced 😭😭😭😭 I’m doomed. But it’s so beautiful I will never give up!

[@K3rhos]

We contract almost every words in everyday life, but DO NOT use theses contracted forms in a professional setting because you will look like a guy from a really far and lost campaign. lmao

[@antodzl4229]

Haha you are just starting,you didn't see the verlan,wich IS pretty much saying words backward giving them a new close definition, good luck

[@CamilleChauTempsDesCerises]

Good luck :)

[@akikoneko6700]

4 avec le verlan 😭

[@loissanchez6280]

Well I'm French and you're quite right, everything said in the video happens when you're with your friends or family or any person you want to be friend with, moreover speaking French "too well" could make you look condescending in some situations... We only speak formal French when you want to show respect to the person you're talking with But French is a really hard language and even a lot of French speakers have difficulties to express themselves in formal French in comparison inglish is way more easy ^^

[@KAKEYY]

Je suis vraiment en train de me poser des questions sur ce que je regarde à cette heure ci 😭😂 (Les recommandations la nuit mdrr)

[@pillowsrosie6487]

Jte juure pareil il est 2h du mat

[@laguardiawolfgang6736]

@@pillowsrosie6487 04:54 du matin ! 😂😂

[@pillowsrosie6487]

@@laguardiawolfgang6736 bahahah mooood

[@cococha3670]

Mdr pareil 😭🤣

[@ElimeIsReady]

Même affaire! 😅 Je suppose que l’algorithme KZbin est juste « Quoi d’mieux que du bon vieux joual Français pour s’endormir! »

[@minamotoyoritomo6239]

As a native French speaker, this is almost completely true, except for the "faut que j'y aille" part, this is not "fo'k'zhee-al" but "fo'k'zhee-aye"

[@InTheTrenchesOfFrance]

Voilaaaa ptdrrrr j'me disais que ct bizarre

[@MasonHatfieldLogorrhea]

Maybe that is a regional thing because to my knowledge she is a French native; although I myself have never heard it pronounced that way lol

[@minamotoyoritomo6239]

@@MasonHatfieldLogorrheaoh there's absolutely no doubt she's a French native, I don"t know any part of France where you would say it this way though. Maybe it is a small mistake - which does not alter the fact that the video is great and very important for any French learner !

[@twindumb]

Me too. But since I’m not a native I thought it’s a regional thing but it sounded weird!

[@landreaumorel971]

I think it's from the East and North of France, I've heard it when speaking to people from Lorraine, Lyon, Franche-Comté, Bourgogne, Nord Pas de Calais and even Normandie. At first it sounded like an "error of pronunciation" to my ears, but then you realize no body pronounces anything in the same way. I was raised in Poitou and say "fo kji aye".

[@Alain_01]

Ohhh my Lord, lol as a native french speaker, I used to watch this type of video but in English (I have learned to speak English only 2 years ago) it's really funny to hear my french behaviour. Merci pour ton contenu

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

Haha! It's funny how it all comes around. Je vous en prie 💙

[@markbernier8434]

Go see English with Lucy.

[@cusdu63]

I'm so glad to be a native French, having known this language since I was born. Huge kudos to foreign people who, one day, deliberately made the brave but masochistic choice of learning this language.

[@ragiakilany651]

🤣🤣🤣

[@dimmykarras9287]

lol. It's difficult indeed.

[@CptVein]

I'm French Canadian and this is hilarious and 100% accurate!

[@EIIy]

It's even worse for french Canadian

[@ForestRaptor]

@Lalogue more of this! I just love torturing my French French brain with Québécois (aka Canadian french) xD

[@miti314]

Comme quoi, ce n'est pas qu'une spécialité Québécoise !

