Mastering French Adverbs: Encore et Toujours

[@pyeh322]

Even as a beginner, I felt my level being stepping up just by watching this video. Merci!

[@TMD3453]

Excellent, thank you! I have been studying French for years and have wondered about this. Also thanks for your slow and careful pronunciation. It sounds really good and really does help one hear the accent and how words are formed. Merci beaucoup and may all good things come back to you! 🇫🇷🇺🇸

[@donnajennings-wallace1957]

Je suis toujours contente de te voir !

[@aifi4827]

Merci beaucoup ma merveilleuse prof de français !

[@elizabetheyma-davies8584]

I love these lessons, they have really moved me along

[@nohisocitutampoc2789]

Excellent idea to add the phonological transcription.

[@MissSteamy]

Most important lesson of today: "Il y a toujours une exception en français" 🙈😂

[@martkbanjoboy8853]

Your lessons are excellent. They have taught this old dog some new tricks.

[@wilcheung1217]

J'adore votre chaîne! Très utile et votre présentation est toujours personable!

[@henriquecd1]

I loved this lesson, I always found this difference confusing and also struggled with the many meanings of these two words. Very helpful! This channel is awesome! Thank you

[@xoxb2]

Merci encore, comme toujours!

[@christinedrinkstea]

Tes leçons sont toujours utiles, Géraldine!

[@selinam8805]

Thank you!!! I really appreciate the work you do for us!

[@Sunny-dg8cb]

Tres bien Geraldine

[@odglavedopet6854]

J'adore vos vlogs, ils sont vraiment très utils! Je voudrais bien entendre votre explanation des liaisons. Comme dans un example: pas encore avec la liaison et sans elle - quand faire la liaison et quand surtout pas? Merci beaucoup!

[@C_Steele81]

Hi Geraldine, i wish you explained the very first example. (Je suis toujours à la maison). When would it mean: I am "still" at home VS I am "always" at home? Wish you covered that 😞

[@ZoltanOctoro]

I guess it comes from a translation issue. When I say "je suis encore à la maison" (lit.: I am "again" at home), I am referring to the fact that the situation hasn't changed yet, i.e. the situation just "repeats" itself - the situation doesn't change, it is AGAIN the same thing; hence why "encore". When it comes about "je suis toujours à la maison" (lit.: I am "always" at home), the problem is that, in English, the word "always" engages the past, the present, as well as the future. "I am always at home" would therefore mean that I used to be at home, I am at home, and I will be at home later on too. But in French, this "toujours" doesn't engage necessarily in future time, just past and present time; that is to say the situation, yet again, didn't evolve from earlier time, it is still the same - so, in this very case, we can also use the adverb "toujours" to mean this. Again, here, "toujours" doesn't engage on what will happen later, whereas the English "always" definitely does so. Hope that it will help :-)

[@SuperManning11]

@@ZoltanOctoro C’est bien expliqué, merci. Mais j’ai toujours une question: si quelqu’un veut me rendre visite, et il me demande, « quand est-ce que je peut passer chez toi? » et moi je réponds, « tu peux passer quand tu veux, moi, je suis toujours à la maison. ». Est-ce que c’est correct comme ça, pour indiquer que je ne sort presque jamais de la maison? Merci d’avance!

[@ZoltanOctoro]

@@SuperManning11 Oui, ça se comprend très bien; et au pire, vous pouvez toujours ajouter quelque chose comme: "je suis toujours à la maison, je ne bouge jamais" pour mettre plus d'emphase. Je crois que, pour la traduction de "toujours" en "always", "ever" ou "still", c'est vraiment le contexte, la situation, qui permet de déterminer ce que cela veut dire. Et dans votre exemple, la situation se comprend très bien, donc il n'y a pas de soucis.

[@ash_m_]

Merci ! Vos vidéos sont toujours très utiles 😊

[@johnerwin9024]

something new every lesson, always good challenge! Thanks again😁

[@philipbrown7196]

Fantastique ! You make it so clear and understandable.

[@matcradle]

@2:25 Why did Geraldine remove the ne in je ne sais pas but she didn't omit it in "On ne sait jamais"? Is it an error?

