When You Are Nervous to Speak French | Super Easy French 174

[@FrenchCoach]

Excellente vidéo les filles ! One thing I did when learning was speaking to myself throughout the day as I did random things around the house, at work, with my friends (basically just narrating my life like a crazy person! ). It works really well though - it gets your brain into "FRENCH MODE" and also helps building confidence. For those of you reading this who are scared to start speaking, what are you afraid of? Honestly, just speak to yourself to begin with. My students are currently building up their speaking level by "reading out loud". It's a great way to get started without having the massive pressure of getting things perfect! Hope this is helpful. Thanks, Rory.

[@edwardwallace1589]

Bonjour, lorsque ma femme et moi étions à Paris récemment, je vous ai vu filmer sur le Pont Marie. J'ai immédiatement dit "Je vous connais ! Easy French !" et j'ai interrompu votre film. Maintenant, je tiens à vous dire que je suis désolé pour l'interruption ! Mais c'était super de vous voir en direct. Merci pour vos vidéos - elles m'ont aidé à améliorer mon français.

[@christopherbeckerdite4273]

At 55, I'm not nervous about speaking French. I expect to make errors. I enjoy learning French also. Thank you for your time and effort making this for us

[@ChrisstineLynnn]

Hi Christopher, also 55 years old here. Heading to France in May of next year. Just began one-on-one French lessons yesterday and my tutor recommended the girls on this channel (although I'd subscribed to them already). Here's to always learning more at any age. :)

[@christopherbeckerdite4273]

@ChrisstineLynnn Thank you so much. I hope you have a wonderful trip. My wife and I are still planning to go soon also.

[@GorgieClarissa]

What a very simple, yet beautiful video. The message was straight forward and it's inspired me to get back into the habit of setting time limits for myself for social media - especially watching content. I have a timer on my computer where i hit go when I watch a video and stop when the video ends. I've done this before - only watch 1 hr of content a day... this means now... no doom scrolling on shorts. it eats up too much time. This video was 100% worth the 4 min and 35 seconds of that timer. Thank you!

[@titteryenot4524]

Oh, that I had back in the day (when I was learning French and visited France and spoke with natives) some kind of magic facility whereby I could slow them down to the pace of this video. As a native English-speaker fluent in French, Spanish, Italian and German, the biggest trouble with French in the beginning was definitely speed + the fact so many words on the page aren’t pronounced. It took me a while to marry the written word with the spoken word. With Spanish, Italian and German it’s, more or less, say what you see so when you hear these languages spoken even at their normal conversational speed it’s not nearly as difficult to understand them as it is to understand spoken French at normal conversational speed as a beginner. In other words, what made me most nervous was just getting completely swamped by the seeming tsunami of French coming at me at 100mph! Persevere though. There _is_ a kind of imperceptible tipping point where one day you realise you are going about your daily business in France and understanding everything and not just the odd word here or there! 👍 (Edit: One other thing: don’t worry about trying to perfect an accent. Think about this: most foreigners who speak your native language speak with their own accent. Moreover, I personally find it _way_ more attractive hearing a foreigner speaking my native language perfectly with their _own_ accent!)

[@MrKmallory]

Language insecurity is interesting. I went to Paris last year and practiced French with some natives. It was a fantastic experience. They were so helpful and appreciative of the fact I was trying based on what I learned via Duolingo. At the same time, I sometimes feel like an imposter trying to understand and speak, even when I’m doing exercises alone. Thank you, Hélène and Judith, for the advice and reassurance. I enjoy your videos, especially the man-on-the-street interviews (even though the interviewees speak faster). 😄

[@medicinalplantsteacher]

I'm a beginner, in New York state, and enjoy travel in Quebec. Thank you!

[@tishko_nakshbandi687]

Expectation: Bonjour, je voudrais commander un café crème avec un peu de lait, s'il vous plaît. Reality: Bonjour, je voudrais um... café... uhh... do u speak english?

[@Steveboibegw72]

Puis: Euhhh...au revoir... 😂

[@matted.1213]

serveur: euhh.....quoi?

[@cmhappy-studyingfrench]

😂

[@樊诗宇]

C’est très vrai😂Chaque fois je veux pratiquer le français dans un resto, en fin je finir de parler >

[@StephanieHughesDesign]

C'est tellement vrai. Aussi meme en Espagnol bien, quelle est pire ! C'est est frustant. Surtout, quand ils parlent vite ou marmonnent.