[@Eklipso_dnb]

100% je sais pas, il faut que j'y all

[@miti314]

@@Eklipso_dnb J'aurais plutôt dis : Faut qu'j'y aille ! 🙋‍♂️

[@annie_c6964]

Even as a native french speaker, seeing the way we really pronounce it, makes me laugh so much XD

[@antizombiepasbeaux]

Hi, I'm french and just saying that even as a French native I'm lost when it comes to speaking my own language. So best wishes to you all trying to understand us when we don't even understand ourselves sometimes!

[@Ahmed-fc8yz]

Are you still learning it?

[@antizombiepasbeaux]

@@Ahmed-fc8yz well I'm 25 and it's my native language but even then we always still learn new things along the way of our life. And native French speakers rarely really understand how everything works in our own language. I mean, it is already a pain to remember all the different form of verbs, even common ones. But I especially have a light mental issue that makes it difficult to communicate no matter the language so it might be easier than I think for average people.

[@Ahmed-fc8yz]

@@antizombiepasbeaux Wow. That's amazing to know. I think French is too difficult to learn for me at the moment. But I am trying at my own. Thanks for the reply.

[@antizombiepasbeaux]

I'll add that it is true that when we talk we try to always speed things up and take shortcut, resulting in words barely pronounced just to go fast and as everyone do it we understand each others. when I work as a cashier and have to ask for payment method for exemple, to say "ce sera en carte ou especes?" I instead say "carte?" or if I say the whole thing it'll sound like "ce sra en carte?" still skipping a sound and the 2 last words thinking it'll be enough for who i'm talking to to understand.

[@Veritas-dq2hs]

This is why I have such a hard time understanding spoken French, despite having good basic standard French.

[@compulsiverambler1352]

It's why I'm starting to learn Italian instead even though I did French at school. They pron-ounce ev-e-ry sin-gle syll-a-ble!

[@aarijatiq1082]

@@compulsiverambler1352 exactly spoken french is enough to give someone brain hemorrhage

[@xtyr827]

This is the same w me

[@thierrymerdrignac2362]

Je vous rassure les Français ne parlent pas tous comme ça, tout ce qu'il y a dans cette vidéo est incorrect, c'est d'une vulgarité ! Continuez à apprendre et à parler le français academique !

[@cardett75]

@@aarijatiq1082 do you realise that this is the equivalence of "I'm gonna" instead of "I'm going to" or "I wanna" instead of "I'm want to", "Kinda" instead of "Kind of" of when words like "fantazy" are pronounced "fan'azy" etc all of that its very confusing when learning english you have not idea.

[@HilmaImmanuel]

I did basic French in university and I just dropped everything after that. A few days ago I decided to restart learning French again,because I love the language. Although I live in Namibia and nobody speaks French here, it’s just nice to be multi-lingual

[@xeva603]

sending all my french support to you

[@HilmaImmanuel]

@@xeva603 thank you very much

[@cindimahtaj6455]

You go girl! ❤️🇿🇦

[@HilmaImmanuel]

@@cindimahtaj6455 thank you 😍

[@HilmaImmanuel]

@S Merci 😊

[@patostudio7654]

Même en êtant français, je regarde la video jusqu'a la fin 😂 C'est tres pédagogue et captivant ! Bien joué !

[@charioty9638]

my mom is french so i grew up understanding every day french, so when I started learning it in school, I was so confused at the 'ne's and "extra" words cause I learned to say the short faster ways. i would ask my teacher if I could just skip the words altogether as I find it easier hahahaha

[@lyrielswaine7466]

oh my goodness me too!

[@conordoran8273]

When I moved to France, it’s this sort of stuff I first noticed popping up in everyday language. Super important content for French learners. Great video!

[@stephanyfaycohen3842]

Thank you very much Alexa. I spent years learning French and verbs from your videos, all the "proper classroom way". But when I listened to French on the radio or tv, it sounded completely different from what you were teaching. I was thinking: "Something is off." This "quicker French" sounds like a "new language". But nothing lost. Many thanks. Keep well.

