Quebec Expressions VS French Speaker 😂| Two People Speaking Different French Exchange (ENG SUB)

[@hoathanatos6179]

A char, or carre, in the medieval era referred to any wheeled vehicle pulled by animals, but originally it comes from the Gaulish Karros, which was a war chariot. French Canadians adapted the word for automobiles as they replaced the wagons that the word char referred to before the age of motor vehicles while in France they adapted it to refer to the military vehicles based on the original meaning of a war chariot in ancient times. Voiture in turn referred to carriages. In Latin America they also use Carro for cars while in Spain the word Coche (a coach or carriage) is preferred. Obviously the English Car shares the same etymology.

[@printaboul]

Peut-être aussi qu'à l'apparition des trains au Québec, on les appelaient «les gros chars» et je pense que pour l'auto au lieu de dire «les p'tits chars» on disait simplement «le char» Mes parents disaient au «une machine» pour l'automobile. Il ne viendrait jamais à un Québécois de dire «ma bagnole» sauf s'il est d'origine de France.

[@KvReims]

J'ai découvert il y a seulement quelques temps cette chaîne. Une vidéo très amusante pour la Québécoise que je suis! Comme mentionné dans d'autres commentaires, nous n'avons pas non plus tous les mêmes expressions d'un endroit du Québec à l'autre, ni le même accent qui varie aussi (Gaspésie, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Saguenay, Québec, Montréal, Trois-Rivières etc). Pour le mot «Char» désignant l'automobile, cela vient du vieux français qui signifiait «charriot à quatre roues». Le tout est demeuré dans le parlé d'aujourd'hui. Il était aussi employé pour les Wagons de Trains. (D'ailleurs, il y a l'expression «Prendre les gros Chars» qui signifie prendre le Train, mais elle n'est pas employée partout non plus.) Ma grand-mère qui est du bas-saint-laurent et dont sa grand-mère était de descendance Acadienne employait l'expression « va crir» ce qui signifie «va quérir» («va chercher»). Ou encore le verbe «Ressoudre» (qui vient de la langue d'Oïl du Haut-Normand ou du Picard (merci dictionnaire Antidote pour l'étymologie)) qui signifie arriver d'un coup (surgir) : «D'où est-ce qui ressoude celui-là?» traduction «D'où est-ce qu'il vient celui-là?» ou encore «La visite a ressous comme un cheveu sur la soupe»= «La visite est arrivée sans prévenir». Les expressions Gaspésiennes ont aussi l'influence de l'Acadie. En tout les cas, une très bonne vidéo! Bonne continuation!

[@charlesvaughn2192]

good to see you having that much fun

[@mickeyhank]

I loved this! And thanks for the link as I did not know you had spoken with him before. I put in a vote for more of these exchanges of idiomatic expressions between you and Michel !

[@cathylee4234]

I loved watching this . My fathers side of the family are all French Canadians and I did the family tree and almost all went back about 500 years to France .

[@masaoHF]

Michel a l'air TELLEMENT amusé quand Marie comprend pas lol lol

[@kenehlears7716]

I surprised my self by knowing a couple of his expressions.this was very cool dear.and watching you light up with that amazing smile is always worthwhile😆😆😆stay safe and strong

[@opforgeron]

Excellente vidéo! Toujours drôle de voir la réaction des gens qui apprennent nos expressions. Il y en a tellement en plus. Et il y a aussi les sacres (jurons religieux) qui mériteraient une vidéo entière sur le sujet. On peut les conjuguer, les utiliser en adjectifs et bien plus encore!

[@uncledal9355]

I remember after grade 9 and French class became optional. I thought I'd have no use for it but I wish I would have kept learning because Quebec has always intrigued me. Right now I can't tell the difference between French and Quebecois French 😂

[@isabelledrolet4297]

Très intéressants tes 2 vidéos avec Michel. Il a un accent très "populaire" et utilise un niveau de langue familier, alors pour quiconque n'est pas Québécois de souche, il est probablement difficile à comprendre. On ne parle pas tous comme ça, mais ces différences gardent notre belle langue riche! Je n'habite qu'à quelques km de Montréal (Rive-Sud) et mon "parler" est complètement différent.