[@ArabellaGrills]

Merci beaucoup Helen and Judie. J'ai treize ans, et les videos d'easy french sont incoyables for apprendre.

[@EasyFrench]

Merci à toi ! 😘

[@LearnEnglishWithMatta]

Merci, mesdames, d'avoir dirigé cette chaîne KZbin. J'ai récemment commencé à apprendre le français afin de communiquer avec mon conjoint français à un niveau plus profond ; vous m'avez énormément aidée. Que Dieu vous bénisse ; prières pour votre santé et votre bonheur continus.💪

[@djparn007]

Merci Hélène et Judith. ❤❤

[@Zerogravityremix]

Your language sounds so good. I love English and French

[@fire-ae]

Your videos are like medicines, stress relieving and teaching something simultaneously. Je vais regarder votre episodes quand meme je peux ❤

[@barathiselvaraj8399]

Vos conseils et suggestions sont positives et encourageants. Votre aporoache est pratique. Vous êtes très sympa.Merci pour votre motivation 🎉🎉🎉

[@johnward4557]

Parfois, l’hésitation - voire peur - m’arrive quand je parle français, mais pas quand je parle l’anglais (ma langue maternelle) ni l’espagnol (que je parle sans aucune hésitation). Alors, je vous remercie pour ce vidéo qui nous donne tant de conseils pratiques!

[@HenryEYES]

thank you for this video, I've really been able to keep up with it strangely enough

[@joseabrahamarenasbarrios7685]

pratique beaucoup, pratique beaucoup, et pratique beaucoup sans crainte du succès

[@EasyFrench]

🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@maxducoudray]

I find speaking not too difficult. Understanding is far more challenging!

[@Nerdrakere]

I love your channel and I love both you hosts so much ☺️ thank you for everything!

[@EasyFrench]

🥰

[@anitawaters4745]

Bonjour les filles ! Judith, j’ai remarqué que tu as tourné cette vidéo dans un café 😊 ton activité préféré, mélanger le café et les langues! Un jour ça se déroulera dans ton propre café 😊 Et Hélène j’aime beaucoup tes cheveux, ça te va très bien ❤

[@EasyFrench]

Vous êtes une auditrice du podcast Easy French 🙌! Merci pour votre commentaire

[@anitawaters4745]

@ Oui, absolument ! Vous m’accompagnez quand je promène le chien, vous êtes comme mes amis 👯‍♂️ je vous apprécie beaucoup… merci d’être là, un jour je vais vous envoyer un enregistrement vocal.

[@kailash7618]

Salut les filles pour le conceil sensible et utiles. Merci pour cette vidéo en lentement.bien expliqué le sujet. Lautre vidéo svp❤❤

[@HenryEYES]

she so cute... they both are.

[@keithVTUMD]

When I listen to one your videos and come across a word that I don’t know the meaning of, I write it down and look it up. But even when your videos are spoken slowly I have trouble remembering the meaning of some words and end up just getting frustrated. What is the best way to progress?

[@jinx1947]

Excellent, Merci a vous!

[@kailash7618]

Merci pour cette vidéo en lentement ❤❤

[@wecu4dk]

Merci beaucoup!

[@ahmedsherif6482]

Parfait ❤

[@HaydarNiazi]

Très bien merci beaucoup ❤

[@jamestaylor9170]

@7:38 pourquoi elle a regardé sa main comme ça. hahaha drôle

[@thejanak1999]

Watching and learning So much For you guys Merci beaucoup From Nepal

[@emile5921]

I love 8 years in Paris and still dont speak good French. Getting nervous every time I speak it. Feeling bad for it.

[@vaninamariajosecayo8026]

Merci les filles ! Je vous aime!

[@DouglasProject2010]

La fille avec des lunettes est très mignonne.

[@deividalmeida7391]

Merci de partager avec nous ❤

[@EasyFrench]

Avec plaisir 😊

[@Roterodami]

Helene, I see you have discovered the good spots in Rotterdam already. The most diverse street of the city (West-Kruiskade). Here some random tips 1) Krozant in the parking garage of Het Groot Handelsgebouw 2) Panini near Beurs 3) De Kleine Ondeugd near Oostplein

[@Lanoshka-j1j]

شكرا❤

[@樊诗宇]

Merci à vous

[@baronmeduse]

Anxiety around using a foreign language is: xenoglossophobia.