[@clem4577]

as a native french speaker idk how yt recommended me this but its actually very funny bc I realised how we(french speakers) cant articulate words haha

[@missmayflower]

This is a great video. I had intermediate French and, when I was in France for ten weeks, I took weekly classes. When the teacher told me about Shai Pah, it blew my mind, and suddenly I was hearing it all around me. I knew there had to be a lot more of those to learn, but it was time to go home. No other class I’ve found taught this.

[@ameliainazawa1166]

Because it's colloquial. It's more something you acquire after some time hearing it rather than learn religiously like grammar.

[@maximeorgnon8660]

On dit aussi beaucoup ''je n'sais pas''. Le 'e' saute à l'oral pour la plupart des 'ne'

[@FoodNerds]

Merci I am going to Paris this summer and I’m trying to cram as much French as possible into my brain as I can.

[@maryamaishab]

I’m still a learner, but i’ve seen some people say “comme d’habitude” as “comme d’hab” but please correct me if i’m wrong. Thank you Alexa for once again giving us an informative video!🤩💛

[@wikayne]

You're right ! ;)

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

Yes, people say this quite often!!

[@StudioNetcom]

100% right. It saves 3 syllables and the information is still passed on without any confusion (for native speaker that is).

[@tiggyvolts9076]

Fluent french, can confirm

[@alexandremimoun720]

Yes you can tell comme d'hab

[@JohnDoe-vk8py]

"Je sais" becomes "Shai" becomes "CHEH"

[@Lennaick]

Cheh viens de l'arabe 😞

[@bobbob22146]

@@Lennaick jure

[@leo_carlini]

EXACTEMENT PTDRR

[@messalineboillat201]

Justement elle aurait dû appuyer sur le « Jsais » et bien montrer qu’il se fait en trois sons « J - S - È »

[@e_duardinh0]

@@Lennaick cheh j crois que ça veut dire bien fait un truc comme ça

[@teimurazgrigalashvili5789]

bonjour! alors I was trying to say the words the fast way and i guessed nearly everything. merci beaucoup now i can understand things in french movies.merci encore

[@ohth8047]

As an Australian this all seems perfectly fair to me.

[@elishagadate]

I know aye, it should be titled, “how to speak lazy french”

[@gabor6259]

G'day, 'Strayan.

[@ohth8047]

Gday haya garn

[@mayganphynix8267]

haha yes I've heard yall shorten everything. lol

[@Scream250]

Australians take it even further by modifying words and adding random vowels at the end. No? Names such as Kim/Kimberley becomes Kimbo in Australian colloquial speech, isn't it?

[@nushar5366]

Oh Thank you very much, Please please Alexa do these videos like that more because it is very necessary to know how French people speaks in real life...

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

You're very welcome! Ok, will see what I can do 😁

[@winviki123]

yeah,i'm kinda struggling with the same thing. I wanna understand spoken French better.

[@carottecrossingeduard6731]

I'm French and you speak French very well!

[@laetitiamaine8162]

Il faut que j'y "alle " est une spécialité régionale de l'est je crois...En français standard c'est que j'y "aille". 😉

[@delphzouzou4520]

C"est vrai, j'ai tiqué en l'entendant.

[@Luneline971]

Je croyais qu’elle avait fait une erreur mais en fait c’est un accent 😂😄

[@raymondkofianderson8195]

@@delphzouzou4520 moi aussi

[@Pwassoncru]

Ouais, jamais entendu ça x)

[@floppasche6985]

en Suisse on le dit aussi "alle" 😉

[@paulnoahmovies1104]

Thanks!

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

Wow, thank you so much!!!! 💕 Bisou bisou

[@harfe06]

For "à tout à l'heure" i'd like to add another form (my own way to say it) " Àd taleur". 😘

[@hainevidia8753]

More like « at taleur »

[@thecakeisalie_3062]

Voir même "at tal"

[@harfe06]

@@thecakeisalie_3062 alors ça j'ai jamais entendu pour le coup ! Mais je suis né dans une décennie où on disait "la climat'" 😂😂😂 alors je ne juge pas

[@antoinemozart243]

What Alexa forgot to say s that this kind of very contracted French is only spoken with friends or family. Which is almost 50% of the time. !! But when you deal with work ( not always) administration, unknown people you use normal French.