[@lilpoo22]

C'est vrai qu'il a un français assez familier mais j'ai trouvé que c'était tout de même pas trop prononcé, il y en a qui sont beaucoup plus difficile à comprendre que lui. Mais bon je suis québécoise aussi alors c'est sûr que c'est plus facile pour nous à comprendre xd

[@GoWestYoungMan]

I'm quite enjoying these. More please.

[@gus9225]

Good interview. :) Keep up the good work and always have fun.

[@NijimaSan]

“We’re starting well.” 😄 I’m stealing that. 😂

[@FernandoFajardoChannel]

I am learning French on Duolingo and this video was great, hopefully one day I’ll be able to speak to you guys in French ♥️♥️🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@marksdeliciousadventures506]

Marie is so sweet. I would love to meet her. This is a very interesting topic and a great video. I lead American tours to French Canada and am often asked the question about whether or not the French Canadians and the French can understand one another. I know the languages can be quite different, but yes, they understand each other. It's fun to explore this topic and shed some light on it.

[@Habs826]

Excellent vidéo encore une fois:)

[@paulgutman5811]

J'ai trouvé ça très bien fait. En passant je vous remercie d'avoir utilisé votre langue maternelle commune. Ça a fait plus authentique de même. :) (« de même » = « comme ça » en français québécois.)

[@Rose-tb2vz]

Excellent Marie et Michel 🤩👍

[@byzinski]

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[@jean-marclariviere7618]

Trop génial merci...Merci à toi et merci à Michel...vous êtes trop top...merci pour ta curiosité...c'est rafraichissant...je suis nouveau Sub et te suivrai tout plein...merci

[@billunwin7624]

C'était vâchement marrant, cette vidéo et en plus, j’adore t’écouter parler en français! 😂🥰. Je suis vraiment content de voir que t’as eu des problèmes avec ces phrases québécoises! Lorsque t’ajoutes ces phrases au nouveau vocabulaire du verlan, je faisais des cauchemars à propos de devoir reprendre le français 101! 🤣. Je préfère vraiment ton idiome: "gazer mon chat", mais cela laisse la porte ouverte à de nombreuses insinuations sexuelles! 😇 This was a really funny video and besides, I love listening to you speak in French! 😂🥰. I'm really happy to see that you had trouble with these Quebecois phrases! When you add these phrases to the new verlan vocabulary, I had nightmares about having to retake French 101! 🤣. I really prefer your idiom: "gas my cat", but that leaves the door open to many sexual innuendos! 😇

[@paranoidrodent]

Char and voiture are both old French words for types of animal drawn vehicles (char is a cart or chariot, voiture is basically a carriage). All French dialects repurposed an old word for a horse drawn wagon of some sort as a term for an automobile. European French opted for one word (the fancier sounding one) and North American French (from Quebec to Louisiana - Louisiana Creole uses the same word as Québécois slang) opted for the more utilitarian sounding word: horseless carriage vs horseless cart. It probably says something about the kind of cars that were popular on each continent. It might also be because char shares the same etymological roots as the English language word car but I would need to double check that. Coexisting alongside English speaking folks would make choosing a similar, related word pretty logical. These terms were already established as ordinary synonyms for automobile when the French opted to recycle the word char as their term for tanks in WW1, evoking the war chariot sense rather than the utilitarian cart. The full term for a tank is "char d'assaut" (assault car) and North American French dialects just use the full expression to mean tank in any context where it isn't obvious which meaning "char" has. Voiture also gets in Quebec. It's considered less informal than char and less rigidly formal than automobile.

[@commenceenavoirmarre]

On dit aussi juste 'auto' bien souvent

[@paranoidrodent]

@@commenceenavoirmarre Absolument! Je l'avais oublié dans mon explication. Pourtant, c'est probablement le terme que j'utilise le plus moi-même. 😄 Si on veut ajouter un terme vraiment informel, bazou existe aussi mais c'est plus proche de "bagnole" que de "voiture".