[@RuvaldoExile]

J'adore tes lunettes,elles te vont bien

[@ragabali4509]

Salut l’équipe d’Easy French! Je vous propose de faire un épisode sur les termes de football, notamment les termes et les phrases fréquemment utilisés par les commentateurs sportifs. Merci à vous.

[@idolivercampos]

Ah! Oui, et sourt très Bon, calme, ne pas nervous.

[@juandavidvasquez3688]

J'ai aimé votre conseil. Merci pour cette video. 9:10 If only the DELF oral examiners saw it this way🤭

[@TheTuschi]

Elle est tres joli.

[@christophermoody50]

Merci

[@Treinbouwer]

When I went to France last summer, some people understood me without any problem, while others did not even understand me while using sentences I learned in school. Could it be because some have little to no experience with people who are not francophone? Je sais que mon Français n'est pas au niveau, mais j'ai le impression que il y a aussi de person qui ne sont pas fair.

[@aciksoz89]

Super

[@justanotherenzo]

Boa noite!

[@juanfran579]

Je considère mon niveau de français probablement au niveau d'un B1. Je me donne encore compte qu'il me manque du vocabulaire et de la capacité d'associer les idées exprimées quand les natifs parlent très rapidement et utilisent les abbreviations et liaisons. Néanmoins, je suis ravi d'avoir developper mes astuces linguistiques car je suis professeur de differentes langues. C'est pourquoi j'ai entraînê des techniques d'expressions, comme par example moduler le voix, faire des pauses et généralement de parler d'une façon relâcher. C'est mon conseil pour les apprenants des langues. Au niveau de débutant avancé (A2) on facilement fait l'erreur de courrir avant de promèner en parlant la langue. On s'estresse trop et ne parle pas d'une façon naturelle. Je l'ai appris surtout en anglais, après ça, j'adapte le même technique à les autres langues. C'est un peu comme conduire une voiture ou il faut s'anticiper en prendre les décisions. C'est toi qui conduit la voiture, pas la voiture a toi. Dans mes cours d'anglais, allemand et espagnol je donne normalement aux étudiants un peu de temps de réflechir avant de faire une présentation orale. Biensûr, j'en ai besoin d'améliorer moi même encore beaucoup en français. Enfin, je ne suis pas un expert en donner des conseils ailleurs de ce que j'ai dit.

[@childericoalencastro]

Vous êtes très belles toutes les deux !

[@slushbo1493]

Une autre bonne leçon; merci. Qui est le guitariste qui joue la musique de fond ? J'aime beaucoup. On dirait Wes Montgomery.

[@daniel89ph]

Just speak to yourself at the toilet, whetever, whatever, just speak speak speak even randomly like a lunatic. It helps a lot.

[@EasyFrench]

True, that works!

[@ambarialeene]

Damn it, how is Judith always so classy 😍

[@Schoski9319]

I made a very funny mistake at a restaurant once while on vacation in Grenoble. The waitress told me the total price to pay: 'soixant-vingt-six'. And I said with full confidence 'make it soixant-vingt', in the assumption that I gave them a tip by saying make it ninety. The waitress was very confused and had to get another waiter😂 I kept saying it wrong a few times before switching to english and discovering I unintentionally tried to bargain in a restaurant😅😂 fortunately we can still laugh about it to this day

[@EasyFrench]

😂😂😂

[@vinicialves]

Bonjour Hélène et Judith ! Dans la vidéo, vous dites que les Français trouvent les nombreux accents charmants. Et je me demande, qu'en pensez-vous à cause de l'accent brésilien... Passe un bon week-end

[@wowjwalters]

Please help. I signed up for conversational French, but I have no way to sign in. I’m doing the 7 day trial. Can you help me get into the class.🙏❤️

[@erwindehart4328]

Étiez-vous en Hollande?

[@dutchbobson3183]

Oui j'ai ce peur quand je parle en francais. C'est encore difficile mais je vais continue traverse mon but a etre courantment.

[@Ibad42-t8f]

words nd making sentences in french is difficult je apprende le francais c'est tres difficile😢

[@rodrigootavio5901]

Merci pour la video. Je pense que ça n'était pas à Paris. Amsterdam peut-être, or Marseille?

[@MarisB-b8z]

Rotterdam

[@thehapagirl92]

1:06 That guy in the back is super nosy 😅 Also, I think people overthink it. I’m not a confident person or super outgoing but I will practice my French with French speakers. I don’t care if I sound “bad”. If French people correct me I’m thankful. I don’t go crying and feeling bad about myself. Like I said, I don’t have a lot of confidence, but I still don’t let that hold me back. The French person I know doesn’t pronounce everything perfectly in English, but he’s really cute so it’s ok. I know people who don’t like to speak English because they’re embarrassed that they have an accent. It doesn’t matter.