[@kvcp]

I mean.. yes and no.. this unknown person has to be worth it for me to drag out the Vous..

[@Shreck777]

Yes but not hundred percent because we don’t say « chez pas » anymore in work but « je n’sais pas » the « ne is almost never pronoced

[@apolline7382]

No no way, we don't use "ne" in spoken language at all

[@aidenfujimoto8062]

@@kvcp tu tutoie les inconnus ????

[@kvcp]

@@aidenfujimoto8062 Au travail non, mais dans la rue oui.

[@dawnm2647]

Alexa you are changing my life with one video at a time. ! Thank-you so much! I am French but grew up in a British Family and lost my French, thank-you for giving it back to me! Dawn from Canada!

[@paulinegail20]

Phoebe: je m'apelle Joey: Mipupu!!! Yup, sounds right to me.

[@th3n3wk1dd]

shmapelle

[@gaaberu5728]

Bleuuu de la bleu, de blou bla blééé!!!

[@lilijane46]

😆😆😆

[@Tahia213]

As a French person, I agree with all of that but I also know that most of us don’t speak like that in the office, like we are obviously trying to be more professional, clearer especially when we are with customers. I mean, there are some people who will still do it here and there in meetings, they will even say rude words time to time: putain, conneries... but those people are rare.

[@Tinta34]

Merci de rétablir une part de la vérité. On passe pour des flemmards analphabètes, c'est insupportable.

[@lawtraf8008]

@@Tinta34 J'avoue, j'ai pas capte pour quoi elle fait genre on parle comme ca a tout le monde alors que je sais pas pour les autre mais pour moi c'est seulement famille/amis que je parle comme ca. Je penses pas que la majorite d'entre nous s'exprime comme ca au travail ou avec des gens qu'on ne connait pas

[@ForestRaptor]

Sorry to let you know but you must live in a very serious and/or well off environment where such a thing is expected. The only people that really go through the effort will be people speaking to clients or hierarchy they dont know. The moment there is a form of "ease" people no longer speak the written French ^. ^

[@maxime867]

@@lawtraf8008 c est pas pour pousser les gens a parler comme ca mais aider ceux qui ne parlent pas français a comprendre ceux qui parlent avec toute ces contractions. Donc elle a fait un bon boulot

[@Pwassoncru]

@@lawtraf8008 tu t’en rends ptet pas compte, mais lundi au boulot, compte le nombre de fois que tu dis Jsuis au lieu de je suis. Ou j’sais pas, à la place de je ne sais pas. Tu seras surpris. On parle tous comme ça. Oui, professionnellement, on le fait moins, mais on le fait encore énormément

[@MonikaSneha09]

Hey! Alexa. I am forever greatful to you. You made it so easy for to me to learn french as I was struggling to keep up in a new environment with my fellow classmates who have already been learning French for three years! Thanks a million.

[@glorialopez8700]

"Je Ne Sais Pas" sounds like "Ya no sepa" in Spanish which also means "I don't know." When you said it slowly and completey without cutting out words, I understood what you said in French. :)

[@cristina5473]

My thoughts exactly omg

[@silverkitty2503]

ya no sepa...is i already (subjunctive) don't know in spanish..its very different no sé is i don't know in the way you mean..what you said ya no sepa sounded like i already may not know in spanish cuz the subjunctive made it sound like you are unsure

[@linam.9525]

i do agree that "ya no sepa" sounds really similar to je ne sais pas, but "ya no sepa" doesn't make any sense in Spanish, you would usually say "no lo sé" or "yo no lo se" :)

[@glorialopez8700]

@@linam.9525very true...or "yo no lo sabia" but in general, I still understood her :)

[@glorialopez8700]

@@silverkitty2503 yes, in Spanish, we don't say "yo no sepa" but the general statement is still understood.