[@according2petey25]

HELLO0O0O0 MISS MARIE🤗🤗 of course I have no idea what you said😂😂 but I always enjoy hearing you speak French👌 keep smiling angel eye's🌻

[@carllance8062]

Funny video Marie I really enjoyed it. I learned a few new things

[@tobhomott]

I always assumed "char" in quebecois french was short for "chariot"

[@Xerxes2005]

It's just another word for it. Char, chariot, charrette are all perfectly French words. The use of the word "char" changed between North America and Europe. The French finds it funny that we use the word "char" because it was used for horse carriage, but the fact is that "voiture" (the word used for car in France) was also a kind of horse-drawn vehicle...

[@sardine7768]

Very funny...thanks for the lesson

[@srcw1960]

I grew up in So Maine and Quebec (?) French was my first language. Many of my ancestors came to Maine from the Quebec area to work in the mills. My parents still speak French to us but we answer in English. Lol. Anywhooo, I cannot understand a thing Marie says. Michel is a lot more understandable

[@MonsieurSchue]

Would be also interesting to one video about the same words but meant completely different things (sometimes opposite meanings) :)

[@michaelcrummy8397]

Bonne vidéo! I may have to stick with “avoir peur”, but I’ll see if I can remember “avoir la trouille”. Je me souviens de mes études, “frissonner de peur”, like, in English, “to be frozen with fear, or better, to be petrified”. We Americans have a word for everything too. 🤓🤛😉🌸🙏🏻🌎. (Celles sont mes traductions. Le dictionnaire bilingue traduit “frissonner de peur” comme “to shudder or shiver with fear”).

[@foreverlearningfrench]

Très cool ! J'ai appris de nouveaux mots.

[@yellowbeardjamesgibson9297]

Hello Miss Marie !!! 😄😄😄😄😄😄 Still Subscribed, like button Smashed.

[@podunkcitizen2562]

My Quebecois Meme used to roll up leftover pie crust into a ball, sprinkle sugar on it and bake it .😋 She called it Pet de Soeurs (nun's farts because they are small and sweet). I thought it was a Canadian thing, but it's actually a classical French baked good. You can also roll it flat, spread jam on it, roll it up and cut into pinwheels.

[@saralila]

My mom did the same.

[@marcosbouros3717]

Salut Marie et Michel ! Vous êtes drôle. Concernant le mot « char » , qui désigne une voiture au Québec. Saviez-vous que le mot « car » en Anglais , vient du mot « char » Français, depuis le Moye Âge ? Plus exactement du Français Normand.Les Normands ( qui ont envahi l’Angleterre en 1066) prononçaient les « ch » en « que » .Donc : char/car , Charpentier/Carpentier/carpenter..Planche/Planque/planque..chat/cat...Cloche/cloque/clock..etc. Il y a des centaines d’exemples. Ce ne sont pas les Québécois qui calquent l’Anglais , mais l’inverse !

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

Blah blah blah tous vinrent de Latin. Mdr

[@marcosbouros3717]

Non pas tous. 50% de l’Anglais est du vieil Allemand et du Norse. Le Français est une langue latine .Vrai ! Pas besoin d’être impoli , Professeur. Renseignez-vous . Sur KZbin il y a plein de linguistes qui affirme la même chose.

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

@@marcosbouros3717 Nonononon tu as compris rien du tout mon gars 😅

[@skiddwister9143]

This was funny!

[@terrygelinas4593]

"Faire le shopping" versus Quebec's "magasiner" . "Myrtilles" versus "bleuets" (latter is a berry in Quebec and a flower in France). And then there are the Quebec swear words (jurements) with lots of religious references 😁

[@mottahead6464]

Char.... from charriot, peut-etre?

[@juliansmith4295]

For once, I'd like to see a comparison between the French of France, and Canadian French from outside Québec.

[@jean-marcboucher7878]

I love this franch from new Brunswick Canada

[@seanibbott4791]

Combien d'intéractions as-tu eu avec les Québécoises avant cette entretien avec Michel?