[@EasyFrench]

Thanks for sharing!

[@CookieFonster]

There is a stereotype that the French are elitist about their language and get snobbish when people make mistakes. That's not true at all! In reality, the French love it when a foreigner speaks their language, even if you make mistakes. The language is a vital tool in any Francophone country.

[@EasyFrench]

True, thanks for sharing.

[@France_countryballs]

l'heilr de puvour

[@Templeborough]

Prenez garde, je vais parler francais - Churchill

[@hsil408]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@maciekus363]

je suis trop, trop timide dans ma langue maternelle, je parle beaucoup avec mes amis mais si je dois parler avec quelqu'un inconnu j'ai du mal s'exprimer, je ne sais pas que je devrais dire et ca me pose un tas de problemes

[@geoffreypayne6867]

Judith must have been cold !

[@EasyFrench]

Yup..

[@baronmeduse]

Must have...

[@murio1261]

Salut, madame combien gagnes-tu par mois?

[@8__vv__8]

La plupart des gens sont gentils avec des apprenants, mais j’ai rencontré des français très grossiers aussi. Un con de Limoges s’est moqué de moi devant ma petite amie et ses amis, et ils on tous ri. C’était absolument humiliant. Je déteste ce genre de francophone.

[@johndoe-rq1pu]

Pouvez-vous m'apprendre à parler dans ma langue maternelle sans être nerveux?

[@tommynoorhadiansyah7115]

Oui, je suis vraiment nerveux d'essayer de parler français. J'ai peur d'utiliser les mauvais vocabulaires et GRA

[@sohanhossain6834]

🇲🇫🇲🇫🇧🇩🇧🇩💗

[@sohanhossain6834]

🎉🎉🇧🇩🇧🇩🇲🇫

[@GoudikaneMoussa]

Mérci

[@bertilliozephyrsgate6196]

J’ai soixante-dix ans et je suis bien trop vieille pour avoir ce genre de béguin pour mon professeur de français.

[@EasyFrench]

😂

[@vishalkumarkumar1743]

Yay madam your health is not good . please care you health

[@eightiesmusic1984]

I will never succeed in speaking French. It is too late, despite visiting the country since 1999 and my wife being French. I understand a lot of what is being said but have no ability to converse in French because it is too complicated. People speak too fast and eat their words. We speak English which is where it went wrong and now there is no point spending hours on learning a language aged 54 when my life expectancy is probably not much more than another twenty five years if I am lucky. Life is too short to put time into something that does not bear results. It is one of my biggest regrets because I would have been proud to speak French in order to access the culture properly.

[@titteryenot4524]

Surely the obvious route for you, dude, is just get your wifey to only speak to you in French and you must reply in French, no? You would be talking the language in a year! 👍

[@cliffbeneventi]

Whether you think you can or you cannot, you will be right. 😉 J'ai 61 and, et j'apprends et j'e m'amêliore encore!

[@melwinseaman1737]

If you understand what people say,you are very close from speaking.The limit is what you believe.Age is not an obstacle if you want to do something.I am 59 and I am learning French.It is so Easy.

[@baronmeduse]

My neighbour started Spanish at age 47. From nothing and no prior experience. No Spanish husband to help her along. After 3-4 years she's upper intermediate. Lets say she has 20-25 years more to live, some of that will be speaking Spanish. The best time to start is always today.

[@mcarthurscanvas]

It's never too late brother. You've made a start after many years. A baby doesn't learn it's mother's tongue in a year, it starts with basic words and over time. It's vocabulary adds up. You just need to keep repeating these words in common day life, and you will start thinking in french, not English. Have courage brother, do not fear, and do not doubt. In jesus name! Amen.

[@UzielAzuara]

Im afraid they will respond back in English

[@EasyFrench]

It might happen and then... ?

[@MaartenPit]

bienvenue aux Pays-Bas

[@Lazendra]

Why should anyone be nervous about speaking your annoying language. In Spain and many other places it simply gets on the people's nerves, that's all.

[@mcarthurscanvas]

Ill be careful when im in france though. I gotta say Croissant correctly before i might get criticised by a french person. NON. CEST CROISSANT!!! NOT CROISSANT.... Daccord. Je sais pas bruh, je sais pas

[@vivianewaleriano2215]

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