[@EzAvABlink]

This was fantastic! Most people would cover 10 phrases in 8 minutes - you've covered the full range of basics!

[@dianaveitch395]

I wished I had seen your " classes" before venturing to watch french films.... didn't understand a thing.... You teach exactly how words are said in France.🌹🌹🌹

[@khadeejanaureen8581]

I think you should make your own app for learning french or something because you are such a great teacher i will forever be grateful to you!

[@carys3956]

Don’t be worried we understand all of this we understand “school “ and we find your English accent cute

[@anngrayson1482]

Thanks so much for this video. I often hear these contractions when I listen to french Hip Hop and Rap. Very Helpful.

[@yuenmwjh4343]

I'm a french speaker, and watching this makes me realize how illiterate we are xD

[@ForestRaptor]

We're all (humans) lazy bastards. I love it

[@sbcdu92i]

Ça n'a absolument rien à voir. Le langage écrit et oral sont deux choses différentes, et ce dans quasi toutes les langues. Les anglais, les espagnols contractent aussi à l'oral. Car à l'oral le but est de rendre la communication la plus fluide et rapide possible.

[@onyx_t74]

Same 😂

[@Missmaria2]

😂😂😂😂

[@novelero03]

@@sbcdu92i d'accord!

[@alexrafe2590]

Bon jour Alexa. Where did you learn to speak English! It’s amazing, the accent is French but light, graceful and perfectly pronounced. You sound like a Duchess who was tutored by a professor of English or linguistics. I could happily listen to you reading words out of a book of British grammar for hours!

[@elaeys4439]

6:30 -> a'toot, but quiet often, too -> a'tal (tal : the contraction of heure (hour) -> who comes from a'tal-heure) ;) This video is really good, well done ! :)

[@Laurent69ftm]

"aille" in "il faut que j'y aille" is pronounced "aï", not "al".

[@mntndavd8173]

Thanks! I was confused by this

[@marchenwald4666]

I guess it depends on where you come from. As a french speaker, there are alot of things I wouldn't say like in this video

[@wendyy9299]

@@marchenwald4666 ah oui? Intéressant ! Où est-ce qu’on prononce “al” pour aille ? J’ai jamais entendu 😁

[@marchenwald4666]

@@wendyy9299 J'ai déjà entendu quelques rares francophones le dire. Alors, je ne sais pas si c'est un régionalisme ou simplement une erreur (pas spécialement convenable de le faire remarquer), mais ça a au moins le mérite d'exister chez les natifs !

[@laetitiamaine8162]

Exact c'est un régionalisme je pense je l'ai entendu à Lyon

[@pbasswil]

I thought contractions like this were specific to our Québec French - I didn't realize how similar vernacular continental French was. (Most of the vowels are pronounced differently here, though.)

[@hughpm]

So this specific contractions are used also in Québec French?

[@pbasswil]

@@hughpm Shai pas, y'a pas, eon aploo, kek-shoz, kek-par, stuh-pleh etc, and many more, are all used in Québec. But some of the vowel sounds have changed considerably from how they say them in France. Here's a great demonstration of Qc French expressions (2 parts): kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5acYmaHiLWmd80 kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4m3aJKEn8aonpI

[@Hubcool367]

@@hughpm I'm from Québec and at the very beginning, I thought she was from Québec as well, the spoken contractions are exactly the same. It was only a minute in that I finally heard a Parisian accent slipping in, I think from the letter "a" being pronounced like the a in "pass" (most American accents, not the longer English pronounciation haha) instead of the Québec way, which would be more like "aw" in "saw". A minority of these are even more contracted sometimes (je ne suis pas -> chuipa > chupa), but both would be well understood (even the "really long" 4 syllables "je ne suis pas") :P It's worth noting though that both in Québec and France, you NEVER put these contractions in writing (unlike in English where it's perfectly fine to write either "do not" or "don't"). You ALWAYS write using the full phrases, the only exception being when a character is talking and you want to put emphasis on the way they speak.

