Learn The Basics Of French - Lesson 1 (Part1)

[MsTiffsickle]

Thank you very much! You have a lovely accent, by the way.

I'm concerned that, since French is a little difficult in terms of pronunciation, people may not understand my accent.... :(

[antonkunin]

@MsTiffsickle Thank you Tiffany, nice to hear that. Well, yes, French pronunciation is difficult: there are sounds in French that don't exist in English, so it takes some time to learn to make them. The good thing is that when you will have learnt to make them, every time you speak French, you reinforce what you learnt in terms of pronunciation. The opposite (the situation where you keep mispronouncing a sound and do it over and over again) is undesirable, though.

[Princesscheerqueen]

Parlai Voo Anglai? Lol I speak English and Thanks Im 10 Ive been learning french fro about 3 months and Its really fun to learn! (:

[sandepan1900]

your french videos are helpful for me.

My nationalty is indian and my mother tongue is hindi and I want to learn french.

Is really great to find teacher like you.

Your way of explaining everything is superb.

Thanks

[justanindiangirl]

Wow! French is tough...but i am trying to learn...your videos r great..thnx

[Tamito777]

thank u :)) Merci...it;s really helpful:) My mother tongue is Georgian,it's really complex language, perhaps you've heard :) I know Russian and English, and French seems the hardest after Russian :)

[antonkunin]

@Tamito777 Hi Tako! Good to know you liked these videos. Yes, I saw Georgian writing - it looks complex but beautiful. By the way, do you know how many percent of people in Georgia speak Russian and how many exclusively Georgian-speaking people there are in Georgia?

Well, French is similar to English in terms of vocabulary, as this video shows, so it makes it easier. But grammar is different (although it's similar to that of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian).

[Tamito777]

@antonkunin Thanks for your answer ! Actually Russians influence over us had been pretty strong till 90ties ,as we are Soviet Union's former country, so Older generation knows it really good, and as for my peers we are intermediate at it. so i can say about 50% knows it completely. And sorry i didn't get another question, what do you exactly mean in exclusively? :(

[antonkunin]

@Tamito777 Interesting! Oh, and don't worry - I used "exclusively" to mean "only", so you answered my question perfectly, that's what I was interested to know. Thanks!

[Tamito777]

Thank you too :)

[skkaisar]

THANK YOU.... your videos are really helpful for me to learn french though it's a very tough language i think.............

[antonkunin]

@skkaisar You are welcome! Yes, French is not easy in terms of pronunciation and conjugations (since your mother tongue is English, and in English there are none, you will have to get used to that). But for the rest, it seems to me that it's totally doable!

[antonkunin]

@elicosafi2005 Thank you! But what's the problem with listening to it again? And I'm sorry about the low sound quality in this video - all the following ones were recorded with another mic, hence better sound quality.

[cheznazi]

Great class, thank you!

[antonkunin]

Well, I wouldn't use that much English if it were a real class with a real person. In a real class there are two things that allow communication in the target language only: 1) eye contact, which in turn allows for 2) constant back-checking of understanding. Since a recorded video doesn't allow me to engage directly with my viewer, I can't know how they are reacting to what they hear and whether they understand me. Does that make sense?

[tedtdu]

you speak toooooooooo much English..You said they are for very basic..WHY did you talk toooo much unnecessary things for the "BASIC PEOPLE"?

[silver997]

I guess french don't really pronounce the T's eh? I can hear that...

[antonkunin]

@silver997 "T" is not pronounced at the end of words. In fact, only B, C, F, K, L, Q, and R are pronounced in this position.