[@michaelcrummy8397]

Tant j’attends des nouvelles de la France, que j’ai regardé encore une fois la vidéo de Marie et Rémy mangeant les friandises Américaines, les Reese’s, ect. “Sugar”!!! Par résultat, j’ai faim et mal au ventre en même temps. À quoi faire? Bien sûr, je ne suis pas sérieux. Pour moi, cette chaîne me fournit l’opportunité de m’amuser un peu, d’améliorer le français, et d’un sens, d’être en contact avec vôtre pays ou j’ai vécu pendant quelques mois. J’espère que Marie et Rémy s’amusent dehors dans le soleil et les températures plus chaudes. Ici en New Jersey, USA, il fait beaucoup de soleil ☀️ et il fait chaud, plus comme l’été que comme le printemps. Salut Marie et Rémy, de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique, “from across the pond”, comme disent les Anglais. Bonne journée! 👍🌎🇫🇷🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇺⚾️🙏🏻☀️🌸🤓

[@naveenjoshi7821]

Ça veut dire quoi"ça y est"?

[@MyNemesisIX]

J'aurais aimé qu'il te donne l'expression (Avoir le cordon du coeur qui traîne dans marde). Cette expression veut dire qu'une personne n'est pas travaillante :D I would've loved for him to mention the idiom (To have the heart string in the mud [Roughly translated]) It means that someone is not a hard worker.

[@dennisstafford1749]

Do you know Guignolee? Is the Holiday still celebrated in France?

[@PrometheanRising]

Bonjour le maître et la maîtresse...

[@dennisstafford1749]

@@PrometheanRisingBonjour. . . . Guignolee - "beggars," song? New Years Eve people drank and went door to door asking for sausage and such for New Years feast, then used to provide food, staples, etc., for those whose year was difficult? Parts of song date to Middle Ages others probably Quebec specific or adapted, . . survives in Ste. Genevieve, Mo and Kaskaskia, Il (oldest French settlement in Midwest). These frontier outpost barely survived American incorporation then immigrants from Germany. They are farming communities, not far from the Mississippi River. I do not know the article preceding the word. I am an elderly male and speak and understand but bits and pieces of French. Pardon. I have travelled the Gaspe, Trois-Rivieres, Cape Breton, Quebec City, Gatineau, and New Brunswick. Unfortunately the only French speakers left in St. Louis are High School and Uni teachers of French. This late in time it is hard to tell the derivation of cultural things or how they may have been adapted, corrupted, amended by events, native peoples, metis customs, waves of immigration as Americans moved west across the continent. Louis gave away the Louisiana to his Spanish cousin. Napoleon took it back, lost the Haitian Revolt, emptied treasury and was fighting for survival in Europe so he sold the Louisiana to the Americans (my ancestors). What is left of French are street names and petit caches des Francaise.

[@dennisstafford1749]

@@PrometheanRising Bonjour. Sorry Yes the song begins with Bonjour le maitre et . . . I found it on Wickipedia with the verses. La Guianne. Does it survive in any form elsewhere in Canada. The habitants of Prairie Du Rocher and Kaskaskia were French Canadien, oddly for many reasons, the baptismal records of these early communities are in Quebec. The State of Illinois enacted legislation they be preserved en situ but by that time (1840s) there were few French speakers and sadly those records lost. Priests sent records annually to their seniors in Quebec for a time. It is like finding a relic at an archaelogical site.

[@PrometheanRising]

@@dennisstafford1749 I only know that they celebrate it in Ste. Gen. My own French ancestors migrated from France to Osage County, Missouri. Unlike the communities at Saint Genevieve and Old Mines, the French community was overwhelmed by German and English immigration in Osage County by the late 1800s.

[@dennisstafford1749]

In Quebec City has moved into part of Winter Carnival and become some charity events.

[@bepivisintainer2975]

very interesting . Pity the sound is quite bad. The background music is not helping either.

[@thomasdwyer6128]

France & Quebec, two places divided by a common language. That's what is said of American and English English. The same could be said of South African version of the Dutch language an what's spoken in Holland.