[@lawtraf8008]

@@pbasswil I didn't know the quebec one was so similar. I speak French continental

[@mabonmoon3]

This one made my head hurt! But I so love the way you teach this. Merci!

[@OrionNebula91]

"Kess ta'dee?" is almost identical to the Romanesco for "What are you saying?"

[@learningfrench101]

I love how you explain things to simplify it as much as possible for us ☺️

[@azamataidarov]

Me too! :)

[@kalpanalohani4558]

I am learning french through a mobile app since last year. The pronunciation is a bit different there as it makes us pronounce each word seperately. But while doing listening activities I used to struggle a lot. Now I understood why. Contraction. Thank you Alexa for this video. It is helping me a lot in improving my pronunciation and listening skills. I am determined to speak french much fluently within this year.

[@Harsh-nc4ml]

Please make more videos like this about how things are pronounced in real conversation

[@Ed_AlphA]

You could also hear "yah er" for "there is no more" and if u can understand this you're already a native speaker

[@AOJC]

Abuseur ^^

[@donross7820]

Thank you! This is just what I needed. The difference between my reading comprehension and verbal comprehension is massive and this is part of the reason. How did Bradley Cooper get so good at French? That is my goal, his level. Luckily, the brain is great at re-associating sounds with meanings given the proper guidance like this marvelous video! This is another reason I seek out your videos.

[@elie4292]

Bonjour Alexa, à 7:00 vous dites: Il faut que j'y aille Vous prononcez: Fo kji al (al comme la terminaison de: cheval) ça devrait être: Fo kji ay (ay comme la terminaison de: travail, détail)

[@6infinity8]

Je pense que les deux prononciations sont utilisées, bien que la deuxième soit effectivement plus répandue en France

[@lawtraf8008]

J'etais choque par ca aussi. C'est la premiere fois j'entends quelqu'un dire al au lieu de aille

[@ForestRaptor]

@@lawtraf8008 comme entendre pain au chocolat... C'est aliénant =huhuhu=

[@sunnyspoumaroux607]

@@ForestRaptor vous êtes en grande minorité à dire chocolatine donc mauvais exemple

[@glary1548]

​@@6infinity8 Mais dans quelle région le dit on alors? J'ai eu beau beaucoup voyager en France comme dans d'autres pays francophones, je n'ai jamais entendu cette prononciation.

[@yourss11]

Super!! Merci beaucoup!! Je suis russe J'habite en Ukraine J'aime la France J'adore Marseille Belle melange?? J'apprends le français Je le apprends avec Vous maintenant.... Merci!!

[@matangamusic2982]

Le francais est assez compliqué mais tu peux y arriver bonne chance 🖒

[@Eklipso_dnb]

Tu te débrouilles bien ! Je me permet juste de te corriger. On dit UN mélange, c'est au masculin donc BEAU mélange et non belle :) ! Et pour finir je le apprends c'est je l'apprends car APPRENDRE commence par une voyelle :) Cheers !!

[@yourss11]

@@Eklipso_dnb а теперь попробуй всё это сказать правильно по-русски:)

[@Eklipso_dnb]

@@yourss11 i dont speak russian .. Ho za vashe zdorovie

[@yourss11]

@@Eklipso_dnb merci

[@shanapohl7783]

this video is SOO useful. if you are learning french, listening to music and learning the lyrics can be really helpful to learning this slang

[@juliab3705]

I see so many people in the commentsw saying how this makes learning french harder! I promise it kind of doesn't! I studied french for five months, and now these phrases are actually something i can recognize. And with this video, it will only get easier :)

[@Mr_Sim]