[@ZoltanOctoro]

Both are ok, it is just that orally speaking, we indeed drop the "ne" in the negation. But keeping it is nonetheless ok. (Actually, as a Frenchman, I didn't even notice it).

[@Digibeatle09]

Excellent video - I notice many examples in this and other videos in this channel use the second person singular "tu" (rather than "vous") - the little bit of French I get to speak usually employs "vous" - as I do not want to risk being "overly familiar" - nobody in my family (and I am not a parent) speaks French - so it is really just with friends - but not close acquaintances - that I get to practise the French language.

[@nixtax3526]

Merci beaucoup

[@berndtnording4856]

Pourquoi il n'y a pas un liasion entre pas et encore?

[@mattowensrees]

Bonjour, Geraldine Pouvez-vous expliquer pourquoi il n'y a pas de liaison dans ces phrases tu reviens encore un verre il y a toujours une exception en francais

[@ellax325]

I'm so early haha. Glad for this lesson. I'm always confused by this!

[@davehart2094]

Hello beautiful!

[@parabot19]

Can you do something on 'normalement'. Sometime I here it when it means 'all being well'? and not a repeated action. Thank you. Lovely videos!

[@alasdairniven6578]

Why no liaison in 'saut á'

[@michapurzynski8509]

merci pour cette excellente leçon!! alors, l'espagnol "todavia" == encore ou toujours en française??

[@danielmnet]

How do we say "I am always here" ?

[@h2omelin40]

je suis toujours là :)

[@voxtur__7]

@@h2omelin40what about "je suis toujours ici"? I think "là" translates to "there"

[@h2omelin40]

@@voxtur__7 no 'je suis toujours là' is the phrase if you mean you are there for someone, but if you mean I'm always here at a specific place, then yeah probably ici

[@voxtur__7]

@@h2omelin40 alright thanks

[@h2omelin40]

@@voxtur__7 no problem, and if this helps anymore, la can mean both 'here' and 'there' ^^ have a great day~

[@miltonlegendre2024]

in some of the things I read, I can translate it to mean perhaps. It fits in the translation, don't know if that is correct or not.

[@lisalu910]

Always confused about whether to use the liaison with "pas encore" and it still isn't clear

[@mattowensrees]

Je suis d'accord, c'est une partie d'une excellente vidéo qui n'est toujours pas claire. J'espère que Géraldine pourra nous expliquer.

[@Fiddler1990]

The liaison between "pas" and "encore" is optional. It sounds more elegant and formal to do it, but French people usually don't do that liaison in everyday life.

[@annalisasteinnes]

Merci pour le vidéo, c'est très utile. Mais J'ai encore une question. Pourquoi pas on peut utiliser "encore" dans le phrase "Je sais pas s'il va pleuvoir, mais je vais toujours prendre un parapluie"? En Anglais on peut dit "I don't know if it's going to rain, but I'm *still* going to take my umbrella." Et "encore" est "still" en des autres cas.

[@molieresp]

Great! I am still stuck with the ´quand meme´...

[@iparipaitegianiparipaitegi4643]

Pas encore ALWAYS demands the link (liaison). Pazencore.

[@janedmunds4218]

❤️

[@johnknight9150]

This has bothered me for years! I had no idea toujours could mean 'anyway'.

[@sponacq]

💙❤💙 !

[@suryakhanna4699]

Great video, but your "anchor" phonetic guide does not work if it is trying to help anglophone audiences. Anchor is pronounced Ann-core in most dialects of English. The English word anchor would only be pronounced like "encore" in French if said by someone with a French accent, like yourself for instance.

[@Armyan8300]

L'utilité des exceptions, c'est qu'elles confirment les règles 😂

[@felipeluz9416]

LoL, I am a portuguese speaker, but Im learning french from english. That doesnt makes any sense in english, but in portuguese toujour and encore is just the same lmfaooo oh god

[@tesfaldetokubab528]

Biebvenue profeseur

[@ronisiimo]

Ma che sta a dir.

[@rajeshkumarsanghai]

Je lender Si All the Indians replace english to french !