[@soniama5246]

As a South African who's first language is Afrikaans....I have to disagree with you....Dutch is a different language and you are not taught Dutch in school but Afrikaans. I would call Afrikaans creole Dutch?....yes you can understand Dutch but it is not the same and the writting is not the same. In Canada people speak French...and every province have a different accent and ways of saying things....here in Québec the language is officially French...always with exceptions 🙃...children learn french grammar...different dialects and accents...and you will find this differ even within regions within qeubec. If you have ever traveled to the uk...you will know that the accents and dialects of the people are so different...you might need a translation as you might not understand...Scotland too....this is more the example I would make between french from France and french from Canada I live in Québec and I prefer the accent here.

[@thomasdwyer6128]

@@soniama5246 Hi Sonja! I would have to bow to your description of the language difference. My only exposure to Afrikaans was from tourists I met here in the US. One gentlemen I remember using the term "parlor Dutch" a few times in describing how a Hollander would describe Afrikaans. Also, back in the late 70's I was stationed with an International NATO Squadron which included two Netherlands Navy Ships. We spent a lot of time together during liberty and command briefings. From listening to the Dutch sailors, not knowing one word of the language, could hear a distinctive difference in the manner the language was spoken by members of the crew.

[@NormanF62]

Au Québec, on enseigne l’Français dans les écoles. Dans le milieu familial et dans la culture, on prend l’argot québécois. Les Français peuvent naturellement se perdre en mer si un locuteur natif du Québec n’ajuste pas ses Français pour permettre à quelqu’un de La France de comprendre ce qu’il dit. Si cela ne se produit pas, l’incapacité de s’obtenir les uns les autres, même lorsque vous parlez la même langue peut conduire à une incompréhension amusante! Pour être juste, la distance entre le Québec Français et l’Français européenne est moins problématique que la différence entre l’allemand suisse et l’allemand standard!

[@michaelcrummy8397]

Don’t look now, but the Mets are in first place. That could change as fast as Michigan’s weather! 🤓😉

[@greghawkins6154]

Sounds like Quebec French has it's own set of idioms! It is always confusing when that happens in language. Sometimes there are so many idioms in a language, that if you don't know them you can't even speak conversationally.

[@chais1111]

Think of a Cockney from London. They epitomize what you're saying

[@dan30308]

Marie, are you familiar with Québécois swear words and cursing? My mother’s family is from Montreal and my cousin use to make me laugh because all the swear words seem to relate to the church.

[@henryfitch8710]

Love between the French lady and the Quebecois man?

[@tomaslequesne1366]

Can you do Belgian French next ☺️

[@Durahan82]

Char , or the short form of Charrette

[@48Ballen]

char is Chariot in English.......

[@markmclendon8621]

ich spreche kein Französisch but I enjoyed endlessly your vid

[@seanibbott4791]

Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch, aber meine Französisch ist Besser.

[@markmclendon8621]

@@seanibbott4791 correction: bisschen not ein bisschen..... if you were a spy that would trip you up especially in Prussia

[@seanibbott4791]

@@markmclendon8621 Well I wasn't trying to be because I indicated that I only speak a little, but thanks for the correction.

[@markmclendon8621]

@@seanibbott4791 Sean, I was just being a smart ass because i worked for a German company and herr doctor ulrich kumpf corrected me one day and i wanted to kick him in the.....well never mind

[@dennisstafford1749]

Given these conversations Marie should visit Canada as her first North American or Western Hemisphere expedition. It would be the least jarring and obviously interesting to her. Expense as always limits. What is the easiest travel and biggest bang for buck?

[@Elwene2fr]

"Char" c'est juste le mot qu'était utilisé en français à l'origine. C'est pas que un char d'assaut, c'était aussi le véhicule tiré par les chevaux. C'est pour ça que c'est parti au Québec quand les colons français sont arrivés et après les deux français (québécois et métropolitains) ont évolué différemment. EDIT : je viens de voir que le même commentaire a déjà été fait en anglais ^^ My bad, ça m'apprendra à pas lire avant de faire un commentaire.