Bravo for this lesson, but as a french person, I would like to add something : You forgot to tell something important : contracted words are mostly very familiar and are not used in a conversation with stranger or your superior. For exemple, at 5:07, this compression can be a little vulgar, you never want to talk like this to a superior because it sound very agressive. Contracted words are mostly used in conversations with Friends and familly, and the way to use contracted words is very personnal and not Always used. You Can talk without any contracted words, just talk as you like. Some peoples never uses contracted words and it's sometime a good quality

[@jakedoheny3336]

Although you put the ways we'll hear the words up on screen , i like to imagine how they are spelled for example , shwee = J'suis , kess ta'fay s'weekend = Qu'est t'as fait ce week-end

[@GayestWinston]

Merci beaucoup pour cette vidéo! J'apprends le francais maintenant et ça se passe très bien! :)

[@lauc9902]

À mourir de rire 😂 je ne me rendais pas compte qu'on parlait si mal! Bon aller, faut qu'j'y aille. À plus dans une autre vidéo! 🤣

[@ydddddddddd-t3n]

🤣🤣🤣

[@stephanevilboux1706]

A plus dans l'bus.

[@Tiare789]

Now remember to talk like a broken slow robot when speaking to someone learning French.😌

[@princessmimi419]

So this is why no matter how much I study about my French, I never understand shit when I go to France😂😂😂 but everybody is truly surprised when I can read and write it

[@danielsolomon6227]

Okay, the French are definitely messing with us at this point.

[@Whoeverthatis-g5t]

Tough Though Through Dough Thorough Rough I think it's fair enough x)

[@chloelebonhomme2210]

D'ailleurs on dit pas okay, on dit ké.

[@XxNIGHTWARExX]

@@chloelebonhomme2210 Je suis désolé mais ce sont les boloss qui disent juste "ké", tout mon entourage dit okay

[@oyoykny4406]

@@XxNIGHTWARExX Donc ma famille et moi sommes des boloss-

[@yuwna]

@@oyoykny4406 Je suis d'accord, je trouve ça super "plat" de dire juste "ké", c'est trop bizarre..Tout le monde dit "okay" dans mon entourage aussi.

[@dewanti6810]

as a french speaker, i can confirm that all of those are 100% true.

[@elospace]

Vous dites "shai" pour "je sais" ? Euh...

[@dewanti6810]

yep. way easier to pronounce, tho my teacher really hates me doing that.

[@elospace]

@@dewanti6810 are you a native ? This is so wrong it hurts.

[@dewanti6810]

yeah, actually.

[@Harzegs]

Oui, chsais pas ou shai pas, c'est courant

[@rencur4546]

I might not be a native speaker of French, but these contractions are so natural for me! I use them without thinking!

[@BigEGentle]

This is amazing! I wish I had this three years ago when I first moved to France - would have made life so much easier 😅 🇫🇷

[@lionelvanseveren5410]

Be careful, there are also different accents depending on the region. Some even look more like French 😁😀🇫🇷

[@xyinterrupted]

This must be like a French speaker learning English....then finding out about Scottish and Glaswegian 🤔

[@invock]

The scottish accent is oddly my favorite. Something about its "melody" and "exotism" please me.

[@ForestRaptor]

@@invock aye! I love me some Irish too!

[@MrRubikraft]

As a French speaker, I confirm ^^' I don't think they are the most difficult, but since we never encounter these accents in movies or on KZbin, we are not accustomed to these accents (this makes me struggle to understand Doctor Who without the subtitles, for instance ^^) The absolute worst I've encountered was Jamaican English. I lived 5 months with Jamaican people, and the only sentence I was able to understand (without them slowing down the pace) was "maneethufoo", which is "come on, eat the food" XD

[@tourbilionlohr477]

no wonder i've learned french so long i can't really understand the conversation even they are sometimes just very simple sentences.

[@SM-ot5rv]

No this is nothing it gets more confusing then this

[@vwvdv]

As a french native, I do not agree that we abbreviate that much / everything. I guess it depends on the area you live...