[@wbain465]

I made a comment a few weeks ago. I would like to expand on that. First if it wasn't for France the United States wouldn't be here. They helped us drive the english out. But many stayed here from Canada all the way down to Louisiana. Over the generations the French language got mixed with english and Indian languages. I believe they are now what we call dialects. Just like people that live along the U.S., Mexican border from Brownsville tx to san Diego California. They call it spanglish. It's spanish mixed with english. If you go into the interior of Mexico they don't understand most of it. It sounds like Spanish but alot of the words don't exist in spanish. But millions of people that live along the border understand it. That's what I think has happened with canadian french, cajun french and probably different parts of France itself. There are places here in the U.S. where they are speaking english but I don't understand some of the words and I'm an American. I know spanglish because I'm from a border city, El Paso Tx. But I also know Spanish because three of my grandparents were from Mexico. One grandmother was from CD. Juarez MX. The other two were from Chihuahua Chihuahua Mx. And I still have aunts, uncles and cousins from Mexico. My only American grandfather was from Chicago Illinois. What a mix I'm irish mexican.

[@Mr.ZooYYa]

Ce n'est pas pour rien qu'on appel le plateau mont-royal: le ghetto français!😆

[@Glenner7]

Marie, if this subject still interests you, I'd recommend this video in which a Quebecois and Belge discuss the differences between the French spoken locally (even if you don't react to it on your channel, you might enjoy it on your own!) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpC0ZamPm5iGe9E

[@wbain465]

Oh I almost forgot, do you have French toast in france? I bet you don't. Do you know why? It was invented in England and brought to the U.S. back in the colonial days. It's a type of breakfast you make from bread.

[@luigicdeo2041]

😀😀😀

[@gbokos]

Salut Marie, next time you meet with Michel say: “tire toi une bûche “.

[@mackcastillo8]

Le bec 😂🤣🤣

[@tonymontana3742]

It would be cool to rent a tank.

[@michaelcrummy8397]

I hear they’re great in fender benders.

[@aliwantizu]

Bonjour Marie! LOVE THIS VIDEO!!! Ok, so, Char is Tank in French. A car has a fuel tank that holds the gas. So "Gazer Mon Char" would mean "Gas My Tank." Obviously fuel tank and military tank are 2 completely different things, but I get how it came into usage. C'est amusant! ~Be Blessed

[@brumanlcy]

@@viking670 That is exactly what I was going to say then I saw you'd beaten me to it!

[@michaelcrummy8397]

Steve Martin was right. Steve Martin a raison. Non seulement les Français, mais les Québécois aussi. 🤓😉

[@dizzlebizzle8424]

don't gas the cat!

[@patrickmayer7813]

Ah le français… Je suis québécois, ma blonde est française. Même après plus de 20 ans de vie commune, on ne se comprend pas toujours du premier coup :)

[@robert-antoinedenault5901]

char à boeufs (les policiers ici QC son couramment surnomme boeuf) voiture de police.

[@danielleduplantis9449]

Lol

[@DaperDucky]

Mike Myers don't even speak French so why would he have hard time to rent a car in France this guy is just crazy LMAO

[@prachibharadwaj746]

Hii plz give reaction on Bollywood song Bang Bang title track Hrithik Roshan

[@fredklein3829]

Poor girl! Five minutes alone with a Quebecois and it's she's lost all her French!

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

PLEASE react to DENYZEE’s Québec related videos. 😇🥺 Whenever you can SVP!

[@notallgarbage]

ouin... y a un gros accent quand même c'te québécois...

[@kyles5513]

I live in British Columbia and work in Quebec often. They like to yell at each other when they talk

[@AdmiralKnight]

You should talk about swear words next time! Quebec has some fantastic curses

[@chais1111]

tabarnack de calice , d'ostie de ciboire de calvaire. All church words. As you can imagine in Quebec, before the quiet revolution, the Catholic religion had a strong hold on the people and the swear words reflected it.

[@krylesangerbeaver]

If you ever want to ask a political question about Quebec, ask someone about "Bonjour Hi" ;)

[@toughcookie128]

Je préfère le "bonjour ail" ;-)

[@l-b7353]

it no longer has anything to do with french, there is too much difference since we don't understand.

[@chais1111]

you could say the same in English, think of a scot speaking English, it's full of slangs and expressions. You could say the same about the Irish.

[@naveenjoshi7821]

J'aime le français du france pas de canada

[@r.c.brousseau9655]

I am a bilingual Quebecer and was unimpressed with your guest! Sorry, but I had to bail halfway through the video.