[@ninablink2005]

Oui c'est vrai

[@maximeteppe7627]

and the social class/context.

[@PhilippeYakobFranceIndo]

I’m starting learning French and hope it’s goes well. 🙏🏽

[@rhyfelwrDuw]

Je ne sais pas reminds me of the time when I said it in work and one of my colleagues said - "what does that mean?" So I said - "I don't know" and they replied with - "Well shouldn't you look it up then?" To which I said "No, it means 'I don't know' "

[@Lennaick]

LOL 🤣

[@nicolarighele3835]

We Belgian French speakers tend to contract 'je suis' even more as we pronounce it 'chu' Eg. Chu dja là. 😃😃

[@Hubcool367]

Same in Québec mate haha, I always thought the Parisian impressions of Belgian French always sounded much more like actual Québec French than the universally poor impressions of Québec French (only one who can do it right while meaning to is Gad Elmaleh haha). All reasons for me to think Québec Belgian most probably understand each other better than Québec Parisian.

[@joelsansnom6532]

Mr et Mme Jala ont un fils prématuré, comment se prénomme t'il ? Ted ...

[@DaDa-ui3sw]

En France aussi on dit souvent "chu" je crois !

[@shelleygregory9420]

Slang and contractions. It does make learning this difficult, but every country has it. It just makes me want to try harder. I would love to see more of these videos and a little longer with review, pronunciation and games (quizzes).

[@shiromanibhatti6538]

Yes, need more videos like this❣️❣️

[@jeanroblot4962]

I'll just add a little correction for one of the last sentences "faut que j'y aille", we do not prononce the word "aille" like "al", it's prononced "aye" ;) Great video, verry funny for me as a french ;)

[@61juliette]

cela depend: ma soeur dit "al", mais je dis "aye". Allez compendre...

[@jeanroblot4962]

@@61juliette La prononciation correcte reste "aye" malgré tout ahahah peut-être que suivant les régions/accents certains disent "al" mais je pense que cela reste anecdotique x)

[@notTHATcj]

This is my new favourite channel for realistic language usage.

[@desalpagesgator4988]

Social status in France depends on the language, you have to speak French as it is written and not in abbreviated form as it is spoken in the street.

[@MrYannnus]

Not when foreigner

[@desalpagesgator4988]

@@MrYannnus It's worse for foreigners.

[@MrYannnus]

@@desalpagesgator4988 Of course if u want climbe hierarchy you have to speak perfectly. Like everywere else no?

[@MrYannnus]

I fell it is about " vouvoiement" that you say that.

[@desalpagesgator4988]

@@MrYannnus No, it's about the usual way of speaking, you shouldn't shorten words or sentences, and don't use idioms or slangs.

[@coirassociationpvtltd3573]

Bravo! C'est intéressant.

[@JinkerJilly]

I really liked this video. I would love to hear more like this!

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

Glad you like it, maybe a part 2 soon?😋

[@hannemanisunderrated5610]

This kind of video makes me realise how happy I am to already be French so I don’t have to learn it.

[@Wv-qk8hr]

C trop cool de voir la vidéo quand on sait parler français pcq on devine qu’est ce que ça pourrait être 😅

[@oceaneedam]

De fou 😂

[@kanishambunwe924]

Alexa, j' te connue juste aujourd'hui mais tu m'impression. You know how to teach. Bravo!!

[@PixelArthas]

French is my mother tongue, and i want to apologize to all frenchs learners, because this is TOYALLY TRUE, our language's rules are so weird, never mentionned that 😅

[@oceane_chin]

Can you pls do a video about how and when to use 'quand meme'? I only want to learn it from you. 🙂

[@learnfrenchwithalexa]

I will note it down! Thanks for the suggestion 😍

[@momo-xh3bm]

This is GEM !!!!! ❤ Thank you so so much for a foreigner to understand the local reality culture.